The St. Michael-Albertville school district hasn’t squandered any time in getting down to business after the Feb. 7 bond referendum’s passage. School board members spent a significant portion of last Tuesday evening’s meeting toward bond topics, and the district released a tentative timeline for their bond projects. Project Timelines If all goes according to plan, […]
FROM THE EDITOR: Either You Want to Keep Up with the Joneses, or You Don’t
By Mike Schoemer – Publisher, founder North Wright County Today In the first decade of this century, Minnesota Vikings fans were fed the same line as appears in this headline – either you want to keep up with the rest of the NFL, or you don’t. And as things became more and more dire at […]
STMA School Board Discusses Possible Lease Levy if Bond Fails
St. Michael-Albertville School District Superintendent Dr. Ann-Marie Foucault said she has tried to stay positive in the months leading up to next week’s $36 million bond referendum. However, she said that the question of what will happen if the bond doesn’t pass has come up frequently during her meetings with community groups about the bond. […]
Two New Members Start Tenure on School Board
With a bond referendum right around the corner, Minnesota School Board Association conferences and other board business on the docket this month, new board members Kari Dwinnell and Hollee Saville are diving head first into their new responsibilities on the St. Michael-Albertville school board. The new members are now two meetings into their four-year tenures, […]
LETTER: ‘Yes’ Vote Addresses STMA’s Growth, Future
Submitted by Matt Fitch As a taxpayer and parent within the St. Michael-Albertville (STMA) School District, I’m enthusiastically voting “Yes” on the upcoming bond referendum. Over the past 11 years, our community has experienced significant population growth. Since 2005, enrollment in the St. Michael-Albertville (STMA) School District has grown 62 percent. Because of the popularity […]
OPINION: Community Group Asking STMA to ‘Vote No’ in Feburary
At the October 26, 2016 STMA School Board Candidates Forum hosted by North Wright County Today and the STMA Women of Today, there were a couple moments of candor from two incumbents that should have STMA voters questioning the upcoming referendum, and frankly, questioning the school board as well. The first moment of candor came […]
Local Residents, Parents Launch Vote Yes for STMA campaign
Local citizens, parents, and community members within the St. Michael-Albertville school district announced today the formation of the Vote Yes for STMA committee, a grassroots campaign, to encourage residents to support the February 7 bond referendum. The launch includes the formation of a website (www.voteyesforstma.org) and a Facebook page to educate the community about the […]
STMA School Board to Move Forward with $35 million Bond Proposal
The board decided to support the entire project list and move the bond out of work session and onto the main agenda for its next meeting.
The St. Michael-Albertville School Board decided at a Monday evening work session it will move ahead with a $35 million bond request, deciding at a work session Monday evening it will support each proposed aspect of next winter’s potential bond. Though it has not yet been officially approved, it appears that the potential bond won’t […]
School Board Votes to Refund 2008 Bond for $5.6 million Savings
Savings will go into effect same year as potential new bond would begin
Joel Sutter from Ehlers, Inc. recently went in front of the St. Michael-Albertville school board for the third time in three years to talk about refunding bond debt, which is essentially the same as a homeowner refinancing a mortgage. This opportunity to refund some of the high school’s bond debt, he said, was the last […]
More Questions Arise as STMA Schools Wrestle with Bond Decision
The school board did not make any decisions tonight during their deliberations on what to include in next winter’s potential bond referendum. In fact, more questions than decisions emerged as the board and administrators tussled with some of the nitty gritty details and numbers involved in the potential projects. Answering questions from the community input […]