HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 3118 06/02/1981 RDINANCE NO.
3118
AN ORDINANCE PROPOSING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SPECIAL
SERVICE AREA IN THE VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT,
ILLINOIS AND PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING
AND OTHER PROCEDURES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE
OF MOUNT PROSPECT, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION ONE: Authority to Establish Special Service Areas. This
Board takes notice of its authority to establish a special service
area pursuant to Article VII, Sections 6, paragraph 1 of the
Constitution of the State of Illinois in force July 1, 1971 which
provides in pertinent part that:
"The General Assembly may not deny or limit the
power of home rule units . (2) to levy or
impose additional taxes upon areas within their
boundaries in the manner provided by law for the
provision of special services to those areas and
for the payment of debt incurred in order to
provide those special services."
and further pursuant to an Act to provide the manner of levying or
imposing taxes for the provision of special services to areas within
the boundaries of Home Rule Units and Non-Home Rule municipalities
and counties as set forth in Sections 1301 through 1311 of Chapter
120 of the Illinois Revised Statutes, 1980.
SECTION TWO: Findings. This Village Board hereby finds as follows:
(A) It is in the best interest of the public that the creation of
the area hereinafter described as a special service area for the
purposes set forth herein be considered.
(B) Said area is a compact and contiguous business area within the
Village of Mount Prospect.
(C) Said area is zoned for business purposes as a business retail
and service district and will benefit specially from the municipal
services to be provided, which proposed municipal services are
unique and are in addition to municipal services provided by the
Village of Mount Prospect as a whole, and it is therefore, in the
best interests of the Village of Mount Prospect that the levy of
special taxes against said area for the special services so provided
be considered.
SECTION THREE: Public Hearings - Tax Rate - Issuance of Bonds.
A public hearing shall be held on Tuesday the 23rd day of June, 1981
at 8:00 o'clock p.m. CDT in the second floor Board Room of the Public
Safety Building, at 112 East Northwest Highway, Mount Prospect,
Illinois, to consider the creation of Special Service Area No. 3 of
the Village of Mount Prospect, in the territory described in the
Notice set forth in Section 4 hereof.
At the hearing, there will be considered the borrowing of $25,000.00
to be evidenced by General Obligation Bonds, the proceeds of which
shall be used to pay part of the cost of construction and installa-
tion of roadway modifications and rehabilitation including diagonal
arking space and pedestrian walkway designation and driveway
alignment; street light installation; parking lot addition and
rehabilitation; installation of turn around and median islands;
landscape grading; planting of shrubs and trees; sodding and such
other incidental work deemed necessary to improve South Wille Street
from the intersection of Busse Avenue and Northwest Highway, North to
the intersection of West Central Road within said SpeCial Service
Area as described in the Notice set forth in Section 4 hereof. Said
bonds are to be retired over not to exceed a twelve (12) year
period, and to bear interest at a rate of not to exceed ten (10%)
percent per annum. Said bonds, if issued, shall be retired by the
levy of a direct tax to pay the interest on such bonds as they fall
due and to discharge the principal thereof at maturity. Said tax is
to be levied upon all taxable property within the proposed Special
Service Area and said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes
provided by law and levied upon property within the proposed Special
Service Area pursuant to the Revenue Act of 1939.
SECTION FOUR: Notice of Hearing. Notice of Hearing shall be
published at least once not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the
public hearing in the Mount Prospect Herald, a newspaper published
within the Village of Mount Prospect. In addition, Notice by mailing
shall be given by depositing said Notice in the U.S. mail addressed
to the person or persons in whose name the general taxes for the
last preceding year were paid on each lot, block, tract or parcel of
land lying within the proposed Special Service Area. Said Notice
shall be mailed not less than ten (10) days prior to the time set
for the public hearing. In the event taxes for the last preceding
year were not paid, the Notice shall be sent to the person last
listed on the Tax Rolls prior to that year as the owner of said
property. The Notice shall be in substantially the following form:
"NOTICE OF HEARING
VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT SPECIAL SERVICE AREA
NO. 3
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday the 23rd day of June, 1981,
at 8:00 p.m. o'clock CDT, in the second floor Board Room of the
Public Safety Building, 112 East Northwest Highway, Mount Prospect,
Illinois, a hearing will be held by the President and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospect to consider forming a
Special Service Area consisting of the following described territory:
Lots 1 and 2 of Wille's Consolidation Plat of
Lots 2 to 12 both inclusive in Block 2 in Busse
and Wille's Resubdivision in Mount Prospect, a
subdivision in the West 1/2 of Section 12,
Township 41 North, Range 11 East of the Third
Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois,
together with
that part of the public street known as South
Wille Street which lies adjacent and 66 feet East
of the East line of said Lots 1 and 2 and which
lies Northerly of the Northeasterl~ line'of
Northwest Highway and which lies South of the
North line of Lot 1 aforesaid extended East, all
in Cook County, Illinois.
