 Pat Saucerman, Director of Business Services The Marshfield School Board voted to raise property taxes! |
| The Marshfield School District is running 6.1 million in the hole over this budget year (2.4 million) and next (3.7 million). |
2011-12 School Tax Levy Drops More Than $47 Million Governor Walker's reforms lead to first school tax levy drop in six years. Tax levy numbers for the 2011-12 school year show the total tax levy is down more than $47 million for K-12 schools. That translates to a 1% decrease on the school tax portion of the average property tax bill. This is only the second time the total school tax levy has dropped since 1996. Over the last five years the tax levy, on average, increased by $181 million each year. When compared to the status quo of the last five years, Governor Walker’s reforms are keeping an extra $228 million in Wisconsin property taxpayer’s pockets. In total, 269 school districts have a property tax levy lower or the same as last year and 200 school districts not only lowered their levy, but cut their mill rate. The following is a list of School Districts reporting a lower tax levy for 2011-12, compared to last year. Adams-Friendship Albany Algoma Alma Amery Appleton Ashland Ashwaubenon Athens Auburndale Baldwin-Woodville Unity (Milltown) Baraboo Barron Area Bayfield Beaver Dam *Belmont Community Beloit *Beloit Turner Benton Birchwood Wisconsin Heights (Black Earth) Pecatonica (Blanchardville) Boulder Junction (North Lakeland) Boyceville Brighton #1 Brodhead Elmbrook (Brookfield) *Brown Deer Butternut Cambridge Cameron *Campbellsport Cedarburg Cedar Grove - Belgium Chequamegon Clear Lake Clintonville Cochrane - Fountain City Coleman Crandon Crivitz Cudahy Cumberland Darlington Kettle Moraine Delavan-Darien De Soto Dodgeville Drummond Northland Pines (Eagle River) East Troy Edgerton Elcho Eleva-Strum Elkhart Lake - Glenbeulah Elk Mound Elmwood Royall (Elroy) Erin #2 Fennimore Lac du Flambeau Florence County *Fond du Lac Fontana Ft. Atkinson Fox Point Maple Dale - Indian Hills Franklin Frederic Northern Ozaukee North Crawford Genoa City Germantown Gibraltar Area Gillett Glenwood City Goodman-Armstrong Grafton Granton Area Black Hawk (Gratiot) Greendale Greenfield Green Lake Greenwood Hamilton (Lisbon) (Sussex) St. Croix (Central Hamilton) Hartford UHS Hartford J #1 Arrowhead UHS Hartland-Lakeside J #3 Hayward Community Herman #22 Hilbert Holmen Horicon Howards Grove Hurley Hustisford Iola Scandanavia Ithaca Juda Dodgeland Kenosha Kewaunee Kohler La Crosse Ladysmith-Hawkins La Farge Lake Geneva-Genoa City UHS Lake Geneva J #1 Lake Mills Lancaster Laona Linn J #6 Little Chute Loyal Luck Madison Metropolitan Manawa Marion Markesan Marshall Mauston Mellen Menonomee Falls Menomonie Area Mequon-Thiensville Merrill Swallow (Merton J #8) North Lake (Merton J #7) Stone Bank (Merton J #4 Middleton-Cross Plains Mineral Point Minocqua Lakeland UHS (Minocqua) Northwood (Minong) Monona Grove Monroe Montello Monticello Mukwonago Muskego-Norway Lake Country (Nashotah) Necedah Neenah Nekoosa New Auburn New Berlin New Holstein New Lisbon New London New Richmond Niagara *Norris (Vernon) Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Norway J #7 (Drought) *Oak Creek - Franklin Oconomowoc Oconto Falls *Oostburg Parkview (Orfordville) Osceola Oshkosh Owen-Withee Pardeeville Paris J #1 Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine Pepin Peshtigo Pewaukee Phelps Phillips Pittsville Tri-County (Plainfield) Plum City Plymouth Port Edwards Port Washington-Saukville Prairie du Chien Prairie Farm Prentice Princeton Randall J #1 (Bassett) Randolph Random Lake Raymond #14 Rhinelander Rice Lake Richfield J #1 Friess Lake (Richfield J #11) Richland Center Rio Ripon River Falls River Ridge (Patch Grove) Rosendale-Brandon Roshlot Rubicon J #6 (Saylesville) St. Croix Falls *St. Francis Central-Westosha (Salem) Sauk Prairie Sevastopol Seymour Shawano-Gresham Shullsburg Silver Lake J #1 Siren Slinger Solon Springs Somerset South Milwaukee Southern Door County Spooner River Valley (Spring Green Spring Valley Stevens Point Area Stockbridge Sturgeon Bay Superior Suring *Thorp Three Lakes Tigerton *Tomahawk Trevor-Wilmot Two Rivers Union Grove UHS Union Grove J #1 Valders Wabeno Walworth J #1 Washburn Washington Waterford UHS Waukesha Waupaca Waupun Wausau Wausaukee Wauwatosa Wauzeka-Steuben Webster West Allis West Bend *Westby Area Westfield Weston (Ironton) (Cazenovia) *West Salem Weyauwega-Fremont Wheatland J #1 Whitefish Bay Whitehall White Lake Whitewater Whitnall (Hales Corners) Wild Rose Williams Bay *Wilmot UHS (Salem) Winneconne Community Winter Wisconsin Dells Wonewoc-Union Center Woodruff J #1 *Wrightstown Community Yorkville J #2 (* = same as last year) -------------------------------------------- For more information: Information about the survey results can be found at: http://walker.wi.gov/journal_media_detail.asp?prid=6085&locid=177 The survey results also show that while lowering property tax levies the outcomes were better than years were spending increased: http://walker.wi.gov/journal_media_detail.asp?prid=6087&locid=177 LFB Reference: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/2011-13%20Budget/2011_07_05%20property%20tax%20estimates.pdf |
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