RESIDENT PRSRT STD KOHLER WI U.S.POSTAGE 53044 P A I D The KOHLER, WI 53044 KohlerKohler PERMIT NO. 6 VillagerVillager Published Monthly In Kohler, WI 53044 August, 2005 Volume 1, Number 1 The Kohler Villager makes its debut! by Mary Struck, Publisher/Editor ment will also allow the Kohler Times announcements of weddings, engagements, school newsletter to be delivered via first births, adoptions, christenings, etc. The Welcome to the inaugural issue of The class postage rate rather than third class Kohler Villager will also feature a Kohler Villager! Where is the Kohler rate, which should alleviate the problem of “Milestones” section announcing promo- About The Times, you ask? It’s in the center of this open enrollment families receiving their tions, awards, accomplishments, receiving publication as a 4-page insert containing Kohler Times two weeks late, or not at all. of degrees, etc. There is no charge for these Publisher/Editor critical school-related information only. submissions. Press releases and human This new format allows families of Kohler Will There Be A Subscription Price For interest articles and photos will be also be Mary Struck Schools students to remove — and keep The Kohler Villager? accepted and printed as space allows. moved from handy — important school-related No. As an advertiser supported paper, Appleton to the How are articles submitted? announcements and information. Non-criti- The Kohler Villager will continue to be Sheboygan area cal school-related articles and photos can be delivered to all residents and open enroll- Mail, e-mail or drop off in The Kohler with her hus- found throughout The Kohler Villager. ment families free of charge. The paper will Villager drop-off box. Contact information band, Kevin, in I hope you find this first issue of The now also be delivered to all Kohler busi- and the drop-off box location appear at the 1988. The Struck Kohler Villager informative and interesting. nesses. Non-residents without children in end of this article. School-related informa- family has lived in Kohler since I hope to see it evolve as residents, readers Kohler Schools will receive the August tion can still be left in the Kohler Times issue free of charge with an option to con- mailbox in the school mailroom. 1996. and the business community offer input and Mary worked for 10 years as a tinue receiving The Kohler Villager for a $6 submissions for future issues. Feedback is Will the deadlines change? typesetter/graphic artist at various firms always welcome! yearly postage and handling fee. See the Yes! Please mark your calendars with the in the Appleton and Sheboygan areas, Thank you to those who have expressed order form on page 9. (Advertisers located following deadlines: and has been doing freelance desktop outside of Kohler receive a complementary positive support in anticipation of this first Articles for both the Kohler Times and The publishing and web design from home issue for each month their ad is run). Each since 1992 after the birth of her oldest publication, and a special thank you to all Kohler Villager are due the 20th of each businesses advertising in this August issue! issue will also be available online for view- child. month. Advertising for The Kohler Villager Mary has also volunteered her If you missed the July issue of the ing at www.kohlervillager.com is due the 15th of each month. services for Kohler Schools as well as Kohler Times school newsletter detailing Will The Kohler Villager have an editori- Where can I find more information on non-profit organizations and events the changes, the following is a partial recap al page or accept letters to the editor? advertising and submitting news for arti- such as Kohler School Friends, Meals of some of the important information: on Wheels, Acuity Health Classic and The Kohler Villager will not have an cles? Glacial Lakes Conservancy. She is also Is The Kohler Villager an extension of the editorial page or print letters to the editor. Visit the website or call or write me for a the typesetter/editor for the Kohler Kohler Times? However, anyone wishing to advertise spe- cial messages such as “thank you’s,” con- media kit. Times school newsletter. No. The Kohler Villager is independent- Mary and Kevin reside in Kohler with gratulatory messages, or memorials may ly published by Terra Media, L.L.C. of Terra Media, L.L.C. their two children, Nicole, 13 and Kyle, Kohler. To avoid confusion and redundan- purchase ad space. 