The Daily Tribune from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin • Page 3

3A Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids Saturday. Jan. 2,1999 Property tax comparisons on homes with an equalized value of $1 00,000. The equalized value is multiplied by the assessment ratio (each municipality's total assessed valuation percentage of its total equalized valuation) to calculate the assessed value. The assessed value is multiplied by the tax rates in each municipality, and the lottery credit is subtracted to calculate the property tax.

Pittsville pays highest taxes inthecounty Municipality Assess Sch Tax Property Municipality Assessed School Tax Property Value Dist Rate Tax Value District Rate Tax Adams $81,410 I AFSD $32.93 $2,629.42 I I $64.550 WRSD I $32.23 I $2,031.23 I I I I ASD $3108 $1,960 68 Arpin I $81,580 ASP $25.26 $2,015.18 III 1 Auburndale $82,520 ASD $21 40 $1,720 40 Auburndale $99,900 ASD $18.67 $1,819.60 1 1 1 1 1 I Cameron $76,830 MSD $23 79 $1,786 18 Biron $91,280 WRSD $28.77 $2,576.91 Cary I $63,900 PSD $24 63 $1,536.47 Friendship $85,930 AFSD $27.82 $2,339.16 Lnj I Dccn I Cranmoor $94,520 PESD $19 91 $1,818 78 Hewitt $81,090 MSP $19.89 $1,571.28 Dexter $81,442 I PSD I $18 58 I $1,475 80 Marshfield $101,740 MSP $25.27 $2,529.37 Grand Rapids $81,060 WRSD $22.54 $1,777.88 Milladore $68,160 SPSD $30.18 $2,123.31 Hansen $99,520 WRSD $20.50 $1,990.95 Nekoosa $98,300 PESD $29.00 $2,787.59 PSD $18.06 $1,759.94 NSD $25.00 $2,412.27 122 $1922 $1 66724 Pittsville I $83,700 PSD I $30 SjJjlSlSgJ JfiS $83.060 PSD $20 19 $1,639 59 I "I I Tl Lincoln $83,150 MSD $20 74 $1,682 93 Port Edwards $95,420 PESD $32.64 $3,051.40 1 1 1 1 1 Marshfield $89,960 MSD $19.20 $1,685.63 Rudolph $100,170 WRSD $18.20 $1,773.88 Milladore $79,640 ASD $19.03 $1,470.02 395520 WRSD $19.91 $1,852.59 SPSD $18 69 $1.444 29 Wisconsin Rapids $83,540 WRSD $31.99 $2,623.23 Por1Edwards $99,430 PESD $20.69 $1,994.10 Northern Adams County Townships nsd $16.85 $1,630.12 Municipality Assess Sch Tax' Property PSD $14.85 $1,439.14 Value Dist Rate Tax 1 1 1 i 1 Remington $68,250 PSD $23.02 $1,533.72 Adams $103,100 AFSD $20.68 $2,080.70 Richfield $82,790 PSD $20.46 $1,656.49 Big Flats $72,720 AFSD $30.10 $2,137 46 ASD $22.58 $1,823.87 Colburn $105,310 AFSD $23.60 $2,433.91 MSD $21.56 $1,743.35 TCSD $22.74 $2,346.92 fj Rock $70,210 PSD $23.90 $1,640.63 WSD $21.14 $2,185.02 i ill I I MSD $25.17 I $1,725.58 Leola $70,750 TCSD $27.09 $1,868.79 I 1 1 1 1 Rudolph $76,773 WRSD $23.85 $1,781.83 Lincoln $72,630 AFSD $27.11 $1,917.59 t4 Saratoga $96,345 NSD $16.36 $1,530.93 Monroe $107,240 AFSP $22.42 $2,352.91 i i I WRSP I $17.25 I $1,612 74 Preston $74,550 AFSD $28.33 $2,060.59 I 1 I 1 1 Seneca $95,310 PESD $23.27 $2,154.75. Quincy $78,580 AFSD $28 82 $2,213.26 WRSD $19.92 $1,849.36 Richfield $83,140 AFSD $25.69 $2,084.46 PSD $17.07 $1,589.55 WSD $23.02 $1,872.65 Sherry $67,900 WRSD $25.12 $1,656.44 Rome $87,721 NSD $27.03 $2,325.83 ASD $24.06 $1,588.14 NSD- $27.20 $2,340.74 TMLD SPSD $23.65 $1,561.65 r. I TCSD" I I Siqel $81,300 WRSD $21 83 $1,72557 Strongs Prairie $97,480 AFSD $21.26 $2,021.01 Wood $67,190 PSD $22.99 $1,507.31 A village of Port Edwards home with a $100,000 equalized value ($95,420 assessed value) will take on the second highest tax in the group at $3,051.40. The village also has the second highest tax rate at $32.64. A Nekoosa home, in the Port Edwards School District, with the same equalized value ($98,300 assessed Value) will net the third highest tax at $2,787.59.

Town of Milladore residents, with a $100,000 equalized value home ($79,640 assessed value) will pay the second and third lowest property tax. In the Stevens Point School District, Milladore town residents will pay $1,444.29 and in the Auburndale School District, $1,470.02. The town of Grant has the second highest assessment ratio at 104.88 percent and the portion of the town in the Stevens Point School District has the second lowest tax rate at $16.10. The town of Arpin has the second lowest assessment ratio at 64.55 percent and the portion of the town in the Wisconsin Rapids School District has the third highest tax rate at $32.23. The town of Saratoga in the Nekoosa School District has the third lowest tax rate at $16.36.

