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Skokie SD 69 board adopts 2024 tentative levy, schedules Truth in Taxation hearing for Dec. 17
Summary
The Skokie School District 69 Board approved the district's 2024 tentative tax levy and related abatement and supplemental-levy resolutions, and set a Truth in Taxation public hearing for Dec. 17, 2024. The move includes an abatement tied to the Property Tax Relief Grant and a recommended transfer to cover debt service.
The School District 69 Board of Education on Nov. 12 approved the district's 2024 tentative tax levy and related tax actions, and set a Truth in Taxation hearing for the regular Dec. 17 board meeting at 7:00 p.m. The motion to approve the tentative levy passed on a roll-call vote with Ayes: Steve Dembo, Mark Chao, Fernanda Perez, Joanne Marsden and Lindley Wisnewski; Dan Freeman and Kandice Cooley‑Jones were absent.
Administrators explained that the measures on the agenda included: a supplemental tax-levy resolution to capture increases tied to the consumer price index (CPI); an abatement resolution to receive the Property Tax Relief Grant and related fund transfers; and the routine annual abatement for Alternate Revenue Source bonds that requires operating‑fund transfers to satisfy debt service. The board packet cites a recommended abatement/transfer of $1,932,382 to receive a Property Tax Relief Grant of $1,647,292 and a separate transfer recommendation of $704,571 from the Operations & Maintenance fund to Debt Service to cover bond principal and interest due Dec. 1, 2024 and June 1, 2025.
The district presented the tax items as standard annual actions needed to preserve tax crediting and to ensure bond payments are funded when levy collections do not directly cover certain alternate-revenue debt. The board also approved giving public notice and holding the Truth in Taxation hearing on Dec. 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Maier Administration Center Board Room. No public speakers addressed the levy during the Nov. 12 meeting.
What happens next: the Dec. 17 hearing is the public opportunity for taxpayers to ask questions or comment on the levy before the board adopts final tax levies later in the statutory process.
