Referendum vote slated for Nov. 2 within H-BC School District

Hills-Beaver Creek School Board members will ask voters this fall to renew a levy referendum set to expire next year.
Board members adopted the resolution calling for the special election at their July 28 meeting. The referendum vote will be Nov. 2.
Two questions will be on the ballot.
Voters will be asked to continue the current levy referendum at $879.15 per pupil for the next 10 years beginning in 2023.
The second question asks if the district can collect an annual inflationary rate to the approved current levy.
This would be contingent on approving Question 1.
The current levy makes up about $352,000 of the district’s $5 million budget. Due to lower enrollment projected for taxes payable in 2023, that revenue may be closer to $320,000 or $330,000.
The levy is used for general education. For ag land, the levy applies only to the house, garage and one acre of land.
According to Superintendent Todd Holthaus, public informational meetings will further explain the levy and where the money is spent each year.
 
Personnel matters
In other business on July 28, the board hired the following for the 2021-22 school year:
•Graham Sudenga as part-time Spanish teacher at $12,600 and as a part-time special needs paraprofessional at $15.35 per hour.
•Julie Shamatt as part-time special needs paraprofessional at $17.50 per hour.
•Mark Top as afternoon bus route driver at $47.60 per day.
•Tedra Voss as part-time after-school enrichment/child care coordinator at $25 per hour.
The board accepted resignations of Arielle Larson as a paraprofessional and Arlen Leenderts as daily afternoon bus route driver.
The board also released results from the 2020-21 superintendent evaluation, which measured performance on a 1-4 scale in six areas. (1 is “unsatisfactory” and 4 “exceeds expectations.”)
Holthaus’s overall average rating of 3.44, or meets expectations, was up from a rating of 3.40 from the previous school year.