Mayor Wasowicz and 5 Village Board Members Pave the Way for Residents to Pay for Streets

At the April 23, 2012 Village Board meeting Trustee Sue Small made a motion to: "To approve the designation of Special Service Areas for street reconstruction in the Village of Justice and to authorize the Village Engineer and Village Attorney to provide the necessary evaluations to determine the scope and cost estimates of the projects."


Trustee Rusch, Trustee Sparr, Trustee Symonds, Trustee Small and Trustee Kuban all voted yes to approve the motion. (Trustee Bartoszek was out of town and not in attendance.) The motion passed.

Passing this motion is the first step in a process that would allow the Village of Justice to contract for recontruction of residential streets in the Village and bill residents directly for the work on their property tax bill. The cost to each homeowner has yet to be determined. The resident would be billed for this cost for 10 to 15 years on his/hers property tax bill.

The Village has already divided most of the Village into 5 Special Service Areas. The Arbors of Justice, Roberts Park, Sunset Lake and The Oaks of Willow Hill neighborhoods are not part of the Special Service Areas. Streets in the Arbors of Justice were recently repaved using TIF funds and streets in Roberts Park were reconstructed using State funds. The residents of these 2 neighborhoods paid nothing to have their streets repaved or reconstructed.

Look at the maps below to see if your home is in one of the 5 Special Service Areas.

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