Want to know what happened on your tax bill? Hint: It likely wasn't trending, if your change this year was approximately 30 percent, Trending basically had no effect on your tax bill in 2007, and even if the change was larger than that, the effect was negligible. The amount of Spending on the other hand had a big impact. | Taxing Unit | 2006 | 2007 | %of change | % of total | County (collected from St. John township only) | $39,484,633 | $45,537,967 | +15.33% | 40.14% | | St. John Township | $698,657 | $724,991 | +3.77% | .64% | | Dyer | $4,301,543 | $5,324,650 | +23.78% | 4.69% | | Schererville | $9,587,768 | $9,311,688 | -2.88% | 8.21% | | St John | $4,376,588 | $5,045,892 | +15.29% | 4.45% | | Lake Central Schools | $31,833,875 | $41,151,717 | +29.27% | 36.28% | Lake County Public Library (Funds collected from SJT only) | $2,212,385 | $2,697,354 | +21.92% | 2.38% | | St. John Sanitary | $388,160 | $398,035 | +2.54% | .35% | | St John Water | $208,086 | $216,192 | +3.90% | .19% | | Dyer Sanitary | $686,965 | $1,001,515 | +45.79% | .88% | | Dyer Waterworks | $182.878 | $542,057 | 196.40% | .48% | | Dyer Redelopment | $205,301 | $226,375 | +10.26% | .20% | | Schererville Redevelopment | $207,356 | $320,995 | +54.80% | .28% | Lake County Solid Waste (St John Township collections only) | $891,454 | $939,642 | +5.41 | .83% | | Total paid by St John Township | $95,265,619 | $113,439,070 | +19.08% | |
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