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SPORTSt Local high OCONTO COUNTY school volleyball teams enter season with high hopes. TIMES HERALD PAGE 28 WWW.NEWMEDIA-WI.COM Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Volume 18, Issue 35 $1 Head to Suring for Labor Day Four days of fun and festivities conclude summer vacation. PAGE 2 Class of 2020 graduation stays put If Oconto Falls High School changes the date of commencement, it will happen in 2021. PAGE 3 Recovery aid sought Gov. Evers petitions federal government for disaster declaration due to July storm. PAGE 9 OVER THE HILL Wayne Strei, left, shares a thought with the group over lunch during last week’s penultimate Over the Hill in Underwood luncheon. The weekly senior luncheon at the Underhill Community Center is ending after this week. SEE FULL STORY ON PAGES 20-21. 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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2019 t/&8.&%*"tXXXOFXNFEJBXJDPNtPAGE 3 OFHS graduation stays put for 2020 starting next May, an idea foated want graduation to occur, from a “Numerous individuals in the Administrators earlier this summer. WIAA standpoint, is very busy,” he community expressed that a weekend “So with anything, you start a said. date is appreciated because there are propose moving conversation and you realize there’s a Another issue is the impact of family members that live out of the lot of complexities to it,” high school graduation on blended classes that area, and it provides travel fexibility,” principal Jake Beschta said as he be- contain a mixture of senior, junior Beschta said. ceremony in 2021 gan his report. and sophomore students. Seniors, of With all that in mind, administra- A community survey showed a course, are dismissed from attended tors are leaning toward moving the By WARREN BLUHM lot of support for moving the date classes after they graduate. graduation ceremony to the Sunday /FXT&EJUPS — more than 76 percent — but not “Using this year as an example — following Memorial Day, starting with this school year and not to earlier in the snow days were a little extreme, the Class of 2021. The 2020 ceremony remains on the calendar for 2 p.m. OCONTO FALLS — The Oconto Memorial Day weekend, Beschta said. but this is Wisconsin; it’s going to May 24. Falls School Board will make a deci- Among the issues is the sports happen to some capacity — because Beschta asked the board to think sion in September about changing the post-season calendar. of makeup days in our calendar, after about the idea and make a fnal deci- date of high school graduation, but “We never want to put our stu- graduation the students that were sion at its next meeting Sept. 9. the change will take efect in 2021. dents in a situation where they have part of these blended classes were Oconto Falls would be the sec- This year’s seniors, the Class of to choose graduation or competing participating in an altered curriculum ond local school district to adjust its 2020, will graduate the Sunday of for a regional, sectional or possible for 3½ weeks,” Beschta said. “That’s a graduation date in recent years. Gil- Memorial Day weekend, as has been state appearance,” he said. signifcant amount of time.” lett, which also held its ceremony on the case for the past few years. The Wisconsin Interscholastic Blended courses would beneft the Sunday of Memorial Day week- Administrators came to the board Athletic Association playof calendar from moving graduation to a week end, changed to the following Sunday Aug. 19 to report on community reac- is very full the weeks before and after later, he said, adding that would also starting this past June. tion to a proposal to move the cer- Memorial Day, Beschta said. provide more fexibility in scheduling emony to Thursday or Friday night “That two-week period that you senior exams. [email protected] “We never want to put our students in a situation where they have to choose graduation or competing for a regional, sectional or possible state appearance.” JAKE BESCHTA, OCONTO FALLS HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL PAGE 4 • NEW MEDIA • WWW.NEWMEDIA-WI.COM • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2019 Oconto Falls school budget approved New referendum possible in spring 2021 By WARREN BLUHM “If you don’t replace it and if your News Editor fscal needs are still there, you’re go- ing to have a fscal clif, because the OCONTO FALLS — Electors attend- dollars that had been increased each ing the Oconto Falls School District year over the course of the last fve annual meeting Aug. 20 approved a years suddenly are not there,” Hess $26.8 million budget for the 2019-20 said, estimating the impact at $3.2 school year and heard the superinten- million. dent report that a referendum ques- The district is thinking that a new tion may come before voters as soon operational referendum might be as the spring of 2021. needed if signifcant changes in how The budget includes a property tax the state funds public education don’t levy that carries a mill rate that prob- occur by then. ably would be unchanged from this “It’s extremely difcult to do that year when it’s fnalized in October in the year that it expires because you and below the amount authorized in a have to double plan – for if it passes fve-year referendum in 2017. and for if it fails,” Hess said. “To say “We were actually aforded the that that’s a pretty massive emotional authority to increase by as much as 23 withdrawal for people is an under- cents per $1,000 (of equalized value) statement of epic proportions.” each year of the fve-year nonrecur- He said he expects to bring to ring,” Superintendent Dean Hess said. the school board the idea of going to “So we didn’t do that last year, and referendum at the Year 4 mark, the we’re anticipating not doing it again spring of 2021. The district will likely this year.” bring both operational needs and Part of the reason is that the capital needs to the voters, he added, district budgets conservatively, a reference to ongoing discussions expecting a small increase in equal- about whether to replace Washington ized valuation of property year by Middle School. year, and values have increased by The district has been working to greater amounts in recent years, he pay of long-term debt in an acceler- said. The district expects to beneft ated fashion, Hess said. The current by an increase in state school aid in mill rate is $10.66 per $1,000 of equal- the second year of the biennial budget ized value. That means a homeowner passed earlier this summer.