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Wall board elects Tyrell Eisenberg chair, updates committees and approves activities handbook
Summary
Trustees elected Tyrell Eisenberg chair and Hope Shearer vice chair, confirmed committee assignments, appointed representatives to outside boards, and approved the 2026–27 activities handbook including new communication procedures via the Eagle app.
At the start of the meeting the board conducted organizational business, administering oaths to new or continuing board members and electing leadership for the 2026–27 year. Tyrell Eisenberg was nominated and elected board chair for 2026–27; Hope Shearer was nominated and confirmed as vice chair. After the chair change, trustees reviewed and finalized committee assignments (budget/negotiations/insurance; buildings/grounds/transportation; curriculum/instruction/technology; legislation/policy/strategic planning; career development, scholarship and marketing).
The board approved the activities handbook for 2026–27. The handbook updates include posting open‑gym sessions on the activities calendar and the district activities page, adding FFA and boys and girls wrestling, and making the Eagle app the primary channel for activities communications. Trustees emphasized the need for a paper schedule or alternative notification options for families without devices and discussed transition issues and coach adoption timelines.
Administratively, the board appointed the business manager and a board member to the health insurance board, and approved membership renewals for the Associated School Boards of South Dakota, the National Association for Impacted Schools (NAFIS), and Impacted Schools of South Dakota (ISSD). The board also discussed WOSP childcare rates and signaled openness to modest increases to reduce program losses, but deferred final amounts pending further financial review.
