Tag: Paying property taxes on exempt property

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Nobody elected in Normal will care, but do you?

By: Diane Benjamin According to Illinois law when property owned by government is leased the lessee pays the property taxes: The Edgar County Watchdogs did a story with lots of other details: https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/11/ousted-shelby-county-board-member-levonne-chaney-wants-taxpayers-to-pay-private-real-estate-taxes-on-her-way-out-the-door/?highlight=leaseholder Tonight Normal is paying property taxes, actually they pay the bills before Council votes because Council is immaterial: PDF page 12 https://www.normalil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/4650 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

A three minute meeting takes almost 2 hours

Part 2:  https://blnnews.com/2019/06/04/normal-part-2/ By:  Diane Benjamin Before Stan Nord and Karyn Smith were elected, Normal’s Council meeting last night would have lasted 3 minutes.  There was no business on the agenda to be discussed.  A Trustee would have motioned to pass the Omnibus Agenda the others would have fought over who could “second” it the […]