Northfield trustees voted Tuesday to use the money to pay consultants working on the Willow Road study project.
Village trustees voted unanimously to appropriate $50,000 in operating funds to the ongoing Willow Road study project at Tuesday’s village board meeting. The motion requires the village to amend its May 1, 2010-April 30, 2011 budget. The money will pay for services provided by communication and engineering consultant firms that to date have included Kenig, Lindgren, O'Hara, Aboona Inc. (KLOA), All Circo Inc., Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Culloton Strategies LLC, and Coopers Civil Engineering LTD. The only firm mentioned at the board meeting was KLOA, the traffic and transportation planning and engineering firm the village has hired to study road and traffic data produced by the Illinois Department of Transportation. KLOA has been tasked with …
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During first session as home-ruled community, Village Board discusses property taxes, new ownership at Seul's, year-end financial health.
Northfield trustees demonstrated their commitment not to raise property taxes above the state tax cap at Monday's Village Board meeting, although this is now within the village's power as a home-ruled municipality. The board voted on the finance department's recommended 2010 tax levy of $3.5 million, which is 3.4 percent greater than the 2009 extended levy. In accordance with the tax cap, the proposed increase includes a 2.7 percent rise attributed to inflation and a 0.7 percent uptick attributed to estimated new properties, such as annexations or new construction. However, Cook County adds a 3 percent collection-loss factor to all levies, and the additional 3 percent would likely cause the board to violate its recently adopted tax cap …
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John Nicolau
9:13 pm on Saturday, January 22, 2011
Mr. Bova provides interesting input, but to ensure that it’s placed it in the proper context, we need to include the following critical facts to make his perspective more complete. While it may be true that “road diets are reality and working in downtown Northbrook, Wilmette, and Glenview” none of the downtowns in these communities have a state-owned, Strategic Regional Arterial (SRA’s) road … more ›