Gov. Tony Evers offered GOP leaders a $1.3 billion package that would pump additional money into public schools while boosting a property tax credit and covering a GOP call to exempt cash tips from state taxes, according to an email shared with WisPolitics.
The email shows Evers’ staff offered to sign one bill that includes the guv’s priorities of $200 million to increase reimbursements for special education and $450 million for general school aid, which would drive down how much districts can raise through property taxes to cover their costs.
In exchange, his staff offered support for putting $550 million into the school levy tax credit, which offsets some of what homeowners would otherwise pay in property taxes for schools. The offer also included $97.3 million toward exempting cash tips.
Evers’ legislative affairs director, Zach Madden, shared the offer to the chiefs of staff for Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, on Thursday.
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