More than a year ago, voters in Wheeling Township approved a new property tax to fund mental health services. But due to a legal dispute with political overtones, advocates likely will have to go through another referendum and wait a couple more years before they could get funding. Township officials are refusing to impose taxes for the program, saying it didn’t meet legal requirements, .
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Wheeling Township voters again will be asked to create a mental health board, and a tax to fund it, after officials acted Tuesday to place the question on the March 19, 2024 ballot.
Funding for treatment of substance abuse, mental health and developmental disability in a half-dozen suburban townships and Will County may be in jeopardy due to concerns that the voter referendums that created them were illegitimate. Officials were scrambling last week to respond to the problem, and hope that a legislative fix could avoid having to hold the referendums again. Last fall, .
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