» Articles from July 2006
Budget Scorecard: The High Cost of Village Life
Residents of incorporated villages in our region shoulder a heavy fiscal burden for the additional public services they receive, paying in many cases more than twice as much in local property taxes as their neighbors living outside of village lines.
While typical village services– such as police, road maintenance, street lighting, and trash collection– are more extensive and more expensive than what towns typically provide non-village taxpayers, village property owners are also saddled with paying for a portion of the surrounding town’s annual budget. On top of higher taxes, village residents pay costly user fees for the municipal water and sewage systems that most villages provide. Read more