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Silver Lake J1 school leaders outline preliminary budget assumptions; staff changes and fund transfers would ease special-ed pressure
Summary
At a budget workshop, Silver Lake J1 School District officials reviewed revenue-limit history, fund structure and staffing trends and proposed budget assumptions — including a 3% salary increase and a 20% modeling assumption for health-insurance costs — and said removing five EA roles would reduce the Fund 10→27 transfer by roughly $281,000.
Silver Lake J1 School District officials used a public budget workshop to review multi-year revenue trends, the district’s fund structure and preliminary assumptions for the 2026–27 budget, and then moved into closed session to discuss pay.
Presenter (identified in the transcript as the meeting’s lead) opened the session by introducing Tim Stellmacher, the district’s budget consultant, and said the workshop’s goals were to “learn the history of budgeting from ’93 to the current year,” review staffing and enrollment trends and examine how the Baird forecast model informs future budgets. Tim Stellmacher explained the district’s major funds and how they interact with the state revenue limit: “Fund 27, special education … every district in the state of Wisconsin has more expenses in Fund 27 than they do revenues,” he said.
Why it matters: the district must balance constrained state revenue-limit rules and rising costs. Presenters showed that Silver Lake’s per-FTE revenue figure is near the state average but that special-education staffing (about 28.8% of staff vs. 14.3% of students) produces outsized Fund 27…
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