001[Music] to start off in my room and it was three minutes slow. Good evening. I'd like to call this regular meeting of the Jamestown Public School Board to order. It is Monday, June 16th, 2025 in the Thompson Community Room at the middle school. Thank you for all those that are joining us in the audience today. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Jamie, would you read the school board norms for us this evening? The board developed norms are to share and respect opinions and speak with the united voice once a decision has been reached. Exe execute all duties of the school board in compliance
002with North Dakota century code. Properly prepare for meetings and commit to assessing board effectiveness and ensure high quality governance for all stakeholders. Thank you. We have nothing to public communication. Any conflicts of interest to declare? Any conflicts of interest? Any conflicts of interest? If not, moving on to the consent agenda. Is there a motion? Motion by Jamie. Second. Is that Owen? Second by Owen. We have a motion and second for the consent agenda. Any questions? Any clarification? Would you like anything removed for further discussion? Okay. If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Moving on to our regular meeting. under recognition. We're going to recognize our spring athletes um today. So Melissa and uh Jacob will read your name and when your name is read,
003please join me over here and everyone will then end up on top of the stage here for a photo. And parents, feel free to come right up in the center so you get a good photo. Recognition for baseball is Thomas Newman, all conference, all state. Jackson Copen, all conference, all state. West region coach of the year, Tim Random. Boys golf, Jace Dilman, all conference. Girls soccer, Ellie Krueger, or Kger, excuse me, all conference. Hi Adden, all conference. Laya Becker, all conference, all state. Amelia Newman, all conference, all state. West region coach of the year, Colter, uh, excuse me, Colton, all training. Softball, Avery Graves, all conference, all state. Maddie Hoff, all conference. Boys track and field. Brady Hardy, all conference 300 meter hurdles. Graden Thor Thorlson, Tristan William, Charlie Heeney, Ryan Kalenback, 4x100 relay, all
004conference. Graden Thor Thorson, Noah Lynch, Aiden Scari, Brady Hardy, all conf uh 4x400 relay all conference. Edy Ramadani, Heath Hupil, John Bellzer, Micah Stout, 4x 800 relay, all conference. Grant Lond allconerence javelin. Girls track and field. Julia Scari allconerence WDA champion and state second 100 meter hurdles. WD champ uh state third 300 meter hurdles. Mia Oland Addison Yunk Jaylen Olsen Claire Marker 4 by 800 relay all conference. Leila Hoffer all conference high jump. That's it. [Applause] As close as you can. Congratulations [Applause] again to all of our spring athletics. Moving on our agenda under correspondence, we have a couple thank you cards. We have a thank you um for the memorial for family of Connie Offner, the MAF family, and the there's also a thank you from Fran Cyberneaggel um saying he enjoyed his years
005of working at JHS and he is um going to be retiring. So, thank you. Under reports, we have a report of Florida Orchestra. Mrs. Michael Leno, please join us. Is that on already? It's on. Hi, my name is Jenny Molenko. I am the orchestra teacher. Um, and this spring/summer, we took a trip to uh Florida with the orchestra. Um, and we had a unique situation. Um, Devil's Lake Orchestra and Jamestown Orchestra traveled together and um, it was after school's out. The kids did a whole bunch of fundraising throughout the year. They started the previous school year raising money to go on the trip. Um, they got to do a lot of fun things, but my favorite part was that they got to do a bunch of educational things that Disney is great with. So, um,
006we did things in Florida, but we did a lot of stuff at Disney. Um, we started off with a workshop with a Disney professional and he worked with the group for two and a half hours giving them information about being a great musician whether it's a soloist or a performance ensemble. Um, and then the kids got to play Disney music that they had never played before. Uh, so to prep for going on the trip, we did a lot of um work with music that the kids hadn't played. So site readading things and then just being respectful students and they were fabulous and it was great for our kids as well because they were working with the Devil's Lake Orchestra. Um it it was a little unconventional for the trip. Um we had uh Roberts and
007Lynn's children on the trip and uh we started off with an 11 p.m. rehearsal before we left for the trip and that was the first time that Devil's Lake and Jamestown had played together and then we traveled our way. Um, so I'm going to show you a video that Disney put together for us as we were recording. Um, there was a technician that put the music together, put it to a cartoon, took pictures of the kids. It's a three and a half minute video. We'll show it on the screen and then I'll give you a little more information after we do that. So feel free to turn around. Here are all our students. And then two songs afterwards, just our students playing the music that they just heard that day or got the music for
