times are tough but schools need to be serviced, hopefully there is no wasteful spending.

This is outrageous in a time of high unemployment My God?
** Where are the people that are unemployed raising heck in the streets?
Do the unemployed think they will find jobs when benefits run out to pay these high taxes.
I was always taught to stop the train before it derails.

hewked on fonics wurked fur mee

the power of taxation. the power of the spendaholic school board and now the city council. the shopaholics are at it again.

Wow, Bob - I've never heard "More jobs!" and "This sucks!" put quite so elequently. Thank you for 'smarting it up' rather than 'dumbing it down' as we have all become so accustomed to.

Don't worry about the students. 60% of high school drop outs end up in our jails and prisons so we can pay for them later and complain about those costs as well.

I do not think we have to wait for a “new normal.” I would not post a comment on this banal tax increase story, except for this troubling obfuscated verbiage, “new normal.” A not-so “new normal,” actually probably now three to four year old norm, of seven dollar an hour, dead end, no pay increase, part-time, drudgery jobs (if you can find one at all) is already well entrenched in the new American construct. The school systems, the county, the State, the Feds, and the many cities are not driving the “new normal” (other than raising taxes and fees on already beleaguered citizens). These governmental authorities are finally having to admit their constituents are under economic siege and they just can’t extract any more cash from them.

Until America and Wisconsin comes up with new products to manufacture like has happened in so many other decades of change, I fear this “new normal” of bottom feeding is here for a long, long time. And, even if we reinvent ourselves with a new miracle product for the world, the Chinese will most likely steal it. Impoverished, struggling workers are the cap-stone of a Second-World nation. The stink of this “new normal” wafts over our nation state like a specter.

Bob Keith
– humble and obedient citizen -

janesvillean wrote...". It's prudent to hold costs down as much as possible until we find the new normal."

Actually, it's prudent to hold costs down as much as possible even AFTER we find the new "normal."

This sounds like a good austerity budget to me. The district is still uncertain about enrollment in the next couple of years as GM-related families transfer or leave. It's prudent to hold costs down as much as possible until we find the new normal.

We looked out for the students with the last referendum...now it's time to look out for the tax payer.

The majority of the school members again prove they are not serving the best interests of the students.