Happy snow day Owatonna! Please stay safe if you have to drive or go outside today. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend my first ever board meeting which is scheduled for January 9, 2023. Due to unexpected circumstances that I cannot change, I have to miss the first meeting. However, I will be reviewing the meeting agenda and video and will update this blog next week. I fully expect to be attending the meeting on January 23 and if I understand things correctly, there will be a small ceremony to formally induct me onto the school board! Looking forward to many more posts and developing new relationships and friendships. Take care and God bless!

Welcome to my new blog! As a new school board member, my goal is to improve communication between the school board and members of the Owatonna community. I plan to use this site to summarize board meetings, document school board decisions and voting, and provide news articles from around Minnesota and other states in order to inform our community about events occurring in schools that could affect our district. My goal for this site is to be informative while always being respectful, honest, and kind.