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Kenosha Unified outlines $8 million in new expenses and cuts after referendum defeat
Summary
Kenosha Unified district officials outlined preliminary cuts and priorities after a failed referendum, including reducing major maintenance funding from $2 million to $1 million and trimming curriculum adoption money to $500,000.
Kenosha Unified district officials outlined how the failure of a recent referendum will reshape next year’s budget during a special agenda‑review meeting.
“Right now this is what we know in March,” Dr. Weiss, the superintendent, said, summarizing preliminary budget work. The district presented three categories of budget items: long‑term hold, short‑term hold, and reductions. Long‑term hold items — such as controlled entrances and some security hardware updates and high‑school prep time — would remain unfunded in the near term because the referendum failed.
District staff said they will cut the major maintenance capital projects budget from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000 and reduce planned curricular adoption funding to $500,000, focused on middle‑school science materials.…
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