001October 20th, 2025 at 700 p.m. Winnie County Middle School Library, 400 North 9th Avenue, Winnie County, Wisconsin. Public notice is hereby given to the public and news media pursuant to Wisconsin statute 120-10 that the Winnie County Community School District budget hearing and annual meeting will be held on Monday, October 20th at 700 p.m. in the Winnie County Middle School Library. We are to elect the meeting chairperson. Electors in attendance will nominate and elect the chairperson to preside over the annual meeting. At this time, I'm going to be asking, are there any nominations for chairperson? >> I nominate Donna Hansen. >> Are there any nominations for chairperson? Are there any other nominations for chairperson? Seeing none, I will ask for a motion to be made and seconded to close nominations. >> If you could state your
002name, please so I can get it. nominations. >> A motion has been made and seconded to close nominations. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Nay. Motion carried. Donna Hansen has been elected as meeting chairperson. I want to see you jump over. or do you have to do something? >> I was just going to introduce you. So, okay. So, at this point, we'll turn it over to our director of business services, Monica Knap, and she will present the uh budget. >> I hope this is on. Okay. So, tonight we will briefly talk about the 2526 budget and tax levy. Please note that the published budget was presented using preliminary information from the state. That's what's going to be voted on. And a final revised budget incorporating the changes we learned of on October
00315th will be voted on subsequent to this meeting. I will also address those changes at the end of the presentation. I got out of breath. So I ask that you hold your questions till the end. However, the last few years, um, rather than recreating my oldie moldy presentation that put you all to sleep within a matter of a minute, I decided to throw these PowerPoint slides into AI. So, I'm going to show you a video that was created from AI and hopefully it works. And you hit the school tax number and you just kind of wonder where in the world does that actually come from? Well, today we're going to pull back the curtain on the 2025 2026 school budget. We'll decode the jargon, make sense of the numbers, and show you exactly what it
004means for your wallet. Let's dive in. Okay, let's just cut right to the chase because I know the first question on everyone's mind is always the most important one. So, what is the real impact on your wallet? You know, you hear about all these budget meetings, you see these complicated spreadsheets, but it all really boils down to one single key figure that decides what you pay. And here it is, 5.99. That's the final school mill rate. So, what the heck is a mill rate? It's actually pretty simple. It's just the tax rate for every $1,000 of your property's value. So, a rate of 5.99 means you pay $5.99 for every,000 bucks your home is assessed at. This is the magic number. But the real question is, how do they land on it? Well, that's where
005the story really gets interesting. To really understand that 599 number, you've got to get the basic rules of how schools are funded in the first place. And honestly, the best way to think about it is as a balancing act, kind of like a financial seessaw. So, rule number one is this thing called the revenue limit. Think of it as a spending cap that's set by the state. The state basically says for every single student you have, your district is allowed to bring in a grand total of $11,650. But, and this is the key part, that money can only come from two places. Aid from the state and taxes from local property owners. And this slide right here, this visualizes that seesaw perfectly. This is probably the most important concept to get. The revenue limit is
006the total weight the seesaw has to hold. You've got state aid sitting on one side and the local tax levy, that's us, on the other. So, you see what happens, right? If the state side gets lighter, our side has to get heavier to keep the whole thing balanced. It's that simple and it drives everything. So, what does that seesaw actually look like for this budget year? Well, here are the numbers. State aid is covering just under 41% of the total. And that means local property taxes have to make up the difference, almost 59%. The takeaway is pretty clear. This year, local taxpayers are definitely funding the heavier side of that seesaw. Okay, so we know the rules of the game and we know who's paying for what. So now let's actually follow the money. Where
