HENDREN DETACHMENT EFFORT APPEARS DEAD
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 -- 11:04 AM
It appears an effort by some Town of Hendren residents to detach their town from the Greenwood school district is over after a joint meeting between the Neillsville and Greenwood school boards last night. The Greenwood and Neillsville school boards voted 4-0 and 4-1, respectively, to deny the detachment. Neillsville board president Walter Wetzel was the only board member from either side who voted for attaching the town of Hendren to the Neillsville School District. Willard-area resident Dan Coughlin has been part of the push to detach. He says he wasn?t surprised by the vote last night and his group doesn?t intend to seek the needed signatures to force a November referendum on the issue. In fact, he told WCCN that they never expected the detachment process would work, they just wanted to force discussion on Greenwood?s future."We never had that expectation that Greenwood - even forced into a referendum - would vote to let us go," Coughlin explains. "That was never our expectation."
"That was the only legal means we could find to get something going, to show that there was dissatisfaction - that everything wasn't copasetic."
While it appears the detachment chapter has come to a close, Coughlin says their group is going to ?Plan B?. He wouldn?t divulge what ?Plan B? would entail, only that they hope to get more people involved and it will not include school board recalls. But Coughlin says their group isn?t impressed with the consolidation feasibility study that will take place between Loyal, Greenwood and Granton ? in fact, he wants it scrapped and replaced with negotiations.
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