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Board approves donation, appointments, compensation packages and collective bargaining offer; details and roll-call votes recorded
Summary
The Beaver Dam Unified School District board accepted a $50,000 Meta donation for STEM and technology, approved multiple personnel actions (resignations, leaves, appointments), imposed the district's final bargaining offer for certified staff, and approved compensation packages for certified, support and administrative staff.
At its regular meeting the Beaver Dam Unified School District Board of Education approved a set of motions covering donations, personnel actions, compensation and collective bargaining terms.
Donation: Administration reported the district secured a $50,000 donation from Meta’s ChangeX program to expand STEM programming, provide technology access and fund robotics equipment and professional development. The board approved acceptance of the donation and authorized administration to allocate funds as designated under board policy 7230 (donations over $1,000 require board approval).
Personnel: The board approved several resignations and two leaves of absence by motion and approved multiple staff appointments, including Bridget Carter (4K teacher), Holly Daly (middle school math teacher), Jessica Daherty (high school English language arts), Lexi Divine (special education teacher), Lucas Ellis (63% physical education teacher), Sandra Kohler (LTE special education), Spencer Skiington (middle school English teacher), Dominic Tangreyi (associate principal), and Kaylee Kleinhans (fifth grade teacher). Appointments were approved by roll-call vote.
Collective bargaining and compensation: The board moved to impose the district's final offer for certified staff for the 2026–27 contract year under Wis. Stat. ch. 111.70; the motion passed on roll-call. The meeting record describes the offer as a 2.63% total base wage increase distributed as a flat rate of $1,362 to each salary-level (the transcript contains duplicated/unclear percent text; see audit).
The board approved administration requests for 2026–27 compensation authorizations: certified‑staff compensation items summarized in the meeting transcript (figures presented across categories and a total presented as $983,340), support‑staff compensation at a stated total cost of $167,955, and a 2.5% administrator compensation increase to be distributed by the superintendent. All compensation motions were approved by roll-call votes recorded in the meeting.
Payment of claims and other business: The board moved for payment of claims; the meeting record shows an amount written as "6,66,429" (format unclear in the transcript), and the motion was approved by roll-call. The meeting then adjourned.
Votes at a glance (as recorded in meeting): all listed motions that required roll-call were recorded as approved. The transcript records a sequence of "Yes" votes for the roll-call tallies; individual yes/no/abstain names were not presented in a way that could be unambiguously matched to each motion in the transcript text provided here.
Administration and board members noted next steps where applicable (e.g., posting the strategic plan and wellness self-assessment to the district website).