007is it all coming from? And maybe more importantly, where is it all going? So taking a look at where the money comes from, this pie chart pretty much confirms that Seesaw we just talked about. The two biggest slices of the pie, no surprise, are local sources at 46%. Again, that's mainly property taxes, and state sources at 38%. The rest is just a mix of smaller federal funds and other bits and pieces. All right, so that's the money in pile. What about the money out pile? Well, this chart tells a really clear story, doesn't it? I mean, look at that. It is just overwhelmingly dominated by two categories: salaries and employee benefits. Put them together and you're talking about more than twothirds of the entire operational budget right there. And this quote from the district's own
008budget presentation really sums it all up. It says, "Since we are a peopleintensive industry, 66% of our fund 10 budget is for salaries and benefits." And that just hits the nail on the head. At the end of the day, education is about people. When you fund a school district, you are fundamentally funding the teachers, the staff, and all the professionals who work with students every single day. That is the single biggest investment. So, we've seen the rules. We followed the money trail. Now, let's put all the puzzle pieces together and see exactly how we build up to that final number that shows up on your tax bill. First thing to know is that the total amount collected from taxpayers, what they call the levy, isn't just one big pot here. It's actually two things added
009together. You've got the money for the day-to-day operations we just talked about, and you add to that the payments for long-term debt that we, the voters, already approved in past referendums. So, how does this year stack up against last year? This table gives us the hard numbers. The total levy, the total amount of tax dollars needed went up by about 1.5 million. And that increase resulted in the mill rate going from 5.74 last year to that 599 this year. That's a change of 0.25. And here's how that final 599 rate actually breaks down. For every,000 a property is worth, $4.80 of that goes to general school operations. That's the people part. The other $119 goes toward paying off that voter approved debt. Okay, so we've got a pretty good handle on our own number now,
010but how does it look when we zoom out? You know, how does our district's tax rates stack up against our neighbors? It's time to get some context. This comparison chart is really helpful. It shows the mill rates for 10 different school districts in the area. And what's the key takeaway? Well, even with the increase this year, you can see that our district's rate is still one of the most favorable in the entire region. That is some really crucial context to keep in mind when you're looking at your bill. And one last very important thing to remember. It's kind of like a little bonus at the end. After the district sets its levy, the state steps in with something called the school levy tax credit. Your local city or town applies this credit directly to your
011bill and it actually reduces the amount you have to pay for schools. So the final number on your bill will likely be a little bit lower than you might calculate on your own. So there you have it. That's the story behind this year's school tax bill. But digging through these documents reveals a pretty big challenge looming on the horizon. Student enrollment is declining. And this isn't just happening here. It's a trend across the state. So that leaves us with a critical question for the future as the number of students continues to change. How will we as a community balance our commitment to strong schools with the tax burden on everyone? That's the next big conversation we're all going to need to have. Okay. So, I thought Mr. AI did a much better job of doing
012that presentation than I have done in the past. However, as we've all heard, AI has its limitations. So, I do want to bring up a couple of things on the PowerPoint presentation. Um, so on slide 11, I'm going to get to that first. Sorry, I I this is the easiest way that I could figure out how to do this. So, the purpose of the annual meeting is to address what the published budget was. So, the published um the initial published budget for the mill rate was 5.98 and then we get final numbers from the state on October 15th. So, our new mill rate is 5.99 instead of 5.98. Um the other the other item that I couldn't get AI to report correctly was the percentage that is picked up by the state versus local dollars.
