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the New Lenox Patriot | September 7, 2017 | 3<br />
New Lenox Village Board<br />
Trustees approve hike in sales tax<br />
Megann Horstead<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
To ensure the Village of<br />
New Lenox’s ability to secure<br />
funding to help offset<br />
the cost for infrastructure<br />
improvement projects, officials<br />
decided Aug. 28 to<br />
adopt an ordinance increasing<br />
the home rule sales tax.<br />
In a pair of unanimous<br />
decisions, trustees agreed<br />
to convey a 0.5 percent increase<br />
to the Village’s home<br />
rule sales tax thereby establishing<br />
a new rate at 2 percent<br />
effective Jan. 1<br />
Village Administrator<br />
Kurt Carroll said the Village<br />
views the actions taken by<br />
the trustees as being “more<br />
advantageous” to residents<br />
and business owners.<br />
“There were discussions<br />
of how we would fund our<br />
infrastructure improvement<br />
projects,” he said of the alternatives<br />
explored. “The<br />
board favored [the home rule<br />
sales tax increase] because it<br />
was more advantageous to<br />
our residents and businesses<br />
than the alternatives.”<br />
The Village intends to use<br />
the dollars generated by the<br />
home rule sales tax to help<br />
pay for projects valued approximately<br />
at $80 million<br />
to address wastewater treatment,<br />
water mains on Route<br />
30 and Cedar Road, and access<br />
to Lake Michigan water.<br />
Carroll said the Village<br />
has initiated efforts to fund<br />
a part of these projects and<br />
added officials hope to lessen<br />
the impact imposed on<br />
Round it up<br />
A brief recap of action and discussion from the Aug. 28<br />
meeting of the Village Board of Trustees:<br />
• Trustees approved a site plan and the setting of<br />
surety for Ridgeway Gas Station at the northwest<br />
corner of Laraway and Cedar roads.<br />
• The board pulled from the agenda a measure<br />
authorizing an amendment to a purchasing contract<br />
with CVS Pharmacy.<br />
• Officials agreed to adopt an ordinance creating<br />
a Class D4 liquor license to help advance plans<br />
presented to the Village to operate a craft brewery<br />
called Hickory Creek Brewing Company.<br />
residents and business owners<br />
by imposing an increased<br />
rate.<br />
Municipalities are typically<br />
allowed to impose a<br />
1-percent sales tax. Under<br />
home rule, New Lenox is afforded<br />
the ability to extend<br />
another sales tax.<br />
New Lenox received<br />
community support in 2008<br />
when officials passed a referendum<br />
to become a home<br />
rule municipality. That measure<br />
gives the Village powers<br />
in governing that otherwise<br />
are not defined by state<br />
statutes. The extent to which<br />
New Lenox can extend its<br />
taxation authority, for example,<br />
serves as one way that<br />
officials can put to use its<br />
added options in governing.<br />
In 2010, the Village presented<br />
a plan to the board to<br />
implement a home rule sales<br />
tax; it was approved. New<br />
Lenox started by assessing a<br />
1-percent sales tax and subsequently<br />
increased the rate<br />
by 0.5 percent twice in 2011.<br />
State law allows the Village<br />
to establish changes to<br />
its home rule sales tax, so<br />
long as it goes into effect on<br />
July 1 or Jan. 1.<br />
Now, in 2017, trustees<br />
took action on the Village’s<br />
third ordinance regulating<br />
its home rule sales tax by<br />
approving a 0.5 percent increase.<br />
Carroll referenced a study<br />
that showed 80 percent of<br />
sales tax generated comes<br />
from people outside of the<br />
Village’s borders and said<br />
it’s clear that our residents<br />
will benefit from such a<br />
measure.<br />
The matter of adopting an<br />
ordinance to increase the rate<br />
received no discussion at the<br />
board’s regular meeting.<br />
Carroll said the Village<br />
needed to inform the state<br />
of its intent to increase the<br />
home rule sales tax by Oct.<br />
1.<br />
“The board had to approve<br />
it for this to take effect,” he<br />
said.<br />
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