The Crookston School Board met on Monday night in the Crookston High School Choir/Orchestra room and accepted over $45,000 in donations and grants as part of the meeting.
FEATURE PROGRAM –
The Crookston High School FFA was the featured program to start the meeting. The FFA Parliamentary Procedure team (Emily Bowman, Tessa Webber, JoJo Wallace, Addison Schiller, Ben Capistran, Taylor Weiland, and FFA Advisor Carolyn Pavlish) presented their program to the board. All board members and audience members were impressed with the presentation. (Pictures from the presentation are below)
SECOND READING OF POLICY 801
The board approved the second reading of Policy 801 as requested by the Minnesota School Board Association. Policy 801 is to make sure school districts are offering equal access to school facilities. “If anybody wants to set up a meeting at the school, they have to follow the proper channels, file the proper paperwork, and so forth,” said Superintendent Rand Bergquist. “It is usually student-driven, but we also host community groups too. We have different organizations that use the school, like the Republican and Democratic parties both do that too.”
SKYWARD FOR STUDENT DATABASE
The board agreed to continue using Skyward for the student database, which the district has been using for many years.
APPROVAL OF THE PURCHASE OF A NEW SCOREBOARD
The board approved a new scoreboard for the multi-use complex that will be built this summer. The scoreboard is from Daktronics in South Dakota and will be a large video scoreboard. “The scoreboard is another one of those pieces that we are really excited about, and we have been planning and working on setting our complex apart along with the track and the turf. It will be a large scoreboard, and we have visited with some businesses on the marketing aspect and it will be nice because it will have a large video board that you can run full-fledged advertisements on there, and it will be a great piece to our complex,” said Crookston High School Activities Director Nate Lubarski. “The video screen will be 13 feet by 25 feet, so it will be a large scoreboard, and the sound system is within the scoreboard and I think people will enjoy it and be able to see it from a ways away. It will be a nice addition to the complex.”
The cost of the scoreboard will be covered by Crookston Businesses that are sponsoring the project and also other businesses that want to run ads on the scoreboard. “We have visited with some businesses, and we will certainly be out to visit with other great local businesses here in town and get them on the board with advertising, and they will get to advertise on something nice.”
The complex construction start date still depends on the weather, but as of now, it looks like an early start date is possible this spring.
CONSENT AGENDA –
The Board approved payment of the current bills of $2,449,376.17. The large amount was due to the payment of some bills from the Highland School expansion project, adding payroll (80 percent of the school budget), which hasn’t been included in the past, and debt payment on outstanding bonds.
DONATIONS AND GRANTS
The board also approved the acceptance of $45,177.68 in donations and grants from several businesses, organizations, and other entities. The donations and grants are listed below-
-Donation of $504.03 from the Crookston Baseball Association for Boy’s Baseball
-Grant of $11,028.50 from the June Shaver Endowment for CHS Healthcare Scholarships
-Grant of $1,916.00 from MSHSL Foundation for Athletics
-Donation of $1,451.97 from Red River Valley Co-op Power Association for Dollars for Scholars Donation
-Anonymous donation of $10,000 to be used for the new athletic complex scoreboard
-Grant of $820.00 from the June Shaver Endowment for CHS Drama Club
-Grant of $3,300.50 from the June Shaver Endowment for CHS Drama Club
-Grant of $2,740.00 from the June Shaver Endowment for CHS Healthcare Scholarships
-Donation of $800 from the Ralph Engelstad Arena for the CHS Girls Hockey Program
-Donation of $1,826.00 from the Crookston Wrestling Club for CHS wrestling gear
-Donation of $10,790.68 from the Crookston J.O. Volleyball Club for the Volleyball program
“I have never been in a district that has this much support from outside individuals and organizations. It’s incredible,” said Superintendent Bergquist. “I think it is a real credit to the community on how much is being done for our students, staff, and programs.”
MISC.
The board approved the seniority list for the school year and a letter of resignation from Monique Arguelles as a paraprofessional at Washington School.