013There were a couple different percentages in that presentation. Um when you look strictly at the revenue limit formula um the state aid is actually 40.9% and the local aid is 58.9. So we're seeing that seessaw switch where the local taxpayers are picking up a bigger portion of the the tax bill. Let me get to slide 13. Okay. Um, the video also spoke a little bit about the projected deficit that I want to unpack just a little bit more. The initial projection of the deficit, again, this was because of anticipated numbers before published amounts came out. Um, the initial deficit was 372,341 and the final version is 299681. But I want to make it clear that this is a planned spend. The change was due to the increase in local tax, state tax. We had a
014couple of expenses that we had to update. Um, however, I want to point out that this is planned because it was decided to replace all the skylights at the high school this summer at the same time. We had planned on doing this over the course of several years, but the board decided to take advantage of some cost savings and do it all at once. Um, we had initially planned on using fund 41 for those uh replacements. It's the fund that we lovingly call the roof fund, but DPI prefers us to call it a capital projects fund. Um, we came in at such a large surplus this year, over $600,000. We are hoping to use part of that surplus to fund that skylight replacement. This allows us to continue to earn investment income on fund 41
015and leave that alone stagnant for future use for roof repair. And speaking to the surplus, I was sick to my stomach when I figured out what the surplus was because way more than what I anticipated, but it was due to a variety of reasons. And I don't want to diminish the fact that that the department heads managed their budgets extremely well and almost all came in under budget, but one of the biggest reasons was because we moved to a self-funded health insurance plan this year starting in January of 2025. We had no idea what to expect. So, we had to budget very conservatively, hoping, planning for the worst, hoping for the best. We also had a mild winter. Um, and that always has a big impact on utilities. And our fund balance at the end
016of the year was 6.8 million or almost 32% of our expenditures, which is a very healthy fund balance. And it prevents us from doing any short-term borrowing in between getting state aid and getting the tax dollars in the door. All right, last couple of things. Um, again, Mr. AI was really cool to work with, although it probably took me twice the time it would have done if I had just done my normal presentation. Um, there are still some things I couldn't get it to produce. One of them was a topic of school voucher programs. This year, we're levying the local tax base 455,320 for private school voucher program. Last year we levied 347459 for an increase this year of 107861. This equates to 21 cents of the mill rate going to the school voucher program.
017Um so please pay particular attention to this because this is the last year that the caps are in place. So this is the last year that uh DPI caps the number of students in the student population that can enter in the school voucher program. This year it's 10%. Next year all caps are off and I would anticipate that I I would see this number go up slightly if not exponentially. For comparative purposes only the voucher program for fun private school students for 2526 is 10,877 per student in grades K through 8 and 13371 uh per student in grades 9 through 12 while public school per student funding is 11650. Um I think this might be the last one I have to show you. Okay. U Mr. AI uh pres presented the comparative for the mill
018rate. I just want to point out this is a mill rate from 2425. Obviously all school districts are are finalizing their budgets right now. So we don't have the levy rate for 2526. And finally I thought Mr. AI was a bit doom and gloom towards the end when he talked about declining enrollment. Yes, we are experiencing some declining enrollment but um so is everybody or I should say the majority of the state the school districts in the state. However, Dr. Larson is constantly monitoring that is very involved with the village. We all know that the expansion some expansion is taking place in in our school district. So, she's keeping her eye on that as well. Um it's not we're not at dire straits yet, but it's just something in the long range plan that we
019will keep in in mind. Um, finally to end on a positive note, because we continue to be a destination district, our open enrollment students, those that reside in different districts, continues to be positive, meaning we have more coming in than going out. And these numbers will be be presented at a future board meeting. But right now, we have budgeted about 2.7 almost 2.8 in net income because of this. And the words that everyone loves to hear at this time of year is this ends my presentation. Do you have any questions? >> Monica, I'd just like to comment. Um first of all, thank you um for putting together each of the years that you do the annual meeting report. Um it is kind of exciting to know where we stand and said as a district and
020um as a board going into self-funding uh insurance and so on so forth. we are and have been given the information that it's never going to be the same every year. We don't know for sure how we're going to come out in a positive or negative. Those variables we cannot control. So to come out like we did um was a surprise and and it's a positive thing for us. And so thank you for getting our skylights done. [laughter] And to your point, yes, it is very hard to predict those because you don't know what the health of the um the members is going to be during the year. And of course, we have insurance to cover that piece of it, stop-loss insurance, but it's still um it's it's always tenuous. So, we were very fortunate.
