Again this year, no one showed up for a public hearing on the largest local government budget in Woodstock and the biggest spender of property tax revenue. The 2022-23 budget […]
Nobody from the public showed up last week to comment as the Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education approved a $115.7 million budget for the 2021-22 school year. What […]
“How long can we continue to do this?” Mayor Brian Sager asked rhetorically during a budget workshop of the Woodstock City Council. He was talking about the council’s decade-long practice […]
When the Board of Trustees approved a 2020-21 fiscal year budget last week, it appropriated an additional $150,000 for an “administrative position” at the WFRD, likely a deputy chief, a […]
Income and spending will jump about 25 percent in the 2020-21 Woodstock city budget – both inflated by the $9 million in major street improvements being made this year.The City […]
Woodstock School District 200’s new budget calls for small decreases over last year in revenues and expenditures, but state funding could go up slightly once a new formula kicks in. […]
Woodstock residents will pay more for water after the City Council approved a new budget that includes a 3 percent hike in water and sewer rates. The Fiscal Year 2017-18 […]
The city of Woodstock will have slightly lower budgeted expenditures and slightly higher revenues in the next fiscal year if the City Council approves the budget presented to them March […]
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