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Votes at a glance: board approves donations, personnel actions, program reductions, cooperatives and food contracts
Summary
At the Little Falls board meeting the trustees approved a slate of formal actions: acceptance of donor gifts, personnel nonrenewals and rescissions, reductions in program positions, placement on unrequested leave, dissolution and formation of cooperative athletic sponsorships, and bids for food, milk and bread products.
The Little Falls Community School Board took multiple formal actions during new business and resolutions. Key votes (motions, seconds and recorded outcomes) follow.
Approve agenda amendment and work session - Motion: Approve the agenda with the change to move the student representative report forward and to add a work session to review the survey results on Monday, May 19 at 7 p.m. - Mover: Sharon; Second: Dan - Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
Consent agenda - Motion: Approve consent agenda (standard consent items). - Mover: Mark; Second: Kelsey - Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
Donations and gifts (resolution accepted) - Motion: Accept multiple donations to Little Falls Community Schools (detailed below). - Mover: Sharon read the resolution; Second: Doug - Roll call: Mark yes; Doug yes; Dan yes; Kelsey yes; Julie yes; Sharon yes. - Outcome: Approved (roll call). - Donors/amounts (excerpt): Golfers Organized for Little Falls $4,000 (boys/girls golf), Randall Cushing Lions Club $200 (Dr. Knight concert cookies), Little Falls Baseball Club $1,983.92 (wide screens), Flyers Athletic Boosters $17,200 (gymnastics), Pine Country Bank $250 (robotics), Federated Co‑ops $2,000 (scholarship), plus multiple scholarship and memorial donations (amounts and recipient funds recorded in board packet).
Personnel and contract resolutions - Motion: Nonrenew probationary teaching contract for Autumn Fosterson effective 06/30/2025 (Minnesota Statutes referenced in resolution language). - Second: Kelsey; Roll call: unanimous yes; Outcome: Approved.
- Motion: Nonrenew the administrative contract of Daniel Fisher (middle school principal) for 2025–26; second by Mark; roll call unanimous yes; Outcome: Approved.
- Motion: Rescind the April 12 nonrenewal of Shannon Larson (staff correction acknowledging continuing contract); Mover: Dan; Second: Mark; Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
- Motion: Reduce/discontinue a 0.2 business education teaching position (resolution to reduce programs/positions); Second: Doug; Roll call: unanimous yes; Outcome: Approved.
- Motion: Place Kristin/Christine Munson (teacher) on unrequested leave of absence effective 06/30/2025 (district cited financial limitations and discontinuation of a 0.2 arts and 0.8 special education allocation); Second: Doug; Roll call: unanimous yes; Outcome: Approved.
Cooperative athletics - Motion: Approve dissolution of a cooperative sponsorship for girls swimming and diving among Little Falls, Pillager, Staples and Royalton; Mover: Sharon; Second: Dan; Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
- Motion: Approve application for a cooperative sponsorship (girls swimming and diving) among Little Falls, Pillager and Royalton; Mover: Dan; Second: Mark; Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
Food service contracts and bids - Motion: Approve bid award for school food service to Performance Food Service (successful vendor for food products); Mover: Sharon; Second: Dan; Outcome: Approved.
- Motion: Approve bid award for school milk products to Stoney Creek Creamery; Mover: Kelsey; Second: Dan; Outcome: Approved.
- Motion: Approve bid award for school bread products to Performance Food Service; Mover: Kelsey; Second: Mark; Outcome: Approved.
How to read this list: each resolution and bid was introduced in the meeting packet; the board recorded motions, seconds and either voice or roll‑call votes as noted. Several personnel items referenced Minnesota statutory notice procedures in the resolution text (the resolutions cite state statute language on nonrenewal/unrequested leave).
