The Oakdale Grade School Board met Monday night and discussed two grants that the school is to be awarded. Superintendent Charles Peterson reported that a grant from the National School Lunch Program would pay for new kitchen equipment.

“The equipment assistance grant for $37,455, and the things that we plan on purchasing with this grant is to do some updates in the kitchen,” Peterson said. “We’re going to have a new oven, a convection stand-up with double doors that will help us out a lot, a walk-in freezer back in our storage room, and then also a walk-behind floor scrubber. Once we get the official notice and a check, we’ll start purchasing those items.”
Additionally, Peterson reported that the school had been awarded another grant from the Tri-County Electric Cooperative that will be used for a camera and surveillance system.

“We applied for a Tri County Cooperative Classroom Empowerment Grant, and this is a $500 grant and we took that money and put it toward the purchase of a camera-surveillance system,” said Peterson. “I think the total cost of that was $595, and the OCEA, which is the parent group here at school, split the remaining cost with the school, so we got the eight cameras and the DVR, and the final cost to the school will be $47.50.”
In other business, the board approved Miller, Tracy, Braun, Funk & Miller as the new school attorneys, and accepted the bid from Germantown Seamless Guttering for gutter and downspout work on the bus shed. The graduation date for eighth graders was set for May 16. The next board meeting will be March 13.