008that day. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, 10. Hey, hey. Hey, feel [Applause] So I for me the exciting part about that is that the students um had the skills to be able to play that music like getting it that day and they played three different things. the the Frozen medley is probably the hardest. Um, but they played three different things, site reading, doing all the things that they've been learning since they were fifth graders. Um, so they uh put all that to use. And then the next day we went to Disney Springs, which is the big shopping area where the ginormous Disney store is, and they did a performance of music that we had been preparing, Devil's Lake had been preparing preparing, and then we put that together um for a performance there. You can't tell
009how big the audience is because they walk by and there's no covering for the audience to sit. So, they hang out in the shade where they can find it. But, I thought that we had a great audience that enjoyed the music that we did. And then after that, the kids got to have some fun. They got to go to all of the different parks. We spent a couple hours at Cocoa Beach. Um, they spent some time shopping at Downtown Disney. They learned how to do things like ride a plane, go through TSA, do all the security things to get into the parks. I I believe that doing a Disney trip is the safest trip you can do. We stay on Disney property. They have to ride Disney transportation. There is so much security. I I've
010gone on this trip a lot of times with other people and I think it's fabulous. So, I'm glad that we were able to do it, that the school lets us do it. It was a great collaboration with Devil's Lake and it was a great time as well. I I like Mickey Mouse a lot so it was fun for me too. Any questions for me? Any questions? Well, that was fantastic. So, thank you for your work and dedication um with that. Aaron, how many total students combined went on the trip between Jamestown and 29 students total. And I had a lot of chaperones with as well. Well, the Moltzson family came with, the Acriman family, Miss Raldson came with as a chaperon, and then um there were uh chaperones from Devil's Lake as well. So, we
011had lots of students. Um 29 is a great number to combine because I understand it's an expensive trip and the kids have to pay for it or fund raise it all on their own. So, being able to get I had 17, Jeremiah had 12. So, yeah, it was great. Any other questions? Any other questions? All right. Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Under board education, we have cultural competency exit interview results. Mrs. Jamsgard What' you do? Okay. Um I'm Stacy Jamgard, human resources with the school. Um I have a presentation on our exit interview um for all of the staff that left this year. Um as many of them as I could get. So, uh, the purpose of doing exit interviews, this is something that we've been doing now for since I started. I
012think November 2022 is when we started doing them. Um, but we want to understand why, what is driving employees to leave the district. Um, if there's anything that we're doing that's causing them to leave and and areas that we can improve on um so that we can support retention and organizational health. And um they do the exit interview online and then I try to meet with them and go over it to kind of um have that loop back and see if they have any ideas that they weren't willing to share in the survey format. Um this year we had 48 departures. That number seems really big. Um it didn't seem like we had as many this year as we did last year. um but it's about the same. It's a little less teachers. We had
01320 teachers leave throughout um at the end of the year. Um three of those were retirements and then there was different reasons. Relocation was the biggest one as and I'll show that in the next slide. Um for support staff, that one's a little bit different because I just go from July through June. So that's how many we had leave from July 1st of last year through the through now um of this year. And then we had two administrators retire this year as well. Um, exit interviews completed. I I did a little bit worse on getting teachers this year, but I did better at getting support staff. Um, so I it's kind of about the same as what I accomplished last year. It's just a little bit different layout on on who we got who I
014was able to talk to on that. And then I was I was not able to meet with either Sher or Mark yet, but I think Sherry was planning on um doing one. The reasons for leaving, the main one, the biggest one there is the relocation. We have a lot of teachers who are moving to be closer to family, moving for job opportunities, um and that sort of thing. And then we the smallest one is the other and that's people who don't really want to say why they're leaving. Um and then retirement is the 11% and then the 28% is new employment. So we did have a few teachers who um went to different employment opportunities within the city of Jamestown this year and then also some that were moving in away to different opportunities as
015well. Um as far as teachers go, we didn't from anybody that I talked to, we didn't have anybody leaving the field of education. So that was nice to see because last year that we had several who were deciding to do something different. So it's encouraging to see that changing. I hopefully long term that'll change. Um the things that employees like work like the most working for Jamestown public schools is their teams. Um, everybody that I talk to all has like a they all have like a family in their unit, whether it's the science department at the high school or it's Roosevelt Elementary. Um, the one that I talked to from Roosevelt said that if she could take Roosevelt and move it to where she was going, that's what she would do because she just loved
