October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting

Description:  This is a meeting of the Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the School District's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting.

Description:  This meeting was noticed by way of submitting for publication in the Waterford Post on Thursday, October 23, 2025, was posted at the District Office (Door #7) and at Entrance #19, and was published on the District's website. Minutes from the regular board meeting of August 12, 2025, and from the Special Bond Hearing of August 27, 2025, are posted on the District's website.

Description:  New Business Education Teacher Jenn Serkowski is starting a DECA group for interested students. DECA is an international organization/club in high schools and colleges around the globe that prepares students as emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. 

Description:  At this time the board would like to invite any member of the audience to stand with comments about items of interest or concern that do or do not appear on the agenda this evening. Please begin by stating your name and address. It would be appreciated if you would limit your comments to three minutes so that we can keep the meeting moving in a timely fashion and allow others an opportunity to speak. We ask that you remember that Wisconsin law prohibits us from discussing specific employees or their job performance. Thank you for your support of our school district.

Description:  The Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) Business Honor Roll recognizes outstanding local businesses for their support of the District's schools. The program recognizes local business partners nominated by member school boards for providing resources or additional learning opportunities for students and staff. Congratulations to the following businesses for being named to the WASB 2025 Business Honor Roll.

• Doc's on the Fox
• Lynch Automotive
• John Palmer
• ProHealth Medical Group
• Southport

Description:  ProHealth Care partners Vicki Dallmann-Papke, VP Population Health Management, and Laura Anderson, Manager Occupational Health, will be at the meeting to share an update on the near-site clinic arrangement offered to and utilized by WUHS employees. 

Description:  Mark Peperkorn

Description:  The Policy Committee recently met to review a few policies. Proposed editorial changes to two policies (Pol. 2464 and Pol. 8540) were made, and additional language was introduced to Pol. 3112 and is included for approval. 

Description: 

The District proposes certifying a total tax levy of $14,026,166 across all funds for the 2025-26 fiscal year.  The levy is designed to sustain school operations, meet debt obligations, support the district’s post-employment benefit trust, and fund community service programming.  The levy components are as follows:

• $9,388,543 - General Fund (Operations)
• $4,022,950 - Debt Service Fund, including $795,000 dedicated to debt defeasance to reduce future interest obligations
• $614,673 - Community Service Fund

This levy maintains the mill rate at $4.15 per $1,000 of equalized property value, consistent with five of the past six years, reflecting the district’s commitment to stability and predictability for taxpayers while advancing educational priorities.

The 2025-27 Wisconsin state budget provides an additional $325 per-pupil revenue limit increase for each of the next two years, but it does not include any increase in general state aid.  As WASBO notes, this diverges from the state’s traditional cost-sharing role, shifting the responsibility for new spending authority primarily onto local property taxpayers.  The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates this will add $760 million in property tax increases statewide over the biennium.

For Waterford Union High School District, this means:

• The district’s levy stability will be achieved through careful expenditure management and the planned defeasance of high-interest debt, which positions the district to lower long-term borrowing costs.

Description:  Nexus Solutions is currently accepting bids for the main building renovations and loading-dock addition at Waterford Union High School. The project will start in January 2026 and will last 2 years, completing in August 2027. A voluntary contractor walk-through was held on October 24th, 2025.  Nexus Solutions will be accepting bids until November 4th at 2 pm. The Board of Education is scheduled to review the bids during the November 17 meeting. 

Description: 

The Board of Education will conduct a work session to review the District Administrator Evaluation Timeline for 2025-26. The session will include discussion of prior goals, identification of goals for the current evaluation cycle, expectations for supporting evidence, and progress monitoring procedures. The purpose of this session is to ensure clarity, alignment, and shared understanding of the evaluation process and timeline.