Real Estate Tax Bills to Be Mailed June 14; First Installment Due July 27
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Treasurer Bill Taylor said he will mail real estate tax bills before the end of the day on Thursday, June 14. Taxpayers could receive them as early as Friday. The first installment will be due Friday, July 27 and the second installment on Friday, August 31.
Bills can be paid in person at Taylor's office, via the drop box in front of the County Government Building, through the mail, at any local bank, including those in Campbell Hill and Steeleville or with a credit card online. There is a jurisdiction code on the bill that must be entered when paying with a credit card.
Taylor said this is the third year in a row that the real estate tax bills have gone out between the first and third week in June. County Clerk Kevin Kern presented the board with a summary of all levies in Perry County, which total $15,833,342.
The rates have remained very stable with few exceptions. Community Consolidated District 204, which generally has the highest tax rate of all schools in the county, decreased its levy. For the first time in many years, the City of Du Quoin will not abate any of its levy.
The Equalized Assessed Value of the Perry County increased $7.5 million over the previous year.
Board Chairman Bobby Kelly praised Assessor John Batteau, Kern and Taylor for all their hard work.
The board then re-appointed the three members of the Board of Review for the 2012 assessment year. They are Bobby Kelly, Jeff Robinson and Andy Clark.
In other business, the board:
authorized Commissioner Sam Robb to proceed with removing the northern wall to expand the board room. Robb said he has received one bid from Kellerman Brothers at a total cost of $2,400. He is also expecting bids on ventilated doors for the furnace room and server room.
renewed the liquor license for Double Eagle Inc., which operates Red Hawk Golf Club.
approved a special use zoning permit to replace an older mobile home with a 2010 model on Crocus Road in Pinckneyville. The eight-year permit is for Mark Lunnemann Jr.
passed a resolution approving an agreement between Perry County EMA and Perry County Gold Plate for use of vehicles and facilities in the case of an emergency or disaster.