016working there so much. Um, they like our commitment to student success and the community focus environment. Jamestown is very supportive of our schools and it's nice to live in a community where we have them. And then strong building level leadership. Everybody that I talked to um had great relationships with their admins. Um felt very comfortable going to them for advice and all of that as well. The most common suggestions for areas that we can improve on are communication from district leadership or just um comm community or district-wide communication. Um reducing workload and improving work life balance. That was better this year than it was the previous year. Um I didn't get as much of that. They are looking for a decrease of number and dis and district initiatives um and professional development. they a lot
017of teachers with standardsbased learning would like to focus on standardsbased learning until they can get a grasp on that and then um go from there and then timely follow up on survey results. I think that one was more this year with doing the vital survey networks. People are trying to figure out exactly what that's looking like from our standpoint and what what that communication's going to look like and where when they're going to see change that's brought from those results. um recommendations and next steps. Something that I think that we could work on is more face-to-face meetings throughout the year from in the district level. I've been looking at doing um like stay interviews is what I would call them where I meet with people um just like a random selection of teachers and support
018staff and talk to them about what they do like about their job, what drives them to come to work and if they have thought about leaving, why they thought that and see if we can kind of catch these things before they happen. Instead of doing the exit inter I mean we'll still do the exit interviews but instead of catching them after they leave we can catch them as they're happening. Um continuing monitoring and acting on survey feedback. People appreciate when we when I did the facetoface interviews after they do the online survey. They like that um that follow that followup after afterwards. It gives them an a chance to explain a little bit more in detail and gives us a chance to kind of explain where we're coming from and what steps we've already taken
019to maybe um act on some of the things that they're seeing. And then gratitude. I think the biggest thing that people are looking for is appreciation. Um everybody likes to feel appreciated in their job and I think we do a good job on this. We just need to continue to do it um as much as we can. even just a small thank you as you pass somebody in the hallway or um like when we do the recognition here, that stuff is great. That's what they're looking for. Um any questions? Jamie, um I really like the stay initiative that your your idea that I think that's a really solid idea. I'm wondering though if there's any way to like dissect the reasons for departure out more like between you know maybe support staff is driven more
020by relocating or where teachers are as opposed to support staff if that were a possibility in the future. Yeah, we could we can definitely look at doing that. I can tell you this year it's the teachers are definitely more driven towards relocation than the support staff. support staff are more likely to be switching jobs within the district or um just or not replying. I have less luck getting the support staff to tell me why they're leaving than the teachers. Teachers are usually a little bit better about that communication, but we could look at splitting it out for the stay surveys. Were you thinking about a similar format like an online um survey and then a followup? Is that kind of what you Yeah, I think so. I think that you get better feedback or more
021honest feedback sometimes in those online surveys. People are willing to put it out there and then when I read through it, I can go talk to them about what they what they put out there. Okay, Aaron, just on the recognition side, I see you raised that point. Excuse me. Um, I think that that's that's good. And I know, you know, anecdotally, I hear some really nice success stories within like some of the buildings and whatnot. Um, it'd be great to be able to have an avenue or a vehicle to bring those forward and and like to the board and to the community as a whole. Yeah. On and some of this stuff is not real big, but it's it's a big deal, right? Um, and it'd be nice to have that a vehicle to kind
022of bring that that forward and and and appreciate those people that kind of go out above and beyond and uh and get them that recognition and then also by sharing that um allowing some of the other other buildings and other other uh individuals who can can take that and and build on it further. Yeah. Anyone else? Okay. All right. Thank you for your work. We appreciate it. Thank you. Moving on our agenda, superintendent report. Dr. L. Thank you. You have my written report. Um, one of the things that the board asked for at after the last meeting was the uh we we asked school perceptions to disagregate that uh community survey a little bit. So just contextually we had uh 631 participants out of that almost uh 1,200 uh uh respondents uh provide commentary specific
