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Votes at a glance: Little Falls board approves donations, MOUs, copier lease and personnel actions
Summary
The Little Falls School Board approved a package of routine and substantive items including acceptance of community donations, a principal MOU, summer-school and substitute-pay agreements, a copier lease, and a resolution terminating a special-education teacher's contract.
At its April meeting the Little Falls School Board approved multiple action items by voice vote or roll call. Key outcomes:
- Donations accepted: The board accepted numerous community donations (amounts ranged from $150 to $12,000) to support state wrestling travel, care-closet funds, scholarship funds, child-care center support and extracurricular programs; Kelsey presented the list and the board approved on roll call.
- MOU with Principal's Association: The board approved an MOU preserving an elementary-principal pay track for a district transfer; Superintendent Johnson said the union raised no objections.
- Summer school MOU and substitute rates: The board approved expanded summer-school programming (use of remaining ESSER funds) and updated certified substitute daily rates (an increase to remain competitive). The summer-school MOU was approved and the substitute rates were adopted by voice vote.
- Copier lease: The board approved a five-year lease with Marco to replace 28 copiers with 21 machines, with an equipment charge of about $3,000 per month plus a per-page allotment covering maintenance. Staff will set annual quotas and restrict color printing to reduce overage costs.
- Weather cancellations: The board approved handling of March weather cancellations so students will not be required to make up those days; staff time will be used for packing/unpacking and professional development.
- Personnel: The board adopted a resolution terminating the contract of Adeline McCoy, a special-education teacher, at the close of the 2023-24 school year under cited Minnesota statute language; the resolution passed on roll call with affirmative votes recorded. The board also approved one additional early-retirement incentive request.
Many of these items were approved by voice vote; where roll-call votes occurred staff recorded affirmative votes from members present. The board did not take action to reinstate the second middle-school counseling position after a public commenter urged reconsideration.
Votes and next steps: Administration will follow up to implement the copier lease, proceed with summer programming funded by ESSER dollars, publish the adopted budget in June and coordinate logistics for personnel transitions.
