Despite Surplus Budget, School District Preparing For Uncertainty

MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER With a surplus budget of roughly $298,000 for 2020-21 and a mill rate well-below the district’s self-imposed limit of 11 (10.43), one might not expect a tone of anxiety among the School District of Horicon’s Board of Education, but during a pandemic, “cautious optimism” might be akin to “pure elation.”