023comments. Uh so a total of almost a thousand comments from those individuals and so the the entire document is available and you can look at that and the facilities committee will look at that in a little bit more depth. Uh but really the key themes uh when I looked through that document uh existing high property taxes and the impact of the increases um you know I would take that a little bit farther. How do we communicate how that aligns to um you know we have property tax reduction occurring in the state? You know how can we tie those things together? But I think just existing property tax that is high uh was probably the most con was the largest concern. Declining enrollment and the desire to focus on maintenance of existing schools. You know, I
024tie that to how well are we communicating what those facility needs are now. Um and you know, how can we help to um articulate those needs a little bit better? a specific opposition to closing Louis Lamore Elementary. So, one of those options uh got quite a bit of feedback uh in terms of uh that particular building and the desire for efficiency. We know that as a board we were trying attempting to articulate efficiency uh in that that option. Uh but but uh many that responded back in com you know with the comments uh had a hard time seeing past that closing that building. So that was a derailer in terms of why people voted specifically uh in opposition. Uh concerns over financial management facility maintenance. I tie that again to how well we articulate that
025long-term capital projects plan. uh desire to consider alternative funding methods specifically referenced uh you know are there other measures or we should be considering other measures you know and and I look again that at at that as how can we articulate what options we do have you know specifically sales tax was referenced and we know in our community our high school was built 75% of that uh cost was was a penny sales tax we don't have that option it it no longer is available by entry code. So, but I think there's a little bit of holdover in terms of well, why aren't we looking to different measures like sales tax? We saw that a lot of times uh in the comments. Uh and then just consideration for alternative options if not these two. Maybe there's
026some other options that were preferred by some individuals. So, a lot more in that document than just that. That's what I took out as the key themes. With that, I'm just going to pause for questions if there were any in that survey. Any questions at all? Okay. And I appreciate the facilities committee to do a deep dive into this too and bring bring things back to the board some trends. Thank you. The next two just some recommendations or considerations uh for the board. Uh in the last uh few evaluation cycles, there's been commentary from the board. You know, is our superintendent evaluation the the method or are there components of that that should be changed? Is it still uh you know we created that uh evaluation probably seven or eight years ago. Should it be
027revised? There's been some comments from the board that perhaps it should be or at least some uh revised. Some questions maybe shortened, maybe some questions focused on a little bit more. Uh in my recommendation, if you want to do that, I would suggest an ad hoc committee uh be established to to take a deeper dive and look at that. uh if we don't do it now, we're suddenly going to be back in October, November again and and we'll have the same discussion. So, just a just a thought there uh that you may want to consider. Uh the next is meeting assessments. When we established meeting assessment, um you know, there's a there's a link at the end of every meeting in the adjournment tab. uh that was a really important uh aspect of governance improvement
028you know 10 12 years ago it see I'm not sure that it meets the same need anymore um it doesn't seem like that has uh had the traction in recent years that it maybe had it in initially when it was necessary and so just a thought that as a board you may want to consider is that still relevant uh we certainly I know in in the board norms Um the board has, you know, has been very uh has had a continued commitment to assessing board effectiveness, but that is more than just the meeting assessments. You do your board self- assessment. And I I would think that that would still um you know fit that need or probably fits that need better uh than what you do than just the meeting assessment. Uh so just a
029thought there. Um, as you prepare for the annual meeting in July, um, every year I provide a draft list of committee assignments. That is not my recommendation for committee assignments. That's the board's responsibility. Uh, I put out a draft list just based on what we did this year. Uh, and so my suggestion would be if you have uh if you have committees that you're interested in serving on or those that you maybe don't want to serve upon anymore, uh, have some conversations with Dr. Larson, maybe myself if you want to, you know, be considered in in other uh committees. Uh let's um have those conversations before the July meeting. So when you approve your committee assignments, uh that those are reflective of that. Uh so if we can help out in any way, let me
030know. Uh and to Mr. Robert's point, I have the I have a spotlight. Uh you asked about recognitions, and I think spotlights uh are a part of that. I think we can certainly do more as was suggested, but the spotlights provide us an opportunity to highlight something that we think is really great in our district. Um, and I included the report from Mr. Beta in Blue J Academy. Just what a great success uh that program continues to be. He provided some great metrics for us. Um but 52 students uh attended the Blue J Academy this year uh and a 90% retention rate and those are some of our most at risk students. That is a very very high retention rate that I think goes to uh the program itself and how it's structured uh as
