McHenry County Blog

Starting with $20,223.91 the first of the year, the District 300 tax hike committee has raised another $54,500 from big contributors from Jan. 1st through Feb. 19th from heavy hitters and got another $13,775.17 from in-kind contributors. All but $200 came from corporations and individuals who gave more than $150.

$133,000 of the $153,000 campaign budget Northwest Herald’s Allison Smith reporter found to be needed at a fundraising meeting is now visible.

And, the tax hike committee has two weeks to do.

This is in addition to the money raised in chunks of over $500 since Feb.19th, which McHenry County Blog has previously reported here and here

The $54,300 in checks were written from only 13 accounts:

$15,000 on 2/14 from Pulte Home Corporation, Elgin
$10,000 on 2/2 from Lakewood Crossing LLC, Hoffman Estates
$10,000 on 2/4 from Hampshire West LLC of Aurora
$5,000 on1/23 from District 300 architectural firm Burnidge Cassell & Assoc.
$5,000 on 2/14 from Alfred Brennan, Jr., a consultant with Young Innovators (lives in Dundee)
$4,000 on 1/23 from teachers union LEAD IPACE
$1,500 on 2/11 from Hovstone Properties LLC, Lombard
$1,000 on 2/4 from Wing Pointe North LLC, Streamwood
$1,000 on 2/11 from Wyndham Deerpoint Homes,
$1,000 on 1/28 from Mark Seigle, Seigle’s Home Center manager, West Dundee
$450 on 2/14 from District 300 business person Cheryl Crates, Algonquin
$300 on 1/28 from John Court, Sleepy Hollow
$250 on 2/3 from Alan J. Coulson PC, 205 West Main Street,
West Dundee

The $13,775.17 of in-kind, non-cash contributions follow:

from BMJ Partners LLC, 231 West Main Street, Suite 201, Carpentersville

$6,275 on 1/18 for an office lease

from District 300 vendor Lamp Inc., 460 North Grove Avenue, Elgin,

4,997.85 for posters and banners on 1/31 from District 300 vendor Lamp Inc., Elgin,

FromState Farm Insurance Agent Mark Krueger, 4670 West Algonquin Road, LITH

· $1,681.75 for bracelets on 2/1
· $720.57 for T-shirts on 1/27
· $100 for office insurance on 1/18

Campaign disclosure reports this year show $119,700. Add that to the amount spent over the last half of 2005 and the total rises to over $133,000 by my count. Thirty thousand still needs to be raised, according to the meeting Allison Smith covered.

That should be no problem. Lots of previously reported contributors

developers and

vendors here, here
and here

have not shown up yet.

Here is an analysis of the percentage of District 300 business that vendors gave to tax hike committees.

Labels: Burnidge Cassell, Cheryl Crates, District 300, Lamp Inc, School Vendors