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- NOTES- ORGANIZATION FOR THE KETTLE MORAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT A SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED KETTLE MORAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT by the BUREAU OF FIELD STUDIES AND SURVEYS College of Education University of Minnesota OTTO E. DOMIAN, Director VERNON S. BENNETT, Research Assistant May, 1967 SURVEY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTS - NOTES- AND BOARDS OF EDUCATION KETTLE MORAINE HIGH SCHOOL BRANDYBROOK (Joint Union High School (Joint 1, Delafield) District No. 12) Delafield, Wisconsin Wales, Wisconsin Donald P. Cheeseman, Director Harold Bauman, Director Wesley Broome, Clerk Salvador Garcia, Clerk John D. Curren, Treasurer Richard Bertz, Treasurer John Vande Bunt, Member Lyle Dill, Principal Conrad C. Lurvey, Member Dale F. Davis, Administrator Keith Kruescher, Principal CUSHING DOUSMAN (Joint 4, Delafield) (Joint 17, Dousman) Delafield, Wisconsin Dousman, Wisconsin Robert T. Hosch, Director Richard Northey, Director Robert L. Becker, Clerk Mrs. Betty Lange, Clerk Dr. A. G. Waltke, Treasurer John Leonard, Treasurer Mrs. Lois Legler, Member James Bleecker, Member Dr. Eugene Braunschweig, Member Dr. Howard Cook, Member Stanley S. Angell, Principal Harold A. Reich, Principal GENESEE HIGHLAND VIEW (No.2, Genesee) (Joint 9, Delafield) Genesee, Wisconsin Delafield, Wisconsin Harold Phillips, Director Lawrence Newman, Director Mrs. Bettymae Hellman, Clerk Martin J. Brandt, Clerk Mrs. Clara Honeyager, Treasurer Mrs. David Behrend, Treasurer Mrs. Alice Brandt, Principal Gladys Kraft, Principal -2- above. The new district would also be able to participate in several MAGEE MORIAH federal programs thereby reflecting another stabilizer on local taxes. (No. 15, Genesee) (Joint 13, Genesee) State aids permeating from any new state legislation also will favor Genesee Depot, Wisconsin Oconomowoc, Wisconsin the recommended school district organization. Mrs. Gordon Carlson, Director Arden Morris, Director Joseph Fleming, Jr., Clerk Mrs. Maldwyn Morris, Clerk CONCLUSION Jack Williams, Treasurer Mrs. Robert Hopkins, Treasurer Mrs. Marimae Roder, Principal Mrs. Marian H. Cramer, The foregoing recommendations have been made after a careful Principal consideration of all the factors involved in all school districts. The improvement of education depends not only upon professional and board of education competence but also upon the degree to which people be come aware of need and are able to interpret and are willing to accept the recommendations for improvements. OTTAWA SANDY ISLAND (Joint 1, Ottawa) (Joint 7, Ottawa) The complete survey report has discussed in detail the educational Dousman, Wisconsin Dousman, Wisconsin problems and the circumstances that have created them. The Bureau of Field Studies and Surveys has presented a set of recommendations that Marcel Brow, Director Clarence Van Dyke, Director are designed to solve the area's needs in a logical way with due regard Al Barry, Clerk Miss Pauline Buxton, Clerk for the ability of the reorganized school district to accomplish them. Norman Johnson, Treasurer Harold Rehm, Treasurer The area is fortunate indeed to have the opportunity to offer a com Dale Conant, Principal Mrs. Anna Dirkse, Principal prehensive high-quality educational program at a savings to nearly all taxpayers. It is recommended that the Board of Education and citizens of the Kettle Moraine area use this study as a carefully-prepared framework for educational progress. WALES ZION (Joint 6, Wales) (No.2, Delafield) Wales, Wisconsin Pewaukee, Wisconsin George R. Hrnjak, Director William Wall, Director George Conway, Clerk Jack Eleyet, Clerk Mrs. Ralph Sumpter, Treasurer Dr. Robert McNeil, Treasurer John C. Nowicki, Principal Richard Brautigam, Member Prenton Kellenberger, Member Matthew Kelly, Principal - 26- -3- Several elementary school districts within the survey area are presently in need of additional classroom space. These school districts have considered building programs for the 1967-68 school year and would have to increase taxes in order to provide an increased number of classrooms. If remaining independent, many of the existing elemen tary school districts will have to increase taxes because of building INTRODUCTION programs and/or operational cost increases. It is therefore impossible to project the exact mill rate effect that the Bureau's recommendations would have upon the taxpayers in each of the existing elementary school districts. Even though exact figures are impossible it is possible to project approximate mill rates. These approximations are based on the mill rate set at each school district's 1966 annual meeting. It is further assumed that the neW school district A high quality education is becoming more and more important for would operate on a maximum 21 mill levy and receive $300,000 in the youth of our nation. To an increasing extent communities are con additional state aids. The decreases or increases in mill rates for the cerned that their young people receive a top grade education extending 11 elementary