Tag Archives: Consolidation

Lyons Village Dissolution: One year later Ms Joanne  Greco, who used to be a member of the village board, said that she has always been against dissolution and fought for two years to prevent it. She was one of those who was skeptical about how much of a presence the two law enforcement agencies would…

‘What we would have changed? We would have done it sooner’   Village residents have seen their tax rate fall from about $17 to about $6 per $1,000 of assessed property with dissolution. The outside village residents were paying $1.86 per $1,000. Now they pay about $5 per $1,000 of assessed property (not including school…