In a move aimed at the village s fire department fully staffed, Mount Prospect trustees have approved a one-time 2% "employee retention incentive" bonus for firefighters as part of a series of mid-year budget amendments.
The zombie-fest Nightmare on Chicago Street is back from the dead for this year. Mount Prospect leaders are talking about retiring the village vehicle sticker. Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 school board approve a new contract with teachers. Phillips Park Family Aquatic Center in Aurora won t open this summer.
Encouraged by swelling revenues from sales and income taxes, and rosy projections for more of the same, Mount Prospect officials are talking about retiring the village vehicle sticker and the $45 annual fee to buy one.
Mount Prospect officials rolled out an ambitious agenda Tuesday for its use of federal American Rescue Plan funds, including money to help a long-awaited downtown grocery store open its doors and to establish a second source of Lake Michigan water.
Mount Prospect residents would see a hike in water waste collection rates, but perhaps not in property taxes, under a 2022 budget proposal presented to village board and finance commission members Tuesday.