During a review of the Crookston School District Audit, they discovered that revenues from the District’s swimming pool referendum will be slightly less than previously thought and shared that information with the City of Crookston Monday afternoon. The adjustment is from the Minnesota State Department of Education in their Levy Limitation Report.
Crookston Schools Superintendent Jeremy Olson explains “the meeting was about the referendum revenue. Because the levy is two years down the road, we are facing some of the enrollment declines we had two years ago in our revenue for the pool, which has dropped a little bit. We wanted to make sure that we notified the city about that so we reached out and told them what was going on. We just wanted to make sure in a public and formal meeting that we told them what the finances were and be transparent with the city.”
It appeared that Crookston City Administrator Shannon Stassen, Mayor Wayne Melbye, Councilmen Steve Erickson, and Tom Vedbraaten had some questions but were satisfied with the answers and according to Stassen the news doesn’t affect the tentative agreement that was discussed before by the City’s Ways and Means Committee, “We really appreciate that we had a chance to sit down with the Superintendent and school board members and make sure we are all on the same page. Their enrollment was down a bit a couple years ago and that makes an impact on the numbers we talked about before about the pool. I think the general feeling right now is everything will still work out just fine as we’ve talked about. We’ll discuss it on Tuesday, the 13th as it will be on the consent agenda and we had a unanimous vote and I don’t expect any big changes.”
The Crookston City Council will have the pool acquisition on their agenda at their next council meeting which is Tuesday, November 13.
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