021And I also want to point out that we were only self-funded for six months, not a full year. So, in future years, it might look vastly different. I hope not, but you never know. And again, you look at the long run, you know, you try to you plan out for the five years, not just a one-year snapshot. >> Yeah. Steep doing fantastic. So, they do have um regulations on that. I couldn't tell you the percentage off the top of my head. Yeah. But they do monitor that anytime we send the audit up to the state. Yes, sir. So the purpose of what you were talking about was the legislators wanted to know because that was at the time that they were talking about the per pupil increase and at the time it was 11325 and
022now they've been kind enough to to increase it to 11650 but at the time budget hearings were taking place and what they were asking us is what is the cost to continue. So when we looked at our budget versus actual or I should say budget projections, my projection at the time was we needed another $170 on that per pupil 11325 or 11650 I should say, which they didn't come through with. So there's no money to get back. It's just money that goes into the the fund balance for fund 10. >> Yeah, it was just the legislators just wanted to know like what are you looking for from as a school district as a cost to continue because at the time they hadn't decided that was quite a while back. >> There's there's nothing to erase.
023It was just they wanted an estimate saying because at the time the the per pupil was 11325 and they hadn't decided what they were going to do or if they were they had finalized the 11650. So what they hear from school districts is you're not giving us enough money. And then they said okay tell me how much you how much more you need on top of that 11650. And they didn't change anything. They still gave us the 11650. If you remember, um, we discussed at our board meeting here as far as cost of continuation. Um, and that was actually a project put together by CISA to work with our district administrators so that we as district can go ahead and try to educate our legislators as far as our needs, not based on just the
024fact of, like Monica said, letting them know all the time that we need this kind of money. These are actual true numbers as far as growth and and increase and decrease and declining and and costing and so on. So that was the figure that we put together in our district as far as cost of continuation. >> And it could have been different for other districts too. I you know I'm sure it was. >> Yeah. No, we did. They just gave us a flat rate of 11650 >> which I'm thankful for. >> The 11650. Well, here's the rub. So you saw that the increase um was about 1.4 million this year for the local property tax owners or local property taxpayers and state funding has stayed flat. They did not increase any general aid dollars from
025the state. So they increased that revenue limit. So ultimately what that means is they increase the revenue limit on the local taxpayers without funding it from the state level. So it was great, but it all comes back to us. >> Correct. And in when I first started here almost 10 years ago, it was it was almost flat, right? It was state and and local was pretty flat. But as our property values rise, then they also look at equalization aid, which is a whole another fun topic of conversation that I'd love to spend 20 minutes on. But um they because our property tax values are going up, then our our state aid goes down. It's a delicate balance as Mr. AI said. >> And one thing to reaffirm as far as what Monica has said, a
026destination school district, our our open enrollment and our numbers that are coming here are what has been actually saving us. >> Correct. >> Um because of the fact of our achievement, academics, and the kind of staffing and programs that we have here. um and Peggy and all of us, you know, uh certainly supporting and commitment to our district and our community um for the numbers that are coming here is what's saving us. In all honesty, when you want to talk about declining enrollment, um with the open enrollment, that's really what's saving us right now. I'm not sure, Monica, is around $2 million, >> 2.7. >> Yeah. So, you know, those dollars are coming to help us significantly as far as open enrollment. And and if you think about it, if you look at what the
027deficit is projected at right now, 266 or 269, I can't remember off top of my head, but um if if we didn't have that 2.7, that deficit would look much worse. >> And let's hope taking the cap off the voucher program doesn't >> that out. I'm worried about it. >> Any other questions from anyone in the audience? Mrs. All right. So, next on the agenda is to um adopt the tax tax levy. And I just want everyone to be clear that this at this time in this um annual meeting is uh to adopt the tax levby based on the published numbers and then later we go into another board meeting to adopt the levy on the real numbers. So, um I would need a motion and it would need to be read as it is
028in the agenda or in the the packet and anyone can make that motion. I'll make the motion to be it resolved by the electors of Winnie County Community School District that the summoned of 10,292,93 is hereby levied against the taxable property of the district for current operation. The summoned of $2,588,94 is hereby levied against the taxable property of the district for the debt retirement for a total tax levy of 12,880,97 for the 2025 2026 school year. >> Is there a second? >> Okay. Motion by Kundi, second by Kowarts to adopt the tax levy for 202526 um for the sum of 10,292,93 levied against the taxable property of the district for the current operation in the sum of 2,588,094 levied against the taxable property of the district for debt retirement for a total tax levy of
