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Fairmont board approves agenda changes, policy on online instruction and multiple personnel actions
Summary
The Fairmont Area School District board on May 26 approved consent items including minutes, bills and wire transfers, adopted revisions to online‑instruction policy 624, approved a payroll agreement with the Southern Plains co‑op and accepted several personnel resignations and hires.
The Fairmont Area School District Board of Education on May 26 approved routine consent items, adopted revisions to the district’s online‑instruction policy and carried multiple personnel motions.
At the start of the meeting the board approved minutes from its May 12 meeting and the May 26 agenda after agreeing to move agenda items 5, 6 and 11 to the end to preserve quorum when the president needed to leave. Jessica reported on bills and wire transfers and noted numerous small parent refunds and a roughly $48,000 credit pending resolution with Minnesota Energy; the board approved the wire transfers and bills.
The board adopted recommended revisions to policy 624 (online instruction), which add language about extracurricular‑eligibility (section 6J). The board also approved a payroll and benefit management agreement (appendix C) extending the district’s existing administrative payroll arrangement with the Southern Plains co‑op, described by board members as an administrative efficiency that had already been approved by the co‑op’s board.
Personnel actions carried included acceptance of resignations for Joel Thomas (high school special education teacher, effective June 5, 2026) and Michaela Fitzoff (elementary special education paraprofessional, effective May 13, 2026); approval of nonrenewals for Andrea Stitch and Michaela Kriswiki (both special education paraprofessionals, effective June 5, 2026); and employment approvals for four hires for the 2026–27 year: Tessa Whitaker (long‑term high school substitute), Katherine Lawrence (high school special‑education paraprofessional), Kelsey Gary (elementary teacher) and Shauna Kenny (part‑time preschool teacher).
Because the president needed to leave, the board formally ended the business portion of the meeting at 5:25 p.m.; the remainder of reports were placed in the record without further formal business votes.
Votes on routine motions were conducted by voice and roll call prompts; the transcript records motions as having been moved and seconded and carried, but individual vote names and counts were not specified in the record.
