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Trustees call for resident education as grocery tax shift lands on municipalities
Summary
Trustees at the May 15 Hanover Park meeting expressed frustration with the state’s handling of the grocery tax and asked about local outreach if the tax is adopted locally; officials urged staff to prepare educational materials to correct misinformation.
Trustee Lisa Gutierrez said the village must be prepared to educate residents if the municipality adopts a local grocery tax to replace state-level revenue that was reduced or canceled.
“If this passes, it’s so important that we are ready to inform our residents,” Trustee Lisa Gutierrez said during trustee reports, asking whether staff could provide an educational component via social…
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