Unified School District of Antigo adopts 2025'26 budget, sets tax levy at $6.77 per $1,000
Summary
The Unified School District of Antigo board approved its 2025'26 fiscal-year budget and set a tax levy of $6.77 per $1,000, a measure the chair said is lower than last year. A temporary glitch in the electronic voting display briefly misreported a member's vote during the budget roll call before the board declared the measure unanimous.
The Unified School District of Antigo board voted to adopt the 2025'26 fiscal-year budget and set the district's tax levy at $6.77 per $1,000, approving a total all-fund levy of $12,131,011 during a meeting that ran about seven minutes.
Dr. Barto moved "I move to approve the budget as presented." The motion was put to a voice/electronic vote and the chair confirmed JD Schrader cast a yes vote from his remote device. The electronic display briefly showed Dr. Barto as having voted "no," which he disputed; after Dr. Barto publicly stated his vote was yes, the chair declared the budget adoption unanimous and the motion passed.
Later the board considered the tax levy. "I move to set the tax levy at $6.77 per thousand for a total all fund tax levy of $12,131,011," Jill Maddock Nelson said. The chair opened the floor and emphasized that the levy is lower than last year, adding that "the school district did not raise anybody's taxes." The levy motion carried after the electronic vote; individual tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
The meeting also included a brief moment of silence for the vice president's father, who died the previous Saturday. With those items concluded, the board approved adjournment on a motion by Maddock Nelson.
The transcript does not record detailed debate on budget line items, funding sources, or roll-call tallies for every member; where a member's individual vote is unclear in the record, the minutes reflect the board's announced outcome.
