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By Venus King
Browerville School Board
members met Monday
eptember 9. Principal Sutlief
eported that the school year is
well underway. This was the sec-
nd week of school and Bus
raining for grades 1 through 10
will be held. Picture days were
lso this week and Thursday
ept 12 was the first Lock-own drill.
Browerville NHS (National
Honor Society) will be hosting a
lood Drive Thursday October
0, 2013 and will be staffed by
he NHS members as well as the
enior Student Council mem-
ers. Scholarships are available
nd partially based on the
mount of donations rceived.
ump Rope for Heart event will
e this fall as well.
As of Monday, September 9,
0 new students have been
nrolled at Browerville Public
chool. Of these 30 new stu-
ents, four are Foreignxchange Students and the oth-
rs have moved to The
Browerville area or come from
other schools. The number of
students that have left
Browerville School is 17. Of
these 17 students eight have
moved out of the area, two will
be home schooled, one student
went to Christ the King, five
transferred and one student goes
to Connections High School. This
brings the total of students fromK-12th grade to 423.
Following
is a list of class sizes for
2013/2014; K 30, grade 1 26,
grade 2 29, grade 3 25, grade
4 23, grade 5 27, grade 6 29,
grade 7 32, grade 8 34, grade
9 30, grade 10 50, grade 11
49 and grade 12 39.
Browerville School has seven
bus routes and two vans that are
used for Head Start.
New Faculty Members this
year are Amber Niehoff Title 1,
Tony Sanders Music, Daniel
Custer Industrial Technology,
Darwin Beach Custodial, Beth
Brown Kitchen, Mandie Allen Speech and Kerrie Speer
English.
Other action taken by the
board: Approval to discuss and
certify the final 2013 pay 2014
levy at the December 9, 2013
regular board meeting, approved
the Minnesota State Community
Technical College PSEO
Administration Contract for fis-
cal year 2014, approved the res-
olution to continue participating
in the Todd-Wadena CommunityConcern for Youth Program and
accepted donations from Target
Corporation - Take Charge of
Education - $128.13 for elemen-
tary and $236.56 for high school.
Board members approved
rescheduling the November
board meeting from Monday
November 11 to Monday
November 4.
The meeting was then closed-
to the public at 8:19 pm for nego-
tiations.
Tue. Sept. 17
Mostly Sunny
71/58
Wed. Sept. 18
Partly Cloudy
79/63
Thur. Sept. 19
Showers
75/50
Fri. Sept. 20
Showers
58/40
Sat. Sept. 21
Partly Cloudy
66/41
Sun. Sept. 22
Partly Cloudy
63/49
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School board receives updatedenrollment numbers
By Venus King
All council members were
present at the Browerville City
Council Meeting on Wednesday
September 11. Tom Steinmetz
from the Ambulance Committee
brought before the council pre-
liminary plans for the upgrades
to the ambulance bay. Council
members approved the new cab-
inetry and upgrades for the bay
not to exceed $8,500.00. Thiswill not include the furnace or
electrical changes that need to
be made. The furnace is sched-
uled to be moved next week.
Hannah Wieshalla has been
appointed as a new EMT. Other
personnel changes are; Eric
Kreemer has resigned as
Assistant Fire Chief effective
immediately. Pat Sutlief has
been appointed as the new
Assistant Fire Chief and Terry
Host has been approved as the
Training Officer for the
Browerville Fire Department.
There is concern about the
cracks still left in the parking lotbehind City Hall after the
seal
coating was done. It was
explained that no cracks were
filled in because of the amount
of cracks. It is time for the park-
ing lot to be replaced. Right now
only a top coat was applied.
Resolution 09112013 was
approved for the 2014
Preliminary Levy with a slight
increase of 1.671% increase to
the budget.
Community Concern for
Youth has asked the city ofBrowerville for a contribution of
$627.00. This is a request made
each year from Todd-Wadena
Community Corrections that
goes towards the operation of
their Youth Program. This pro-
gram is aimed at helping at risk
children overcome hurdles and
Council renews CCY
funding agreement
No, this youngster is not in
danger of being run over by
this school bus. Standing
directly in front of the bus
was part of a demonstrationdone as part of the annual
school bus safety training
that is given to all students
by Aksamit Transportation
during the beginning of each
new school year.
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Local businesses donate to Browerville Elementary
Duane's Repair, Browerville, and Central Minnesota Credit Union
recently donated a variety of school supplies to the
rowerville Elementary School. Their generous donations are
greatly appreciated.
