text: On 11/16 at the joint meeting between the council and FAC, a 1% increase in DeKalb sales tax was added/included to the 2018 City of DeKalb proposed budget.
  Were you aware of this 1% sales tax increase in the budget?
  A committee of the whole meeting is scheduled for Tuesday November 21 at council chambers at 5:00 pm for public input on the proposed budget.
  Business owners need to give input at the meeting on this proposed sales tax increase by speaking at the public comment section. All speakers need to do is fill out a simple speaker request form (available outside the chambers on a table) and hand into the city clerk.
  The Transmittal Letter in the Proposed Budget document discussed the 1% increase in the Home Rule Sales Tax. This information is from page 12.
  *Operations total for 3 months is $417,600 of which $313,200 to support operations and $104,000 to meet the General Fund reserve requirement of 25% of expenditures. The three additional Police Officers hire date in FY2019.
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  How about lower taxes attract more people which increase revenue..
  damn, isn’t 10% high enough? I have an idea, try balancing your budget and quit borrowing…..
  The aggregate sales tax already marches many suburbs that also pay into RTA.
  The city needs to learn how to cut the sales tax, not increase it.
  Isn’t this the truth. So many people feel exactly like this. Sad.
  I am seriously looking forward to leaving this town. This despite many years of long commutes to be able to live here. The city administration has long viewed their residents as hicks, rubes, and as impediments to efficient public administration. And, now they view us as cash cows.
  Maybe making some weekend trips to Wisconsin??
  It’s way cheaper only 5.5 % sales tax! And really Janesville is not that far.
  And in Wisconsin, you actually get decent services for your taxes.
  I wonder how much their revenue will decrease because of this tax increase.
  Yet the city has untold money to take the bike path under the train bridge. Large crews & large equipment working on this day after day after day. Was this really needed? Was this a priority? Keep raising taxes to fund this nonsense?
  That $ came from a grant, specifically for that path.
  Eventually everything comes from the tax paying public even if it came from the federal level or the state level.
  This grant money didn’t fall from the sky.
  Thomas Michael Bottom, grants are not free money. There are strings attached. But the bike path didn’t come from the General Fund.
  DeKalb County Online why would Dekalb even take state money the state is broke.
  Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid bicyclist 🚴‍♀️ but I absolutely don’t see the value in all the money spent on a project like this. I understand it will be safer but coming down Pearl St. and going across 38 at the light worked just fine for me.
  I would have much rather this “grant $” went to the Dekalb Police department. Stopping the violence & random shootings would make me feel safer, not this extremely expensive extension of the bike path. But I’m just a common working class tax paying citizen. What does it really matter what I think???
  How much is the actual cost of this project?
  WOW. How many more people are going to leave the county to make larger purchases just to avoid this level of tax?
  So the sales tax would then be 9.25%. Wow high as cook county.
  Isn’t there a 2% and also another 1% additional tax for things purchased as well?