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Referendum Timeline Recommendations

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Unified School District of De Pere

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WHY: Operational Excellence

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Operational

Excellence

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Students will enjoy a welcoming environment that promotes learning and growth delivered by a highly qualified staff, engaged family and community in modern facilities with appropriate technology

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Great organizations know their WHY and use it as their guiding principle

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Objective

  • Ensure facilities and infrastructure that support future ready learning

Goal to meet objective

  • District will work to provide students and staff with future ready facilities and infrastructure by providing the Board of Education with a facilities improvement process

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Reaching Our WHY

  • First Community Survey: January 2023
  • Community Conversations: February 2023
  • Strategic Plan: April 2023
  • Community Facilities Task Force Recommendation: September 2023
  • Second Community Survey: November 2023
  • Updated Recommendation: December 2023

Strategic Plan

Community Facilities Task Force

Community Survey

Referendum

Question

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Immediate Need: Operational Funding

Without additional funding of $4.75 Million per year for 5-years, the District will consider the following cost-saving measures:

  • Increasing class sizes at all schools to reduce staff
  • Limiting
    • course titles offered at high school to reduce staff
    • district’s ability to fund Act 20 required training, assessment changes and curricular upgrades
  • Decreasing
    • faculty/staff positions at all schools
    • employee health care benefits
    • bus routes which will increase maximum student ride times over 90-minutes one way
    • current mental health services for students
    • extracurricular/athletic offerings for students
    • student technology (i.e. 1-to-1 devices)
    • building budgets (i.e. field trips)

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Revised Plan for Funding Operational, Critical Maintenance and Enrollment Growth Needs

Split funding requests into three referenda questions and elections

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  • Operational - $4.75 M for 5-years: April 2024 Election
  • Capital for Critical Maintenance - $22M amortized over 20-years: Nov. 2024 Election
  • Capital for Enrollment Growth (new/renovated High School or other solution): no later than April 2026 Election

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