School Boards Consider Using Taxes for Flu Clinics

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. - Minnesota school board members are meeting Friday to consider, among several issues, a resolution to allow school to use health and safety tax levies to pay for flu clinics.

The Minnesota School Boards Association delegate assembly Friday and Saturday at a St. Louis Park hotel will consider roughly 30 resolutions, but flu clinics and the moving of a primary election date are undoubtedly highlights.

The decisions coming out of the assembly will dictate the influential association's stance on matters debated in the 2010 legislative session.

Aside from the flu clinic resolution, the group will consider opposing a June primary election. Lawmakers are being forced to move up the September primary to comply with a new federal law aimed to ease absentee balloting for military and overseas voters. August and June are under consideration.