031a school within a school. It goes to uh outstanding uh support from the adults in the building, whether they be our counselors, our teachers, our administrators that are continuing to check in uh having high standards for learning uh and also accountability. Uh but 90% uh retention rate far exceeds what we have been able to accomplish uh prior to uh and very proud of that and I know that they are in the Blue J Academy as well. They're very proud of their retention rate and it's something they focus on uh quite a bit and 24 of those students reached senior status and all 24 of those students uh achieved graduation. Uh that is again very uh indicative of the great work that is happening in that program and by those individuals and by those students who
032are taking a uh that non-traditional pathway and having quite a bit of success. So, we're very proud of them, very proud of our program, uh, and out out really proud of the work that happens, uh, in the Blue J Academy every day. So, with that, I would stand for questions. Any questions from the board? All right. So, we have a couple things. Um, I think it would be a good idea to um, look at the superintendent um, evaluation and just align it more with the strategic plan. And so if there are board members that would be um interested in that serving on that, let me know. And um so it would be great to have like three board members do that and we may have them at the same time um have a little discussion
033on that survey that we do at the end of our end of our meeting as well. Um as long as they're digging into it, it might be good to lump those together. And then the board committee assignments, take a look at those. If there's if you're fine where you're at, let me know. Um if you there's something you're really interested in um as a change, let me know. Um otherwise um we will those will probably stay right about where they're at right now. Um so let me know as far as if if there's any changes. So questions on that? Okay. Any questions for Dr. Luck? Okay. Moving on our agenda. We have nothing under old business under new business and we have nothing under activities buildings and grounds curriculum assessment instruction under finance. We have
034a approval of the curriculum budget. Is there a motion motion by Dan? Second by Jamie. We have a motion second for approval of the curriculum budget. Any discussion? Any discussion? Aaron. So on this one here, um, why do we need to approve a specific budget for the curriculum outside of the general fund approval that we have to the draft that we have to have by July? Mr. Taylor, if I may, I think procedurally uh some of to receive some of the materials in time, that's been typical that we bring a budget to the board so that we can issue purchase orders um that then are invoiced in July so materials arrive in time for school. Otherwise, I'm not sure um procedurally why there would be a need to approve one particular budget. Yeah, it is
035it's more for the articulation of the curriculum being purchased as much as it is the amount that's being budgeted. So, it's an ability to articulate what curriculums are being purchased. So, with the purchase order sent out before July would fall for this current school year's general fund. Yep. Okay. Actually, it would be in next school next budgeted year. We're just after July 1st. After July 1st, next budgeted year. Okay. But before August 1st, but before the preliminary budget is received in has any committee members looked at any of the details within the this here board committees or uh the PD and curriculum committee meets but they've not um other than the approved ones um each of the each subject area that brings new curriculum forward forms a small working group. For example, seventh grade social
036studies is on there and their working group determined which curriculum uh they would recommend and then I review them but that's doesn't go to the PD and curriculum committee. Now should it certainly could be routed that way. Initially we had that conversation that would be routed through that what was initially the PD committee expanded into PD curriculum you know with the idea that we could um review these purchases in that through that committee. Yeah. And I guess the reason I'm asking the questions is because it's it's this quote unquote budget is pretty high level with not a lot of transparency. I don't by approving this. I have no idea what I'm approving to be honest with you in terms of a level of detail and and vetting by the board. Um so I I kind
037of struggle with that a little bit to you know if it was vetted out at a at a level of detail that would be appropriate for a committee I would feel a lot more comfortable um in approving it. I think you make a good point here and I think in the future we'll make sure that this gets run through. Is that timing work with decisions being made and then when that committee meets u Mr. We can definitely bump that process up. Normally, we're starting in November with the groups that are up in that. If you look at that cycle that's included, um there are groups that are up for update and selection. And um some of them I didn't get information until after that committee had met for the last time for the year, but
