Glenview trustees weigh keeping 1% grocery tax to avoid $2.7 million cut

Summary

Facing a state repeal that ends the 1% grocery tax on Jan. 1, 2026, Glenview staff told trustees the loss would cost the village about $2.7 million annually; trustees debated continuing the tax by local ordinance, imposing alternative consumption taxes, or closing the gap through capital and operating cuts.

Glenview — Facing the state’s scheduled elimination of a 1% grocery tax on Jan. 1, 2026, village staff told the Board of Trustees on July 15 that losing the levy would reduce Glenview’s general revenue by an estimated $2,700,000 a year and asked the board for direction on whether to adopt a local ordinance to continue the tax.

Staff analyst Jillian Kookerly Dietrich summarized the options: adopt a local ordinance by Oct. 1, 2025, to continue the 1% grocery tax (which would preserve an estimated $2.7 million annually), or accept the state repeal and cover the shortfall through combinations of (a) reducing the capital improvement program (the staff analysis indicated potential annual CIP transfers could fall from about $7.6 million to roughly $4.9 million to save $2.7 million), (b)…

Glenview trustees weigh keeping 1% grocery tax to avoid $2.7 million cut

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