Village Board to Discuss Voting Amendment for Property Tax Increases

The Clarendon Hills Village Board will have first consideration Monday night of an ordinance that, if passed at the board’s Feb. 21 meeting, would establish the need of a supermajority vote to pass property-tax increases in the event that Clarendon Hills becomes a home rule community.

If the home rule referendum on the March 20 General Primary ballot were approved by residents, Clarendon Hills would no longer be subject to the Illinois property tax cap. The ordinance would make it so five of seven board members would need to vote in favor of a property tax increase for it to be passed instead of just a simple majority of four members.  

“This ordinance reflects the Village’s long history of fiscal restraint and would only enable a property tax increase if a substantial consensus had been reached among the corporate authorities of the Village,” reads a memo from village manager Randy Recklaus to the Village Board included in Monday’s meeting agenda packet (which can be found at the village’s website here). “Under this proposal, if there were even two dissenting voices out of the six trustees, the Village would continue to operate under the mechanics of the tax cap as is the case today.”  

Monday’s meeting begins at 7 p.m. at .