TURF WARS? NEILLSVILLE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES ATTACHMENT REQUEST
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 -- 1:37 PM
The Neillsville School Board approved a request to join the district from a Town of Seif resident Wednesday night.Robert and Shirley Sibiliski's residence is currently in the Greenwood School District, but they've filed a petition to detach and join Neillsville.
The Town of Seif is located northwest of Neillsville and is mostly covered by County Forest. Most of the Town is already in the Neillsville school district, but a small portion is in Greenwood district.
Greenwood's school board have already denied the request, which will force the Sibiliskis to appeal to the Department of Public Instruction.
Neillsville administrator John Gaier says the board made the decision because the extra property value would be good for the district, but they harbor no ill will toward Greenwood for their denial.
Neillsville's tax rate is $7.80 per thousand dollars of property; Greenwood's tax rate is around $11.40 per thousand.
Two years ago, the Town of Seif petitioned to break away from the Greenwood School District. Neillsville approved the request; Greenwood denied it. The Department of Public Instruction turned back the appeal.
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