Thursday, January 17, 2013
Calendar will keep early release Thursday schedule and has moved the week of spring break.
The Elmbrook School Board approved the 2013-2014 school calendar earlier this month. The board took input from the Personnel Committee and the Calendar Committee. The calendar keeps the early release Thursday schedule. Additionally, the District is moved spring break to the week before Easter instead of the week after Easter due to AP testing in early May.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Alderman McCarthy, school board member Allgaier and former board member Jones only names on local election ballot this spring.
Incumbent Jeff McCarthy is the only candidate who filed papers for the 3rd Aldermanic District, according the Brookfield City Clerk on Wednesday. McCarthy must run for re-election after he was appointed in March to the seat held by Jim Garvens, 75, who died last February following complications due to knee surgery. After the election in April, the seat will be up for reelection in April of 2014 during its regular cycle. Aldermen serve four-year terms with an annual salary of about $10,000. Incumbent Glen Allgaier will run unopposed for the Area II seat of the Elmbrook School Board. Former School Board member Gary Jones will run unopposed for the at-large seat after Robert Ziegler decided not to seek reelection. School Board members make…
Monday, December 3, 2012
A chance to vote, earn an extra salary and offer public service is here: interested residents can seek election to the Elmbrook School Board, Brookfield Common Council and Town Board.
The chance to offer public service is here. Brookfield and Elm Grove residents have the opportunity to get their names on the April 2 ballots and win election to serve on the Elmbrook School Board, City Council and Town Board. The first step would be going to City Hall, Town Hall or the School District business office to submit a registration form and then interested candidates need to obtain nomination signatures from a sufficient number of electors (voters) in that desired seat's boundaries. If there are more than two candidates for any office, there will be a primary election on Feb. 19. Here are the seats available: Third Aldermanic District (view map): When Ald. Jim Garvens died last February, aldermen appointed Jeff McCarthy to …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Bob Ziegler will step down in April from his at-large seat on the board, while Glen Allgaier will run for a third term. Candidates seeking to be on the ballot may begin circulating nomination papers Saturday.
- GOVERNMENT
- Lisa Sink
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
One of the two most veteran Elmbrook School Board members said Tuesday he will not run for re-election in spring, while another said he will seek another term. Bob Ziegler, who joined the board in 2003 along with Meg Wartman, announced at Tuesday's board meeting that won't run again in order to spend more time with his family and his work. Glen Allgaier, a board member since 2007, said he will ask voters to re-elect him on the April 2 ballot. Anyone interested in running for office can begin circulating nomination papers on Saturday after filing a registration form. Ziegler, who has found himself on the minority end on some of the board's most controversial votes in recent years (Hillside Elementary School closing, Chapter 220 enrollment …
Monday, November 19, 2012
Elmbrook's new superintendent is one of the state's top paid public school administrators. See which administrators are the highest and lowest paid throughout the state of Wisconsin.
In February when the Elmbrook School Board hired the district's first new superintendent in 17 years, members offered him one of the highest superintendent salaries in Wisconsin, behind the state's most populous districts of Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha and Green Bay. Superintendent Mark Hansen also came in higher than his predecessor, Matt Gibson, who when he retired last June had an annual salary of $158,368. Gibson's salary last year was 13th highest among the state's public school superintendents, according to salary information released on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's website. Hansen, a former teacher, principal and administrator in districts including Waukesha and Pewaukee, was hired at an annual salary of $170,000…
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Two families urge the School Board to allow siblings of existing Chapter 220 students to join the district next fall. A recent Public Policy Forum report shows Elmbrook's minority student population of 22 percent is less than state average.
For the third consecutive year, the Elmbrook School Board appears poised to allow no new Chapter 220 enrollments, including siblings of Chapter 220 students already attending Elmbrook. Only one board member, Bob Ziegler, spoke in favor of allowing siblings to enroll, citing statistics that show Elmbrook's Chapter 220 students perform at least 23 percentage points higher than their Milwaukee Public Schools peers on state standardized tests. Board members Jean Lambert and Meg Wartman said they could not support it, given the better financial incentives tied to open enrollment students versus Chapter 220. However, the board also has dramatically slowed the growth of Open Enrollment, with many members saying they prefer to focus on increasing …
Monday, September 24, 2012
Barring major changes from a proposed $71.9 million tax levy that won advisory approval from a small audience Monday, the school portion of residents' tax bills should remain about the same as last year.
Residents who saw an unusual dip in their Elmbrook school taxes on last December's bills will see a much more stable number this year, under the district's 2012-13 budget to be finalized next month. An audience of less than 10 people on Monday night approved the proposed tax levy of about $71.9 million. The vote was advisory only; the School Board will vote on a final budget in about a month, with any adjustments from updated enrollment and revenue figures. Under the proposed budget: About $5 million of the levy would be to pay down debt for the high school rebuilding project and make the final payment in spring 2013 (three years earlier than originally projected) for the construction of Dixon and Brookfield Elementary Schools. Resident …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
In its first teachers contract post Act 10, the Elmbrook School Distict and teachers agreed to a 1.5 percent wage increase.
- SCHOOLS
- Lisa Sink
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Elmbrook School District teachers will receive 1.5 percent pay raises, slightly less than the maximum 1.64 percent allowed by Act 10, under a collective bargaining agreement approved Tuesday by the Elmbrook School Board. The two-page agreement is Elmbrook's first Act 10 restricted most public employee union collective bargaining to one issue: wages with increases capped by inflation. The contract covers the previous school year (2011-12) and staff will be paid in lump sum (over two paychecks) for the 1.5 percent retroactive base wage increase from July 1, 2011 through June 20, 2012. Totaling about $502,000, the increase will be distributed across the board to the district's approximately 519 full-time equivalent positions. Elmbrook …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
With wages capped by CPI the only issue to be bargained post Act 10, the Elmbrook School Board and Elmbrook Education Association reached a tentative agreement during its first meeting Tuesday.
- BACK TO SCHOOL
- Lisa Sink
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
A 45-minute teachers contract bargain. Welcome to the new world, post Act 10. That was Elmbrook's experience Tuesday in its first foray in the state's new collective bargaining system that limits most public employee negotiations to one issue: wages capped by a maximum increase of CPI. Pewaukee Schools recently had the same outcome: a tentative agreement in just 35 minutes, an Elmbrook School District negotiator said. The Elmbrook Education Association and school district exchanged their initial offers for the 2011-12 school year Tuesday. The Elmbrook School Board's Personnel Committee said it budgeted for a 1.5 percent wage increase for teachers. The EEA sought the maximum CPI increase of 1.64 percent. Union attorney Tim Hawks said the …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Brookfield Central High School should have a new state-of-the-art baseball field in time for play next spring, giving them their first home field on campus versus playing home games at Brookfield East or McCoy Field.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Lisa Sink
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Friday, June 29, 2012
This time next year, baseball should be in full swing on a new state-of-the-art stadium, giving the Lancers baseball their first home field on campus. Leaders of Central 4Ward, a community fundraising group, held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday on the grass field between Brookfield Central High School and the football/track stadium. "When I came here 10 years ago, it was always a dream of mine to build our own field," Head Boys Baseball Coach Jeff Bigler said. "Now here it is, a reality." The athletes — who compete next week in the GMC tournament — will be able to play home games in their backyard rather than at cross-rival Brookfield East or McCoy Field. "I know our student athletes will take great pride in walking out the school …
Cindy Kilkenny
2:11 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller? You'll see a couple of folks come forward who are still pro-4K and big into funding everything but forensics. It still won't change the fact that Tonawanda will be closed in two years. more ›