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Browerville board approves $2.43 million levy, accepts audit and directs staff to recommend cuts
Summary
The Browerville Public School District Board of Education approved the maximum 2024 pay 2025 property tax levy of $2,430,051.04, accepted the 2024 fiscal audit and passed a resolution directing administration to propose program or position reductions and other cost-saving measures.
The Browerville Public School District Board of Education (Independent School District No. 787) voted Dec. 9 to adopt the district's maximum 2024 pay 2025 property tax levy and to require administrators to return recommendations for program or staff reductions.
The board unanimously approved a levy of $2,430,051.04 after a motion by Gram Bentz and a second from Kelly Callahan. At the same meeting the board accepted the 2024 fiscal audit presented by Schlenner, Wenner, and Company and approved vendor claims across district funds totaling $1,466,553.53.
Board members framed the actions as part of routine year-end budgeting and oversight. Gram Bentz moved the resolution directing administration to make recommendations for reductions in programs and positions and other cost-saving efficiencies; Marty Host seconded the motion. The board recorded the following members as voting in favor: Keith Noska, Bob Bryniarski, Kelly Callahan, Marty Host, Jodi Hillmer, Gram Bentz and Treg Schultz. No members voted against the resolution.
Superintendent Scott Vedbraaten provided a facilities update during the meeting and said the building project remains on schedule to provide special-education space and lunch-room overflow in January, noting block work at the north stairwell and steel erection on the stage. The superintendent's report did not change the board's vote to set the levy at the maximum amount.
The audit acceptance and the approval of vendor claims were handled earlier in the meeting. The vendor claims motion, moved by Marty Host and seconded by Jodi Hillmer, listed fund totals including $357,639.72 in the General Fund and $1,001,624.62 in Building Construction, for a combined total of $1,466,553.53.
What happens next: the resolution requires district administration to prepare and present specific recommendations for program and position reductions or other cost-saving options for board consideration. For motions reported as "carried," the meeting minutes do not provide a roll-call tally beyond the resolution vote listing; where the minutes say "carried," the formal yes/no counts were not specified in the record.
