2016 Cook County Budget Hearings: Board of Review, October 23, 2015
The Board of Review handles residential, commercial, and industrial tax appeals for Cook County. Its budget for 2016 is $8.5 million. Accomplishments include:
- The implementation in August of 2015 of an electronic tax appeals processing system- the largest in the world – which is estimated to save two million pieces of paper each year.
- Saved $126 million for all the CC taxing bodies and $8.5 million in Forest Preserve taxes.
- Increased its field outreach program which received great comments by all commissioners present and is expected to grow in 2016 due to the anticipated record number of appeals due to the Chicago reassessment of properties next year.
Commissioners Steele and Boykin committed
to finding a way to amend the Fleet and Zip Car Programs so that employees can
keep their county or rental car later into the night. It is an insurance issue. The Board of Review was highly complimented by
the Commissioners.
--submitted by Diane Edmundson
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