From: DPI Open Enrollment Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 9:29 AM 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 On the 2017-18 Prepopulated Revenue Limit Worksheet posted by the School Finance team, some districts will have a “prior year open enrollment” revenue limit exemption on Line 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 2016-17 school year. We sent out a verification mailing on August 11th giving districts an opportunity to verify that the revenue limit exemption information in OPAL was correct. Additionally, we sent out a mailing on October 4th to districts that were found eligible for the revenue limit exemption (based on the verification we received from the district), 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 “2016-17”. 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”. The database automatically defaults to “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. * 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 Monday, October 23rd 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