219 Church St., Kohler, WI 53044 10. Kevin is employed by the University cy, the school district has agreed to allow Will The Kohler Villager accept articles, Phone: 920-331-4904. of Wisconsin-Extension. the Kohler Times to be included inside The photos and press releases? Website: kohlervillager.com Kohler Villager as an insert. This arrange- Residents are encouraged to submit E-mail: [email protected]. Revenue caps force Kohler Schools to restructure its administration The Kohler Schools Administration and the The result is a restructuring plan for efficiency and effectiveness. The restructuring Overview of the Board of Education were given less than a administration that will place the following saved the District approximately $80,000 of one-half of one percent increase in revenue for duties on the following administrators: budgetary expenses. Other cuts to the budget: Wisconsin state the 2005-06 school year due to revenue caps. Mr. Jeff Dickert - District Administrator, Paid supervision of staff at activities and Unlike other districts that cut across the B&G Supervisor, Federal and State sporting events cut and assigned to revenue limits Grants Administrator, Community budget and affect everything, the Board's administration. Finance Committee and Administration set a Programming Administrator, Special The state began imposing a Copying and paper usage cut 20%. revenue limit on school districts in priority of not cutting staff who directly affect Education Designee. Classroom supply budgets cut 10%. the 1993-94 school year. The student learning or programming. The first Mr. Lance Northey - Grades 7-12 Elimination of 50% Library Aide position, revenue cap is calculated each step was to not fill the retiring Building and Principal, with direct supervision of which will be replaced by parent or year for each school district by Grounds Supervisor position and instead grades 7-12 staff, curriculum, special community volunteers. Employee trans- applying a formula that is driven reassign those duties. The second step was to education, at-risk, and gifted and talented. ferred to another aide position where by three factors: the district’s per reallocate some of the School Psychologist Mrs. Susan Jaberg - Grades JK-6 Dean another employee is leaving the district, pupil revenue base, the change administrative and guidance functions to help of Students, with direct supervision of in school enrollment, and an streamline that position to allow for school thus no layoff. grades JK-6 staff, curriculum, special inflation factor (i.e., a maximum psychologist work that will be purchased on a Cut $7,500 from Natural Gas allowance. education, at-risk, and gifted and allowable increase in revenue per shared service agreement with Plymouth talented. pupil). Schools. Step three was to then restructure the Information provided by the Kohler School This streamlining will be evaluated at the Source: Wisconsin Council on administrative duties of 3.6 administrators and District midway point of the 2005-06 school year for Children & Families one supervisor to 3 administrators. 2 AUGUST, 2005 THE KOHLER VILLAGER kohlervillager.com New Development Proposed For Kohler TIF District Would Include Residential and Industrial Village Limits 23 Hwy Town of Village Limits Cem. PROPOSED Hwy Y Hwy SHEBOYGAN Tree House Ln k Wood Willow Cree INDUSTRIAL Lake PROPOSED Athletic Fields PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Kohler RESIDENTIAL Dr ield School Woodland Rd nf ree Company Cemetery G City of SHEBOYGAN FALLS SHEBOYGAN of City Potential areas of major TIF investments. (Map does not show entire Tax Incremental District boundary or all potential elements.) [The following article was compiled by Kevin shared with the municipality or the school dis- chased by the Kohler Company, the pay- Public involvement Struck, University of Wisconsin-Extension, trict until the TID is retired—typically in 15 ment of bonds would be limited to the tax As part of the TID review process, a special and is based on information from the to 20 years. In the meantime, taxes paid by increment revenues to be generated within Joint Review Board made up of representatives Wisconsin Department of Revenue and the property owners within the TID go toward the TID. As such, these bonds would not be from the Village of Kohler; Sheboygan County; “Project Plan for the Creation of Tax paying off the costs that were incurred due to general obligations of the Village, as is com- the Lakeshore Technical College Technical Incremental District No. 3 in the Village of the development. monly the case in most other TIDs through- College District; the Kohler School District; Kohler, Wisconsin,” prepared by Ehlers & out Wisconsin. In addition, the costs of and an at-large public member, will gather Associates, Inc.] Why would municipalities and school dis- financing, issuance expenses, and capital- August 4, 2005 at 7:00 P.M. to hold a commu- tricts agree to delay receiving tax revenues ization of interest may be reduced or limited nity informational meeting. What is TIF? from a new development? Each entity shares based upon further negotiations between the The Tax Incremental Finance Law (TIF) was a common hope that TIF expenditures will Village of Kohler and Kohler Company. On August 18 at 7:00 P.M., most likely in the approved by the Wisconsin Legislature in promote future property tax growth that Kohler Memorial Theater, the Village Plan would not otherwise have occurred without 1975 as a financial tool cities and villages Based on the preliminary designs and proj- Commission will hold a public hearing on the the TID and its mechanism for helping to could use to promote tax base expansion.