Property taxes bill will only increase if you pass a tax referendum.
(35 ILCS 200/18-210)

FALSE: Village initiated Special Services Area for residents will increase their tax bill, and they didn’t pass a tax referendum.  Property taxes will eventually increase  because Campton Hills does not have the retail or commercial sales tax necessary to support a Village, unlike Homer Glen who’s tax base is large due to the village containing, Home Depot, Menards, Dominick’s, multiple gas stations, numerous strip malls.  (See List of Commercial Businesses attached).

Campton Hills has  enough
money to pay for necessary services

FALSE: President Smith has sworn during testimony that currently the village is unable to provide minimally adequate municipal services.  Police Protection and Roads.  The updated population censes was already used in the fiscal planning for the Village; there is no windfall of money to pay for the Police Department.

 Every Service is free from Campton Hills.

FALSE: Since incorporation you now must pay additional for Animal Control Service, prior to incorporation it was a benefit now it is a charge.  Police dispatch is an additional cost, prior to incorporation Sheriffs dispatch was at no additional cost, Village Police dispatch is an expense for the Police Department.  Other specialized Police service for example canine, and investigative now cost the village, prior to incorporation were provided by the Sheriff’s department at no cost.  Tax payers in VCH now pay twice. County and Village taxes for the same service. We are also paying for police cars that were already paid for by county taxes. The list is long. Simply put nothing is free. Several we pay for two times.

The village can charge people selling their homes a real estate transfer tax or fee.

FALSE: The village is a non-home rule municipality and therefore is not eligible to impose this type of transfer fee, but you may need to pay for an inspection when you change occupancy, or to have a certificate of occupancy issues.  

 Campton Hills is not
withholding financial
information

FALSE: Residents must request copies via Freedom of Information Act and pay to receive copies regarding the financial position.  Information is not shared with residents in attendance at Finance Committee meetings. Information being provide to those attending village finance and meeting of the whole meetings are being provide information using both cash and accrual accounting methods. Financials are due to be filed by the Village Treasurer before October 31, 2008.  To date no Audit Firm has been appointed to perform this duty.

 Only residents in the Northern section of the Village are affected by Elgin annexation.

FALSE: The fear created by pro-village people, of Elgin caused this village to be incorporated.  Now every resident who does not share in that fear of Elgin is forced to pay attorneys fees to disconnect.  All residents are forced to pay Village legal bills trying to keep these areas in the Village when they have statutory rights granted by the state constitution to disconnect.

 Elgin has plans to expand South of Silver Glen or West of Burlington Road.

FALSE:  Since 2005 Elgin has Intergovernmental Agreements with South Elgin and Burlington establishing its boundaries.  These are legally enforceable documents between neighboring municipalities. The Village of Campton Hills has not pursued any such agreement with any of neighbors.  Lily Lake, Elburn, St. Charles, South Elgin, Elgin, Burlington.?

 Campton Hills spends  money that will benefit all residents

FALSE: Fox Mill subdivision is receiving monies for removal of infected Ash trees in their parkways through a cost sharing program between the village and the township highway department.  No other trees have been financed to be removed in right a ways or easements in the Village. How about your subdivision?

 The groundbreaking land/cash ordinance has netted millions for the Schools

FALSE: Not one Dollar has been paid to any one of the three school districts. Based on current undeveloped land that exists in D303 this increase in land/cash may generate $3-4 million total over the 10-20 years that these properties will take to be developed. That’s maybe $150-300 thousand a year in a School district that has $150 million yearly budget.

 The Village can protect your water.

FALSE: Aquifer recharge occurs outside the village, township and in many cases the state boundaries.  The village can do little to influence the levels of the local wells, annexing properties with supposed recharge areas, in a false security, since no recharge actually occurs there.

 Residents are unable to stop or slow down development and preserve open spaces in Campton Hills.

FALSE: Resident’s don’t have to sell their land, talk to your friends and neighbor and encourage them not to sell their land, donate your land to the Forest Preserve or the Campton Township. Put your land into a conservation easement so it can’t be developed, buy land that is currently owned by developers and then donate it to the Township or Forest Preserve or put a conservation easement so it can’t be developed.  In other words, open space costs money.  All the Village can do is regulate how the property is developed.