The Crookston School Board will meet on Monday, September 22, at 5:00 p.m. at the Crookston High School Choir/Orchestra room.
The feature program will be about BARR Training presented by Crookston Middle School teachers Brandon Neibauer-Adams and Susan Wagner.
The consent agenda includes approving the August 25 meeting minutes and current bills. The board will also be asked to approve Nesreen Alnissani’s resignation as a paraprofessional. The board will be asked to approve the employment of Christina Carmen and Carmen Caputo as kitchen helpers at the high school, Enrique Keim as a custodian at the high school, John Koller as a part-time custodian at Highland School, and the employment agreements with Emma Morlan and Kathleen Mulvey as special ed teachers at Highland School.
The board will also be asked to approve salary lane advancement requests. The board will be asked to approve the following donations –
-A donation of a CNC Mill from Northern Valley Machine, valued at $50,000, for the CT/Metals program at the high school.
-A donation of $1,341.16 from the Pirate Fine Arts Boosters for staff to attend the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota conference
-$373.20 from the Crookston Baseball Assocation for the Junior High Baseball program
-$3,500 from the Crookston Youth Soccer Association for the Boys and Girls Soccer program
-$1,300 from the Crookston Police Benefit Association for the Walt Keller Memorial Scholarship
-Four trees in memory of Helmer Ardell Knudsvig to be placed by the High School Tennis courts
There will be administrative reports from business manager Blake Stoltman, community education’s Brandon Neibauer-Adams, Highland School with Chris Trostad and Lon Boike, Kathy Stronstad of Special Services, Activities Director Evan Pederson, Crookston High School principal Lisa Conzemius, and Superintendent Randy Bruer.
The main agenda includes approving the preliminary levy for 2026, approving the achievement and integration report, and handbooks for the 2025-26 school year. The board will be asked to approve the post-secondary enrollment option contract with Northland Community and Technical College, the Time Tracker proposal for payroll processing, policy 714-fund balances, fundraising requests, the boys and girls hockey cooperative agreements, teacher overload agreements, and the addition of an American Federal business checking account.
