GFPS School Board Meeting (August 11, 2025)

001We'll call to order the regular meeting of the school board for Monday, August 11th, 2025. First item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. Invite you to stand as you're able. 1A appointment of student board member and oath of office. I'll turn this over to Dr. Brener for the honors. >> Thank you, President Berger. Uh Michaela Sagini is back for her second year. She's starting her senior year of high school and so we will go through the appointment and her oath of office. So I will step over to uh Michaela's workstation. Okay, Michaela, would you please read your oath of office? I, Michaela Sagini, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of North Dakota, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties

002of student representative to the school board of Grand Forks Public School, District 1, according to the best of my ability. So, help me God. >> Thank you. That concludes Michaela's oath of office. [Applause] Thank you very much for serving in this way. 1B, the reading of our schoolboard meeting norms, Mr. Cleven. Oh, sorry. Be prepared. Be on time. And I saw our meeting started exactly 6 and 24 seconds. Uh, value and respect each other. uh exercise thoughtful deliberation and conversation. Be professional at the board table and when visiting with the general public. Speak up when the norms are not being followed. And advocate on behalf of students and keep the community in mind. >> Thank you, Mr. Clement. Let the record show it was 6:00 p.m. and 0 seconds for Ryzen Standard Time. Item two

003on the agenda is the approval of our agenda. I would seek a motion to approve tonight's agenda as outlined in your board packet. >> It's been moved by Mr. Palmino. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Larson. We'll take a roll call vote. >> L. >> Yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Pomacino, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. Item three on the agenda, public comments. I do not have any blue public comment forms filled out. If there's any member of the public who wishes to speak, please come to the podium. Item four, this is superintendent's recommendations for discussion 4A, guaranteed energy savings program presentation.

004Mr. Brandon Bombach and I believe Mr. Jonathan Elwine and some other assorted folks. But Mr. Bombach, >> thank you. President Burger, members of the board, I'll just make way for introduction for a presentation you'll receive. Um, just as a reminder, the cover memo just articulates that really late 2022, the board decided to invest in the school district in a guaranteed energy savings program, which largely replaced light bulbs across the district. Um, improved uh building envelope and even HVAC and boiler efficiencies. At the same time, there were investments made into air conditioning and and quality improvements across the district. So, it's been a big project that have taken place over the past two summers. And this represents the first report that we'll receive on the energy savings associated with that project. So, in front of you,

005um Connor Daly with CMTA as the engineering firm who's really helped um bring us through this project alongside Jason Splat with ICS Consulting. And of course when it comes to any questions at the end um all three of us plus Jonathan Elwine buildings and grounds director be happy to stand for any questions. So otherwise I'll get out of your way Connor. >> All right perfect. Thank you for that introduction. Um so Brandon gave the a little bit of the background here. So we'll jump back. This project started late 2021 and just going to give a little bit of background before we get into the numbers of really why we're here. The good news of the savings that we've seen to date through the construction period. And then the first 6 months of our first year

006of performance after construction ended at the end of last year in November. Uh so the first slide is kind of uh looking back where did we start? So this is a breakdown of the district's utilities normalized over a 3-year period. That was 2019, 2020, 2021. Um so as you can see here, spending about $1.8 $8 million across all of the facilities in electric, gas, and water. Between um Excel and NAK, about 2third of your utility spend is on that electric side. So that's where really where we wanted to focus. And then another quarter of that was spent on your natural gas. So outside of that, that's your total operating budgets. You also add in your operations and maintenance costs. So that's just fixing things, ordering new pieces of equipment, um the labor to physically go

007in and do this. If there's any contracts from external that have to come in and fix things year after year, that's all factored into the cost to upkeep these systems. So overall on a yearly basis, we were looking at about $2.2 million to run all of the facilities here in the district. So then what we guaranteed for the project takes that green chunk out. So for energy savings, we're guaranteeing every year that started back in November when construction ended of $347,000 a year. Um on& and M savings, that's your operations and maintenance. So cutting that down by $32,000 a year. So that total savings is $380,000 a year. That's what we were predicting and guaranteeing through this contract. So that lowers um your total operating budget to about $1.5 million um plus the 350,000 left

