Posted: Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:00 am
- Creating a new school district is a two-year process that could involve petitions, appeals and referendums.
- If the process to create a new district is undertaken and the reorganization is denied, Caledonia could not initiate the process for another four years.
- If reorganization occurred, the new Caledonia district could not consolidate with another school district, or have any of its territory attached to another district, for 10 years.
The only exception would be to undo the reorganization by consolidating with Unified.
- A new Caledonia district would not receive state aid in its first year and would have to find other sources of revenue to replace the aid it would typically receive.
- A Caledonia district would need to build a new high school at an estimated cost of $65 million.
- Depending on how buildings are valued, Unified would owe a new Caledonia district between $35 million and $66 million.
Source: Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance