001[Music] We will now call the meeting to order. Please stand and recite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge alian to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Okay. Our first item on the agenda is our additional agenda items. Removal of items from the consent agenda. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Vice President Schwarz, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Thank you. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Mr. Wilkey. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. Saying a. Motion carries. Our next item is the approval of tonight's agenda. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Mr. Z, I move to approve the agenda as presented.
002Thank you. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Miller. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those post say nay. Motion carries. Our next item is our superintendence report. Dr. Luton is not here tonight. Mr. Harris, would you mind sharing? Well, I'm a poor substitute for Dr. Luton. Do the best you can, please. There was a couple of items that uh we wanted to update the board on. The first one uh is customary. We let you know where our kindergarten numbers are. Uh we had a few more register today, but we're right in that 300 uh range. We're within a half dozen of where we were at this time last year. So we uh uh predict that we'll be in about the same place as we were
003last year. Um the fall busing registrations uh as of August the 7th uh including uh all of the students rural and in town, we have about uh uh check my notes. Um how come I'm not seeing that? students I believe. Uh that compares to about 722 that we had last year. So we're within 120 122 students of where we were last year. Uh what we don't know is does that mean that we have 122 more students that want to or did we have parents who wanted to register a little bit earlier? Um as far as bus capacity, we ended the year in May with about uh almost just shy of 1,400 students riding the bus. So, we're nowhere near capacity of what we're able to do uh with our uh writing at this point. Um
004wanted to invite uh the board to our employee back to school breakfast. Uh Thursday, August 14th, we'll have our elementary staff at the middle school for that breakfast. And Monday, August 19th, we'll have our middle school and high school staff there for the breakfast. The breakfast starts about 7:00. And then uh we usually give the staff a little bit of time as you know to to get together and get meet Dr. Luton gives a message and welcome back and then and then those the staff will be sent to their buildings for uh PD with their with their principles. But if you're available at 7:00 on either of those days, we'd love to have you be there and be a part of that. Um, I'm trying to remember when the administrative conduct content is. Uh, that's
005that's under business topics. So, I I don't need to cover that right now. Um, I unless there's questions or concerns about uh anything, I think that's the superintendent's update. Any questions for Mr. Okay, thank you for the report. Our next item is our business topics,formational topics only. Uh update on the Dickson High School rebuild and I believe Mr. Harris, you're reporting on that as well. Um did meet with Jun today. Uh the we're pretty exciting uh times. They poured the last of the foundations today. So the found the majority of the foundation and footing work is done. Uh by the end of next week, the back filling will all be will all be done. uh with our we plan on having uh uh steel delivery for the the steel structure uh delivered starting the 14th
006and by the 16th you'll see columns being erected uh around uh as you know the steel framing is what then the next uh um system of wall panels will be attached to and and so pretty exciting that'll that'll start going uh boilers in the yellow building are in the process of being installed and uh feel very comfortable. It's difficult to know for sure because you have to fire them up and run them to know that they're working and and with it being as warm as it is, we that's hard to do. But uh but they they we believe that the yellow building boilers, their standalone heating system will be up and functioning before the start of school. Our budget looks good, so we're happy about that. Uh the preliminary numbers say that uh did a
007good job of of uh projecting uh the costs and and that and uh Mr. Brent uh has done a great job uh along with Mr. Fidley and communicating with uh J Dunn about future activities. Um they they are looking out they're very forward thinking. They're already asking them about junior prom and those types of things uh for the spring. And as of right now, it it looks like there will be no disruptions to any of the activities uh for this school year. So, uh, I think that everything's moving along good. Uh, it's exciting. If you get a chance, go take a look at it. It's It's fun to see the progress that they're making. Any questions for Mr. Harris? Okay. Thank you once again for the report, Mr. Harris. Our next item is the DHS
008logo and brand guide, and Mr. Fidley is here to report along with Mr. Brandt. [Music] Good afternoon. Um, as President Orton mentioned, um, we're going to talk about our our new branding guide that we created here, uh, from the journey that started back in October of this last year when we decided to retire the uh, mascot and start developing a new identity for Dickinson High School. And it it was a a fun journey, a journey that took a lot of different uh uh I would say turns in the road, but uh just in terms of where we're at today with the new logo that we have. Um along with um Mr. Brent and Mrs. Trustm, uh those two did a fabulous job with helping us uh the group guide us through and help us. Uh
009the leadership those two helped us with was was phenomenal. So, um, we'll be pretty brief and leave it for some questions here at the end if you guys have. But, as you see up there on the screen right now is the the new mascot, uh, the Mavericks for Dickson High School. So, it's a horse and rider. Um, the one thing I do want to point out that not many people probably see yet, but you will see it every time you look at it on the horse's chest. There's an M on there for Mavericks. So, um, that was pretty cool. So the process that we got to this, it was a combination of image printing and BSN. Um, their marketing and sports marketing team got together and went back and forth from a bunch of different
010logos and this is what uh developed out of that vote from the students uh that picked this logo at a 60% rate I think. Yeah. Yep. 60% uh rate that these student our student body and actually grades 5 through 12 um voted for this logo. So that's where we're at today with that logo. If you want to scroll down a little bit more on this card, keep on Oh, I have the clicker here. Sorry. That's okay. I can go. So when we worked with BSN, um after they uh after image printing pretty much finished their job of the the logo that you see up there, BSN took over and developed some different things. The the word marks and the shield and different things like that came from BSN. And so we have a few different
011uh images that we're using uh throughout our our department and the high school as well. uh as the athletic department, we uh also kept the this serpentine bold oblique um font D that everybody likes in our community. They really like the D font and so we kept that. Um and we're going to continue using that as much as possible, too. Um so we're excited with what the final product came to be. Uh here are some other logos that we'll be using uh throughout. Um if it's apparel on shirts, um there's we won't use these circle ones for anything on uniforms. But um just some options for um our booster club to use on apparel to um our our teams to have a team shop with this apparel or this logo on it as well or
012these logos. BSN did a fabulous job. They communicated well. They they did some uh um items that we were just in awe with that they presented us and they just kept on working with myself and Mr. Brent and Mrs. Trust's little tweaks that we felt that kept on just bugging them. But we just wanted to get it to the point where we're we're extremely happy with where this landed. Well, and to give you guys an idea, too, the the logo that you see here is different than the one that it's slightly different than the one that the students voted for. So when we when we had those logos out, they were rough ideas of what would be the final ones. And so the process of what we had in May to present to students and
013staff and then what you see here is like Dr. Blake, Mr. Fley said, um consistent communication around tweaks from BSN image printing around what those mascots would look like. And the final products that you see here are We're really happy with what they came back with. So, what we're putting in place uh with within our athletic department that we're going to stick to these logos for all of our sports. We're not going to um tweak them. Uh none of our sports are going to tweak them put a hockey stick in the horse's mouth or anything like that. So, we want to be known as the Dickinson High School Mavericks as a team, as one unit instead of separate units. Um so, when you walk into the hockey rink, you're going to see this logo. When
014you walk into the basketball gym, you're going to see this logo. If you go to the track meet, you're going to see this logo and it's going to be consistent instead of everybody having kind of a tweak to each logo that they that they have that you've seen with our former midgets logo that they would tweak to what they preferred their sport to look like. So, we felt it was important to be a united front as as an athletic department as all our teams uh to be showing us as one solid group. So, um that is probably all that we have. Anything else, Mr. Brandt? That we just want to come today and present and show you uh at the public forum here of the school made what we've been doing behind the scenes since
015October and where the finished product is today. We um I will say we are super super jacked about how it ended and how it all finished and excited to get the new year started as as the Mavericks. Any questions for Mr. Friendly or Mr. Friend? Now, will we only have two spots where we can purchase merchandise? It would be Booster Club and through our athletic programs. Yeah. So, that's a great question. So, right now the um the logo is not trademarked, so anybody can really sell it at this point. I am in in the process of working on getting it trademarked in the state of North Dakota. is a little bit easier getting the national trademark. It goes a little quicker. So, I'm starting to work on the trademark process and then obviously people have
