Comments on: Municipal Property Tax Coming to Schaumburg?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:24:24 +0000

Let’s see…. Maybe the useless park benches on the corners along the newly rebuilt Wise Road…. Haven’t seen 1 person ever use them ……. or maybe the useless bike path from the Schaumburg airport to Alexian Field … never seen one person walking or biking that stretch on Irving Park Road, or maybe the Schaumburg High School two story eaves over the doorways WASTE WASTE WASTE… the list could go on and on I’m Sure….. Don’t know about others, but I haven’t had a raise in pay in 5 years , but my property taxes have now exceeded a 65% increase on a home that is worth 34% less WAKE UP AMERICA !!!! Politicians are getting wealthy on your hard earned money !!! Vote them all out of Office and start all over ….. Why can’t they manage our tax dollars as we all do our personal expenses .

By: christa funke

christa funke — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:54:06 +0000

Soon we will not be able to live in schaumburg anymore!!
We lived here 40 some years.Does anybody considers how a retired senior can afford their taxes? Can’t sell no house either because you get nothing for it! What is going on,is everybody losing it?

By: Brian Costin

Brian Costin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:38 +0000

First and foremost, all hiring and raises should have been frozen from the outset of the recession when sales tax revenue started to plunge. In the private sector salaries over the last 3 years have been decreasing, in Schaumburg the municipal salaries have increased over 10%, and in many cases it is much greater.

Secondly, of the $9 Million dollar hole in the budget for this year it could have been entirely filled if the Village got out of the hotel & convention center business. The total taxpayer loss due to the convention center & hotel is $15.7 million this year. $9.1 million in sales taxes and $6.6 million in property tax exemption/shifting.

Third, the Village should cut numerous other non-core functions including selling the airport, selling the baseball stadium, not giving $6.5 million to a luxury home builder, stop saving $1 Mil+ per year for a new 2nd performing arts center when you still don’t reliably fill up the first one, don’t give $500K per year to the NW convention Bureau, and $100k more to many other membership organizations, cut back or eliminate the travel for the board to go to conferences. This is not an exclusive list but as you can see there is a lot of fat to be cut from this budget.

This entire budget crisis can be solved without laying off a single village employee. Unfortunately, the Village Board and Village management didn’t make good decisions in the first place and when the recession hit they didn’t adequately make changes to their plan to avoid the crisis we are in now.

The only solution that they Village Board has proposed is raising taxes, as they have done 17 times in the past, when things get tough. Now it’s time for the taxpayers to get tough on the Village Board and force them to cut the wasteful spending.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:18 +0000

What would you consider to be “appropriate cuts in spending”?