Greendale School District Faces Revenue Drop of $1.3 Million

The Greendale School District is facing a revenue cap decrease of $1.3 million, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau projections.

The projections were released late Tuesday showing how districts and municipalities statewide will be impacted by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed biennial budget proposal.

Under current law, Greendale would have been in line for an increase in revenue of  $598,675, but the new budget calls for a 5.5 percent reduction to the revenue cap, or a loss of $1,367,156 for Greendale.

Neighboring school districts Greenfield is losing $1.7 million and Oak Creek-Franklin are losing $3.1 million.

The numbers are the most complete figures available since Walker's budget speech, but according to the memo, "the information is a static estimate of the effect of the proposed changes as if the changes had applied in 2010-11. If a district has increasing enrollment, the proposed changes would affect more pupils, and the effect would be greater than that shown in the attachment.

"Conversely, if a district has declining enrollment, the effect would be less. In addition, school districts would determine whether to levy to the maximum allowed under the proposed per pupil adjustment, or low revenue ceiling, whichever would apply."