Sentences with phrase «district coffers»

The tax proposal, approved by 57 percent of the voters, will add $ 870,000 a year to the Park District coffers, providing the money needed to buy the farm and dedicate it to open space and recreation.

And the bill would require that the property taxes collected for charter schools be listed separately on tax notices, rather than diverted from district coffers, something advocates of traditional schools have requested for several years.

MUNDELEIN — The developer of the Cambridge subdivisions on the west side of Mundelein has agreed to pay $ 59,000 for park improvements after the Park District board backed away from an earlier plan that would have put $ 75,000 in district coffers.

Under a fiscal 1998 appropriations bill passed shortly before lawmakers left Washington last month, the path that money from the largest federal K - 12 program follows into district coffers will be essentially unchanged next year, regardless of whether they are experiencing a population boom or bust.

In a story tellingly headlined «The Dems» Education Debacle,» Rogers explained how a seemingly painless chance to pour money into state and district coffers became «a lesson in how dysfunctional this White House and Congress can be on domestic policy.»

He also recognizes the financial elephant in the room, rapidly rising pension costs that are draining school district coffers as they've just received badly needed funding increases from Sacramento.

Over five years beginning in 2012, district coffers fattened with a 35 % statewide increase in per - pupil funding.

The tax proposal, approved by 57 percent of the voters in an April 13 referendum, will add $ 870,000 a year to the Park District coffers, providing the money needed to buy the coveted Hoffman farm and dedicate it to open space and recreation.

He collects a $ 174,035 pension despite a felony conviction and four - year prison stretch for taking part in looting $ 11.2 million from district coffers.

The district wants to increase its levy to 25 from 21 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation, which would add $ 105,000 to Park District coffers.

Administrators have in the past defended such aggressive tactics as necessary to protect their district coffers.

Given the track record of the Texas legislature, which, since 2011, has stripped more money than it has added to district coffers, school leaders are not hopeful.