038um we can make sure that we move that back to September or October. It's interesting to, you know, you know. Yeah. Just just I guess logistically approving the budget before we approve the budget. I I I fundamentally I struggle with that as well. You know, we're carving out little little bits here and there and approving them before we have an idea what the big picture even looks like. And I don't know how how well this does or does not fit in that big picture by, you know, kind of peacemealing it through. So, I I just got some concerns on how how we go about this one. And um yeah, I think there's room for improvement. I just I I say I don't feel comfortable approving something that I just that hasn't been vetted and and
039Mr. G, you're saying that it it has there was a small committee that chose any of the new ones and there's experts in the content area, but it didn't go through. Yeah, I was just going to point that out. I was just going to point that out there. A lot of what you're looking at are recurring subscription things that we have done in the past. Delta math is a good example. We've used that in the past, continue to use that. Uh there is a difference between the what am I looking at the the the projection of what's going to be selected in a given year and then the the recurring costs. It's just probably more articulated than what you've seen in the past in terms of uh the recurring costs. We can absolutely run that
040through that committee moving forward uh to ensure that that there's that level of connection prior to it coming and review prior to it coming to the board level. I think we've had a long-standing history of approving this um at this time of the year. I also wonder that it wasn't always subscriptions. it was ordering textbooks that had to be, you know, and so it was um definitely a timing thing in order to get the materials in time for for school start. Yeah, this is certainly in more depth than what has been provided in the past. In the past, it was just a new subs a new curriculum if we had if we were approving a new ELA curriculum. I don't believe in the past we've gone this depth into recurring subscriptions, for example. Those were
041just built into our title two budget and approved at that, you know, at the preliminary budget. Owen, I am looking at the itemized list. Uh and it looked like there's a curriculum total and then there's negotiated savings and cuts and then um a delayed cost internal development and then there's a number for reduction from forecast. Could you walk us through? Yeah. So um at the request of of the board and superintendent last year, I tried to do a projection and looking at a six-year curriculum cycle. So, uh, we looked at the state standards, when those would be up for renewal, and, uh, I did a survey of all staff and when their m, uh, what the date of their materials were, and we had some, um, that hadn't gotten to select new resources for close
042to 20 years. Uh, and so upon that review, we established this cycle. So, the cycle sets who's up for update and selection in a given year. Some of the delayed or or deferred costs are those that chose not uh to update their resources or they chose to do curriculum writing to use their existing resources to update um for that curriculum. So there's some savings there. And then the 52,000 is um it ranges from everything from some of our licenses were a site license, but we closed a building u to duplication, which the board requested last year at this meeting uh for me to look at and spent a good chunk of time looking through for duplication and and really pushing our instructors um postcoid uh when everything was um hey, try our program for free.
043Now, um there's a cost with it. We did end up with some duplication to, you know, to the tune of being able to eliminate sites and um duplication. We found some significant savings in those recurring expenses uh as well. So, that kind of maybe breaks down that part of it. Um and so so it's significantly less than what I had projected in that uh long-term budgetary impact. Um and I and that's due to those two things, people choosing not to update the resource and doing it themselves or um in some cases I just am pushing that to the next year because it's it's really a deferred expense if they chose not to this year. Uh will they have the option to do that or not? I think, you know, finances will dictate that, but also
044um we want to make sure that that we're still accounting for that we didn't replace those books so we don't end up in the same situation where we have some books that weren't replaced for 20 years um and some books that are still on cycle, so to speak. Dr. L. Well, and and one thing, you know, what the mistake probably falls on me named the action item approval of the curriculum budget. To to Erin's point, that's it's wasn't really intended to be I I probably should have worded that differently than approval of the curriculum budget. It's approval of the 25 26 curriculum. Uh it's not intended to be the budget before the budget, but it it's when I looked at the depth of information that was provided by Mr. Gayler, we could have called it
045something different than it but uh but approval of textbooks, uh which is what has been the long-standing action item just doesn't seem to fit the bill, uh based on what we were provided. Uh but um I could have worded that differently, too. Dan, so there's a there's a line item in here for SRO. So is this also reflects the SRO our portion of the SRO salary? Is that correct? That um is included in the title 4 typically and so the that's why that's okay. So it's okay. Oh, and did you have another question? Okay. Anyone else? Okay. So, we have a motion, a second for the approval of the curriculum budget. Any more discussion? Any more discussion? If not, yep. Let's do a roll call. Christie Melissa Gleason. Yes. Owen McKenna. Yes. Jamie Bear. Yes.
