Reports
The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School Board held a reorganization meeting on Jan. 2, 2024.
Through discussion about what it means to be a stakeholder, Board Member Stacy Lux stated that the Stakeholders Group is a group of about 20 people that currently meets at the elementary school at noon. It was...
The Long Prairie City Council uncapped longevity pay for city employees at a special meeting on Dec. 27.
“This is a good way to continue to increase for the staff that are here,” City Administrator Ted Gray said.
As of the new year, city staff will be eligible for longevity pay of an accumulating $...
A three-member council met at Long Prairie City Hall for the first meeting of the year, held on Jan. 2, 2024.
The council took up new business regarding the Long Prairie Municipal Airport. The city has been working with the Federal Aviation Administration and Minnesota Department of Transportation...
The Todd County Board of Commissioners elected Commissioner Barb Becker as chair at their Jan. 2, 2024 reorganization meeting.
Commissioner Randy Neumann was elected as vice chair.
Each year, the commissioners have voted to rotate who is the chair. Both Becker and Neumann have the most experience...
The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School Board passed a resolution to replace the secondary school’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system over the next two summers.
The board met on Monday, Dec. 18 in full attendance. The HVAC system has been a recurring agenda item, and the board...
The Long Prairie City Council met in full on Monday, Dec. 18. However, not all members were 100 percent.
Mayor Jodi Dixon stated at a Nov. 7 meeting she was recovering from pneumonia, and she has been battling health issues ever since.
Dixon wrote to the Leader that she has been diagnosed with a...
A full board met at the Dec. 7, 2023 Todd County Board of Commissioners meeting, with newly-elected Commissioner Bob Byers taking his seat along with Commissioners Randy Neuman, Barb Becker, Lew Noska, and Tim Denny.
The full board started off with a resolution to save money. A required annual $219...
There were some corrections to the Nov. 6 meeting minutes approved at the Dec. 4 Long Prairie City Council meeting, but not all were warranted.
Just three of five council members met on Dec. 4 at Long Prairie City Hall. Mayor Jodi Dixon and Council Member Clint Krueger were absent. City...
The Osakis School Board held their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, November 13. The board canvassed votes from the November 7 special election in which both questions of the proposed referendum failed.
The board also approved the district’s June 2023 financial audit following a report from...
Andy Otremba, a track coach and parent, presented about the condition of the track at the Nov. 20 Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School Board meeting.
Over the summer, a company did some bore sampling to check on continuing maintenance, but that left holes and mounds on several lanes of the track. Otremba...