02912 million. $880,997 for the 2526 school year. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Uh, next on the agenda is to discuss and act upon uh schoolboard member compensation. [clears throat] Um any increase in schoolboard member salaries has to be approved by the electors um for the 202425 school year. And for as long as I can remember um the board president and the clerk received annual compensation in the amount of $1,200 for the year and the other board members an amount of $900 uh for the year. This is I've been on the school board 21 years. This has never been changed. Um and so we wanted some input from the um the electors to discuss this and make a motion. >> Um I did some homework um on this. So I got different
030schoolboard salaries from I'll just say the region, Appleton, Freedom, Hortonville, Kimberly, Littleoot, Manasha, North Bond, Nina, New London, Amro, Ashkosh, and Ripen. and they range from no compensation all the way up to the board president making $8,400. Um the average roughly is 2500 for the uh president and roughly the same for the clerk and other members were about $2,200. Um, for sake of conversation and just to get things rolling, I would make a motion that we um have our president clerk earn $2500 and other members make $2,200. >> So, you'll second it then. Y Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. It's not taxree. >> It's It's sure, but it's still not taxfree. >> Okay. Motion by uh Peggy Larson and second by Laura Aman to increase salary of the president and the clerk to $2500 and
031other members to $2,200 per year. um for the 20 the 20 256 2526 school year. Okay. Any questions, comments from anyone in the audience. >> Yes. >> Oh, just one second. >> Oh, okay. for the 2526 school year. >> And then whoever is elected going forward I was always taught it was the increase when you were next elected. So we were elected to stay at the current >> meeting of the electoral The motion that was made and seconded states that >> 2025 yes, do we need to increase? >> I'm sorry. >> Uh, do we need to increase the salary? This would be my question. [clears throat] Do we need to increase the salary? >> Is that what we're doing? >> I would comment to say yes. It's been that way for 35 years. you do
032a comparison of what other school board gets, that's actually a very I think a very solid average based on probably similar size schools. Again, it was anywhere from Z to the school. All right. So, we have a motion and a second. Uh, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say nay. Motion carried. And then the next uh resolution is to discuss and take action on school district transportation. Um if you recall back in August, I believe it was um the board had chosen to provide um transportation to residents within the two mile radius which statutoily we don't have to do. Um but we had voted and elected to do that. So um that that this is also in your hands as as electors to um authorize the school board to provide transportation
033for pupils who reside less than two miles from their school. We gave a fee in the paste $200 fee that maxed earlier that we don't charge transportation opens and go to in district and then just school. So in having to pay I think the board felt it was important that our local res are are buses that are already running. They're just going through these neighborhoods. [clears throat] Correct. So there wouldn't be any added expense bringing on an additional a route or anything like that. >> What was the previous like amounts that was collected from the fees? I think I mean there was probably 20 families for 15. It's mostly from behind the pig because if you think about a little one um in that neighborhood they not only have to get across main street they
034have to get across and if you ever tried to get across that's just as hard as Main Street. So a lot of families chose that and I would say amilies and so based on the maximum $200 and it wasn't it's not a fee that is we're getting charged more from >> right >> and we get more aid because more more numbers on the bus more state aid we get for transportation >> I think the discussion if I remember was all of what we heard here tonight the safety the fact that it wasn't a big influxer influence on the budget and the fact of getting the state aid. And so our our board at that time, I believe, was in favor of discontinuing since it wasn't involving a lot of families and yet we didn't want
035to deny any family the transportation and safety of their children to get to school. >> Well, and I think the other factor is every year we have to approve a a big chunk of change of providing transportation to those kids that go to private schools. And so, um, if we're paying that, I feel like we we owe it to our own residents to be able to get the kids to school. >> In response to that though, when when someone goes from here out of state or out of into a a private, they don't take the whole chunk of change of what you get. There is residual dollars that stay in here. >> So, it does not really cost cost the district to you know they're it's not like it's in addition to a zero some
036ger me if I'm wrong we do not count a student who goes to a private school whereas open enrollment we actually count that student as our student but then money is sent out the state but it's coming from our revenue so we don't that we enrollment when you go to school and if you recall I think the total for school transportation this year went up significantly I want to say it was like $36,000 so we paid per student I think it was the $700 per student >> to bring them to a private school within five [clears throat] miles of our if somebody goes really far We do not have to pay that amount per student, but I always have advocated so has the board that it should be a per family amount because generally speaking,
