Get informed! Make your plan to vote for the upcoming February 10, 2026 Building Bond Referendum. Safe Spaces - Skilled Students - Shared Success. We have many opportunities to vote early, but please review the information prior to casting your ballot.
All referendum information is posted on this website - including how to find your tax impact, description of the challenges this building bond referendum addresses, and answers to many of your questions!
Please attend our Referendum Open House on January 5th, 2025. Food will be served. There will be tours at 5:00pm, a speaker (Luke Geiner, Labor Analyst from Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development) discussing the workforce needs in our community (6:00pm), and a questions and answer session on anything on your mind about the Referendum. Please enter through the North, High School Entrance.
February 10, 2026 - ELECTION DAY Polling Place & Voting Hours:
(7:00am – 8:00pm) Ed Pollard Community Center, 20 W Nokomis St, Osakis, MN 56360
Absentee Voting Location (December 26, 2025 – February 9, 2026)
ISD 213 – Osakis School District Office
District Office – East Entrance – Door 5
500 East First Avenue, Osakis, MN 56360
PHONE: (320) 859-2191 (Ext. 3)
EMAIL: elections@osakis.k12.mn.us
Voting by mail - You can download an application for absentee ballot HERE. Please fill out this application and mail it to our District Office at:
Osakis Public School
Attn: Lisa Tenhoff
PO Box X
Osakis, MN 56360
You will be mailed an absentee ballot that you will use to vote per the instructions included in that ballot.
Absentee Voting - Limited Hours:
Friday, December 26 - 9:00am - 3:00pm
Monday, December 29th – Friday, January 2nd - 9:00am - 3:00pm
District Office is closed Wednesday, December 31st and Thursday, January 1st
Monday, February 9th - 8:00am - 12:00pm
Absentee Voting - Regular Office Hours (January 5th – February 6th)
Once School resumes January 5th, regular District Office hours are:
M-F - 8:00am to 4:00pm
Extended Absentee Voting Hours:
Monday, January 5th, until 7:30pm
Saturday, January 10th - 10:00am to Noon
Monday, January 19th, until 7:30pm
Saturday, January 24th, 10:00am to Noon
Tuesday, January 27th until 7:30pm
Sunday, February 1st - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Friday, February 6th until 7:30pm