The preliminary budget includes the purchase of a dust collector.
In Wisconsin, the full fiscal year begins before school administrators receive hard data to calculate revenues and expenses, but school districts submit preliminary budgets July 1, when the fiscal year begins.
Southern Door Business Manager Jason Melotte told the School Committee on June 17 that while it is difficult to predict expenses and revenues before October, he knows this year's budget will include about $100,000 for new dust collectors to improve air quality in the technical education department.
Melotte said major donor Brian Madigan, president of Green Bay-based FEECO International, and additional backers covered about half the cost of the dust collectors, which were removed from the project list of a $14.9 million capital construction referendum approved by voters in November 2022.
Melotte told the school board that Southern Door has historically been a deficit spending district, but preliminary projections are that the district's deficit spending will fall to about $183,000 this year, down from more than $600,000 three years ago. The budgeted expenditures also include a one-time, unplanned $250,000 expenditure/overage from capital improvement projects, Melotte said.
De Jager accepted into Southern Door Technology Program
Southern Door's board of directors on June 17 approved the hiring of Walker DeJager as a high school technology education teacher starting next school year and also appointed him to lead the school's extracurricular CNC and metals program.
Additionally, the board appointed Billy Moore as Borderlands library coordinator for fine arts beginning in the 2024-25 school year and accepted the resignation of sixth-grade teacher Aleanna Rodig, effective this month.
