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Board approves liquor sale for May 17 fair event and passes personnel, policy and resolution votes
Summary
The Lake of the Woods School District board added and approved a request to allow liquor at the arena for a May 17 fairboard event and approved minutes, financials, resignations, hires (including coaches), policy 534, and several resolutions (school forest designations and directing curriculum/staff recommendations). Votes were carried by voice vote.
At the Jan. 27 working session the board approved a motion to add the Lake of the Woods County Fairboard's request to the regular agenda and then approved a motion "to approve the sale of liquor at the arena on May 17, 2025 for the fairboard event." The motion carried on a voice vote with the board recording "all in favor" and the motion carrying.
Across the meeting the board also approved routine procedural items by motion and voice vote: the Jan. 27 meeting agenda (as amended to include the fairboard liquor request); minutes of the Dec. 16, 2024 regular meeting and the Jan. 21, 2025 organizational meeting; invoices, financial statements, bank reconciliations, wire transfers and purchase card statements.
Personnel actions approved included acceptance of several resignations (listed in the packet) and approval of coaching hires: Andrea Nylander (varsity volleyball), Brian Sather (varsity softball), Tony Brouse (assistant varsity baseball), Eric Tangy (assistant varsity baseball), and Chuck Merchant (junior-high baseball). The board approved resignations and hires as presented; motions passed by voice vote.
Policy 534 (School Meal policy) was presented and approved by motion and voice vote. The board adopted two resolutions to designate parcels as School Forest areas and approved a resolution directing the superintendent to make recommendations for adjustments to curriculum, programs and staff for the 2025-26 school year.
No roll-call tallies with individual yes/no votes were read into the record; the meeting transcript records each carried motion as having passed after members "signified by saying 'I'" and the clerk noting the motion carries. The items approved will appear on the district's consent agenda and in upcoming official minutes.
Votes at a glance
- Approve Jan. 27 agenda (as amended): approved (voice vote) - Approve minutes (Dec. 16, 2024; Jan. 21, 2025): approved (voice vote) - Approve financial statements/invoices: approved (voice vote) - Approve resignations (multiple staff, including Dan Lane, Boob Lane, Wendy Storbeck, Kurt Storbeck, Jeff Nelson resignation effective June 30): approved (voice vote) - Approve coaching hires (Andrea Nylander, Brian Sather, Tony Brouse, Eric Tangy, Chuck Merchant): approved (voice vote) - Approve policy 534 (School Meal policy): approved (voice vote) - Approve resolutions (school forest parcels; direction to superintendent regarding curriculum/staff): approved (voice vote) - Approve sale of liquor at arena for May 17 fairboard event: approved (voice vote)
The board adjourned the working session following passage of the listed items; several items (notably Head Start classroom closure and pre-K options) remain under discussion and will return to the board for further consideration.
