Whether you agree or disagree about whether the school district should spend $89,000 (increasing annually) to cut the distance that middle schoolers have to walk from 2 miles to 1.5 miles....cast your vote.
The school board and district administration think (or hope) that you're either asleep at the wheel, absolutely thrilled with another 8% property tax increase, or that you simply don't care enough to do something about it.
Prove them wrong.
It's easy...just grab a neighbor and bring them out to the Public Hearing on the Budget followed by the Special Elector's Meeting. The Brewers play in the afternoon that day, and NFL training camps are just beginning to open. The TV has nothing but low quality reruns, so come on down!
This Wednesday July 28, 2010
Performing Arts Center at the new Sun Prairie High School
888 Grove Street
6:30 pm: Public Hearing on the School District Budget
7:30 pm: Special Electors Meeting to decide the busing issue
Don't know what to say? Here are some ideas
- Do you think school district employees (particularly $100K/yr administrators) deserve fat raises? Get up to the microphone and tell them.
- Do you think the Local 60 support staff should continue to get the short end of the stick? Or should all employees be treated equally? Tell them what you think.
- Health insurance premiums cost $1,200 per month for a family. Some staff are paying as less than $17.00 per month. TELL the board what percentage of premium costs you think they should be having employees pay.
- Dental insurance premiums cost about $500 per month for a family. Some staff don't pay a dime!. TELL the board what percentage of premium costs you think they should be having employees pay.
- Other than turning the thermostats up and down 2 degrees, the district has only incorporated about $15,000 of permanent reductions into their $72M 2010-11 budget. Think that's good enough?
- The school district portion of the mill rate will be at least $12.12 this year. That's 7.8% higher than last year's $11.24. That additional $0.88 means an additional $176 property tax on a $200,000 home. How do you like them apples?
Remember....if you stay silent and do not show up, the school board interprets that as tacit approval to march on with their budget. Remind them NOW that they need to sharpen their pencils, because you will be back in force for the October 11, Annual Elector's meeting.
Tell the board that if they don't change the levy now, they run the risk of YOU changing it for them in October.
Of course...if you got a great raise at your job this year, you think the economy has turned around, that teachers and administrators are underpaid and you think we should continue to blindly throw money at the school district in the name of education even if we don't score that well on state tests and don't have state or national merit scholars....
then you can tell them that too.
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