Glen Drew Lundt, president of the Clintonville Board of Education, has been censured by the Clintonville Board of Education after an investigation into a complaint filed against Lundt by a private citizen.
The censure was covered in a Dec. 18 story that appeared in the Stevens Point Gazette. According to the story:
The censure of Lundt came at the Dec. 8 board meeting after almost two hours of discussion in closed session by the board. Lundt did not participate in the closed session discussion. The censure was approved by a 4-2-1 vote. Board Vice President Kris Strauman and board member Mark Zachow voted against the censure. Lundt abstained from the vote.
Prior to reading a statement from the independent counsel, Strauman shared her feelings about the investigation. In her statement, Strauman stated Lundt participated in an open forum on Nov. 3, 2025, in which he presented himself as president of the Clintonville School Board.
The forum has been publicly posted on YouTube. In this forum, the moderator asked participants about complaints they have received.
“Drew responded with, ‘I guess someone in our community sent a complaint to our vice president’ and I quote, ‘she took it upon herself to take it to a lawyer,’” Strauman said. “The record needs to be set straight. A community member filed a formal com- plaint. As the complaint involved the board president, pursuant to Board Policy 0144.5 it becomes the responsibility as vice president to oversee the investigation.”
Strauman said she needed to contact the independent counsel per board policy.
“The investigation was completed by an independent investigator, and the findings have been presented to all board members,” Strauman said. “The decision as to what to do with the investigation results is a decision to be made by the entire board. All approved board policies pertaining to this process have been followed to the letter.
Strauman said, quoting a statement from the district’s legal counsel, that the independent investigator retained to investigate a citizen compliant pursuant to Board Policy 0144.5 concluded that the president’s conduct was “sometimes, overbearing, crude, and demeaning to other board members and the public, but did not recommend the removal from the office of president or other specific discipline.”
However, Strauman added, the independent investigator concluded that Mr. Lundt was responsible for interfering with the investigation and attempting to influence its outcome by way of an anonymous letter with attachments sent to board members and some members of the public.
“The independent investigator concluded that such conduct was, absolutely incompatible with the role of board president,” Strauman read. Any potential action is up to the board.
Access denied, citing attorney-client privilege
The Clintonville Tribune-Gazette filed an open records request with the Clintonville School District for a copy of the completed investigation report against Lundt.
Regarding that open records request, Clintonville Superintendent Troy Kuhn responded via email, “The investigation report is attorney-client privilege. The only way it can be- come an open records request is if a board member requests that it become an open record. It would then be redacted and a vote would need to take place.”
The Tribune-Gazette obtained a copy of a police report from the Clintonville Police Department, dated April 7, 2025, that pertained to an investigation about Lundt, via an open records request.
Since the school board’s investigation report against Lundt was not released to the public, it is uncertain if the police report Lundt referred to is related to the board’s investigation of Lundt.
The official complainant of the police report was Terry Lorge, who is a previous police chief for the CPD. According to the report, Lorge stated “he had received some information about some possible threats made to Lora Ferg.” After Capt. Dennis Schroeder investigated, Ferg stated she didn’t want it “followed up any further.” This closed the investigation.
Also, while the investigation into Lundt was discussed in closed session over the period of several board meetings, Lundt presented the police report and made accusations against a fellow board member in open session.
Regarding the police report, according to Lundt, “I’ve been accused of some really bad things.” He claimed that the police report “basically shows there’s certain people in the community, one of them is here, that have lied, coerced other people to lie.”
Lundt claimed Zachow talked to another person in the community to start a complaint against Lundt. Zachow’s name was mentioned on page seven of the police report.
Lundt asked Zachow why he didn’t bring his concerns to the school board.
“Because I used to work for the Clintonville Police Department and I talked to somebody that I trusted who was on the Police and Fire Commission,” Zachow said.
“It just seems weird that you’d do that anonymously,” Lundt said. “Since you worked for the police department, why not just go there yourself? It’s all that kind of stuff that creates this tension.”
Zachow responded, “I honestly feel that if I would have made the report, it wouldn’t have been investigated.”
Potential board actions included removing Lundt from the role of board president; censure, which is a public reprimand; or closure of the investigation with no further action.