008over for operations and maintenance. So a quick cover of what went on. I know um Brandon gave a high level of what we did. This is a quick list of all the buildings that we touched and what we did in each of those facilities. So LED lighting, replacing all of the lights across the district that weren't LED already. um to new LED actually includes this building and this room. Um so pretty much everywhere across the district except Discovery which was already LED that was a relatively new building. Looking at all of your exterior doors um there were some pretty big gaps in some of those. So replacing some of the door sweeps and seals was another concern there. Did that pretty much all of the buildings except Discovery and Mark Sanford. Um and then the

009big um focus for this was really on that HVAC and adding cooling in a couple of the areas increasing increasing the air quality um in the buildings that really needed it. So you can see in that third column the HVAC upgrades. So full HVAC upgrades including the addition of cooling where it was not before at Jay Nelson Kelly Elementary, Louis and Clark Elementary and Viking Elementary. And then a full boiler replacement um at Lake Agassy to take you off of the UND steam system which was very very costly and only getting more and more expensive over the years. So those were the big focuses. Everything else was to really build that project around those. and then your HVAC controls, new controls at all four of those buildings with the HVAC and then commissioning um at

010the rest of the facilities. And that's really just going into the software so to speak and updating it to modern standards so that it's running as efficiently as it physically can. So just a few more numbers on what that really in involved. So this was $5.4 million of this was funded through the energy savings that we are seeing year-over-year. Uh 12.4 Four was capital improvements through the previous bond sale that happened through the district. Um we had $0 in construction change orders for this entire $18 million project. Um three buildings to that new upgraded control systems with the HVAC. Uh 11 buildings with new control software that I mentioned. Over 325 new pieces of HVAC equipment installed across those four different buildings. And over 18,000 light fixtures that we renovated to LED um across all

011of those buildings. Um those energy savings are the same that we already went over. About 350,000 a year in energy, 32,000 in the maintenance costs. Um and really what that um is equivalent to is about 2.7 million kilowatt hours. That's just the electricity you're using in the buildings um reduced year-over-year. That is equivalent to about 1,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide or about 217 um gas powered vehicles that we're taking off the road every year by just lowering the utility usage at all of your facilities. And then those two pictures are just a couple of the pieces of equipment that we installed. A new chiller for the cool the chilled water that's giving you the air conditioning. Um and then some of the new rooftop equipment at some of the schools. So these graphs um

012are pretty standard. We've got one for each of the utilities. So that'll be electric savings for consumption. That's that KWH, the kilowatt hours. We'll have a demand, so that's your kilowatts. And then we'll have therms, that's your gas usage. Um, this is looking at it as a whole district. So all of your buildings combined. We'll start with the three that are looking at the construction period. So that's June um July of 2023 when the major construction began through October of 2024 when all of that construction ended. So the red line that you'll see that's that averaged utility baseline. That's where the buildings started all added together. That three-year average. Um the black line was the guarantee and the blue line is where we ended up. So obviously this is construction period. This is not something

013that's guaranteed because work is being staged throughout that almost 2-year period. So, we can't really guarantee that. We don't know exactly when things are going to turn on, what their usage is going to be until we get them up and running and we get them kind of under control. Um, but you can still see a very massive drop in that energy um for the KW um over that period. For the demand, pretty much cut it in half. Um, you can see that it started pretty much online with where it started the baseline and around October it started to really dip down. That's when some of those new systems started to come online. Really outperform the systems that were there before. But at that point, we were already above that guarantee. So, it's pretty much stayed

014there um for the rest of the time, but still an 11% reduction just through that um that one period. And then gas, we actually beat the guarantee even in the construction period. So there's almost a 30% reduction in the gas usage across the district um over the construction period again July 2023 through October 2024. So again, none of that is guaranteed. This is all kind of icing on the cake for this first year of energy performance that we see and that we're still dialing and that we're in today. So now I'll show the same three graphs through the first 6 months since construction ended. So going back to the first one, our kilowatt hours, that's the consumption used. You can see a little high. We had some warmer months um when we started off this

015year. Um and a little bit colder in the winter as well. So a little bit of double whammy there, but still just a little bit above what we guaranteed. Again, that first year is still these systems are new. We're still looking at these pretty regularly, making sure that we're getting them under control, making sure that they're operating at their absolute peak. Um, but we're getting really close already. So that's six months in, just a little percent above where we guaranteed that. Demand is the exact same story, just slightly above on that one. And gas we and this the month of March, um, April, I mean, uh, it was when we cut off the 6 months, and that's actually right when we meet the guarantee. So hopefully for the rest of the year as we continue

016to track these bills that'll drop below just like we saw in the construction period. So how does that equate to the numbers? What we actually see on the utility bill at the end of the day and what you're saving. So up at the top the construction costs those savings during that construction period. Again none of that is guaranteed. It's just the icing on the cake. So for the consumption, your KW, we saw $186,000 reduced um compared to that three-year average baseline starting off the demand of about $50,000 below that baseline. And then natural gas about $175,000 below that baseline for that period. So before this, we even finished construction, we'd already saved about $412,000 um compared to what the buildings were paying before the construction ever started. looking into now the second part that first

017six months of where we've been since November of last year when construction ended and we started tracking this on the actual performance. So our consumption is up to about $75,000 through that first 6-month period. Um demand about $33,000 and natural gas of about $15,000. So that's totaling $256,000. I will just point out over to the side there that does include the $32,000 of the maintenance that operation and maintenance savings. It's just that's not as easy to track on like a bill. That's a stipulated value in our contract, but that's also added in there to get up to 256 to date. So, from where we started in the summer of 23 till today, we've saved $668,000. Um, our guarantee for this first year period is 347,000. So we've already exceeded that to date by $320,000. So

018that is not a success for me. That is not a success for CMTA. That is not a success for ICS. That is a success for the school district for Grand Pork Grand Forks Public Schools. And that's what we're really here to celebrate today and talk about even though we're only halfway through this first year. [Applause] The next slide here, just a quick overview of kind of leading into the the slide after this. Um just to explain EUI. EUI is a metric that we use to compare buildings to each other. Obviously buildings can be very different size, be used for very different um purposes. So it can be really hard to compare those apples to apples. So EUI stands for energy use intensity or energy use index. Really all that's saying is it takes everything inside

019your building that uses any sort of energy, whether that's electricity, gas, whatever. It boils them all down to the exact same units of KBTUs. divides that by your square footage of the building over the course of one year. So you can see like an energy intensity per square foot of the building. So you can compare different types of buildings to each other. And that's what this graph shows is the orange bars. This is all the buildings that we touched. The far right of this graph is the total project, what the district looks like combined. Um but the orange bar is where we started. That's that three-year baseline average per building. The gray bar is where we were during the construction period. And then the green bar is where we are so far through that first

0206 months. So, a few of those went up, a few of those went down compared to construction. That's pretty normal. We still have 6 months more of data that we need to gather and fine-tune these buildings, like I said. Um, but overall, really, really good progress here. Um, the few numbers that I have kind of highlighted point out the really big successes um across the district. So the Central High School gym building, the newer part of the building, there's a 39% reduction um over that baseline data that we started at. Discovery Elementary School being a newer building already saw 36 and we all we really touched there was some controls tweaking how we're running that just to make it a little bit more efficient. We've seen 36% reduction of energy there. 32% at Elroy Shrader

021Middle School and then South Middle School being our our really big winner of 43% reduction um compared to where it started um with a total project so the entire district seeing a reduction of energy usage of 29% since we started back in 2023. The last two slides I really have here is more just a visual representation to kind of see we like to say these projects are kind of resetting the clocks on your existing buildings and your systems. So this is our standard what we call a red yellow green chart. Green is saying that whatever that system is at that building is good to go. It's going to last a good 10 plus more years potentially. No worries really there unless something really bad happens. Yellow says it's getting close to its end of its

022useful life. It might need to be changed in the next five or so years, but it should still be okay for now. Red is it is done. It should be replaced. It's going to cause some issues here either now or within the next foreseeable future. So, this is where we started. A lot of yellow, a lot of red. This is what the district looked like back in 2021. And this is what it looks like today after our project. And this is, I will say, just including the project that I've talked about. Obviously, the district has had a lot of other things that have gone on across all of the buildings since 2021. Um, so there's probably a lot more green on this than I can show, but I'm just going to show what I I

023physically had a a say in and touched here. Um, but you can see just flipping back and forth through some of these, adding a lot more green to that, resetting that clock so that those buildings have a new 20-year lifespan plus that you hopefully really won't need to do much effort to them other than changing some filters, routine maintenance. And again, want to point out that this does include adding systems that were not previously in place at three of those schools. So, air conditioning where it wasn't before. And by adding air conditioning, we're still lowering that utility use and cost and making the learning environment, the teaching environment much better through that indoor air quality. And that's really all I have today. Um, so again, really just wanted to be here to kind of share

024the success that this project has been for all of you. Um, I mean, $600,000 plus over um the last year and a half, two years is a is a huge success. That's all money going back into your budget. Um, that excess savings is all kept within Grand Forks Public Schools. That's nothing that we get any sort of cut of. That is entirely for you to keep in your budget and use for other projects and to tighten that budget up more. So, really just here to to share the good news with everybody. We'll be back in 6 months again to share the full first year and then one year after that just to keep updating on what it looks like. But any questions? I'll be happy to answer them. >> Questions from board members. >> Dr.

025L. >> I just like you to respond. I've I've heard in public, not only from the public, but also from some district employees, well, you're saving money because you're turning the heat down in the winter and the air conditioning. Other times they're up and and that's why you're saving money. Could you comment that that's not what we've done? >> Yeah. So, what we like to do in these projects is we come in and we make existing systems as efficient as they can be and then if we're replacing systems, we're giving you state-of-the-art technology with the best design. We regularly design net zero schools, really highly efficient buildings, but we are not here to be the police of how you operate those buildings. We are using that three-year averaged baseline for that exact reason so that

026we can take out any of those abnormalities. If it's an extra hot summer, extra hot winter, extra cold winter, extra cold summer, we don't want to make any changes to what we're seeing. We want to just build that in. And all we're really doing is just making things run as efficiently as possible. the way that the school district has always run their buildings is how they're going to continue to run it. It's not my decision. It's going to be the the buildings and grounds department that's really making those decisions. And we've not changed any of that. We give guidance and say, "Hey, it might be more efficient if you were to run it this way, but we are not here to tell you to run it that way. We are going to base all of

027our guarantees off of the way that you're running it today with a few tweaks to make it more efficient. So maybe we'll have things run a few less hours if people aren't in the building, but physically changing the temperatures. We're not going to be in here saying, "No, you can only heat it to 68." If you want to heat it to 74, that's fine. It just changes the way that we look at our savings calculations before we ever start the project. So we have all those conversations up front and then that's built into how we uh we build our projects. >> Other questions from board members? Mr. Cleven, >> it's is there central pool hasn't been operating for most of this analysis period. Can that potentially skew what we're seeing from central? >> Yes. So

028that's actually one of the few things that we will go back and do what's called a baseline adjustment. Um it's something that we try to never do if we don't have to. Um, a lot of times you will see in similar projects, um, companies like to go and do that for those weather things that I was talking about. If you have really hot winters, if you have really cold summers or the opposite, um, that can skew data. That's why we do that averaging. Um, but we have it set in there if you add a full addition to a building or if you fully turn off a part of a building or if you are adding new systems in that weren't there before, that is a change of use type um, which will skew that data

029and then we'll remodel based on whatever that change is and just change the numbers in the calculation and that's all that happens. So, knowing that that pool went back into operation, we actually just did a a single model for the addition of that pool and the equipment that we were shared was being put back in place for that. Um, added that to the already operating systems that we knew were there. Um, and just slightly upped where that building started and then subsequently we're not affecting the way that any of that pool equipment is being run that's been installed after the project's finished. So, we just increased whatever our guarantee was by the exact same amount. So, the amount saved is going to stay exactly the same. We just moved both of those bars a little

030bit north. >> Um, and then looking back at the scope of work matrix for the buildings that were included, um, you know, there's like E1, G1, H1, H2, C1, C2. So, the matrix isn't all filled out obviously. So, how was it determined which buildings received each of these scopes of work? like what was the process to define that? >> Yeah. So, when this when we're first selected and I'll just say too the the EG E electrical, G is general trades, H is mechanical, uh HVAC. Um, and then yeah, the the grid is just showing where that happened. That's all based off of the first thing that happens when we are selected to to do the project back in 2021 is we come through and we audit every one of the buildings holistically. So, we go

031through with my full engineering team. That includes full lighting um specialists and designers, um HVAC specialist, designers, electrical specialist, designers, everybody that we can get. They come and we literally walk every square foot of every building. We look at every light. We get all the counts exactly right. We get a as best engineering understanding of what's physically there, how it's being run. We look through the control system, how it's being operated. We look through all of the utility bills and how those are being operated. compile all of that data together to give us kind of a road map of saying, okay, what has the highest EUI? That's immediately going to be a place that we're going to look at first. Um, again, like for LED lighting, for instance, anywhere that LED lighting doesn't exist when

032we start, we'll have it at the end. So, that one's pretty easy. Anything that doesn't have it gets it. Um, same thing for like that exterior door seal type thing. It's really just looking at the physical state of each building and saying that door right there needs that. There's some gaps around it that's causing hot air to come in in the summer or cold air in the winter. That should be sealed up. So things like that get immediately called out. The rest of it is more on our engineering team looking at the needs that we see when we're doing those audits and saying, "Okay, we saw I think originally we actually designed five buildings to potentially get the HVAC renovations." And then we decided after the fact, we've sent those out for bids and costs.

033And then with the board, we actually decided which buildings based on those costs, how many can we do with the budget we have, which ones are the highest priorities that we see in conjunction with the highest priorities of the school district. So that we're really putting the money it at the end of the day, we're still consultants. So it's it's Grand Forks project. It's you get to decide what we're what you're doing with that money. We're just consulting you and hopefully giving you the best path forward there. So, we originally designed two other schools. Um, I believe Wilder was one of them and that got dropped. Um, and I don't remember what the other one was, but I think there was one other. Um, but it was just again a decision um between us and

034the school district of where is the highest need, what schools actually need it, where should we put that money. >> Other questions, Mr. Palmino? >> Yeah, maybe it's for Brandon or or Jonathan. when the new valley comes in play, will that be put into this system and will they have a chance to make sure that the new systems are dialed in correctly and everything else? Yeah, board member Palomino that that was largely set aside from this project scope because we knew it was coming and so as much as the existing building and valley could probably benefit from a program like this, it was ignored knowing a new school building was coming. So Connor and his team won't go through that building at that time. But with the new commissioning of the building, the same level

035of detail will be attended to it. >> Other questions from board members? Yes, Miss McKini. >> Um, I noticed that some of the schools that were in the red at the beginning of the six months were still in the red at the end. So, is that just something that takes time or are you like not focusing on those ones as much? >> Yeah. So, that's it's exactly that. So, again, there's always a budget. there's a max amount of money that can be um had used and saved. Um so that kind of came back to a portion of that being that breakdown of the funding sources up front. We could fund up to that $5.2 million through the energy saved from the needs that we saw in the district by changing out the lights, by changing

036by sealing up the exterior of the buildings better, by making the control systems more efficient. you're going to save that amount of electricity, that amount of gas that's going to equate to some amount of money, which is that $350,000 that over 15 years can only pay for so much. And then we had the bond um to pay for the rest of it. But there's still a limit there. We only had about $13 million um and we were allowed to use about 12 of that. Um, so and if we really wanted to, we should we could we would have been great to come through and really take care of all of that red, but that's a hard harder said than done when it comes to the actual financial parts of it. So, we were focusing on

037first thing is the biggest needs, resetting the clock on those existing buildings that really needed it the most. Um, I know the biggest driver of the three that we chose was actually that indoor air quality. We had a lot of failed systems. So, we weren't getting fresh air into the building and they also didn't have cooling in the building. So, that was another focus of this project was to add that cooling in. When you're adding a lot of big mechanical like that, it gets very expensive. So, it just limits the size of the project. So, yeah, ideally we would have liked to address a lot more of the red that's still on here. But um the big stuff, the that central plant heating, the central plant cooling, um those are the bigger heavy metal things

038that are the really expensive parts. You can see the pretty much all green at this point. So that's a really good place for the district to be starting at. Um and then the air distribution, that's the next heaviest metal, more expensive parts. That's just setting up the district again with that extra money that we're saving every year to start putting into other projects and start being a lot easier to tackle the rest of the work that needs to be done. >> Other questions? Dr. L. >> I just wonder if Jonathan or Brandon would like to comment about that last discussion we just had. >> Yeah, Mr. Elwine. >> Thank you, President. Uh, President Burgerer. Um, as you can see, there are some red on here. One notable one is as Shraider. Uh, we are aware

039of the, uh, limitations of Shrader's HVAC system and we're trying to come up with a larger scale plan for that. Um, the issue is it did not fit in this in this project because of the high cost. Um, some other ones on here, Central and Red River, as you can see, there's kind of a gradient there. um they are such large schools that we we replaced portions of it and upgraded it. But just to do the whole school would just not be feasible. But uh we do have a plan going forward to look at those HVAC units, to look at the air distribution units and to um replace replace and repair them as necessary. Um I guess I would stand for any other questions. Trying to look on here. This isn't my presentation. So, >>

040well, the only reason I I brought it up is is just to point out that there is a plan for for some of these things. >> Yes, >> we all want the Taj Mahal to move into our house the first year, but sometimes it takes a while to get everything you want and so that there is a plan and you've got you've got things organized in a in a logical fashion for this. >> Yeah. And that kind of ties back to my facilities um condition and report as well as we're going to come uh to the finance committee and then the board with uh a 5-year facilities plan this fall. So you we'll have a little more concrete um numbers and plans going uh at that point and then we'll be able to discuss that

041and and fine-tune that. Um any other questions? Yeah, Miss Flynn, >> I'm just curious how um some of the safety and security projects may or may not have impacted this in either which way. >> Uh the safety and security project projects should affect this pretty minimally. We'll have to probably go back and do some baseline adjustment on Wilder. Um but out uh maybe Lewis and Clark, but outside of that uh the actual ads are so minimal um that we're either just change not adding equipment but just changing how it's uh how it's set up or just adding such a minimal amount of equipment it's not going to be that large of a an effect. >> True. Okay. >> Other questions from board members? >> Mr. Cleven. >> So EUI is a kind of the metric

042to use to compare buildings. So looking at the kind of the project aggregate >> where does our EUI fit into and I it's a dangerous word to use to say typical school district. Uh but start with something simple. How's this EUI look to what twining will be? >> Yeah. So um right now the district is sitting just above a 60. I want to say it's like a 63. Um, considering the amount of square footage and what we actually were able to touch on the the big holistic side of things with full HVAC renovations, that is that's pretty good. Um, that's pretty much in line with most of the bigger districts that we do projects with kind of across the country regardless of of climate um zone or where it really lands. That goes from east

043coast to west coast all the way northern border to south southern border. Um, that's probably in the the top 20 30% of the the districts that we really touch. That's a pretty um good outcome for the the size of this project. Um Twining um I'm actually not a part of that project team. Um and that EUI I will say just includes the buildings that are shown. So like Ben Franklin for instance that has a newer HVAC system does not factor into that as well because that wasn't in my project. Um the new like valley is not factored into that. The the old or obviously the new one since it's not finished yet. This is just the buildings that we touched so that we can kind of give a good idea of the impact the actual

044project had to the buildings that it was touching. Um, and mostly just because yeah, we knew Twining was going away to be replaced. We knew that Valley was going away to be replaced and what that time frame really looked like was kind of hard to to judge. Um, but I do know both of those were higher EOI users um that because we knew that they were going away within the first 5 years decided not to put any capital into them. >> Thank you. Other questions from board members? Anything else? Mr. Alawine, I was actually gonna going to bring you back up on this. Um, something I just wanted to talk about was so we talk a lot about the energy usage in here. Something that Connor didn't talk about that he helped us with was

045not only um taking advantage of reducing that energy, but increasing our power factor and taking advantage of a lower utility cost. So, I don't know, you can probably explain it a little better. Yeah. >> Yeah. So there's obviously a lot more details into what all this project really entailed. There's a lot of small things that also go in to make these buildings as efficient but also as cheap to run as possible. Those kind of go hand in hand. Um so a few of the other things that we did there's something called power factor. This is a very technical electrical engineering type thing that really looks at what we like to say in the industry how dirty the power is. Um, that can come from having a lot of old equipment in your building that's using

046it really inefficiently. That can cause your power to be what we say is dirty. Um, or it can be physically fed into the building from your utility company as dirty just due to losses and issues with the transmission lines, whatever it happens to be. The problem is certain utility companies, Excel being one of them, does punish customers for having really low power factors. So, they're basically saying, "Hey, you're trying to draw more power because you're not using it as efficiently. So, we're going to punish you for that. Um, so we put in a few pieces of equipment actually after construction was done when I was tracking the bills and this was on our cost as well, just because it was like, "Hey, we see this. This is only going to help this project. It's a

047cheap ad. We're going to take care of it. Just help you out." And that was putting in a couple capacitor banks at three of the buildings that took these power factors from I don't know they were in the 60% so you want them to be north of 90%. One is 100% efficient. So you can't really get to a full 100% but you can get 98 99%. So these capacitor banks piece of equipment that just ties into the wall connects right into the the main power distribution for the building. It within the second of turning it on goes from 60% all the way up to 90 plus. So just putting those in an instant thing. They both they all paid for themselves within 2 years which is is very very good for projects like these. And

