McHenry County College trustees approved a tuition increase Thursday amounting to $1.50 a credit hour for the 2020-21 school year. The tuition rate currently is $126.75 a credit hour, meaning the increase will make the new tuition and fee rate $128.25, or a 1.18% net increase. MCC officials estimate that the school will receive about $159,072 in net revenue from the tuition hike. In the agenda packet, MCC wrote that its tuition still will be below the average tuition and fee rate expected in fiscal 2021 for all community colleges in Illinois, which is $148.22. The average state tuition and fee rate this school year was $147.01, compared with MCC’s $126.75. MCC Trustees Tom Allen and Elizabeth Speros voted against the increase, while Trustees Diane Evertsen, Suzanne Hoban, Mary Beth Siddons, Molly Walsh, Mike Smith and student trustee Andres Rendon voted in favor of it. Speros pointed out that the board passed a tax levy increase in November and a $3 tuition increase in early 2019. She said when trustees considered the question of whether to raise tuition or taxes in the fall, college senior officials wrote that a tuition increase would not fully address all of the problems with the operating fund.