VILLAGE OF HARRISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Some residents in the Village of Harrison have been stuck paying for a wheel tax.
So What ?
Harrison doesn’t have a wheel tax, but Appleton and Kaukauna do and some Harrison residents have mailing addresses in those cities.
Right now Harrison Village Manager Travis Parish tells WLUK residents don’t write Harrison on their mail. They write down one of five other municipalities instead.
“City of Appleton, the City of Menasha, the City of Kaukauna, the Village of Sherwood and Village of Hilbert”
For example: Harrison’s village hall itself actually has a Menasha address.
Because the village lies within the zip codes of those five other communities, Parish says the Postal Service doesn’t recognize Harrison as an address.
“What we’re looking for is to be able to use ‘Harrison’ to go along with our zip codes”
So village president Jim Salm says leaders are working with the Postal Service to have Harrison recognized.
“So people would actually put instead of an Appleton address, they’d put ‘Village of Harrison”
Parish says the current system causes problems. Like some residents have been stuck paying an Appleton or Kaukauna wheel tax.
“Many people don’t know they’re actually being charged 20 extra dollars on their vehicle registrations”
Parish also says some citizens don’t know where to vote.
To make the change the Postal Service will send a survey to all Harrison residents. If at least 50% respond and at least 50% of the responses support the change it will go through.
“Then we move on to the next step which would be going and getting that changed,” said Parish.
Parish says the plan has gotten positive feedback from residents and has the full support of the village board.
The board president says this will give people a greater sense of community in Harrison.
In an email, a representative for the Postal Service said officials are working with the Village of Harrison.
But, there’s no time-line for when the surveys might go out or when the change could happen.
