Champaign Park District staff propose $18.9 million levy estimate
Public hearing on the estimate is set for Nov. 10; final levy vote planned Dec. 9.
CHAMPAIGN - Champaign Park District staff asked the park board at its Oct. 14 meeting to set an estimated 2026 property tax levy of $18,893,710, according to the board's agenda packet. That is $608,002 more than last year's $18,285,708, a 3.33% increase as calculated from the district's own dollar figures in the packet's levy tables (pp. 168, 170); the packet's agenda and recommendation text (pp. 3, 169) instead describes it as a 103.33% increase.
The recommended plan, labeled Option 2 in the staff memo, would capture 75% of the growth in the district's taxable property value. Staff estimate that value at about $3.09 billion, up 7.6% from a year earlier. The packet says the state inflation limit for this levy year is 2.7%.
Because the estimate stays below 105% of the prior year's levy, the memo says no Truth in Taxation notice is required. Staff recommended a public hearing on the levy for Tuesday, Nov. 10, with the final levy ordinance going to the board Dec. 9.
The packet does not show whether the board adopted the recommendation; minutes have not been posted.
Source: Champaign Park District Board, Oct. 14, 2026, agenda packet, pp. 167-170 (https://champaignparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/10.14.2026-Board-Packet.pdf)