Other People's Money

The problem with many school districts, including Sun Prairie, is that the district administration (no matter how vehemently they argue to the contrary) find it too easy to spend other people's money. Instead of Tim Culver spending time with the high salaried muckety mucks, we'd love to see him visit a few seniors who are dangerously close to losing their homes.

 We ALL want a good, solid, quality education for the kids of Sun Prairie. And we might all enjoy eating sea bass dinners. But the simple reality is that most of us don't have the means. It is also the seniors who struggle with property tax payments that built this district from the ground up.

 Where's the respect they are due? The district offers a wonderful property tax reduction incentive, but again what Culver and his ilk fail to understand is that many of the folks that could best benefit from this assistance are either disabled in some manner or caring for a spouse who needs full-time assistance. They simply may not be mobile enough to come to the district for so many hours per week to volunteer.

Wisconsin Act 10 Designed to REDUCE Property Taxes
In a recent article in the LaCrosse Tribune, Dale Knapp, research director for the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, a Madison-based nonpartisan, not-for-profit advocacy organization, projects that,

between 0.5 and 2 percent property-tax increases statewide in the wake of the biennial budget, although the numbers will vary by district.

Less than 2% increases?  Guess Sun Prairie must AGAIN be one of those rare districts that Phil Frei always likes to tell us about.  Only this time, we're the not-so-good rarity.

So...how does Sun Prairie stack up against similarly sized districts?

Oh...and we understand that not everyone can navigate the internet sufficiently to find this information. If you have any doubts regarding the accuracy of this information, please e-mail us at Sp.eye1@gmail.com, and we'd be happy to provide you links to any of the supporting documentation.