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On an overwhelming voice vote, the towns’ people voted to pay $19,000 for one acre of land next to the toxic waste site, almost 100 percent over fair-market-value, because the land is valued by the state at only $10,000.
In other business, the same 25 people sold one acre of town land for an appraised value of $12,000 and agreed to purchase acreage for a road project at an appraised value of $6,000 an acre within five miles of the toxic waste acreage.
Those who disagree with buying toxic waste dump acreage at 100 percent over fair market value should have been at the meeting, because the people who were at the meeting spoke loud and clear, they want it known that in the town of Onalaska, toxic waste dumps draw top tax dollar.
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