The Windsor C-1 School District’s newly adopted budget for the 2023-2024 school year includes raises for administrators and all other staff members.
According to the budget for this school year, which began July 1 and runs through June 30, 2024, the district will spend a projected $33,981,306 in expenditures and bring in $32,299,566 in revenue, for a deficit of $1,681,740.
Despite the deficit, Windsor Superintendent Jason King said the district’s finances are stable.
“As always, we will be conservative going forward with budgeting,” he said.
Windsor officials are not planning for any major capital projects in the new budget, King said.
“We do hope to have some bond issue projects in the works later on this year that we will be providing updates on at that time,” he said.
District voters approved a $20 million bond issue in April 2022. No projects to be funded with revenue from that bond issue have been completed and are still in the planning stage, district accountant Jennifer Younce said.
The district will use reserve funds to balance the budget and is expected to end the fiscal year with about $4 million in reserves, or about 10.3 percent of its operating budget.
“At this point in time, we do foresee deficit spending during FY24,” King said. “The main reasons for this include rising costs in all areas, salaries for personnel and flat revenues.”
The FY24 budget includes an average raise of 1.7 percent for teachers, King said.
“Their raise for 23-24 consists of getting one step on the salary schedule, which equates to a 1.7 percent raise,” he said. “The administration and Board of Education remain committed to doing everything within our budgetary means to continue to retain and attract quality teachers and staff.”
King said the district’s starting salary for teachers is $42,000 and its top salary is $76,700.
Noncertified staff members get a slightly higher bump in pay in the new budget, he said.
“The raise for noncertified staff for the 2023-2024 school year consists of getting one step on the salary schedule, which equates to a 2 percent raise on average,” King said.
He said the district has a total of 405 full-time and part-time employees.
The salary increases will cost the district a total of about $400,000 this school year, and employee salaries and benefits will make up 67.1 percent of the district’s FY24 budget, Younce reported.
Administrator salaries
Administrators got a raise of 1.5 percent, on average, according to the new budget.
King, in his second year as the Windsor C-1 superintendent, saw his salary increase from $155,000 in his first year at the helm to $160,148 this school year. The board voted to extend his contract by a year to three years, through the 2025-2026 school year, during a January meeting, but set his new salary, along with salaries for all of the district’s other employees on June 28, by a unanimous vote.
The following is the list of the district’s administrators and their salaries for the 2023-2024 school year.
- Jason King, superintendent, $160,148
- Mike Rickermann, assistant superintendent, $143,000.
- Rachel Montgomery, Windsor High principal, $137,500.
- Charles Bouzak, Freer Elementary principal, $129,095.72.
- Matthew Carlton, Intermediate Center principal, $124,531.17.
- Denise Funston, Windsor Elementary principal, $119,638.43.
- Jason Roussin, director of technology, $105,389.60.
- Greg Westermayer, Windsor Middle School principal, $104,774.50.
- Jennifer Younce, district CPA, $103,670.52.
- Christin Greenlee, director of special services, $101,653.86.
- Michael Holland, Windsor Middle School assistant principal, $97,082.17.
- Daniel Calbreath, director of maintenance, $91,283.70.
- John Crites, athletic director, $84,692.00.
- Julie Schubert, director of curriculum, $82,500.
- Alex DeMatteis, Windsor High assistant principal, $79,344.22.
- Dawn Faulstich, Windsor Intermediate Center assistant principal, $76,165.01.
- Jason Scheper, Windsor High assistant principal, $74,000.
- Aaron Thomas, director of transportation, $73,776.