Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2015-7395

• Record #: O2015-7395
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 10/14/2015
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
• Final action: 10/28/2015
• Title: Property tax levy for Year 2016
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: TAXES/TAX LEVIES - Levies - 2016

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/2/2015		City Council	Signed by Mayor
10/28/2015	12052	City Council	Passed	Pass
10/21/2015	10253	City Council	Deferred and Published
10/20/2015		Committee on Finance	Recommended to Pass	Pass
10/14/2015	8231	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
• October 14,2015










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Budget Director, I transmit herewith ordinances authorizing a Supplemental Tax Levy for 2015 and Tax Levies for 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Your favorable consideration of these ordinances will be appreciated.

Very truly yours,

Mayor
ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, the City of Chicago is a home rule unit of government as defined in Article VII, Section 6 (a) of the Illinois Constitution, and, as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, the City has adopted its annual appropriation ordinance for the year 2016, pursuant to its powers granted by the constitution and laws of the State of Illinois; and

WHEREAS, it is now appropriate and in the best interests of the City of Chicago to enact its tax levy for the year 2016, to become effective as provided herein; and

WHEREAS, it is appropriate that the tax levy for the year 2016 receive expeditious consideration by the City Council; now, therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:


SECTION 1. The sum of One Billion, Two Hundred Ninety-Five Million, Eight Hundred Thirty-One Thousand Dollars ($1,295,831,000), ascertained by the City Council as the total amount of appropriations heretofore legally made for all corporate purposes to be provided for by the tax levy of the year 2016, is hereby levied for the year 2016 upon all property within the City of Chicago subject to taxation. The purposes for which appropriations have been made and the amounts appropriated for such purposes, respectively, are hereinafter specified in detail in the manner authorized for the annual appropriation ordinance for the year 2016, annexed to and made a part of this ordinance. The amounts appropriated and levied for each of said purposes, respectively, are set forth below in separat...