016to ask permission to use it. So, our booster club and local magic right now have I'll say our blessing to and permission to use the logo and the booster club will go off and use like coach's choice as well. So, uniform rotation. I can certainly do that. Yeah. Mr. Harris asked me about to address the our uniform rotation. How's it going to look? Are we going to have um uniforms with um the midgets on it or or or our bright orange or however you want to um label the orange that was before. So, in the art department, we have a 4-year uniform rotation. So, I have every four years a new group of teams will get new uniforms cuz the uniforms last about four years before they're ready to be be done. Um, so we're
017we're fasttracking that a little bit because we've gotten help from some special people. We've had a special donor that um came forward and said, "I want to purchase new uniforms for this group." Okay. Then our booster club is stepping up and they're going to fast track. I I think originally I thought, "Okay, it's going to be 3 to four years until we cycle everything out and get new uniforms for all of our varsity teams." It's going to be about a 2-year cycle now. So, this coming year, you'll probably see all of our teams suited up in Maverick's uh uniforms besides probably three teams, three or four. And then the next year, we'll be fully engulfed in the Mavericks. Now, you're going to see some of those varsity uniforms um cycle out a little bit later
018just because we went varsity, JV, sophomore, freshman, it's pretty many. To give you an idea, just football uniforms in general to suit up our whole football team is about 35,000 bucks. So for basketball uniforms, it's about 6,000. So it kind of gives you an idea of what uniforms cost. So um so we're at the point right now that uh um we're we're in a pretty good spot with our uniform rotation. The only thing that I'm going to struggle with is how do I get that rotation back going? So it's every four years. So that's my problem that I got to work out. But uh but yeah, good question. Any other questions? Well, thank you for all the work you guys put into this project. I know it was a challenge at times, but it it's
019the outcome has been great. I know the feedback I've received, people are pretty excited about it. So, thank you both. Thank you guys. [Music] Our next topic is our school board goals and Mrs. Catherine is here to present today. Madame President, me members of the board, uh we shared with you a a schedule of uh reports that we would like to bring to the board that align with the board goals, the four board goals. uh proficiency in reading, math, choice ready and behaviors. Um the decisions that we made about reporting are aligned to our assessment calendar. So when those assessments are given, the first assessment that we'll give that's a a larger scale district-wide assessment is Dibbles, which is a foundational reading skills assessment. And that begins uh actually on August 25th. It's a 3-week
020window. Um, a lot of the other data that you're going to see this year is from the NDA plus assessment and that's new. The middle school used it last year as an interim assessment. We all used it last year as the summitative. It's the the summitative is the state required assessment. Uh, this past year we did NWA. We did it three times and then also did the summitive. Now with this move we'll have two interim windows. One that'll be at the beginning of the year. first uh NDA plus interim window starts on September 3rd and then there'll be another window in December and January. At the end of the year, we'll have the summitive which is aligned to those interim. It's not a different assessment vendor. It's not a different you know so they're aligned
021and it'll give us a good um look uh both at the beginning of the year, middle of the year and end of the year of the u student achievement in reading and math. Um, and so based upon those windows of time, that's when you'll see those reports kind of showing up to the board. Um, in addition, we wanted to include a little bit more information. Um, we know how significant choice ready is and that that's a goal that we're working on beginning in kindergarten. But with some of the goals, it was it was as if we said, "Well, we'll report on reading through grade three, and then we're not going to necessarily include any information for the board." But that continued growth in reading is important if we're going to make uh if we're going
022to achieve choice readiness for all students. And so, we've included some additional information this year on uh reading proficiency and math proficiency that go a little bit past the goal itself, but the intent of that is because it informs choice ready. Uh the choice ready report will come to the board in September. It's last year's information, but the data isn't confirmed um at this time, so we weren't able to report in August. We'll continue to report that in September to you. And that will also include um some information about um workplace learning experiences for students. Uh, do you have any questions about the reporting schedule for board goals? Any questions? We do not have it. Thank you so much for the report. Okay, moving on to our business topics, our action items. The first one