037you're bringing your three little ones to whatever school together. >> So, we've advocated for that quite a few times. actually was a resolution last year, but um for whatever reason forward, I'm not sure, but >> can we get a breakdown at a future board meeting? >> Yeah, we just had that on the agenda. It was a >> Yeah, August, early September. We have to do the calculation for purposes. >> So then in the meeting should be >> okay >> if not an agenda >> to correct me if I'm wrong wasn't part of the justification for the students that live on the west side of the river we don't want students yeah that's already >> part of it yeah >> the um the figure this year for uh transportation reimbursement was $7.8579 and uh paying per
038family. The difference if we would pay per family instead of per student if a family had three if it was only a single voucher the difference that we would pay is close to $8,000 less. What was the total amount? >> The total amount was 19,64475 >> This year? Yes. >> Yes. Up from last year. Um last year was 17,200. So, um, and we did talk about that in state resolution and policy as far as bringing it forward at our our our annual meeting as far as delegation because every district is saying the same thing, you know. So, as far as paying the difference, if it was one one voucher per family compared to the way it was or is today, we'd save around $8,000. >> I'd like to make a motion to authorize the school
039board to provide less than Who made the second? >> Motion by Larson, Maggie Larson, second by Dean Aman um to authorize the school board to provide um transportation to those students who reside less than two miles from their school. All in favor say I. opposed say nay. Okay. Um, next order of business is to set the date for the next annual meeting. Um, it has to be uh no earlier than May 15, 2026 and no later than October 31st. Um, we several years back moved it to later thinking that we would have more accurate numbers. Um, so our our proposed date is to be held on October 19th, 2026. I'll make the motion to authorize the school board to reschedule the annual meetings as necessary no earlier than May 15, 2026 and no later than
040October 31st, 2026 as the district proposes that the 2026, 2027 annual meeting be held on October 19th, 2026. >> I'll second that. >> Motion by Quindy, second by Harter. to approve the uh annual meeting for the uh school year for October 19th, 2026. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose say nay. Um any other business? Okay. Um, any questions or comments from the floor >> question or comments? I guess it's a gray area. >> Um, just basically any business or questions about the budget, the levy. >> So, yeah. How many uh how many total employees are there? >> I'm sorry. How many total employees are there? All >> 246 I'm guessing. >> How much is selfunded health insurance save? >> Well, this year almost $420,000. >> Okay. So, >> in six months, >>
041but again, it was only six months. So, I can't guarantee that that's going to be the trend going forward. >> You know why $600,000 surplus Where did that come up? >> Um, as I said, so it was partially $400,000 for selfunded health insurance. We had a really mild winter and mild winters impact everything because it affects electricity, snow removal, um, stuff like that. So, it was a combination of those things and every department came in. >> So, that fund is your extra money, right? How much? >> That's our operating fund. >> What's that fundrais? >> Oh, I don't know about a fund like that. your operating fund then how much is in >> you have that extra fund I know we talked about that >> fund balance >> fund >> are you talking about the
042fund we have fund 10 we have fun 27 which is special ed we have fun 50 which is food service we have fund 41 and 46 which is our capital improvement fund >> and so fund 41 is the one that we like I say I lovingly call it the roof fund and then fund 46 is a long-term capital projects which we used quite a few years ago to um we spent some of that money now to put the safe and secure Yeah. Yeah. >> That's 146. >> I want to say at the end of 2025, don't quote me on this, but I'd say close to $800,000. >> I think you close to a million. >> Yeah, I was getting it was we get really good interest on that. So, we're you know, just let it
043sit more. Yeah. Just remember um as well when that fund uh if we talk about the roof fund when that was established the first five years we couldn't use that money. >> That's that's not the >> 46 is the one that we had. It's always a question which one is what. >> 141. That's why I always say fun 41. We can use that, you know, at any time. And now that the the the statute of limitations for fun 46 is off, we can use that as long as it's part of our long range plan. >> Has there ever been a study as to why people open out or why people use vouchers to get out of county? And why do people that come typically from wherever The majority comes from Moscow, right? Why they come
044here? >> Um yes, that is a question. When they either open enroll or open and roll out, it varies. The majority are open enroll students are um students whose parents came here as moved to school district and their kids are in high school. They offer a level high school. So, um there's something called the senior rule that you automatically can stay at your high school, but that's a lot of the reasoning. Some of the reasoning also which is interesting is we have a handful of students in 4K who choose to um go to um a district that offers all day 4K and it might be also because their parent is traveling to work at in that city as well because daycare is really hard to find when you're in a half day sort of program.
