What You Should Know:

If you would like to provide input into the Village Budget, it is wise to start very early in the planning process.

Why You Should Care:

This is your community and if you don't voice your opinion, then you won't get your way.

Village Budget Study Consensus (1987) (revised 2003)

It is the consensus of the League of Women Voters of Glen Ellyn that the 1987-88 Budget of the Village of Glen Ellyn reflects the goals and policies of the Glen Ellyn Comprehensive Plan.  It is a budget designed to provide services desired by a predominantly residential community.  The basic form and underlying principles of the budget are adequate and appropriate for serving the Village into the future.

 Human services are an important part of the Village budget, and it is appropriate to fund these from general revenues.  League members expressed particular concern for the continuation of services for seniors, adolescents and the handicapped.  Any expansion beyond the current level of human services should be carefully weighed.

Village revenue should come from a variety of sources, including property, sales and utility taxes, among others, and user fees when appropriate.  The Village should encourage the development of vacant land to its optimum use as income producing property, as well as encourage Central Business District enterprises that might increase sales tax revenue with a minimum increase in demand for services.  The Village should be alert to ways to increase revenue without increasing the tax burden on residents, and should examine home rule revenue options and adopt appropriate ones when possible.

 The Village should constantly seek to limit expenditures by encouraging increased efficiency, by increasing privatization of services where feasible and cooperating with other units of government like the Park District to avoid  unnecessary duplication of services.

 Although the Village budget process is careful and thorough, public input is actively sought only after the budget is almost complete.  The Village should seek and the League should offer public input early in the budget process, instead of only at the end. Back to positions.

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