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Middleton board weighs three levy options as district growth and service cuts loom
Summary
Board reviewed three levy scenarios — maintain 2.4 (to sustain current services), reduce to $1.9M (fewer security/curriculum funds) or $1.5M (deeper cuts including staff reductions) — and directed staff to prepare ballot language and community outreach ahead of the March filing deadline.
The Middleton School District board discussed three supplemental‑levy options and instructed district staff to prepare language for the ballot, focusing on tradeoffs between preserving services and increasing the measure’s public support.
Administrator (Speaker 7) presented three scenarios: keeping the previously requested 2.4 (to maintain current services and planned technology and curriculum renewals), reducing the levy to $1.9 million (which would scale back security staffing and curriculum renewal and limit transportation options), and lowering it further to $1.5 million (which would require cuts including about seven certified and roughly 12 classified positions and reductions in…
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