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Watertown board adopts FY27 budget and approves routine contracts, bids and personnel items
Summary
The board approved the FY27 budget and levy resolution, accepted several personnel resignations and contract addenda, approved a furniture bid, declared surplus buses for sale (Purple Wave), and approved multiple policy second readings and administrative designations.
The Watertown School Board approved the FY27 budget and established levy amounts to be forwarded to the county auditor; administrators said the resolution mirrors the budget hearing. The board adopted the FY27 budget by voice vote.
During action items the board approved:
- Payment of presented bills (motion carried). - Personnel actions including resignations and contract recommendations/addendums for staff, faculty, flight instructors and temporary custodial positions (motions carried). - Acceptance of a state-contracted furniture bid for high school classroom furniture from "Office Peeps" in the amount of $90,487. - A surplus resolution that included school buses to be sold on Purple Wave and one unit marked for disposal; the surplus is aligned with an approved clean diesel grant. - Multiple second-reading policy approvals (food management agreement, deletion of old tobacco-free district policy, administration of medications and related consent forms, student self-administration of asthma, reporting child abuse, and more). - Designations for the coming year: official newspaper (Watertown Current), official depository recommendations, legal counsel (Rory King/Bangs, Gosch & Kramer LLC and KSB School Law), and federal/state coordinators for Title I, Section 504, homeless education and Title IX as recommended by administration.
Most motions were approved by voice vote; the meeting record includes one roll-call on the grading-policy matter (4–1), recorded separately.