045So those are some reasons. Um you know of course we have students who don't want to for whatever reason there's a variety of but we do ask sometimes we get the information sometimes we don't come >> um I think they just say they wanted a small school setting they feel like the academics are just you know what they feel their student needs I mean all those positive reasons I think um we're kind of that small high school against a lot of really big high schools and um generally speaking out for extra able to participate versus maybe cut from some of those opportunities. >> On a similar um stream there, I know you planned based on how how many can come in based on the classroom sizes, right? >> Um how did how did that work
046this year? Did we fill most of them or did we have some that were empty or >> Yeah, we only have two very Do we have to do a lottery? >> 4K for kindergarten this year too. So we have to record that and everything to show how the names. >> Anything else? All right. I would entertain a motion to adjourn the annual meeting. >> Okay. Motion. >> Who seconded it? Okay. Motion by Mashad, second by calls to adjourn the annual meeting. Uh before we do that, I do want to thank you for coming. We appreciate your input and you being here um at the annual meeting. There were many years where no one ever came. So appreciate it. >> Monica will be her last. >> Sure. >> Thank you. Yeah. This that's why she was
047going to drop the mic. [applause] >> All right. Um all in favor of adjournment say I. opposed. Okay, we are adjourned. Bring the board members back up to the table. [clears throat] Oh, you good? >> Okay. Um, I will >> I'm ready. >> Okay. [laughter] Call this special school board meeting um to order. We This is a special school board meeting of the Winn County Community District um Board of Education. It is October 20th, 2025 and it is 7:50 p.m. Um, meeting notices were sent to members of the press, members of the school board, and were posted on the front doors andor in the vestibules of district school buildings. This is a meeting of the board of education and public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered
048a public hearing. Uh, board members, roll call, please. >> Aman. Hi, >> Carter. Hi. >> Candy Telner. Is this roll call? >> Roll call. Here. >> Here. >> I said I I'm sorry. Cowards >> here. >> Veric >> here. >> Hansen >> here. >> And this will be uh to adopt the tax levy based on the actual numbers. So I would need the motion read as it appears on the agenda. I move that be it resolved that the sum of 10,379,214 is hereby levied against the taxable property of the Winn County Community School District for current operation and that 2,588,94 is levied against the same property for debt rep retirement for a total levy of 12,967,38. Second >> motion by Varic, second by Kundi, uh to approve the um tax levy of uh 10,379,214 levied
049against the taxable property of the Winn County Community School District for current operation and 2,588,94 levied against the same property for debt retirement for a total of a of 12,967,3 $38. Questions or comments from the board? Roll call, please. >> Harter. >> Hi. >> Hundi. >> I. >> Cowards. >> I. >> Veric. >> I. >> Ecman. >> Hi. >> Hansen. >> I. And motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Callowart, second by Harter to adjourn the special meeting. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. We are adjourned.