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Votes at a glance: Auburndale board approves boundary change, personnel, trips and facility upgrades
Summary
The Auburndale School Board approved a package of action items including a boundary‑detachment resolution, an Eagle Scout project, staff hires, student trips, gym light replacements and policy exhibit changes; most motions passed by voice vote or roll call as recorded.
Auburndale — The Auburndale School Board approved a series of action items during its meeting, voting on resolutions, personnel actions, trips and facility work.
Key votes and motions approved at the meeting included:
- Resolution approving detachment and attachment of petitioned land (petition filed by Mark and Lisa Totten and Mike and Alexandra Ezell): motion passed on roll call (affirmative votes recorded for Scott, Mike, Sue, Kayla and the chair).
- Approval of an Eagle Scout project: the board approved Brody Brownski’s proposal to install an informational sign/board at the school forest; materials are to be donated and the finished sign will become district property to maintain.
- Administrative/finance housekeeping: the board approved adding additional authorized signers for the First State Bank W.D. Connor scholarship fund and approved the consent agenda (check batches and payroll items totaling $1,445,216.98 were listed in the financial materials).
- Curriculum/credit approvals: early college credit program applications and Start College Now applications were approved after discussion about credit conversion (example: a 2‑credit technical course equates to roughly 0.7 local credits and counts as an elective).
- Personnel appointment: the board approved hiring Hannah Pankratz as high school science teacher following interview‑team recommendations.
- Facilities and safety: the board approved replacement of ceiling fixtures in the new gym with LEDs (McMillan Electric) to address safety and efficiency and noted an available energy rebate to offset costs.
- Student trips and extracurricular travel: the board approved a contingency DECA national trip (Orlando, April 30), an out‑of‑state field trip to the Holocaust exhibit in Skokie, Ill. (March 5), and a Wisconsin Dells trip (April 6–8); board members requested return reports from sponsoring groups after trips.
- Policy exhibit: board approved a single unified exhibit for policy 343.7 (virtual online course request) to replace prior forms.
- Motion to enter closed session under Wisconsin statute 19.85 to confer with legal counsel regarding litigation and potential settlement with the Wisconsin Department of Justice: passed by roll call.
Most items passed by voice vote (“Aye” recorded) or by roll call when required. Where roll‑call votes were used the transcript records individual affirmations. The board noted routine follow‑up tasks such as filing boundary orders and updating district documentation as next steps.
