That is likely after the village finishes a planned remodeling project. Until then, the town will continue to pay rent for the desk and use of the meeting room. They meet in the same place as the Weston Village Board, and town officials sit at a table that the night before might have been used by the village board. He knows it is a shoestring operation and one that is unlikely to go on for too long. For now, though, it's working.
Property taxes are lower in the town than they are in the village.
What remains is 4.89 percent of the 1996 value of the whole town, so the town pays only that percentage of total cost of operating, for example, the Everest Metro Police Department. A petition to join Shortly after the village was incorporated by that referendum vote in 1996, residents of what was then the southeast portion of the town became concerned that with such a small tax base, their property taxes would take a large jump. They petitioned Wisconsin's newest community to take them in and make them part of the village. Olson said the petitioners didn't bother with the northeast portion of the town, possibly because it is so small, so he and a group of fellow political newcomers had to learn quickly how to run a town government. His interest will wane if tax savings can't be continued.