Mokena Board Votes On Taxes, Trees, Speed Limits
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 …
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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 ›