023is to schedule our budget public input hearing. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Mr. Z, I move to schedule the budget public input hearing for Monday, September 22nd, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Mountain time at the professional learning lab in the 2025 2026 preliminary preliminary working budget as presented. Thank you. Do we have a second? I will second. Second by Mr. Any discussion? [Music] Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Our next item is 2025 2026 fuel bids for consideration. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Mr. Wilkey, I move the board accept the bid from the hub convenience store for number one diesel fuel for dollar for.175 gallon below the posted price cash price. Accept the bid from the hub convenience store for number
024two diesel fuel for.175 gallon below the post cash price and accept the bid from the hub convenience store for unled gasoline for.175 gallon below the posted cash price for 202526. [Music] Thank you Mr. Do we have a second? I'll second Mr. seeks any discussion hearing none. This calls for a roll call vote and we'll start with Mr. Ricowski. I Mr. Seks I Mr. Wilky I. The chair votes I. Motion carries. The next item is our board appointed delegates for the 2025 North Dakota School Boards Association convention. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Mr. I move the board member members Michelle Orton, Kim Schwarz, Brent Seeks, and Jason Rodicowski be appointed to delegates and board member Dave Will you be appointed as an alternative delegate for the Dickens of Public Schools for the North Dakota
025School Board Association 2025 convention. Thank you. Do we have a second? I can second that. Second by Mr. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I I All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Our next item is schoolboard policy revisions first reading. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Mr. Seats. I move to approve revisions to board policy FF student conduct and discipline for first reading as presented. Sample motions are recommended. Motion actually changed from the school board. So that's good. So fun fact. Thank you, Mr. We have a second. I'll say second by Mr. Wilkey. Any discussion? Uh, Madame President, this this revision is a recommended revision to bring our policy in line with some actions of the uh legislature from the last legislative session. Um, this uh this does
026bring us in line so that we are in compliance with that uh century code. Um I think it's uh goes without uh it's worth saying um the work that our district has done uh the leadership of Dr. Luton the support of our board. But with our work with our behavior solutions, in all honesty, uh instead of that the changes in law prompting us to do something, this law validates the work that we have been doing. And and in all honesty, this this does not require our district to make very many changes at all to the work that we're already doing. And so it really is validating that our district was forward thinking and ahead of the curve on on this important work. So thank you for providing that information. Any other discussion? Okay. Hearing none,
027this calls for a roll call vote. We'll start with Mr. Siks. Hi. Mr. Wilky. I. Mr. Wowski. I. And the chair bozac. Motion carries. Our last item is board policy revision, second reading, and final adoption. Do we have a motion? Madam President, Mr. Wilkey, I move to approve the revision to board policy ABA A D, education of students through the Ruffriter virtualmies. Revision to board policy BBA, school board election and term of office, revision of board policy BCBA, public participation of board meetings, and revisions to policy FFK, suspension and expulsion for second reading and final adaption as presented. Thank you, Mr. Rookie. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Mr. Seeks. Any discussion? Hearing none. We will start with Mr. Seks. I. Mr. Wikowski. I. Mr. Wilkey. I. And the chair votes I.
028Motion carries. And our last item. Mrs. Bart. Has anyone requested for public participation tonight? Okay. Thank you. Here, Mr. Harris. I am so sorry. I I have missed something. I don't know where it goes in the agenda, but it is uh the revisions to the high school, the suggested revision to the high school handbook. When it comes to the cell phone policy, I think it probably should have been under the superintendent information. So, just a report, not a motion. Right. It was just I think it's informationational thing under superintendent report, right? And and what it is is uh there's been some recommended changing changes to our high school handbook to again bring us in line with the cell phone uh requirements that that was passed by the legislature in the last legislative session. And so
029there are those recommended changes. And again, I'd like to say that this this is not new. Our our I kudos to Mr. Brandon, his administrative team, his leadership team, they were working on cell phone uh policy last year. I mean, they they were so ahead of the curve again. So, what we're doing, yeah, we're going to make some changes, but the reality is it validates the work and the uh that they were already doing. So, those changes, proposed changes to the uh high school handbook in regards to cell phone policy. Okay. Thank you. And Mr. Brandon, uh, administrators have sent that information out to parents as far as the handbook and yeah, we'll send it out um in July and then we'll send it out again before school starts. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Harris.
030And with no public participation, this meeting is adjourned.