Around Town
ANNUAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING: The annual meeting of the Iola-Scandinavia School District will be held on Monday, Oct. 13, at 6 p.m. in the Iola-Scandinavia High School Auditorium. The complete agenda and reports are available here.
SCHOOL FUNDRAISERS: There are a number of fundraisers for school groups, including sponsorship sales for the musical, car wash gift cards for FCCLA, butter braids for basketball, fruit sale for the music department, and Pap Murphy’s for the Spanish Club.
LUMBER DONATION: The Tigerton Lumber Co. donated 1,655 board feet of lumber to the district. Value is about $3,000.
FIRE SAFETY: The Iola and Scandinavia fire departments visited the elementary school on Oct. 10 to instruct students and staff on fire safety.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: The Iola-Scandinavia High School National Honor Society will coordinate a fall community service day on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Students and staff will help district residents with cleanup.
ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT: If you want to read through the annual financial report for the School District of Iola-Scandinavia, go here. To read the overall audit report from KerberRose, go here. Below are some summary tables.
Around the State
SALES TAX: As of Oct. 1, there is no state sales tax on residential gas and electricity due to the recently passed budget. Wisconsinites will save over $178 million over the next two years from this cut alone, according to Rep. Brent Jacobson.
STATE POLICE RIGHTS: The roughly 600-word Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights legally establishes cops’ off-duty speech rights and provides guidelines for how they can be investigated. These rights apply to officers who work for villages, towns, cities, and counties in Wisconsin, but not to the state. A bill supported by more than a dozen Republican legislators in the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate is trying to expand the protections. Read The Badger Report story here.
National
FARMERS AT BREAKING POINT: Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall urges Congress to provide urgent aid for struggling farmers facing low prices, trade deficits, and market uncertainty, stressing robust payments are needed before year-end to stabilize the sector and support family farms.
