Monday, December 17, 2012
Meeting begins at 6:45 tonight with a hearing on the levy. The meeting will be held at the district's administrative offices.
The Yorkville CUSD 115 Board of Education is expected to adopt a $47,018,000 tax levy at tonight’s board meeting. The total 2011 levy was $44,254,548, 6.24 percent less than the proposed 2012 levy. Estimated property taxes in the 2012 levy are $5,389,538, according to district documents. That is a 6.91 percent increase over the $5,041,065 in property taxes in the 2011 levy. The school district is the largest recipient of property taxes levied in Yorkville. By law, every school district is allowed to levy, or ask for, more taxes than they will collect, based on a formula utilizing the assessment of a property and the consumer price index. Board President Dave Dockstader told Patch in 2011 that 82 percent of the district’s revenue stream …
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois General Assembly passed a budget — almost on time — Thursday, with the Senate ending about 1:30 a.m. Friday. The budget spends $33.7 billion for the 2013 general fund — the result of months of negotiations, hearings and a dizzying array of spending and appropriations bills with last-minute amendments upon amendments. The budget, made up of several bills in the House and Senate, includes $6.5 billion for K-12 education, $1.9 billion for higher education, $5 billion for health and human services, and $1.6 billion for public safety. In a testament to how …
Sunday, May 20, 2012
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers must craft next year’s budget and fix huge deficits by May 31, but the closest they came to addressing those problems was a proposal to tax online gambling. Other issues from a proposed minimum wage increases to the Nation of Islam were getting everyone’s attention, as well. Betting on time, taxing iGaming Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, wants legislators to approve his plan to tax and regulateInternet gambling in Illinois before Congress keeps the state’s hands off the industry. Under Cullerton’s proposal, a new Division of …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Yorkville leaders got sidetracked during a sometimes heated discussion Tuesday about their medical benefits.
A discussion at Tuesday’s City Council meeting began with elected officials health insurance and ended with a decision to add $150,000 to the proposed budget for employee raises. Elected officials medical insurance benefits must be defined six months before they are elected, so any changes would not go into effect until after the 2013 election. About $150,000 has been included in the draft budget for elected officials health insurance in the fiscal year starting May 1, so the employee raises eat away at the projected budget surplus. Yorkville city employees have not received a raise in four years. Aldermen put off approving the budget draft for at least two weeks. They voted to table it until their April 10 meeting. Ward 1 Alderman George …
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Library leaders are working on a draft budget that includes little new spending and a small surplus.
The Yorkville Public Library’s main operating fund is expected to end the fiscal year with money in the bank, thanks to unexpected property taxes and a special transfer aldermen approved in September. The draft budget for the next fiscal year, which starts May 1, includes little money for new books and minimal increases in staff salaries. Reduced library hours, which went into effect May 1, 2011, will continue, Library Director Michelle Pfister said. The library board’s finance committee reviewed the draft budget Tuesday, and the library board is expected to discuss and possibly approve it at its meeting Monday, which starts at 7 p.m. at the library. At one point, city leaders had expected the library operations fund—which is considered …
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's budget proposal tops 400 pages and is more than 3 inches thick. Inside the governor's plan for the next fiscal year, which begins in June, are the details of how he wants to spend $33.9 billion in taxpayers’ money. Illinois Statehouse News examines the governor's plan, speaking with lawmakers and outside experts and checking Quinn's math to make sure that dollars add up. Bigger than last year Quinn’s fiscal 2013 spending plan is $700 million more than the current budget, an increase that will pay for the increase in the state's …
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A change in the new lease agreement for the District Office allows district officials to own the building at the conclusion of the lease.
Yorkville Community Unit School District 115 board members adopted a budget for the 2012 fiscal year with a surplus of a little more than $1.36 million. District Business Manager Jacqui Parisi outlined the budget proposal during Monday’s meeting. Using a new zero-based budgeting system that required the approval of every line item of the budget, the 2012 proposal projects a continuation of all district programs. The budget estimates total revenue of about $59.03 million and expenditures totaling a little more than $57.7 million. Also during Monday’s meeting, board members voted to extend the current lease for the Yorkville District Office at 602 Center Parkway out 10 more years once the current four years are up. A change in the new lease …
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
H.R. 1454 would stop payments to legislators if they fail to pass a budget by the start of the fiscal year.
Last Friday, members of Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, agreeing to a budget resolution hours before a midnight deadline. It was the culmination of months of battles over spending cuts, sparked by legislators’ failure to pass a 2011 budget before the end of last year’s session. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield, wants to make sure that never happens again. So he’s introduced a bill, his first, to hit legislators where it hurts: their own pocketbooks. House Resolution 1454, which Hultgren introduced last Friday, essentially says that if the members of Congress fail to pass a budget before the first day of the fiscal year, they don’t get paid. Legislators’ salaries would be placed into an escrow account, and would only be …
Sunday, March 13, 2011
These are some of the policy issues Yorkville City Administrator Bart Olson asked aldermen to consider during their ongoing budget discussions.
Can you imagine zip-lining across the Fox River? Should senior citizens pay only $1 every two months for garbage pick-up? These are some of the topics that likely will surface as aldermen continue discussing the proposed budget for the fiscal year starting May 1. Aldermen expect to vote on the budget at their April 26 meeting, which is before any new city leaders elected April 5 will be seated. Aldermen had little discussion on the budget at their March 8 meeting, but here are some of the policy ideas City Administrator Bart Olson tossed out in his Feb. 18 memo to City Council members. Olson was seeking feedback and direction from the City Council before pursuing any of the ideas. • Reduce senior garbage subsidy: The city spends about $120…
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Monday, February 28, 2011
The city's proposed budget has a surplus in its main operational fund for the fiscal year starting May 1.
Yorkville’s proposed budget projects a $765,882 surplus in its general fund next year while predicting the fiscal year ending April 30 will be peppered with deficit spending and negative fund balances. As aldermen reviewed the Fiscal Year 2012 proposed budget Saturday, some challenged the city’s community relations spending, the REC Center and professional memberships. Mayor Valerie Burd said she plans to bring a proposal for an appraisal of the REC Center building to aldermen within the next month as part of her efforts to renegotiate the lease. Ward 1 Alderman George Gilson Jr.’s proposal to cut all the funding to the city’s community relations department was voted down. The proposed spending plan projects Yorkville will receive $11.5 …
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Luke
8:33 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
$600 a month x12months x 30 years = $216,000. You get that back in what about 4 years of retirement. Who pays you for the next 20 to 30 years? We do. Those of us pay ever increasng taxes to cover your retirement. Go cry to someone who cares. The politicias bought your votes with our tax dollars. You fell for it. We can't afford it. I'd like to retire someday to but never will. I don't get to … more ›