Only $48 year / Taxes Up In Shawano

From the Shawano Leader web site.

"Shawano school referendum passes
By Tim Ryan, Leader Reporter

Voters Tuesday approved a $24.9 million building plan for the Shawano School District, overcoming 11th hour opposition that emerged late last week.

Though the vote was close in some of the outlying areas, voters in the city of Shawano put the measure well over the top.

The total vote was 2,186 in favor to 1,842 against. In the city of Shawano, voters approved the plan by 1,143 to 824.

“It was a nail-biter,” said Lincoln Elementary principal Troy Edwards. “We were only about 25 ahead before Shawano came in.”

The vote means the district can go forward with a new $20.5 million elementary school to handle Early Childhood through second grade. The Olga Brener Elementary School will be remodeled at a cost of $4.4 million into an intermediate school to handle third grade through the fifth grade, which is currently housed at the middle school.

Lincoln Elementary will be discontinued as a school and the district will explore other options for the historic building.

“The children of Shawano won tonight,” Edwards said.

Borrowing for the building plan is expected to add 48 cents per $1,000 to the tax rate, or $48 per year.

“This is great for the students and the community,” said superintendent Todd Carlson.

The next step will be for the architects to begin doing renderings for a more detailed design of the building.

“There’s still a lot of work to be done,” Edwards said.

School officials began looking into options a year ago for dealing with severe overcrowding and space limitations at Olga Brener and the 83-year-old Lincoln Elementary School." Shawano Leader

Only $48.00 a year for the children. Bet there will be a lot of cost over runs.

20.5 mill will turn into 30 mil in a blink of an eye.