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city manager mark freitag requested permission from the state psc to charge users the 3m cost of annual water main replacement on their utility water bill the city said this change in billing would provide cash instead of bonding and add about 8 a month or about 96 a year to the average water bill seems fair right even the state applauded and said other cities should do the same but nobody told residents that the previous 3m draw would become an embedded structural budget shell to remain a permanent fixture on our property tax bills no city council members stood up to tell it like it is no one watched for us at city hall to demand a resolution that would remove the 3m from the local levy this was about lessening debt right but they knew and because they knew it is a conspiracy no one from the newspaper radio stations or community forums was watching or cared enough to show under this scenario how janesville taxpayers will pay double for water mains no one but me mind you i m not bragging about this this year janesville residents face an identical scam with the city s so called transportation utility the city wants residents to pay for street replacement and rehabilitation through quarterly utility billing they re even using the same concern about debt service right now the city draws funding for streets with the 20 wheel tax state aid and property taxes the amount captured in property tax appears to be about 2 5m annual the wheel tax adds another 900k state aid is whatever the state can give on top of that and just like with the water main scam nobody on the city council has yet to promise residents the city will reduce its allowable property tax levy by the same amount charged in utility billing no one involved with the power to demand tax fairness has the integrity to do so we will pay twice again about 5 5m actually more because as a utility it is unrestricted by levy limits they can increase our payment willy nilly combined on water mains and roads in our utility bills and the 5 5m they fail to reduce in our property tax bills in the meantime the city and council divert attention away by blaming the state aid formula and want more power to defeat levy limits they re also asking residents to call madison to support a new local sales tax this is insanity every year i ve uncovered broken math and several forms of pathological deception from our city and school district engineers and every time i get a blank stare back if you re not following me chances are you re getting only filtered and canned gumbo on local economic development and the city s tax increase derangement from the local media oh and i don t do sports murders or post pictures of my dinner thanks for reading at 10 37 am add a new comment sunday october 04 2020 janesville taxpayers don t be fooled by the math of school district officials tweet janesville school district officials must think we re stupid with the new math they use to deceive taxpayers their four year operations referendum shows an escalating amount each year almost doubling of captured revenue while their math claims to ask less from taxpayers each year that s quite a trick they made this claim in the janesville gazette and again on a wclo radio program the problem is they don t tell us each tax increase from the previous year becomes permanently embedded into the operational budget they also finalize this deception by claiming each 100 000 in taxable property assessed value pays a total of only 127 over the life of the referendum if it costs janesville taxpayers 39 to raise 3 500 000 in the first year only a fool would believe it will cost us only 31 to raise 7 500 000 the next year 29 to raise 11 500 00 in the third year and so on the fact is their referendum will cost the owner of an average 168k assessed home 563 over the life of the four year referendum and that s a conservative figure keep in mind this is a tax hike referendum beginning with a base budget and different revenue cap established through a state formula each year and ends four years later that means the school district can also claim any other increases it may be entitled to under the cap each year and then exceed that by the amount in the binding referendum the school district begins post referendum year five with a base budget including the final 14 5m captured in year four fully embedded under the cap and permanent in other words just because the referendum expired doesn t mean it no longer impacts homeowners the proposed tax hikes are outrageous enough but for me having folks running our city and schools with a seemingly perpetual mentality to deceive residents should have no place in our community the school superintendent and finance officer watch each other s back as they double down on this deception while our local media offer no debate rebuttal or inspection city hall officials are no different even more troubling is some see this behavior as normal if not rewarding if you wake up in the morning in janesville it seems like city and school officials find a new excuse every day to increase our tax burden and conjure new ways to deceive us this simply doesn t have to be and it shouldn t be this way for the good folks who want to call janesville home but it s too late to fix with the current leadership janesville needs a clean sweep top to bottom of the phantoms running our fair city along with a complete restructuring of how we elect residents to represent us in city hall and the school district please vote no on all tax hike referendums on the november ballot we simply can t afford them on top of our property tax bills that are already among the highest in the nation per home value but we also have to come together soon in an effort to reform our city and schools clearly we are not represented at 7 45 am add a new comment wednesday september 02 2020 what they won t tell us about janesville s school referendums tweet tif districts in janesville will hit the jackpot if voters approve school referendums proposed by the janesville school district the three tax hike referendums combined including one for blackhawk tech will significantly increase everyone s property tax bill but any new dollars collected from properties inside tif districts in the name of education will instead go directly into the tif surplus fund for redistribution not for school needs early reviews show city tif district surplus accounts will pick up 236k in the first year from the proposed janesville school district s operational budget referendum alone 472k in the second year 708k in the third and 944k in the fourth year the total jackpot is expected to reach an estimated 2 4m to be fair the amount is almost irrelevant since even one dollar diverted away from the purpose of the referendum is theft believe it or not state law prohibits using tif surplus revenue increment for public schools despite the fact these referendum dollars are collected in the name of education and school improvements i won t even begin to explain how why and who rigged the system this way but i will recommend voting no on all three referendums note the dollar amounts were calculated from a confusing school district doubling explanation as reported by the janesville gazette the amounts could change at any moment but the tif districts role and ability to confiscate tax revenue for use other than intended remains firmly intact aside from the expected windfall for tif districts initial