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Parent tells board referendum renewal may violate Minnesota Constitution; says he served notice to members and Supreme Court
Summary
During citizen comment, David Decker told the Monticello school board that a referendum renewal may violate the Minnesota Constitution and said he served notice to board members and planned to send the same notice to Minnesota Supreme Court justices. The board did not act on the claim during the meeting.
A parent who identified himself as David Decker used the public-comment period at the Feb. 3 Monticello School Board meeting to argue that a referendum renewal may violate the Minnesota Constitution and to describe steps he said he had taken to notify officials.
Decker said he served a notice to each school board member and the superintendent before the meeting and said he planned to send the same notice to Minnesota Supreme Court justices. He framed his remarks as educational rather than a personal attack and said he offered them to help board members act with integrity; "integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching," he said.
At the start of the meeting the board chair had the clerk read the district's citizen-comment rules and noted that comments are governed by district policy and Minnesota open-meetings statutes; each speaker is allotted up to three minutes. The transcript records Decker's statements as claims made in public comment; the board did not take any formal action in response during the meeting, and no legal determination is recorded in the transcript.