048then that immediately without saving any electricity making anything more efficient in the building just making your power cleaner actually lowered the bills at those three buildings. But I think it's it's going to total out to be um probably about $10 to $20,000 a year. We have obviously only a few months into that. So we're not exactly sure what the total number is going to be yet. Um it's just calculations but that's an add-on that we're seeing. Um, and then additionally on top of that, once the project was completed, we also look at all of the rate structures buildings are on before we do a project to see, hey, is there maybe a potential that they're on not the best rate for the amount of electricity that they use. Same goes for gas. That way, that's

049a free thing you can do. If you talk to your utility company and they're willing to to do that, you can just change the rate structure. It's just literally changing how they're charging you on paper and they're just you can use the exact same amount of electricity or gas, but if the rate's cheaper, you're paying less money for it. When we looked at the beginning of the project, none of the buildings really applied for that. We looked again once the project was completed back in November, and there were a couple of schools, five actually, that could benefit from switching to a different rate structure. We talked to Excel, signed a contract with them that just said, "Hey, we're we're willing to switch over to this." And that's going to save another 20 plus thousand a

050year without saving any more electricity. So again, just boosting that budget, helping the project as a whole with things that that cost us zero dollars. Um, so again, just something to help the financials of the project, the financials of the district, um, and just to make this more of a success for you all. >> Other questions from board members? just like to say thank you for your presentation tonight, for your time and attention, your expertise, uh all of the layers behind the scenes to to make this a success. Uh reminder for board members, this was just under discussion and not action. And so uh no further uh energy, if you'll pardon the pun, is required on this item. Uh so thank you very much. >> Yeah, thanks to all of you for having us. We're

051happy to have done this project with you and for you. Uh we see this as a big success so far. Hopefully you all see it that way too. And again, we'll be back uh six more months from now to give you the full update on this first year. >> Very good. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> 4B finance committee report. We'll start with Mr. Palmino. >> I got it. I'm just slow. We did have a meeting and we talked about a change order. It was a smaller change order for 125,545. And if you looked at the information, it mainly went towards the uh some irrigation systems upgrading pumps and uh raising the height of back stops. What they did when they originally designed the back stops, they designed to the original ones that were there

052and the fall balls went into the to the park. Well, now the fall balls will be going into North 20th Street. So we figure we better have a little higher back stop. So we did okay that and I and I think it's it's under the total cost. But I I think what I would like to do is ask Jonathan if if you remember off the top of your head just give us an update on where we are on our contingencies because I think we're sitting in just a rough idea. I should asked you before, but we're sitting very well at Valley with only four months left of construction. >> Yeah, we're sitting very well. Um, you're going to ask me off the top of my head, so don't hold me to this, but rough rough

053order of magnitude, we're about 600,000 still left in owner contingency. Uh, about 1.1 million left in contractor contingency, and I believe we have about close to 400,000 left in um uh allowances as well. So, we're we're doing really well. Um, just to just a reminder that we do still have to tear down the Old Valley, so we may use up some of those through that, but we're in a really good spot right now. But but I think the the other thing we can talk about how well we're doing is this is change order number 12. I mean is really small for the size of projects counting what we did. So I congratulate your team on how you're running this and is continue to do that please. >> Yeah I appreciate that and it is a

054bit of a unique project as we came in so far under that we added on things as well and this is a change order that was a result of that add-on. Um just to talk about that a little bit. It's as we added things you we added a bunch of things and we're finding things as we build that maybe we missed um in adding that like this this for example we added irrigation to soccer fields and the football fields as well as the things around the building. Um and we found out that we simply don't have enough pressure from city water to run that irrigation. So it's this booster pump. It's the it's the piping for that and the electrical is the majority of that. And the other piece, excuse me, the other large piece

055is we um decreased the uh the spacing on the stage um just so we're able to uh drive a lift on there. We found before that it wouldn't we wouldn't be able to drive a lift on there to uh change light bulbs or do any work. Um so that was a good catch actually by our construction team. Um and we reduced that so we can use our equipment uh safely and properly. Any other questions? Uh first of all, any other comments from other finance committee members? Questions from board members? >> Yeah, Mr. Cleven. >> So, you referenced several pots, at least two pots of contingency money. Uh this change orders coming out of owner contingency. >> Correct. because that was our ask uh afterward to add that irrigation and it wasn't just it wasn't speced

