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NEWS Village streamlines management costs, restart projects

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Our Community, Our News

MARCH 28, 2013

Vol. 6 No. 37

THE HIGH COST OF

CHARITY

Local taxing bodies to pay for hospital’s new tax-exempt status By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter

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state-wide debate over earning hospitals tax-exempt status resulted in a win for Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital and a shortage for all of its taxing bodies who now owe back taxes to the hospital totaling more than $5 million, excluding this year’s taxes. Carrying the brunt of the burden will be the Valley View

School District 365u, to the tune of nearly $3.6 million, a refund from 2009, 2010 and 2011.The news came with little warning earlier this year when the Will County Treasurer sent out a letter informing the district and all other taxing bodies within the village of the of the required refund. A new law signed in June 2012 expanded the definition of charity care. According See CHARITY, page 3


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