The street to be improved within said described area is South Wille
Street from Northwest Highway to West Central Road.
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uch area is generally bounded by businesses adjacent to South Wille
Street on the West side thereof between Northwest Highway and West
Central Road. An accurate map of said area is on file in the office
of the Village Clerk and is available for public inspection.
The purpose of the formation of the Mount Prospect Special Service
Area No. 3 in general is to provide special municipal services to
the area, including, but not limited to, municipal services
consisting of construction and installation of roadway modifications
and rehabilitation including diagonal parking space and pedestrian
walkway designation and driveway alignment; street light
installation; parking lot additions and rehabilitation; installation
of turn around and median islands; landscape grading; planting of
shrubs and trees; sodding and such other incidental work deemed
necessary to improve South Wille Street from the intersection of
Busse Avenue and Northwest Highway, North to the intersection of
West Central Road, together with the redesign and channeling of
traffic movements to provide for one-way traffic flow along said
street from the Northwest Highway intersection to a point
appoximately 300 feet South of West Central Road.
For the purpose of paying a portion of the cost of the Special
Services, the issuance of General Obligation Bonds in the amount not
to exceed $25,000.00 at an interest rate of not to exceed ten (10%)
percent per annum and to mature within a period of not to exceed
twelve (12) years, will be considered at the hearing. Said bonds if
issued, shall be retired by the levy of a direct tax to pay the
interest on such bonds as it falls due and to discharge the
principal thereof at maturity; said tax to be levied upon all
taxable property within the proposed Special Service Area based upon
assessed values as established pursuant to the Revenue Act of 1939.
The remaining portion of the cost of said Special Services is to be
paid from the Village's allotment of Motor Fuel Tax Funds, and from
General Obligation Bonds issued with respect to Mount Prospect
Special Services Area No. 4.
Ail interested persons, including all owners of real estate therein,
affected by the formation of the Mount Prospect Special Service Area
No. 3 will be given an opportunity to be heard at the hearing
regarding the formation of and the boundaries of the Special Service
Area and the issuance of such General Obligation Bonds and the levy
of taxes to pay the principal and interest thereof, and may file
objections to the formation of the Area, the issuance of such bonds,
and the levy of taxes affecting said Area. The hearing may be
adjourned by the Board to another date without further notice other
than a Motion to be entered upon the Minutes fixing the time and
place of its adjournment.
If a Petition signed by at least 51% of the Electors residing within
the Special Service Area and by at least 51% of the owners of record
of the land included within the boundaries of the Special Service
Area is filed with the Village Clerk within sixty (60) days following
the final adjournment of the public hearing objecting the creation
of the Special Service Area, to the levy or imposition of a tax or
the issuance of bonds for the provision of special services to the
area, or to a proposed increase in the tax rate, no such District
may be created, or tax may be levied or imposed nor the rate
increased, or no such bonds may be issued.
Dated this
day of June, 1981.
Carol A Fields,
Village Clerk
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ECTION FIVE: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
a~d after its passage, approval and publication in accordance with
law.
PASSED this
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSENT: Murauskis
APPROVED this 2nd
2nd day of June
Arthur Farley Floros Mi~er Wa~enberg
None
day of June
, 198~.
· 1981.
VIL~GE PRESIDENT
ATTEST:
VILLAGE CLERK
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