'-The town of Adams has the Certain town of Port Edwards residents will pay the lowest By TROY LAACK Tribune Staff Writer Pittsville residents will pay the most in property taxes this year among municipalities in Wood County, northern Adams County and surrounding areas. Port Edwards town residents in the Pittsville School District will pay the least in property taxes among 49 municipalities, which include 71 tax districts, according to in-f donation turned in by municipal clerks to county treasurers' offices. A Pittsville resident with a home that has a $100,000 equalized value ($83,700 assessed value) will pay $3,151.40 in property taxes. The city of Adams has the highest tax rate at $32.93 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. An owner of a home with a $100,000 equalized value ($99,430 assessed value) in the Pittsville School District in.

the town of Port Edwards will pay $1,439.14. That tax district also has the lowest tax rate at $14.85 per $1,000 of assessed valuation and the town has third lowest assessment ratio. The Adams County town of Colburn has the highest ratio of locally assessed valuation to the stfltd.figured equalized valuation' at 105.31 The toDvn of Cary has the lowest assessment ratio at 63.9 percent. New Year's resolutions becomin to all the winners to all who participated in this years r7 ri rim mr ri rf iri i I il i Jm third highest' assessment ta1 tid at 103.1 The village of Milladore has the third lowest assessment ratio at 68.16 percent. things said.

Norcross said his research indicates there are four main reasons why people don't make resolutions: 27 percent say they have no behavior that needs changing; 23 percent say they have tried and failed; 19 percent say they just don't make resolutions; and 7 percent say they lack willpower. In part, the New Year's resolution also has been a victim of its own success. Once a very popular reso- lution, quitting smoking has declined steadily over the years. The smoking rate peaked at about 43 percent in 1966; today, less than 25 percent of adults smoke. And with two other very popular resolutions dieting and getting more exercise Americans have learned that short-term, start-of-the-year changes are of little benefit.

"They really need to be lifelong things," said Larry Kubiak, a Florida clinical psychologist who has studied New Year's resolutions. Another popular resolution in past years, improving one's finances, has been rendered largely obsolete by the increasing prevalence of 40i(k) plans and other payroll deduction investment options. However, there also seems to be more of a live-for-the-present mentality today, brought on by a growing amount of disposable income for many Americans, Kubiak said. "It seems to be more of an era of enjoying the moment, and people just don't want to deny themselves," he said. Kubiak also said that many people may just be getting tired of making and breaking resolutions.

Only 40 percent jf those who make New Year's resolu PI 'fill I of past tions still are keeping them six months later, said Peter Wish, a Florida psychologist and author of "Don't Stop at Green Lights: Taking Charge of Your Life and Fulfilling Your Dreams." Two years later, only 20 percent are keeping them, he said. Of course, there also are people like Colleen Schulz, 28, of Menomonee Falls, who has never broken a New Year's resolution because she has never made one. "I always thought it was kind of dumb," she said. "Why wait until Jan. 1 when you have the entire year?" Schulz said that over the last seven years she has quit smoking, started an exercise program and improved her eating habits, and none of those changes was the result of a New Year's resolution.

However, as long as humans remain imperfect, at least a few will continue to use the start of a new year to tweak their behavior. For those who do, psychologists Norcross, Kubiak and Wish offered these tips: Don't make more than three resolutions. And pick at least one easy one because "nothing succeeds like success," Wish said. Enlist the support of family and friends. "Go public with it," Wish said.

If other people know about your promise, it will be more difficult to break it, he said. 3 Rearrange your environment. Avoid places and circumstances that might prompt you to fall backward, Norcross said. Develop a formal contract with yourself. "Write it out," Kubiak said.

"Have it witnessed by somebody and put on your refrigerator so you can see it." Many lost interest or think they're unrealistic goals MILWAUKEE (AP) About 10 years ago, Casey Kro-lasik jumped off a band wagon and into a crowd of Americans turning their backs on an age-old tradition making a New Year's resolution. He had quit smoking years earlier and had improved his relationship with his daughter two areas he had always tried to change in past years and he did not see niuch point in continuing to spruce up his life every Jan. 1. "There were no major negatives," said Krolasik, a 58-year-old retired Wauwatosa resident. On its way to becoming an abandoned hallmark of 20th-century living, the New Year's resolution may some dky end up like the typewriter, jogging suit and record album.

Fewer people seem to be making them, and most of those who do continue to fail, psychologists say. 1 Based on national surveys, a majority of American adults between 50 percent and 55 percent still made New Year's resolutions 10 years ago, said John Nor-cross, a professor of psychology at the University of Scranton who has published three studies on New Year's resolutions and co-authored a book on the topic. Today, that number is down to between-40 percent and 45 percent, he said. The two biggest reasons are lack of Interest and disillusionment, he said. "I am saddened that fewer people are intensely trying to change their behavior," he mi ITTTM nrnni 1 T.f IS UU JILL Jim sciiErnErmuzR VJisconsin tepid Jim had 14 of 15 correct.

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