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 …
The lowered speed limit will run through the construction zone between William Street in New Lenox and Harlem Avenue in Frankfort.
- GOVERNMENT
- Joe Vince
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Get ready to slow down along U.S. Route 30 starting this weekend. A new, lowered speed limit through the roadway's construction zone begins Friday, according to an Illinois Department of Transportation press release. The new 35-mph speed limit will be in effect through Frankfort, New Lenox and Mokena, between William Street in New Lenox and Harlem Avenue in Frankfort. The normal speed limit in those areas is 40 mph or 45 mph. With the new speed limit comes increased fines for speeding. A first offense will cost a driver a minimum of $250, and a second offense will be a minimum of $750. Cell phone use also will not be allowed in the construction zone. The reduction comes after the village lobbied IDOT last month to approve a lower speed …
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Williams St & E Lincoln Hwy, New Lenox, IL
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S Harlem Ave & W Lincoln Hwy, Frankfort, IL
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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 ›