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 …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The plans are designed to help the district transition to new statewide curricular standards.
The Summit Hill District 161 Board of Education unanimously approved proposed School Improvement Plans presented by administrators at Wednesday night’s board meeting. The proposals were designed to align with the district’s three-year New Common Core Standards implementation plan. Common Core is a set of statewide curricular standards aimed at preparing students for college and the workforce. It constitutes a single set of expectations for all students. All Illinois school districts must fully transition to Common Core by the 2013-2014 school year. “The superintendent and staff have really worked very hard to lay out an implementation plan,” said board member Sean William Doyle. “Any time you have a dramatic change in the learning …
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Follow along with Patch as the board discusses School Improvement Plans and a tentative tax levy.
The Summit Hill School District 161 board will meet at 7 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Hilda Walker School at 19900 S. 80th Avenue. Patch will live blog the meeting. Readers are invited to follow along and join the stream with questions or comments as the meeting proceeds. The board will discuss building security and video surveillance cameras, the School Improvement Plans for the school and the district and a tentative tax levy. To view the Oct. 24 meeting agenda, click here. To view the district budget, click here. Two Ways to Stay Connected to Frankfort Patch:
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
The 2011 property tax levy is a slight increase from last year's amount, but it's the smallest year-to-year increase in the past four years.
Amid the hiring of Barb Rains as new superintendent during Wednesday's meeting, the Summit Hill School District 161 board also unanimously passed its 2011 tax levy. The levy was set at $30,689,111, a slight increase from last year's levy but the lowest year-to-year increase in the past four years. READ: Board Hires Barb Rains as District's New Superintendent For comparison, here's a look at the tax rates and the amounts levied over the past four years. Amount levied READ: Proposed Tax Levy for D161 Sees Slight Increase The reason for the increase stems from a drop in the property tax base of about $33 million, even though the area has seen a 1 percent net increase in growth this year, said district financial director Dean Gerdes at an …
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Mary Drew Elementary School
20130 S Rosewood Dr, Frankfort, IL
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Arbury Hills School or Frankfort Square School could be shut down under a proposal to restructure the district. But that's just one idea officials are considering in order to cut costs.
As a way to cover about a $2 million budget shortfall, Summit Hill School District 161 officials are considering a variety of cost-cutting measures, including entertaining the idea of closing either Arbury Hills School or Frankfort Square School. But interim Superintendent Barb Rains said Thursday no decisions have been made, and any move to eliminate financial and educational inefficiencies in the district are only at the discussion level at this point. More research needs to be done before detailed proposals are created, and January would be the soonest that would happen, she added. The full board also would need to discuss and vote on the matter before any action is taken, Rains said. READ: Proposed Tax Levy for D161 Sees Slight …
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Arbury Hills School
19651 Beechnut Dr, Mokena, IL
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Frankfort Square School
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Monday, November 14, 2011
The county board shot down a tax increase last week and could now vote on the $170.4 million budget on Nov. 17. The board's version of the budget would reduce taxes about $15.
The Will County Board could pass its annual budget this week, but there's ongoing debate about whether Republican-sponsored cuts will impact services. Members of the public can comment at the next board meeting at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Will County Office Building, 302 N. Chicago St. in Joliet. The proposed budget may be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the office building, or online at the Will County executive's website. In October, the board approved a tax levy that would save the average taxpayer about $15 on the county's portion of their bill. County Executive Larry Walsh proposed a $171 million budget, but the board was looking to cut $2.7 million from that. Democrats on the board have …
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The estimated 2011, brought before the board Wednesday, was 3.37 percent, up from 3.18 last year.
Homeowners could see a slight increase in the Summit Hill School District 161 portion of their property taxes if a proposed levy introduced Wednesday remains. The proposed tax levy, which was brought before the D161 board at Wednesday's meeting at Hilda Walker Intermediate School, is 3.37 percent, up from last year's rate of 3.18 percent. Dean Gerdes, the district's director of business and finance, stressed that this is strictly an estimate at this point and that the board won't know the final levy until April 2012, when all the information from Will County is in. "This is just my back-of-the-envelope look right now," Gerdes said. READ: School Districts Begin Tax Levy Process This Week Gerdes said the reason for the increase stems from a…
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The Mokena 159 Finance Committee recommended a tax levy that, if approved by the full board, will not include the money a referendum would bring.
If the Mokena District 159 School Board approves a tax levy the Finance Committee recommended Wednesday night, the district couldn't take the money from a long-shot referendum even if proponents pushed it through. "We are, I think, working within the financial reality we have," interim Superintendent Steve Stein said about the $12.7 million levy plan the committee recommended. In November 2010, just days after voters shot down a referendum to close a $2.7 million budget gap, the district under then-Superintendent Karen Perry asked for $14.3 million, in the hopes voters would approve the referendum next time around. Instead, voters shot it down twice more. If the full board approves the Finance Committee's recommended levy, this will moot …
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Mokena Elementary School
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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 ›