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The village is considering an amusement tax on residents to help finance construction of the new police facility, officials said last week.
Trustees don`t want to raise property taxes to build the much-needed station, estimated to cost about $4 million, said Mayor Frank Bellerive. Officials are considering several other methods to avoid that, including constructing the building under a lease-purchase agreement with a local lender.
But an amusement tax on items such as video cassette rentals, movies and video games would produce ”a good amount of money, and it would be less painful than raising other taxes,” Bellerive said.