Robin Cullen, a Kenosha resident, told the Kenosha School District board that the district’s third-Friday count shows a loss of 723 students this year — about a 4% decline — and that the drop corresponded to approximately $9.4 million less in general state aid.

Cullen said the district will receive a one-time declining-enrollment exemption of roughly $3.8 million but called that temporary and warned the district will be more reliant on local property taxes going forward. “When state aid goes down, property taxes go up, and the shortfall doesn’t vanish. It shifts to local taxpayers,” Cullen said.

She told the board she is urging the district to pass a resolution asking the City of Kenosha to include a line item on local property tax bills showing how much money is redirected from public schools to private voucher programs. “The city of Green Bay already does this,” she said, and she cited pending state legislation — Assembly Bill 504 and Senate Bill 483 — that would make the practice statewide.

Cullen also praised the district’s Head Start work and recent lead screening efforts as examples of public-health and early-education leadership. Her remarks were made during the public-comment portion of the meeting; the board did not take immediate action on her resolution request.