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Wheeling CCSD 21 superintendent warns Cook County tax delays have strained district finances
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Connelly told the board Jan. 15 that repeated Cook County property-tax distribution delays tied to a long-running modernization contract have left District 21 owed about $25.3 million and cost the district roughly $950,000 in lost interest income, forcing use of operating reserves.
Dr. Connelly told the Wheeling CCSD 21 Board of Education on Jan. 15 that recurring delays in Cook County’s property-tax distributions have threatened the district’s financial stability. “The ongoing and unacceptable delay in property tax distributions by Cook County” is tied, she said, to a Tyler Technologies contract to modernize tax collection systems that has not been completed, and as a result “our district is still owed approximately $25,300,000 in collected property taxes.”
Dr. Connelly…
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