A potential Kane County sales tax referendum hit another roadblock at the Wednesday meeting of the Kane County Finance Committee, where committee members decided not to vote on the issue and instea…
Members of the Kane County Board Finance Committee decided Wednesday not to vote on a proposal for a sales tax referendum and instead agreed to send the issue to a subcommittee to explore. A potential Kane County sales tax referendum hit another roadblock at the Wednesday meeting of the Kane County Finance Committee, where committee members decided not to vote on the issue and instead passed it off to a subcommittee.
The sales tax referendum question, if approved by August by the county board, would go before voters in the November general election. At the previously proposed 1% tax rate, Kane County would have an extra $60 million to spend each year if the sales tax was approved by voters, according to Kane County Finance Director Kathleen Hopkinson.
According to a presentation by District 22 Kane County Board member Vern Tepe at the March 27 meeting of the Finance and Budget Committee, the county would have to lay off around 15% of its total workforce to fully balance the budget without raising any additional revenue. There was some debate at the Finance and Budget Committee meeting Wednesday over whether the committee created to explore the sales tax should be “ad hoc” and made up of any Kane County Board member or a specific subcommittee of the Finance and Budget Committee.
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