046Heidi Larson. Yes. Jacob Meyer. Yes. Dan Tweeton. Yes. Aaron Roberts. Yes. Seven. Yeah. Motion approved. And just recommendations. Mr. Gay, thank you for doing the work that we had asked you to do last year. and let's just um with the recommendation to run this through the PD curriculum committee um at the next next budget cycle for this. So thank you and just a reminder uh Jason Roor serves on that PD curriculum committee so the board is represented on that committee. Okay, thank you. B approval of the NDSBA membership renewal. Is there a motion? Motion by Jamie. Is there a second? Second by Melissa. We have a motion, a second for approval of the NDSBA membership renewal. Any discussion? Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same
047sign. Motion approved. General fund balance and the monthly financials are there for your information. Are there any questions for Christie at this time with that? Okay. Under operations, we have approval of the 2025 to 2026 technology plan. Is there a motion? Motion by Jacob. Is there a second? Second by Dan. We have a motion a second for approval of the 2025 to 2026 technology plan. Discussion and Mr. Armitage is here to answer any questions. We did our annual review of the technology plan which basically includes getting rid of the programs we no longer use, putting the programs we keep our membership up to date, um things like that. As far as a district ourself, we used our last two years of -ate and we will be putting new switches across the district this summer. Uh
048middle high middle school and high school got brand new laptops last year. Elementary will get them this year and for the first time and since I've been here, the new machines are actually here. The laptops showed up the day after school got out. So, it was just I'm still recovering from that shock. Uh we will be pulling our technology out of Washington that is not in use by the summer program. We will be redistributing those into the other elementarymentaries. We have purchased enough interactive panels to do the middle school mainstream classrooms. We'll still have some shortages in the special ed rooms, but we will pick that up as we go. And then these projectors will also be taken down to elementaryaries and we will replace and start putting short throw projectors into the elementaryaries. get
049rid of the overhead ceiling ones like we have here. Uh we'll put a short throw in here. We'll get newer one for that one. So, we're updating our projectors as we go this year as well, too. So, uh we're in our second year, this going into our second year of the middle school Chromebook lease. We're in the final year of our high school Chromebook lease. And then, uh Christy and I will be talking about what we want to do with the iPads because they will be next to be replaced and they'll be due for next year as well. So, Uh, I believe it's much better for Christie that we're releasing our equipment instead of buying it now. We don't have that hu huge cash outlay and she can budget a lot easier than we have
050been in the past. So, Any questions from the board? Okay, we have a motion, a second for approval of the 2025 to 2026 technology plan. There be no discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. Under personnel a approval to hire for the 2025 to 2026 school year upon a successful background check and appropriate lensure number one Julie Kudra. Is there a motion? Motion by Jamie, second by Melissa. We have a motion of second for approval to hire for the 2025 to 2026 school year upon a successful background check and appropriate lensure. Julie Krin there. Any discussion? Any discussion? Assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion approved and welcome. Under policies and procedures, we have approval of the policies. Do you mind
051if we do them both together? Is that okay? Okay. Number one, first reading of policy GACB, patriotic exercises, and second reading of policy ABCB, sportsmanship. Is there a motion? Motion by Melissa. Second by Owen. We have a motion, a second for first reading of policy GACB, patriotic exercises, and second reading of policy ABCB, sportsmanship. Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. Under tuition, we have approval of tuition agreement for the 2025 to 2026 school year number one students to attend Jamestown public schools. Is there a motion? Motion by Melissa. Second by Aaron. We have a motion, a second for approval of tuition agreements for the 2025 to 2026 school year students to attend Jamestown public school. Any discussion? If not, assuming roll
052call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion approved. Nothing under other. Any items for future agenda? If not, let Dr. Luck and myself no. We have some meetings to be scheduled. We have teacher negotiations on Wednesday, June 18th in the Thompson community room. Administrative negotiation meeting Thursday, June 19th in district office conference room. Teacher negotiation on Wednesday, June 25th in the Thompson community room. Administrator negotiation on Thursday, June 26th in the district office conference room. Our next schoolboard meeting is on Monday, July 21st at 5:30 p.m. in the Thompson community room at the M middle school. Any other meetings that we're missing for committees or that? Okay. We have fac facilities. What day was that? So, we have a facilities. Let's get that one noted. Let's see if I can
053pull it up on mine. So, you think Monday? No, 30th. The 30th. Okay. Yep. Okay. Yep. So, we have a facilities meeting on Monday, June 30th at 5:30 p.m. And we will be scheduling a strategic plan, the next strategic plan committee meeting, too. Okay. Before July. Okay. All right. And um next item on the agenda is possible executive session to discuss negotiation strategies. Dan, I'd like to move that we allow Mr. Meyer and Mr. Roberts to sit in on a portion of this executive session regarding the budget updates that have occurred since the start of the negotiations. There's been some significant changes and I I think that's something that that we'd like their input on. Okay. Is that a motion? Is there a second? Second by Owen. We have a motion to allow um Jacob
054Meyer and Aaron Roberts to sit in on the portion for budget updates of executive session. Any discussion? to do. So, just for the sake of clarity, this is uh a motion to uh recognize their conflict of interest, their previously stated conflict of interest and allow them to participate in the executive session. That is correct. And are you saying for the entire executive session or are you saying only for the portion of the update? Um for the portion of it regarding the budget changes since our initial start of the negotiations. Okay. and to receive input on on that on that strategy. Okay. Aaron, just a parliamentary question on that. Do you have to go in and come out of and go back in executive session for different scopes? Yeah, I would say that you would have
055um executive sessions specific to the individuals. I I don't think you could just go in and out. I think you would have to make multiple executive sessions. Two executive sessions. Yeah. Yep. I believe that that would be procedurally how you'd want to Yep. attendees different scope of discussion. Correct. Because you have to be very specific. You know, the motion I would suggest is very specific to the topic that you want to cover. So if you want to Yeah, I think you'd have to be very specific and I I would be cautious related to the applicability of the agenda topic to specifically to executive session. Is it related to negotiation strategies? So just a you know caution there. Correct. That's what I'm suggesting. I I'm just saying the topic specific would want to be very clear
056how it impacts negotiation strategy. The top the topic is is regarding negotiation strategy. The discussion um is primarily limited to the impact of the total budget versus specific um um proposals to be offered. Yes. So the the terms and conditions will not be discussed but the general and administrator negotiations negotiations would not be a conflict of interest. Y. So, so we have a motion um and a second to um recognize the stated conflicts of interest. Um previously that um did not allow u Mr. Meyer, Mr. Roberts to attend negotiations. The motion, the second at this point is to allow them to attend um the negotiation strategies executive session with very specific topics of administrator negotiation as well as the budget budget impact to negotiations overall. Does that make sense? Yeah. Does that seem okay, Christie?
