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Columbia Heights board accepts $31,483 in donations, directs thanks to donors
Summary
The Columbia Heights Public Schools Board voted April 22 to accept $31,483 in monetary donations and recorded a fiscal-year-to-date total of donations. The largest single gift was $12,000 from Minnesota Vikings Football LLC to support girls flag football.
The Columbia Heights Public Schools Board on April 22 voted to accept $31,483 in monetary donations to district programs and scholarships, including a $12,000 gift from Minnesota Vikings Football LLC to support the district’s girls flag football program.
The resolution, presented and read at the meeting, lists dozens of individual and family contributions directed to scholarship funds, retired-staff scholarships and school programs. The board noted donations to the Columbia Heights Scholarship Fund and gifts to school-specific needs such as materials for North Park School for Innovation and Valley View Fun Run sponsorships. The district reported fiscal-year-to-date monetary contributions of $102,341.
Board members read donor names aloud and passed a resolution formally accepting the money. Chair Granlund read the statutory authority cited in the resolution, Minnesota Statute 123B.02, which allows school boards to receive donations and act as trustee for trusts created for the benefit of the district and its pupils.
Board members and administrators singled out several gifts during discussion: Minnesota Vikings Football LLC’s $12,000 for girls flag football; multiple donations to the Columbia Heights Scholarship Fund and retired-staff scholarship accounts; and smaller community gifts to support school activities and supplies. The board recorded its appreciation for volunteers, staff and donors who collect and steward those gifts.
The board approved the resolution by voice vote; the motion carried. The board directed staff to send notices of appreciation and to follow established procedures for accepting and recording restricted gifts.
The acceptance enables the district to deposit and allocate the donations to the named scholarship funds and program accounts as specified in the resolution.
