Chisago Lakes board approves contracts, accepts donations; chair abstains on spouse's contract

The Chisago Lakes School District board approved multiple consent items and contracts and accepted community donations at the meeting.

The chair pulled one contract from the consent agenda for athletic training services to be provided by her husband, identified in the transcript as Doug Byrd (the transcript also contains a variant spelling, Doug Burke). The board moved, seconded and voted on that contract separately; the chair said she would abstain and the motion passed.

The board then approved the remainder of the consent agenda, which included claims and accounts, personnel items, certified and curricular agreements. The board accepted donations by roll call: $1,000 for boys soccer from LARA, $1,000 for girls soccer from LARA, and playground pads valued at $1,250 from the Taylors Falls School Foundation; roll-call votes were recorded with individual 'I' responses.

On procurement, Business Services reported the district solicited proposals for a two‑year snow‑removal contract and received two proposals: one from J and H and another from State Landscaping. Gosford recommended awarding the contract to J and H; the board moved, seconded and approved the two‑year contract. The transcript records the two proposals’ numeric amounts in a way that appears garbled; the board discussion identified J and H as the lower-cost bidder and selected that vendor.

Finally, the board approved lane changes to place teachers who earned credits on the updated salary schedule.

Next steps: standard contract execution and placement of adjusted salaries on the district schedule; no additional hearings were scheduled on these items at this meeting.