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Waunakee budget committee advances preliminary 2025-26 budget plan, flags insurance and compensation decisions
Summary
The Waunakee Community School District Budget Committee voted to advance the preliminary 2025-26 budget planning document to the full board, highlighting a projected 5% health insurance cost increase, referendum-funded hourly pay boosts, and the need to restore post-employment benefit funding.
The Waunakee Community School District Budget Committee on March 5 voted to move the preliminary 2025-26 budget planning document to the full school board for approval at the March 9 meeting, with staff noting upcoming decisions on health insurance renewal and compensation that will affect the draft budget.
Committee members were told the district’s insurance proposals indicate roughly a 5% year-over-year cost increase for the district’s contribution to health insurance — about $250,000 on top of roughly $5,000,000 the district invested in 2024-25 — and that the HR committee will review vendor responses in April before the board acts. “This month, we would just be looking for approval to take [the document] in the full board next Monday,” Allie (Staff member) said when presenting the packet.
The committee heard that compensation planning for the 2025-26 school year has two main prongs: (1)…
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