Special Service Area Tax Information:

The Special Service Area (SSA) is a taxing mechanism that can be used by municipalities to fund a wide range of special or additional services and/or physical improvements in a defined geographical area within a municipality. This type of district allows local governments to establish areas without incurring debt or levying tax on the entire community. The Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1970 granted municipalities this authority. Since 1976, the City of Naperville has had 21 SSA’s. There are currently only three SSA’s in affect: SSA 19, 21, and 22.

SSA 19 helps pay for landscaping in the central business district and is set to expire in 2007. SSA 20 provides maintenance for the central business district, the two parking decks, and provides for the promotion and marketing of downtown Naperville. SSA 20 receives 2/3 of it’s funding from the city and 1/3 from property taxes. This tax is currently providing the funding for the DNA and maintenance of downtown. It is set to expire the summer of 2005.

SSA 21 was created to establish a financing mechanism for repayment of a proportionate share of the cost to design and construct the Van Buren Street parking deck. This SSA is currently in affect until 2022.

SSA 22 is a renewal of SSA 20. It extends SSA 20 to continue to fund the DNA and maintenance of downtown. SSA 22 is set to expire in 2010.
 

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