Three of the four school district referendums look to have been successful.
According to unofficial results from Manitowoc County Clerk Jessica Backus, Valders, Mishicot, and Sheboygan schools’ referendums will allow each district to get more money for different reasons.
The Valders School District will be allowed to exceed its revenue limit by $1.5 million for various district expenses, including hiring a math interventionist and an English language coordinator and upgrading some district equipment.
The funding will also allow them to open their district pool.
Mishicot School District will be borrowing about $29.6 million for several upgrades.
They would include replacing dugouts, updating an outdated band room, and restructuring the parking lot.
Students in the Sheboygan Area School District will use about $121 million in borrowed money to build new Farnsworth and Urban Middle Schools at their current sites because the buildings are too old.
The only referendum that didn’t pass was in the Kiel School District.
The district asked to borrow about $67 million to construct a new middle school and attach it to the high school.
Superintendent Brad Ebert said in a memo he sent Seehafer News that if it fails, we “will need to consider how it wants to proceed, and in the short term, the School District will continue to invest taxpayer dollars when it is able, into the areas of most need at Kiel Middle School.”
