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evenue cap. Similarly, residents of Ladysmith-Hawkins School District
denied their organization the authority to exceed the revenue cap in the
recent past. In June, 2008, residents of Weyerhaeuser Area School District
authorized the organization to exceed the revenue cap by the amount of
$1,800,000 over a three year period of time, thereby easing the school
district’s cash flow difficulties and need for short-term borrowing.
The Project Consultants concluded that exceeding the revenue caps for all
three school districts—experiencing declining enrollment and budget
reductions in the past—was/is essential to ensuring organizational longterm
fiscal and program/service viability.
3.8 Administrative Expenditures
The School District of Bruce is administered by three administrators:
District Administrator; elementary principal; and high school principal. Over
the ten inclusive years from 1996-97 through 2006-07, the school district
reduced its administrative staff from 3.6 (1996-97) to 3.0 (2006-07)
administrators. Over that span of time, the School District of Bruce’s
administrative cost per student increased from $636/student in 1996-97 to
$826/student in 2006-07, an increase of +$190/student or +29.9%. In
1996-97, the school district’s cost for administration trailed that of the
average of all State of Wisconsin school districts by -$23/student or -3.5%,
while in 2006-07, the school district’s administrative costs exceeded those
in the average of all State of Wisconsin school districts by +$4/student or
+.5%.
The Project Consultants concluded that, as the School District of Bruce’s
student enrollment declined, the organization’s leadership made
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