Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Mokena Village Board of Trustees approved the village's 2012 tax levy, approved a contractor for a village-wide tree inventory, and lowered the speed limit on 191st Street at its Nov. 12 meeting.
In a unanimous vote at its Nov. 12 meeting, the Mokena Village Board of Trustees voted to approve the village's proposed 2012 property tax levy. The approved levy is an increase of $71,837—or 4.36 percent—from last year's amount, bringing the total tax levy for 2012 to $1,721,358. The levy comes out to about $0.23 per $100 of equalized assessed value of the property. By way of example, Finance Director Barb Damron said that the village's portion of the property tax bill for a home valued at $300,000 in 2011 would be $215, or about 4 percent of the total tax bill. The other 96 percent of the property tax bill goes to other taxing bodies. "Of every dollar in taxes that a property owner pays, the village only receives four cents of that …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Mokena Public Works Director Lou Tiberi outlined the plans for treatment and removal of Ash trees on Village property through 2021 at Monday, May 14, Village Board meeting.
“The Emerald Ash Borer is here in Mokena, it's pretty much everywhere on the southside of Chicago,” said Lou Tiberi, Mokena's Public Works Director. The Emerald Ash Borer has become the latest problem for villages, cities and towns across the Chicagoland area, as the bug burrows in and slowly kills off thousands of Ash trees. In Mokena, Tiberi said that there are to be 22 ash trees removed from Village property in fiscal year 2012, with another 40 trees scheduled for removal in fiscal year 2013. During a brief presentation before the Mokena Village Board, Tiberi outlined a plan through 2021 to combat the bug. The plan calls for a complete inventory of every ash tree in Mokena, and then treatment steps to begin on infected trees. Trees that…
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Heather Green, a forester and arborist in Oak Lawn, predicts all of the green ash and white ash trees in the metro-Chicago area will be wiped out by the infestation of the Emerald Ash Borer beetle.
Get ready for Ash-tree-mageddon. If it hasn’t already struck on your block or in your neighborhood, it will soon. And it will be like Armageddon. Take it from Village of Oak Lawn forester and arborist Heather Green. She predicts all of your green ash and white ash trees will die as a result of the invasion of the Emerald Ash Borer. The metallic green beetle is no larger than a penny but packs a wallop the size of a Red Army. In the case of the Emerald Ash Borer, Green’s findings are like those of experts elsewhere around the Midwest: Tiny beetle larvae deposited under tree bark feed on tree veins and prevent a supply of nutrients and water from being delivered to vital organs, thus leading to tree demise. So, how should you prepare for the…
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Friday, March 9, 2012
As spring is springing, now is the time to be on the lookout for the invasive emerald ash borer. Here's a guide to the tree-killing pest and a list of local resources for tree treatment.
The emerald ash borer is an invasive insect species whose larvae eat the material between the bark and the wood of the ash tree, killing the tree in the process. The asian beetle was first found in the US in Michigan in 2002. It has since devastated the ash population there. It was first found in Illinois in Kane County in 2006. Find out more at the Illinois Department of Agriculture's emerald ash borer page. Village officials believe it's only a matter of time before the insect arrives. In anticipation of the insect reaching Mokena, the village last year set up $81,000 for EAB-related tree removal and, unrelated to the insect, for crack filling on roads. Watch video of a village presentation about the emerald ash borer. The Village of …
Joker
10:00 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Now Mokena's finest will have another source of income. Its bad enough driving that gauntlet at night... they even chalked my tires at 191 and I was just having dinner with my wife. Nanny village... this town needs an enima! more ›