District Gets $270K More State Aid Than Expected...Likely None for the Taxpeyers

The final state aid allotments were released today.
Sun Prairie will now receive $30,805,167 (a 5.42% decrease over last year), which is $267,732 more than the estimate released July 1 ($30,537,435). That's $268,000 more to spend .... OR ... they could reduce the tax levy by that amount.

Which do you think is going to happen??

 Of course, by our calculations there's an additional $200-$300,000 over-budgeted due to 20% lower new enrollment than expected. ...and we haven't heard the final tallies on open enrollment. There's usually a reason why we DON'T hear about something.

Our estimate is that there's another $200,000 as an expense (kids transferring out) that didn't happen...which means another $200K of fluff in the budget.

Last but not least....we still see at least $300K of fluff in the other lines of the general budget. Add it all up and there's about $1,000,000 in the budget--and the tax levy---- that doesn't need to be there.

The district wants you to approve a tax levy of $47,087,483 on Monday night. 
We think there are better numbers out there. 
How about $46,887,483 (that reduces it $200,000) 
Or $46,809,483...that reduces it by the extra state aid we just received 
Or $46,787,483...that's a flat cut of $300,000 
Or $46,637,483...which reduces the tax levy increases from 3.5% to 2.5%


Monday is your meeting.  Give them everything they want...or send a message that they have more than enough and that YOU are hurting financially.