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MATC continues to sublimate the Doyle property tax “freeze”

by @ 18:22 on October 26, 2005. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Yes, I know, technical colleges, as unelected taxing bodies, are exempt from the Craps anti-freeze, but that didn’t stop the Jeanette Bell-led Milwaukee Area Technical College board (yes, the same Jeanette Bell that complained that the 2.75% property tax levy increase that she shoved down West Allis taxpayers’ throats wasn’t big enough and the same Jeanette Bell that that made possible a 4% property tax levy increase from MMSD) from raising the MATC levy 6.6%.

The Journtinel claims that it actually is a victory for taxpayers because it could have been $1.4 million worse and have been a 7.8% levy increase; by a 6-3 vote, the board lowered the tax rate to keep the total tax take at what they approved back in June. It seems that property values in the district went up greater than expected, and if they kept the rate at that June level, they would have taken in $127.9 million instead of the already-bloated $126.5 million they planned on taking in. Left squealing are various spend-and-spenders like the teachers’ union and the 3 idiots who can’t seem to live within the 6.6% levy increase means they had approved not 5 months ago. Despite the whine, I don’t exactly feel victorious; it could be the empty wallet.

Revisions/extensions – removed the link to the racist Jentinel

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