Mayor Calls Special Meeting to Discuss Residential SSA Abatements
7 p.m. meeting will focus on proposed SSA abatement ordinances for Raintree Village, Windett Ridge Homeowners Association, and Grande Reserve central.
Yorkville Mayor Gary Golinski called a special meeting Tuesday night to discuss the proposed SSA abatement ordinances for Raintree Village, Windett Ridge Homeowners Association, and Grande Reserve central. This discussion will be focused on the summer 2013 SSA property taxes for those subdivisions. Council originally planned to discuss these abatements during the Jan. 8 council meeting. However the abatement ordinances were tabled after Ward 1 Alderman Carlo Colosimo, serving as Mayor Pro Tem, said residents of those communities wanted to meet in order to discuss the process. Special Service Areas were created as a financing mechanism for subdivisions to allow the cost of the infrastructure to be bonded by the cities, and for the repayment…
Rob Irby
9:42 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
So...we have to pay taxes for lots we don't own? How about take the lots from the developers who aren't paying for them and give them to us...then it makes sense to be required to pay the extra levy. more ›