Excerpts from MySuburbanLife.com:
Voters in Fox Lake’s two referendums were in favor of incorporating the village into the Fox Lake Fire Protection District but against a proposed increased sales tax.
Officials said the increase would have raised a little more than a million dollars and would have gone toward hiring new police officers, resurfacing roads, continuing the village’s facade program for businesses, maintaining the bus service and acquiring land for parks and recreation.
Voters were much more supportive of incorporating the village into the Fox Lake Fire Protection District’s territory, with 58.7 percent voting yes. Previously, the village had levied for fire services and then turned those dollars over to the fire district.
