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VILLAGE OF WESTON TO APPEAL BUS REFERENDUM RULING
WPR News - Village of Weston to appeal bus referendum ruling
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Friday April 27, 2012
by Glen Moberg
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Attorneys for the central Wisconsin Village of Weston are planning to appeal a court ruling that would put a public bus referendum on the ballot. The move has outraged a group of local religious leaders.
Marathon County Judge Michael Moran ruled last week that the Village of Weston must put a referendum question on the June 5th ballot that would allow voters to decide whether to restore public bus service. The village dropped out of the Wausau Metro transit system because of cuts in state aid in Gov. Walker's budget. Now, Weston plans to appeal the judge's decision, according to the Wausau Daily Herald. Father Steven Brice of St. Anne's Catholic Church helped lead the signature drive for the referendum, "We continue to wonder why Weston village leadership does not want to hear from its own people. Again, from the beginning they said this should be a taxpayer decision."
Brice says the elimination of bus service has been particularly hard on the poor, the elderly and the handicapped, "One of our committee members says since the buses have gone down, she feels like she's in prison. She can only get out for critical things that she can afford to pay a taxi fare that could be $18 dollars one way, and other than that she's pretty much confined to her home."
Village leaders in the past said they cut the bus service to balance the budget without raising taxes, and because of a perception of low ridership. They would not speak on the record for this story.
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