estimates for the schools operational referendum indicated a tax bill on a janesville home with a tax assessed value of 175 000 in 2020 would increase 70 in year one 140 in year two 210 in year three and 280 in year four the total take would be 700 over the four year term of the proposed referendum if your pre referendum 2020 tax bill was 4 000 it would be 4 280 in the last year of the referendum assuming no other increases referendums or adjustments good luck with that and what happens in year five looks to be a double disaster new figures released a couple days ago by the janesville school administration however changed the first year tax bill increase on a 100k assessed home to 39 so the first year increase on a 175k assessed home would now be 68 down from 70 with declining not doubling amounts each year thereafter their new adjusted amounts seem deliberately deceiving without explaining whether each annual increase is accumulative on the pre referendum tax bill the language construction in the referendum question will be the bottom line if it s a spending referendum tax payers can expect to be hammered because it will allow the district to levy whatever it takes regardless of state aid amounts or economic factors to get that amount if it s a taxing referendum with a strict cap on levy dollars each year janesville taxpayers may have a better guarantee but the amount the district wants is expected to almost double the local levy for operational spending in four years at 11 48 pm add a new comment saturday august 01 2020 wisconsin counties sheriffs and local administrations throw gov evers and his mask order under a bus tweet it was only a few days ago when leaders of the wisconsin counties association and the league of wisconsin municipalities spoke about their struggles to enact local mask mandates in the absence of a statewide order the hapless leaders spoke as if their hands were tied without a statewide mandate nbc 15 excerpt cities are looking for some kind of uniformity statewide deschane said cities see people getting sick they re getting these reports daily on people being hospitalized dying and all the rest he said they feel a great sense of frustration but they don t necessarily have the tools to act we are all in a boat that none of us wanted to be in together but we have to figure this out if only they had a statewide mandate everything would be fixed was their message in a surprise move few expected including myself gov evers gave them the uniformity they wanted he announced a statewide mask up order that takes effect today what did evers get in return nothing there was no statement from the wisconsin counties association or the league of wisconsin municipalities thanking the governor for getting them out of their woe is me bind or showing support to enforce the mask up order nothing in fact an increasing number of local law enforcement agencies are warning citizens not to call about mask complaints because they won t respond even democratic leaning janesville and rock county said calls would be low priority and expect to issue little to nothing in fines their response for the most egregious violators is educating people and working towards voluntary compliance they won t even say whether they agree with the governor s order that s not a very big vote of confidence for gov evers truth is without enforcement gov evers mask up order becomes little more than a toothless recommendation and we re back to square one but if anything positive will come out of ever s sudden executive order it will be exposing all the counties and cities and their associations who claimed without statewide uniformity as frauds their hands were never tied to enact their own local mask up ordinances they just needed something or someone to blame why they won t wisconsin governor tony evers announced statewide mask mandate beginning at midnight tonight this map shows how uh well his mandate has been received counties shown in red refuse to enforce it pic twitter com xqrg2b44ks michael haz michael_haz august 1 2020 at 12 51 pm add a new comment friday april 10 2020 in janesville nothing is certain but tweet unbelievable but if you re familiar with the relentless tax gouging march by the folks running the city of janesville believable at today s daily briefing by city hall foot soldiers delivering orders from city commander mark freitag the city assessor will be moving forward yet again with a new line of property tax increases for a select group of janesville homeowners this despite last year s historic 31 tax bill increase and the potentially devastating economic hardship posed by the coronavirus crisis about 1 875 homeowners will be getting the hit instead of delivering property tax relief from a mounting budget surplus they said the adjustment is necessary and part of their strategic plan the janesville city council no doubt has approved of this nasty move the janesville council president and council candidates including council member sue conley who is running for state assembly should step up and explain their position you can watch the briefing below the assessor comes on at 11 00 4 10 2020 daily briefing at 2 14 pm add a new comment thursday january 23 2020 city punishes farm family then punishes taxpayers with the bill tweet from the we have to destroy the farm in order to save it files comes another story about the misleadership and really bad decisions from within janesville s backward if not corrupt city hall before i begin i must give the janesville gazette another one of those rare once or twice a year credits for the story this time it revolves around a couple well here s the gazette s quick take the city took their land but it wasn t in lieu of a six figure debt payment as the local janesville gazette suggests the city took their land to punish the couple for not being able to afford to pay the city s demand that s right the couple said they can t afford to pay and with dwindling farm activity and other pressures said it would take 170 years of their modest annual farm rent income to pay the city s bill so it was agreed and the city took their land it s one thing if the couple requested the curb gutter and sidewalks or fell behind on property tax but they did not the 130k bill for unrequested unnecessary public works literally fell from the sky into their mailbox why is the land not in lieu of the 130k road cost because according to the newspaper story the city will replant the land not sell it to recoup the money with native wildflowers and turn it into a park while holding the property in a covenant for the family in case the family at some point in the future can afford to pay the ransom so how does the city pay the bill with the land they confiscated they don t who pays unsurprisingly the gazette doesn t dig into that because well that would ruin everything and so it is they force 130k worth of needless public infrastructure on this family get 130k in land value and still collect the 130k from taxpayers snookered to pay the bill it s a win win double jackpot for the city no eminent domain necessary they ll all get raises and special commemorative coins from the city manager for this one what many in janesville see as an obvious bold act of extortion and an affront to common sense and decency is turned into a gift trope by the city with the protectionist gazette in tow all in all this story like dozens of eye opening raging stories before it is likely to just die on the vine but to the...