From: DPI Open Enrollment Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 8:52 AM To: Danfield, Jennifer L. DPI Subject: Revenue Limit Exemption for Prior Year Open Enrolled Pupils All of the revenue limit exemption amounts have been corrected and are now listed on line 10E on the prepopulated revenue limit worksheet. We resent out lists to districts on where the SPED pupil(s) were omitted. These lists were mailed out on Tuesday, October 11th through US mail, so please allow a few days for delivery. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank you for your patience. Jen Danfield School Administration Consultant Public School Open Enrollment Department of Public Instruction 608-264-6707 or 888-245-2732, option 2, then 3 Jennifer.Danfield@dpi.wi.gov _____________________________________________ From: Danfield, Jennifer L. DPI Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:46 PM To: Danfield, Jennifer L. DPI Subject: Revenue Limit Exemption for Prior Year Open Enrolled Pupils To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators From – Jen Danfield, Open Enrollment Consultant Subject – Revenue Limit Exemption for Prior Year Open Enrolled Pupils Many of you are noticing on the Revenue Limit Worksheets posted by the School Finance team that you have a “prior year open enrollment” revenue limit exemption on Item 10E. This refers to pupils who open enrolled out of your school district who were not included in your membership at the time you levied for the 2015-16 school year. We sent out a verification mailing on mid-September giving districts an opportunity to verify that the revenue limit exemption information in OPAL was correct. Additionally, we sent out a mailing on Friday, October 7th to districts that were found eligible for the revenue limit exemption, which included the name of the pupil(s) and the revenue limit exemption amount. The mailing was sent to open enrollment contacts and school finance contacts in your district. There are two categories of these pupils: * When the legislature enacted the alternative application (exception) legislation, it provided for a revenue limit exemption (equal to the amount of the open enrollment payment) for pupils who attended under the alternative application procedure and who had not been counted by the resident district on the 3rd Friday. This usually includes pupils who moved in from out of state or another Wisconsin school district or who had previously been attending a private school or homeschooling. To see the list of pupils for whom you received this exemption, in OPAL, click on the Counted in Membership tab under the Alt Apps tab. Click on “Transfers Out” and switch the year to “2015-16”. You will see a list of pupils who may have transferred under an alternative application, with two columns titled “Counted in Membership” and “Not Counted in Membership”. You are eligible for the prior year open enrollment exemption for those pupils who were “Not Counted in Membership”. The last column shows the amount of the revenue limit exemption. For pupils with disabilities, the amount shown is $0. To determine the amount of the exemption, click on the pupil’s name. This will take you to the Student Summary page, which shows how many days the pupil was open enrolled. Multiply the number of days by $36.88 ($18.44 for .5 FTE and $21.13 for .6 FTE) for the amount of the open enrollment payment/revenue limits exemption. * The other category of pupils eligible for the exemption is any open enrolled pupils who had not been included in the revenue limit membership used for the levy. This category is made up of pupils whose resident district in OPAL was incorrect at the time the resident district levied and which was later corrected. Even if the district later amends its membership and recalculates the revenue limit, the district would already have levied for that year and cannot go back and increase the levy. Therefore, the district is eligible for the same type of exemption in the following school year, equal to the amount of the open enrollment payment. Any district that had pupils who might be eligible for this exemption received a mailing from us to ascertain whether the pupil had been included in the revenue limit membership. If you have any corrections to what was entered into OPAL for your district, please let us know by Friday, October 21st by sending us an email. If you have any questions, please contact us at openenrollment@dpi.wi.gov or at 888-245- 2732, option 2. Jen Danfield School Administration Consultant Public School Open Enrollment Department of Public Instruction 608-264-6707 or 888-245-2732, option 2, then 3 Jennifer.Danfield@dpi.wi.gov