school districts follow: from kindergarten through the post-high school years. This concern is due to the obvious fact that the youth of today will be capable of coping Mill Rate with the complex problems that lie ahead only after receiving proper School Increase or amounts and kinds of training. In our nation the responsibility for pro District Decrease viding this training is left to the individual states, who in turn delegate much authority to local school districts. Brandybrook -3.72 Cushing -7.31 For many years the one-room elementary school servedto educate Dousman -4.85 the children of our communities. As time went on changes in society Genesee -2.45 resulted in changes and growth in our school systems. Because small Highland View -0.82 districts became handicapped in the type of programs they could offer, Magee +1.60 expansions began and have continued to take place. Schools have com Moriah +4.70 bined their enrollments and their resources in order to more adequately Ottawa +1.50 and efficiently meet the educational needs of the children of the com Sandy Island -0.10 munity. As advances in transportation have overcome the limitations of Wales -1.29 distance, consolidations for strength have encompassed wider geo Zion -3.85 graphic areas. The above figures were computed by assuming that the elementary school districts, if in existence, would not increase or decrease their Recognizing the problems faced in school districts of limited size school mill rate for the next year. If, for example, the Brandybrook and resources, and desiring the opportunities of a more comprehensive School District were to increase its elementary mill rate by one mill educational program, the Board of Education of the Kettle Moraine the 3.72 mill decrease (saving) listed above would actually be 4.72 Union High School District engaged the Bureau of Field Studies and mills. On the other hand, if Brandybrook, for example, were to cut its Surveys of the University of Minnesota to conduct a school survey rel mill rate levy by one mill, the 3.72 mills listed above would actually ative to the merging of 11 elementary districts and one high school be 2.72 mills. district. The 12-district area is shown in Figure 1. The majority of elementary school districts in the survey area, The 11 elementary districts included in this survey vary widely in by remaining independent, are faced with increasedtaxes due to building facilities and enrollment, as indicated in the following tabulation: and program needs. When these costs are considered, the savings in mill rates through consolidation is even greater than those projected -4- - 25- Some teachers will have assignments in both junior and senior high school departments. Certain specialists will have assignments involving more than one elementary school. Other staff members such FIGURE I as speech correctionist, health nurse, and social worker will have THE KETTLE MORAINE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT district-wide responsibilities. FINANCING THE PROPOSED DISTRICT AND IT'S BUILDING PROGRAM In February of 1966, the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction presented a 1965-66 comparison of actual aid receipts for ----1-- the survey area schools with receipts that would have been received I I I I under the authority of a reorganized district. The report indicated that II the reorganized district would have resulted in an additional $220,290 I I for the area in state aids. I I :I At the time the Department of Public Instruction made its stUdy, the guaranteed evaluation behind each child in average daily member ship was $34,000. When one applies the present $38,000 per pupil guaranteed evaluation to the area's 1965-66 state aid computation, one discovers an additionalincrease of$50,747.46 in state aids ($271,037.46), The increase in 1966-67 enrollments and the projected increase in enrollments clearly indicates that the survey area, by reorganizing as recommended, will stand to annually gain in state aids each year. One can safely state that the survey area will receive at least ~300,000 more in state aids per year by reorganizing. The passing by the State Legislature of one of the present bills proposingthat guaranteed evalua tion surpass $40,000 per pupil would tend to give additional state aids to the reorganized survey area. It will be necessary for the reorganized school district to issue I bonds to cover the cost of the recommended junior high addition to the I present high school. The cost for the school addition is estimated at I $956,536. I I The annual payment on a bond issue of $960,000 for 20 years at an I interest rate of 4 per cent, assuming all annual payments will be equal, L.r---'-------, I I would amount to annual principal and interest payments of $70,656. I Zl~ I The annual repayment based upon an equalized valuation of I ~I~ ~ ~ -SCHOOL OISTRICT I I BOUNDARY I $51,745,516 would result in a mill levy of 1.36545. This mill levy would L __ ~ _ ______________ 1 decrease as the equalized valuation increased. An additional $1,000,000 in equalized valuation, for example, would reduce the bond repayment mill levy rate to 1.33956 mills.