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$2.6 million general budget. "The effect on the current budget will be negligible/' Hansen said. "It's a small price to pay to abide by state law, which allows for recalls." The effect on the Town of Portland will be similar to that of the City of Waterloo, with an estimated cost of $600 to $800, according to Town of Portland Clerk Nancy Thompson. Thompson said the cost includes published notices, pick-up and delivery of bal lots, possible absentee costs, poll worker wages, and whether poll workers will need to be trained. She stated the costs are estimates and that other factors may influ ence it. "Right now it's not clear to me if there would be
absentee ballots or military ballots that would come in after the polls close but before the deadline, whether my poll workers would can vas those," Thompson said. "...There's just so many unknowns, it's really hard to say." Thompson said the Town of Portland may not need to reallocate money from its budget because of the February primary that will no longer take place and said if there is a need to move money, it would likely come from undesignated reserves in the budget or from vari ances in expenditures, such as this year's mild winter that hasn't required much use of snow equipment. "I think the effect it's going to have is maybe more so in people's attitude toward whether money should be spent for some thing like this or not. There are certainly people who
believe that recall elections should only happen for ... some major violation that an officer holder held, so they're going to say this was a waste of money because the elec tion took place and we should let those people fill out their term," Thompson said. "There are other people who are going to say this is a viable reason for having a recall so this is maybe going to be good. So I think at this point, it's kind of neutral ... I think it's too soon to really say what impact it's going to have. It's just an interesting time in election history and particularly because there are so many changes in the election system." The 13^ Senate District also covers parts of Jefferson, Dane, Dodge and Waukesha counties. To date, a Democratic challenger to Fitzgerald has not been announced.
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cated the financial health of Medicare was not great and without ACA the fund would not be solvent past 2017. Feitlinger said the ACA has made the Medicare funds sol vent until 2023. "We believe the Affordable Care Act does a number of important things beyond just Medicare beneficiary," he said. Prior to ACA there was a 'donut hole' in Medicare part D. This is the phase of Medicare part D when the total retail cost of prescriptions reaches $2,930. People who fell into the donut hole had to pay for between $2,900 and $7,600 in out-of-pocket expenses for all of the costs of their medica tion. Under the ACA, people taking brand-name drugs will
• Recognized Extra Effort Award Recipients Shannon Maly and Jen Connely; • Approved three trips for the Marshall FFA to attend an officer retreat in Portage, middle school development conference, and summer camping trip; • Approved request by the Science Olympiad middle school team for an overnight trip to its annual competition; • Approved appointing board clerk Mary Munson to the Mary Stremmer Scholarship Selection Committee; • Accepted a donation of technology to the Marshall Early Learning Center; • Heard the second reading and approved board policy. The board heard the second reading and approved board policy for state tournament attendance, budget implementation, line item transfer authority and budget transfer/adjusting entry request form; • Heard a budget projection for the 20122013 school year. Sramek noted the school district is looking to close a projected $375,000 to $450,000 deficit and is seeking out several measures to close the gap, including adminis trative staff and support staff contracts and handbooks as well as working with the insur ance task force to search for additional serv ings; • Approved one request for a tuition waiver; and • Convened into closed session. The board entered into closed session to: discuss the employment of a public employee over which the board has jurisdiction; consult with legal counsel concerning potential for litiga tion related to the public employee; consid ered the medical, social, disciplinary or per sonal histories of a student; and take consid eration of administrative and administrative support staff contracts.
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the recent threats, and when teachers were notified of the incident. Sramek said she was in communication with Marshall High School Principal Brian Sniff about the situation after he received information about the incident from local law enforcement. "We took steps to ensure that the students and staff at the high school, and frankly the only building that was notified was the high school, but took steps to ensure that security in the building was what we would expect," Sramek said. "I know Mr. Sniff personally moved his office from his office to the confer ence room so he could have visual sight of the entire parking lot and the entrance. Our office staff was made aware that if this particular individual came to our school that the police were to be called and that he was not to be admitted to our school." The district administrator said the district was not aware that Schumacher was arrested until Tuesday afternoon, and that a statement would have been issued had they known ear lier. According to Sramek, Sniff issued a state ment about the incident after receiving notifi cation that Schumacher was taken into cus tody. The district administrator also stated the district has plans to address possible future threats or similar situations. "We do have plans in place for exactly those kinds of scenarios. If there were a spe cific threat to any staff member or to our building, we do take steps to address those, including lockdowns procedures which we have done in the past," Other action:
^e^Rf^ercenRBscounRrT Tssue^^uamnlee^Treasuty the medication and a 15 per bonds. cent discount on generic pre "No elected officials can tell scriptions if they fall into the you it's a Ponzi scheme and donut hole. Eventually, the that there are a bunch of IOUs donut hole will be at zero. unless they're willing to tell Additionally, Feitlinger you that they're going to said Medicare Advantage will default on those treasury eventually be closed and those bonds," Feitlinger said. "And who participate in that pro I've got to tell you folks, it ain't gram will have to work with going to happen." their insurance company or There were three major cuts get into another program. He that could be imposed on said this will save $1.5 billion Social Security. The first was in the next 10 years. raising the retirement age While the main thrust of beyond 67 up to 70 years old the presentation was on the over the course of several ACA, Feitlinger also touched years. on potential threats to Social The second cut would be Security. means testing, taking a per Referring to Social Security centage of the work force and as the attendees 'trust fund/ looking at their wages to deter the executive director said the mine if they should get Social program has a $2.6 trillion sur Security benefits. plus. While it was true the fed The final cut, which would eral government has taken impact current Medicare par funds from Social Security and ticipants, would be making used it for other federal pro changes to the formula for grams, the government also cost-of-living adjustments.
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