Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-29
COMPROMISE
BLOOMINGTON
CONSOLIDATION
School Committee
Renders Decision

After hearing day of evidence pre-
sented for and against school con-
solidation in the Bloomington country
the County School Committee, S. S.
Wilson, Hazel Green; c. J. Ragatz,
Potosi and Mrs Faul Humphrey,
Patch Grove, went into a days con-
ference going over the entire situa-
ton. The dictum of the committee is
presented in the following report:
Summed up, the committee COM
promised. 1t did not give the people
of Bloomington village all they asked
for, but it did give them more than
the opponents on the outside were
willing to give, which was nothing
at all.
The committee gave the district the
four sections in Lite Grant adjacent
to the Bloomington town line 1t
gave nearly all of Leamy district and
nearly all Of Thornton district. 1t
gave parts of last two districts to be
transferred to Brown district. The
summing up was made by Mr.. Wilson
to the Herald reporter Saturday.
Report
can appeal having been taken by
the school board of it. School Dis
trict No. 3, town and village Of Bloom
ington, from the actions of the town
boards of Supervisors of the town
ships of Bloomington, Little Grant
and Beetown, acting jointly in refus-
ing to alter the boundaries Of it, Dis
trict No. (Thornton) of the town Of
Bloomington, and District No. 6
Ieamy) and District No. 4 (Hazel
DeiD town of Little Grant, and it.
District No. (PrideauX) towns OF
Beetown and Little Grant and Of it.
District No of the village and town
of Bloomington, to the Committee OF
Common Schools of Grant County, of
Wisconsin and notice of said appeal
having been served as required by
law and having duly heard and con-
sidered said appeal and having de-
termined on the merits that part OF
the appeal herein should be sustained,
and alterations ordered;
'Now, therefore, it is hereby Orde"-
ed and determined that District No. s
town of Bloomington, be dissolved
and that the North p of the S. W. u
of Section % and the e. II of the n.
w. Il of the Section % be detached
from District No. 6, town Of Bloom
ington and added to District No. 3,
town o. Bloomington. and the remain
der Of District No. 6, town of Bloom
ington, and added to District No. 3,
town OF Bloomington, and the re-
mainder of District No. 6, town of
Bloom ingtOn, be consolidated with
the aforesaid it District No. 3, town
and village of Bloomington; that it.
District No 2, towns Of BeetOwn and
Bloomington be dissolved and the
Z. - Of Section 4 and the w. Il Of
the S. E. Il of Section 28 be detached
from it. District No 2, towns of Bee
town and Bloomington and added to
District No. 3, town of BlOomingto l,
and the remainder Of it. District No.
z. towns Of Beetown and Bloomington
be consolidated with the aforesaid it.
District No. 3, town and village OF
Bloom ;notOn; that Section 81 and the
S. u Of Section 80 and the e. u of the
n. E. II of Section 80 and n w. a of
Section 80 and the W. u of the n. w.
"a OF the n. E. "a Of Section 30 in the
town of Little Grant be detached
from it. District No. PrideauX towns
of Little Grant and Beetown and add
ed to the aforesaid 1T. District No. ),
town and village Of Bloomington ),
that Section IS and 10 and the e. y
Of the n W. Il Of n. E. "a of the S.
X. Il of Section 30 be detached from
District No 4 Hazel Dell, town OF
Little Grant and added to the afore-
said Ut. District No. 5, village ana
town of BLOOMINGTON, all in the
County of Grant, State of Wisconsin
for all school purposes what so ever.
This order will SaHe effect on the
LIST day of June 1922.
Given under our hands this oath
of March, 1922.
From the dictum of the committee
either side may appeal. 1t is said
that Mr. Bishop has stated that the
village will not appeal. Whether o.
not the opponents to consolidation
will appeal to the state superinten-
don't remains to be seen.
This fight is an old one. A couple
of wears ago tho village OF Blooming
ton voted to build a new school. Inc
valuation in the present district is
around $1,400000 with a present
school tax of a little over mills. 10
do the things the district wants TO do
would raise the tax to 10 mills unless
outside valuation was gathered in.
The consolidation boosters planned
as follows: Take in Leamy. Thorn
ton and brown QiSlTlClS III CHS "" u
of Bloomington: Reynolds and Prl-
deaux in Little Grant. The plan also
is to later on take in Dodge, BUD
wo~th and Red school districts
This would raise the valuation III
tbe district to around S3,500,000 and
keen the rate at s mills. giving the
bloomington people the school faciii-
ties they want without an increase III
the present tax rate.
However, here's the rub, the tax
PAYERS in the proposed area to be
absorbed are getting by with school
fay of one mill or even less. They
are unit in claiming to be satished
For instance. one farm valued at
Sc 500 is paying 1926 school tax
This is extreme but in all cases tbs
fax 1T present in the various distrlcFs
the Bloomington people would absorb