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Rushford-Peterson board adopts administrative and financial policies, lists 2026 organizational items
Summary
At its Jan. 12 organizational meeting, the Rushford-Peterson School Board recorded organizational business and placed multiple MSBA/MASA model policies on the district record as adopted on Jan. 12, 2026; the packet also lists delegations for depositories, legal counsel and investment authority for district staff.
At an organizational meeting Jan. 12 in the Forum Room, the Rushford-Peterson School Board recorded a slate of administrative actions and adopted multiple MSBA/MASA model policies addressing budgeting, accounting, audits, fixed assets, investments and related procedures.
The meeting packet lists organizational business including nominations and officer elections, the 2026 meeting schedule (regular meetings on the third Monday at 5:30 p.m.; a Feb. 17 meeting moved to avoid Presidents' Day and accommodate an election canvas), board-member salary items and the naming of district depositories and legal counsel. The packet also lists authorization for Business Manager Toni Oian, HR & Payroll Manager Megan Boyum and Superintendent Ben Bernard to invest cash reserves and to perform electronic fund transfers when authorized by the board.
Several model policies in the packet carry an “Adopted: 1.12.26” header. Those policy titles include the district budget and budget-modification policies (Policy 701 and 701.1), accounting and annual audit policies (702 and 703), fixed-asset inventory (704), investments (705), and acceptance of gifts (706), among others. The policies spell out statutory compliance requirements, delegation of authority to the superintendent and administrative procedures the district will use for financial reporting, UFARS accounting, safekeeping of investments and public reporting tied to Minnesota statutes.
Superintendent Ben Bernard, in the Superintendent’s Report included in the packet, emphasized the limited role the district takes in bond outreach: “It is the district’s job to inform the voters about the question; it is not our job to try to sway them either way,” language included in the meeting materials. The packet also assigns ongoing administrative duties—such as accounting and clerical responsibilities for the Board Clerk and Treasurer—to district staff (Toni Oian, Megan Boyum and Jodi Peters) and lists committee assignments for the 2025–2026 year.
The packet lists these organizational items and the newly adopted policies as formal actions of the board on Jan. 12, 2026. Where the record shows a formal vote in included supporting minutes (for example, Dec. 15 consent and levy actions) those tallies are recorded in the minutes appended to the packet; several Jan. 12 policy documents bear an adopted date but do not display an itemized roll-call tally in the meeting packet.
