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Votes at a glance: approvals and motions from Jan. 12 YME board meeting
Summary
Summary list of motions recorded as carried at the Yellow Medicine East board meeting on Jan. 12, including consent-agenda approvals, personnel actions, contract and policy adoptions, and a preschool rate increase.
The board recorded the following actions as motions that carried at the Jan. 12 meeting:
- Approve meeting agenda (motion by Matt Zempel, second by Laurel Christianson). - Approve consent agenda including Dec. 8, 2025 minutes and total disbursements of $1,131,071.62 (checks 29661-29862 totaling $718,234.95; wires $412,836.67) (motion by Amanda Lecy, second by Matt Zempel). - Accept resignations of Brylea Ruff (Native American Liaison) and Dave Guertin (Golf Coach) (motions by Sonja Pederson, second by Laurel Christianson). - Approve employment of Julie Neishis and Kevin Hansen as long-term substitute elementary PE teachers (motion by Matt Zempel, second by Amanda Lecy). - Approve preschool rate increase of $20 for 2026-27 (motion by Sonja Pederson, second by Laurel Christianson). - Approve Memorandum of Agreement for salary modification to the 2023-26 superintendent contract and approve Superintendent Contract for 2026-2029 (motions by Amanda Lecy, second by Matt Zempel; and by Sonja Pederson, second by Abbey Richter respectively). - Approve second reading & adoption of Policy 722 - Public Data Requests (motion by Abbey Richter, second by Jeremy LeBlanc).
The minutes list each motion as "carried" but do not include roll-call vote tallies or recorded dissent. Readers seeking the full meeting minutes or underlying documents (contract text, MOA, policy text) should consult district records.