057No. Okay. All right. So, we'll do a roll call vote on this. And as if you remember with these conflicts of interest, if there's one no, um, it's not a pass fail. It's just if it's one no, then it's it has to be unanimous. Yeah. Any contract has to be unanimous. Northakota Code and Jacob. Correct. On this on this. Y Yes, Jamie. This is a motion for just a specific topic for executive session. If that passes, we would have that come back in possibly have an additional executive session for our strategic potentially. This is this and this is this is specifically for this executive session. Are you anticipating two executive sessions tonight or you just anticipating this one? I think so. Okay. Okay. Okay. So it'll be more narrow focused then. Okay. And and clarification,
058the intent is for this this exception to be applicable only to this executive session. The conflict would would stay would stand after this one. Okay. And are you including administrator negotiations in this part too as well? Just a negotiation. Okay. Good. Okay. Christie, go ahead. Okay. Dan Tweeton. Yes. Melissa Gleason. We're just speaking budget. We're talking about the impact on our budget related to negotiations. So related to negotiations, there have been some changes that we would like some board guidance on, but not specific proposals, general budget guidelines and and awareness, but specific to negotiation strategy. It has to be specific to negotiation strategy. Yes, this will impact our negotiation strategy. [Music] negotiation strategy would be discussed. Yeah, could be discussed. Yeah, because that's the that is the one of the reasons we can have the
059executive session. So, I have some concerns. Okay. So, no. I have concerns. Okay. Okay. Yeah. No. Yes. Okay. Okay. Yes. No. Okay. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Do we have to continue? Yep. Just continue. Okay. Um Owen McKenna. Yes. Jamie Bear. Yes. And Heidi Larson. Yes. So four to zero. So that has to be Yep. Yep. So yep, motion failed. So at this point now, we still have on the agenda possible executive session to discuss negotiation strategies. And I believe that discussion with our negotiations and developing a strategy relative to the school board's petition in this matter in open session would have adverse fiscal effect on negotiations position of the board. Therefore, I move that the board enters into executive session at the and that the following members and negotiators be identified as being present. School board
060members Jamie Bear, Melissa Gleason, Heidi Larson, Owen McKenna, Dan Tweeton, uh, and then Superintendent Rob Robert Le, Adam Gayler, business manager Christy Grounds, and that the the date is Monday, June 16th, and start time of 6:33 p.m. And that the following topic will be considered in executive session negotiation strategies. that the legal authority for the executive session is section 44-04-9.1 of the North Dakota Century Code and that the executive session be recorded. Motion. Is there a second? Second. Second by Dan. We have a motion, a second for a possible executive session to discuss negotiation strategies. The topics um the only topic to be discussed is negotiation strategies. Any discussion? If not, assuming roll call vote, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. We will return um after the executive session,
061we will return back to the Thompson community room to close out the meeting. a a s certainly could schedule in the near future an open session that has a discussion on overall uh you know financial outlook if that would be desired. I think that would certainly could be applicable. Although the negotiation strategy piece may not um be impacted, it could still provide everybody that same clarity of what was discussed in negotiations as well. Just a suggestion. Hey, hey, hey.