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Jolene Crosby asks board to consent to detachment of Bridal-area parcel for annexation to Swanville schools
Summary
At the March 9 Little Falls School Board meeting, Jolene Crosby asked the board to consent to detaching her Bridal-area property so it can be annexed to Swanville School District; the board raised statutory-adjacency and precedent concerns and tabled the request for one month to gather legal and procedural information.
Jolene Crosby told the Little Falls Community Schools Board on March 9 that she seeks the board’s consent to detach her Bridal-area property from Independent School District 482 so it may be annexed into the Swanville School District, citing what she identified in the meeting as “Minnesota State statute 123A-45.” Crosby said she and her husband have enrolled their three children in Swanville Elementary after the district’s closure of the Bridal elementary school and that Swanville’s superintendent and board “wholeheartedly support” the change.
The request prompted a focused discussion among board members and administrators about statutory eligibility and local geography. The superintendent…
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