CorpusRecord 209615

February 20, 2026 Emergency Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Brainerd Public Schools
Date
2026-02-20
Location
Crow Wing County, MN
Material
Transcript
Extent
548 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-07-02

Transcript

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001We'll start with a roll call, please. DJ Dlinger. Oh, [snorts] wait. No, Michelle. Sorry, she's No, >> DJ. Stephanie Edman. >> Stephanie Edman. >> Steph, your microphone shut off. >> She maybe can't hear us. >> Your microphone shut off. And keep it on your head, too. We don't need to see the rest of you. Stephanie, >> can you hear us, Stephanie? Okay. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Steph, >> how about now? >> Can you hear us, Steph? >> We can hear you. >> Can you Okay, good. >> You can hear us now. Yes. >> Okay. >> Doing roll calls. Stephanie. >> Yes. >> Kelly's doing roll call. Did you hear her call your name? Stephanie. >> We got Ryan. >> Yeah. >> Oh, she can't. She can't. >> Can you hear us, Stephanie? >> Yes, I

002can. >> Okay. Did you hear Kelly call your name for roll call? No, I didn't. Okay. But I'm here. Okay. >> Sarah Spear >> here. >> John Ward >> here. >> All right. Thank you. We'll stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States United States of America >> and to the >> to the stands >> one nation >> under God indivisible liberty and justice and justice for all. >> All right. This meeting of the Briner School Board is being conducted in accordance with Minnesota statutes 13D.02. This meeting is being recorded and access to the recording is going to be available on the school district's YouTube channel. Uh we'll look for a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Motion move. >> Second. >> I've got

003a motion by Director Edman, a second by Director Dondelinger. Any discussion? If not, we'll do a roll call vote, please. >> DJ Dondelinger. >> Yes. >> Stephanie Edman. Yes. >> Randy Hidman. >> Yes. >> Sarah Spear. >> Yes. >> John Ward. >> Yes. >> Thanks, Kelly. All right. Being that this is a special schoolboard meeting, there'll be no public input allowed during this meeting. And we have one item up for action. Thank you for coming together today um on court notice to approve the superintendent contract. It was a a nice courtesy that we could do this for Chips so that and his board so that his board can get started at their meeting on Monday night uh in their s search for a new superintendent because they will they will be under the gun as

004well. So, thank you for making this happen. Um hopefully you've had a chance to look through the contract. Uh, a couple of things that I did want to point out is the the range for the contract is one that we ended up exceeding because of other things that were negotiated in the contract. For example, um, Chip will not be taking insurance and a couple other things that that happened in there. So, um to be able to counteract that and still compensate him, uh the package still comes out the same or less than we had anticipated for um budgeting for this position, but where that money is used is in different places. So, I know you've likely all had a chance to look through that, but just wanted to mention that out loud. Um I'll look

005for a motion and then we can have discussion if needed. I will make a motion. >> All right. I've got a motion by Director Donnelinger. Would you like to second? >> I will second. >> Wonderful. [laughter] And a second by Director Haidderman. Any discussion? I I feel like um we we did a great job meeting in the middle on where things needed to happen to to get Chip to come to our district. And thank you uh Jason, Director Olsen for helping us work through the contract. And please extend our thanks to Marcy as well. It was great to have you guys working on this for us. So, all right. If there's no further discussion, we will call for a roll call vote. >> Stephanie Edman, >> yes. >> Randy Hayen, >> yes. >> Sarah Spear,

006>> yes. >> John Ward, >> yes. >> DJ Doninger, >> yes. >> All right, motion carries. Thanks so much for Oh, we have we do have to adjourn. So, um I'll take a motion first. >> Motion to >> second. All right, we got a motion by Director Donninger, a second by Director Ward. Assuming no discussion, we'll do a roll call vote, please. >> Randy Hidman, >> yes. >> Sarah Spear, >> yes. >> John Ward, >> yes. >> DJ Doninger, >> yes. Stephanie Edman.

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