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Votes at a glance: Superior School District board approves field trip, personnel items, policies and routine matters
Summary
At its Jan. 12 meeting the board approved an overnight field trip to Eagle Bluff, accepted committee reports and personnel updates, approved the second reading of AI policy 75 40.08, approved open‑enrollment spaces for 2026–27, accepted gifts/grants and voted to pay bills.
The Superior School District Board of Education recorded the following formal actions during its Jan. 12, 2026 meeting.
• Minutes: Approved minutes from the Dec. 8, 2025 meeting (motion carried).
• Overnight field trip: Approved an overnight field trip request from Marshall Disrud for grades 6–8 to attend Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in Lanesboro, Minn., in February 2026. District staff confirmed a vehicle‑use requirements agreement and insurance verification for rental vans; motion carried.
• Committees: Accepted reports from the Operations Committee (including IT director Dan Whitaker’s informational presentation), Policies & Rules Committee, Personnel Negotiations Committee, Budget & Insurance Committee, Legislative Committee, and Teaching & Learning Committee (motions carried for each report).
• Policy: Took and approved the second reading of Policy 75 40.08 (artificial intelligence) as presented (motion carried).
• Personnel: Approved the updated January 2026 new‑hires and separations report; accepted the resignation of Stephen Guston, director of buildings and grounds, effective Jan. 8, 2026, with liquidated damages waived; Jamie Wilson will provide interim oversight and the position will be posted.
• Gifts, grants and bequests: Accepted donations received in December 2025 (motion carried).
• Open enrollment: Approved 60 general‑education open‑enrollment spaces and 0 special‑education spaces for the 2026–27 school year (motion carried).
• Financial operations: Approved payment of preapproved bills (motion carried).
The board adjourned at the end of the meeting. Where motions included a mover/second on the record the meeting transcript records spoken 'aye' votes and 'motion carries'; individual roll‑call vote tallies by name were not recorded for each item in the transcript.
