NEW ULM — The New Ulm Public School Board unanimously approved three resolutions Thursday approving cooperative sponsorship agreements beginning with the 2025-26 school years with several area schools Thursday.

Approved cooperative sponsorships included joint boys’ hockey with New Ulm, Cathedral, Sleepy Eye and Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s High Schools; boys’ soccer with New Ulm, Cathedral and Minnesota Valley Lutheran (MVL); joint girls’ hockey with New Ulm, Cathedral, Redwood Valley and Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s.

There were cooperative dissolutions for boys’ hockey, boys’ soccer, girls’ hockey and girls’ tennis.

Superintendent Sean Koster said schools that had no students in the cooperative sponsorships for two years and likely have no students involved for two more years, will no longer be part of the cooperatives. Those schools include MVL in boys’ hockey and girls’ tennis, and Sleepy Eye High School in boys’ soccer and girls’ hockey.

Koster said the resolutions do not hinder existing cooperatives agreements, all involved school athletic directors are aware of the resolutions and their school board will consider the resolutions. He said the agreements will be revisited if students in schools involved with former agreements want to participate in future cooperative agreements.

The board unanimously approved donations included $20,000 from the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation for ECFE (Early Childhood Family Education) and $12,222 from the New Ulm Eagles Unified Booster Club for hotel costs at the state girls’ hockey and basketball tournaments, state wrestling and boys’ hockey tournaments.

Other donations included $5,000 from the New Ulm Farm City Hub Club for the New Ulm FFA Club, $2,000 from James & Maryls Dyvig for the Haala Family Scholarship Fund, $2,000 from the New Ulm Sleepy Eye Hockey Association to the New Ulm Activities Dept., $1,890 from Aimee Larson to the Sharon Larson Scholarship Fund in memory of her mother, Sharon Larson; $1,000 from Preston & Gay L. Cowing for the Trades Scholarship Fund, A $908.51 STEM grant from Understood.org, funded through 3M funds for 24 micro bit coding circuit boards and eight robots for the Jefferson STEM lab, and 160 square feet of galvanized sheet metal valued at $683.20 from Gag Sheet Metal, Inc. for the NUHS metals class.