Low interest rates in the fall of 2018 led the Board of Education to authorize the sale of bonds of up to $16 million to re-fund two 2010 construction bonds, a move that was expected to save almost $2.1 million over 10 years for Woodstock School District 200. In the fall of 2020, refunding of […]
“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 of holding the line on the city’s property tax levy, forgoing the state-allowed maximum levy since 2010. That “tax savings,” Sager said, totals $13.4 million […]
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