Property taxes and other items discussed at Richland Board of Education Meeting
Dec 23, 2025, 10:28 AM CST
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RICHLAND CENTER, WIS. (WRCO / WRCE) Richland School District Business Official, Jon Bosworth, presented information about the 2025-26 property taxes and why some municipalities saw varying degrees of increases or decreases at last night’s (Monday) District Board Meeting. Each year, municipalities make up slightly different shares of the total. Those shares shift slightly from year to year. Reassessment changes how the levy is shared, not the levy itself. School funding comes from different sources, school aid from the state and the municipal tax levy. If school aid goes down, then the municipal tax levy goes up to keep the funding level. The latest tax levy for the district increased from $10.03 million to $10.4 million, or around a $380,000 increase.
Representatives from the McKinstry Consulting attended the board meeting to provide an update on the work completed so far and to explain the cost structure for the additional buildings in the capital improvement strategic plan. The board approved spending an additional $12,900 to add the campus gymnasium and Melvill Hall to the plan.
The board also approved the recommended alternate projects of high school bathroom remodels, Hive Drive Improvements, Intermediate School Health upgrades, and primary school painting upgrades, at a budgeted cost of $430,562. This will still leave around one million dollars in contingency funds.
District Administrator, Steve Board, gave the first quarter discipline report which showed a positive improvement from previous years for the district as a whole.
Among other items approved at the meeting were:
An Argentina short term exchange program with FLAG STEP.
An agreement between Richland School District and Ithaca School District for Cross Country for the 2026-27 school year.
One open enrollment IN application and four open enrollment OUT applications for the current school year.
The 2026 Spring Early College Credit Program and Start College Now/CollEDGE UP courses.
Adam Hess has been involved in radio broadcasting since 1990, with many of those years spent on the air at WRCO FM in Richland Center. Currently, Adam hosts the Weekend Wake-up and Prime Mover Saturdays on WRCO FM, jumps in and helps out with news duties, handles Social Media duties for WRCO and WRCE, and is the Director of Technology at a Southwest Wisconsin School District. Reach him at [email protected].
Jo Ann Krulatz is Senior Radio Journalist and News Director at WRCO and WRCE in Richland Center. Email her at [email protected].
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