KaneCountyConnects.com recently published an article summarizing tax levy information for all municipalities within the county.
According to the website, the total Kane County levy went up less than 1 percent — about .85 percent, to be precise — according to information provided in the county’s annual Property Tax FAQ document. As a possibly not-so-fun fact, this is the first increase in Kane County’s extended levy since 2010.
So, how did your individual city or village government do year over year? As you can see by the chart below, some went up quite a bit, some actually went down.
Leading in percentage increase this year is Sleepy Hollow, whose levy went up from $537,188 to $772,502. Obviously, that’s not a lot of dollars in comparison to big cities like Aurora, but the percentage increase of 43.99 percent is tops in Kane County this year.
Barrington Hills’ levy actually went down — from $6,197,303 to $5,32,440, a decrease of $14.12 percent. Others that were lower year-over-year include the villages of Algonquin and East Dundee. Four Kane County communities — Big Rock, Campton Hills, Kaneville and Lily Lake — don’t levy any taxes at all, so their percentage change gets the highly touted “not applicable” designation.”
To see all the Kane County tax levy information and the full article, click here.
Leadership makes a difference. In Barrington Hills after years of waste, mismanagement and corruption by prior administration Barrington Hills is where it should be. Unfortunately, pension expense as a percentage of expenditures is still high due to the unfortunate decision to remove police pension from IL State control to be managed locally around year 2005. As a Barrington Hills resident I thank this Board for its hard and smart work under the steady hand of President McLaughlin.