Boone County Real estate tax bills to be mailed May 10

 

Friday, 06 May 2011 14:48 Editor

BOONE COUNTY – The Boone County Treasurer’s Office recently announced that real estate tax bills will be mailed May 10.

The due date for the first installment is June 10, and the due date for the second installment is Sept. 1.

Boone County taxpayers have the following options for payment of real estate taxes:

At your bank:All of the banks in Boone County accept property tax payments on our behalf. Bring your entire bill to the bank if you want it stamped to show proof of payment.

By mail:Send your check with the payment stub to the Boone County Treasurer at 1212 Logan Avenue, Suite 104, Belvidere, IL 61008. Your payment must be postmarked on or before the due date.

Online bill pay:If your bank offers online bill payment, enter your property number as the vendor account number your payment can be properly recorded. The office is not responsible for payments received with no property number reference.

Online by credit or debit cardthrough Illinois E-Pay: Go to http://illinoisepay.comand type “Boone County Treasurer” in the search box. This service is offered through the Illinois State Treasurer’s Office and they charge a convenience fee that varies according to the type of card and dollar amount. The treasurer’s office accept credit/debit cars.

The Boone County Treasurer’s Office, 1212 Logan Ave. in Belvidere, accepts cash, check, cashier’s check or money order. The office is open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office will be closed May 30.

Drop box: Those who can’t make it to the Treasurer's Office by closing time may drop their payments in the envelope depository by the side door after hours. Use an envelope and include the payment stub.

Mortgage escrow: Property owners are responsible for forwarding their bill to their mortgage company if the taxes are to be paid from an escrow account. The treasurer’s office recommends that you send them a copy, and keep the original.

Note: When paying in person at your bank or treasurer’s office, bring your entire bill if you want it stamped to show proof of payment.

Contact the following offices with questions:

Assessments, exemptions or address changes – Supervisor of Assessments Office 815-544-2958 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 815-544-2958 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Tax rates – County Clerk’s Office 815-544-3103 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 815-544-3103 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Collection and distribution of taxes – County Treasurer’s Office 815-544-2666 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 815-544-2666 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

Boone County Real estate tax bills to be mailed May 10

Powerful new legal tool for clergy sex abuse victims | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features

For the first time ever, a civilian court judge has ordered the Vatican to produce documents and answer questions under oath about its role in supervising a priest accused of a long pattern of child sex abuse.

The Vatican has argued that while it may have spiritual authority over priests, temporal issues such as employment are the purview of local dioceses and religious orders.

[Judge] Mosman gave the Vatican until June 20 to respond to the order to produce documents and answer a number of questions about Ronan [the alleged abuser] and the Church's general policies on the laicization of priests

The order embraces that the core issue -- in fact the sole issue in the case -- is whether he[Ronan] was an employee of the Holy See at the time of the events. That, he was not," Lena [Vatican attorney] said in a recent telephone interview

"If they were able to establish that there were an employment relationship it would be devastating to the Vatican, because obviously they have many more resources than any one diocese would," Zech said.

Eight US dioceses have been bankrupted by clergy sex abuse lawsuits, including the diocese of Portland, Oregon where the Ronan case is being tried.

But even if the plaintiffs fail to hold the Vatican liable in this case, the ruling has created a legal precedent which will make it easier to draw the Holy See further into clergy sex abuse cases.

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Governor Walker’s Orders Layoff Notices for Prosecutors Canceled - WBAY-TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News

 

Governor Scott Walker is rescinding the layoff notices sent to prosecutors' offices around the state.

As Action 2 News reported this week, the Association of State Prosecutors rejected the state's request for six furlough days for assistant district attorneys. As a result, the State said it was going to cut state their time and benefits 20 percent, effective Monday.

In a statement Friday afternoon, Governor Walker said prosecutors' offices will receive their personnel funding for the rest of the fiscal year and said his administration will work to "ensure that prosecutors are not furloughed and receive the funding necessary to pursue justice."

The move came after D.A.'s offices statewide raised major concerns.

Governor Orders Layoff Notices for Prosecutors Canceled - WBAY-TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News

Illinois will pull out of a controversial federal program:::Pantagraph.com | News from Associated Press

 

Illinois will pull out of a controversial federal program that automatically checks the immigration status of arrestees, Gov. Pat Quinn announced Wednesday, making Illinois one of the first states to take a stance against the so-called "Secure Communities" program.

Quinn argued that statistics from ICE show that many of those deported have never been convicted of any crime, let alone a serious crime. …..29 percent of the 102,000 immigrants deported under the program since it began in 2008 have no criminal conviction, according to federal government statistics

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Budget talks: Republicans offer to seek common ground with Democrats - The Washington Post

 

Senior Republicans conceded Wednesday that a deal is unlikely on a contentious plan to overhaul Medicare and offered to open budget talks with the White House by focusing on areas where both parties can agree, such as cutting farm subsidies.

GOP proposals that would save $715 billion over the next decade by ending payments to wealthy farmers, limiting lawsuits against doctors, and expanding government auctions of broadcast spectrum to telecommunications companies, among other items.

Democrats said they were encouraged by the move, which could smooth the way to a compromise allowing Congress to raise the legal limit on government borrowing and avoid a national default.

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Bin Laden Raid Revives Debate on Value of Torture - NYTimes.com

 

a chorus of Bush administration officials claimed vindication for their policy of “enhanced interrogation techniques” like waterboarding.

See: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266271/bin-laden-no-more-nro-symposium?page=6

John Yoo
The majority of the credit for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden goes to the Obama administration. But it is also a vindication of the Bush administration’s terrorism policies and shows that success comes from continuing those policies, not rejecting them (as Obama has tried to do for the last two years). According to anonymous government sources quoted in the press today, it was the interrogation of al-Qaeda leaders that led to the identification of the courier, who led us to bin Laden’s hiding place. Reports suggest that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed himself may have given up the identity of the courier.

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Belvidere School District Meet and Greet

Press Release****
The League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford to hold Meet and Greets
for School Board Members in the Harlem and Belvidere Districts  The League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford will hold open house Meet and Greets for the new and continuing school board members of the Harlem and Belvidere School Districts.

All parents, district staff, and community members in the districts are invited to hear the school board members’ plans to meet the challenges as they participate in guiding their school districts. This will be followed by a social hour where the public can mingle with the school board to ask questions and get to know their new school boards.

 
Belvidere  School District Meet and Greet:

May 9th, 2011 6:00-7:30 PM
Ida Public Library
330 N. State St., Belvidere

For more information, contact Ann Powell at 815-633-4247x13. Hosted by
The League of Women Voters Greater Rockford, 4990 East State Street,
Rockford, Il 61108. The LWVGR is a nonpartisan political organization,
dedicated to Making Democracy Work, through voter education, issue
advocacy, and citizen participation.
Claire Flynn McIntyre
815-623-9004

 

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