The board voted unanimously on Nov. 24 to approve a resolution detaching territory from the Middleton‑Cross Plains Area School District and attaching parcels to the Madison Metropolitan School District, and to detach other parcels from MMSD to Middleton‑Cross Plains, pursuant to Wisconsin statute 117.12.

Board members and legal counsel noted a recent discovery that one or two parcels under discussion had changed ownership and might not meet the criteria in the 1999 agreement governing transfers between the districts. They stressed that the final parcel list transmitted to the city must comply with the 1999 agreement and that parcels that do not meet the agreement’s criteria will be excluded from this round of transfers and could be considered again in January.

What’s next: The city of Madison will process the official transfers; board members were told the districts remain within statutory deadlines to roll additional parcels in January if necessary.