The Kingsland School Board met for their first meeting of the summer on Monday, June 15, 2026, with a full agenda. The hot topic of the meeting was the 2026-2029 Cooperative Athletics Agreement.
“We work with Grand Meadow, LeRoy-Ostrander and Southland Schools (GMLOS) to provide activities for sports that individually our schools wouldn’t have enough kids to have a program for,” Superintendent Scott Klavetter explained. “The thing with this agreement is it allows for flexibility. As it applies to Kingsland, the activities we participate in are all of our spring sports, except for golf.”
The agreement lays out the details of transportation, what school is going to host and how that school is going to be compensated by the other districts for their facilities, maintenance and paying the coaches.
The only change from previous contracts is the raise in transportation reimbursement from $1.25 per mile to $1.50 per mile.
Board member Brady Wolfgram shared his concerns about Kingsland not being included in the wrestling program.
“I have a problem with not being a part of wrestling and not being able to get back in. We have a lot of little kids that want to wrestle. They are hitting fourth grade and that’s when our basketball program starts, so they won’t keep going because we can’t guarantee there is going to be a chance for them to wrestle in high school.
Wolfgram noted when wrestling in the youth program, which is not through the school, those kids from Kingsland cannot participate with the GMLOS wrestlers even though they train with them all season.
“For full context, as with all sports they classify schools according to size and the wrestling program over there is Class A. If they added Kingsland that would make their enrollment high enough it would bump them up to Class AA. So they have to ask why they would want to go up a class when Kingsland doesn’t have any wrestlers in high school,” Klavetter said.
When discussing the contract with the other school representatives, Klavetter did ask if they could at least give them a date in which Kingsland could join the wrestling program, so kids will know if there will be a program when they reach the high school level.
It was determined the various athletic directors should meet during the 2026-2027 school year to put together a plan.
“We are seeing a growing amount of kids that are interested in wrestling, but Brady is right, once they get to the fourth or fifth grades the numbers peter out because the kids don’t have any where to go from there,” Klavetter said of the need to address the issue.
READ Act Compensation
“The state set aside a few thousand dollars in funds for the school district to provide compensation for the teachers for their required reading training that they did,” Klavetter explained.
The elementary teachers completed their training during the 2025-2026 school year and now the high school teachers will be going through their training for the 2026-2027 school year.
“The funds will be used to first hire substitute teachers to cover for the high school teachers this year. Any remaining funds will be divided evenly between our teachers who participated in that training,” Klavetter said.
The board approved the use of funds.
Special Education
Teacher Compensation
“This is essentially compensation for the two elementary special education teachers who had additional time put in to cover for the unexpected absence of the third special education teacher. Moving forward, it does look like the case load can be covered with two. We did post the job but we haven’t, to this point, seen any qualified applicants that are licensed, so the plan is to move forward next year with two,” Klavetter stated.
Each teacher will have between 16 and 18 students for the next school year.
Klavetter noted Southern Minnesota Education Consortium (SMEC) has taken over much of the clerical duties previously handled by the teachers, which will help ease their duties.
“I think they definitely earned it,” expressed board member Kyle Mulhern. “They did a very good job filling in.”
The board approved the compensation.
Cyber Security Contract
Klavetter explained the district is adding a cyber security contract because, “of all of the phishing and all the people trying to make money off of hacking into your systems.”
The contract with Ed Midwest, LLC will be for $3,250 for one year.
The board approved the contract.
Other Business
The board thanked Rick and Gina Jahn, who donated $300 to the Kingsland Music Department in honor of Elliot Grandall. In memory of Doug Bergey, Sharon Dufeck donated $100 and Mary Perkins donated $20.
Work will begin on the school’s parking lot beginning the week of June 22, so door access may change as work is being done.
The board approved the first readings of the 2026-2027 Preschool to 12th Grade Handbook, Staff Handbook and School Age Child Care Handbook.
Klavetter was approved as the designated Identified Official with Authority (IowA).
The board approved the membership renewal for the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL).
The fiscal year 2026 revised budget was approved, as was the fiscal year 2027 preliminary budget.
Three seats on the board will be up for election, so any interested person has from July 14 to July 28, 2026, to apply.
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