By Lynn Binnie
Whitewater Banner volunteer staff
whitewaterbanner@gmail.com

Many City of Whitewater property owners undoubtedly noticed an unusually high increase in the school district portion of the property tax bill that they received early in December. Ben Prather, Director of Business Services for the Whitewater Unified School District, drafted the letter that is shown below in order to address this concern. Prather noted to the Banner that, “Of all the municipalities within our levy the city of Whitewater saw the largest increase in property value (13.75%) and the Walworth County portion of the city experienced the largest change in share of the levy (.49%).”