056properly. >> Other questions from board members any final comments Mr. Alwine? >> I just thank you all for your support and this is a fantastic project and I'm glad to be a part of it. >> Yeah. And just a reminder, uh, as it states in the memo, but, uh, just so the public is aware, the finest committee committee has the authority, uh, by the board to approve these change orders. So, no action is required. This was just discussion and and update. Move on to five. These are now recommendations for action. 5A is our consent agenda. I would seek a motion to approve the consent agenda as outlined in your packet. >> It's been moved by Mr. Anderson and a second by Mr. Manley. We'll take a roll call vote. Hodak, >> yes. >> Larson, >>

057yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Pomino, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero. Absent. >> Motion passes. 5B. Contracted staff resignation and release from contract. This is for Evan Peterson. Uh, Dr. Brener. >> Thank you, President Burgerer. In front of you, you have a memo from me. Uh North Dakota Century Code 15.1-09-33 provides authority for the school board to act on employment contracts for the school district personnel. Uh attached you'll find a resignation letter from Evan Peterson, Dean of Students at Valley Middle School, effective August 15, 2025. And the administrative recommendation is to grant Mr. Peterson released from his 2025-26 teaching contract effective August 15, 2025 with the enforcement of liquidated damages under policy

058DKBB. Uh you'll see the uh letter of resignation from Mr. Peterson. Um and he has uh filled out the form DKBB uh E-E. And he understands that there are liquidated damages at 3% which would be a total of $1,851.18. So, the administrative recommendation is to grant Mr. Peterson release from his contract in enforcing the liquidated damages. Thank you. Any questions for Dr. Brener? Let's seek a motion to grant Mr. Peterson release from his 202526 teaching contract effective August 15, 2025 with the enforcement of liquidated damages as outlined under policy DKB. >> It's been moved by Mr. Dr. Larson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> And second by Dr. Lun. Any further discussion? >> We'll take a roll call vote. >> Pomcino, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Flynn, >>

059yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. 5C, consideration of proposals for food service beverages. Mr. Bombach, >> thank you, President Burgerer, members of the board. Thank you, Brady. Most of all, um just wanted to u highlight here that North Dakota Centry Code does require a bid process if you're anticipating or exceeding the threshold of $50,000 for products or services. And this is the case as it relates to our child nutrition or food service beverages. Um, you can see this is a little bit unique from some of the other ones you've seen because it's a line item bid. So, we got two responses, one from Pepsi, one from Coke with a lot

060of like and similar products. And you can see with the attachment highlighted in yellow is the recommended suggested per product type. So, you find that product type on the rows. As you move further to the right, you'll see uh the price quoted from the first of of Pepsi and the second uh per Coke. And so it kind of goes back and forth just a little bit here. Um myself and and Wendy Mankey had gone through this to make these recommendations. You can see that the overall recommended um action is to select the beverage products according to the attached bid summary form. And then I did add a little bit more detail here of the actual product types as to clarify any confusion on that. Happy to stand for any questions. >> Questions from board members

061for Mr. Bombach. I just have one for clarification. Uh so I don't assume um these companies submit bids with the understanding that some products may be selected and others not. In other words, the price doesn't change if you're not completely exclusive to one or the other. This is this is a a typical situation for these requests. Yes, I think it's incumbent upon us to articulate that and disclose that in the upfront which is what we did. So, it was absolutely understood. >> Other questions? Mr. Cleven, >> has it has it always been a line item selection like this? >> Uh, board member Cleven, I don't know that answer. I think it's been a few years since we've actually bid or selected. And so, um, as Wendy and I went through this, it it was one

062of the first line item selections or types of process that we followed, which I understand she had gotten that from peer districts. >> That's a good idea. >> Other questions from board members. >> Seeing none, I would uh seek a motion to approve these selected beverage products according to the attached bid summary form. I don't need to list them all, but as outlined in the packet. It's been moved by Mr. Cleven. Is there a second? >> Second by Dr. Hodc. Any further discussion? >> We'll take a roll call vote. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Pomicino, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Manley, >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. 5D policy

063review. As you can see in your packet, uh the policy review committee met uh had a lengthy discussion about lots of policies and so I'll turn it over to Dr. Hodc first. She chaired the meeting on August 4th, which was a week ago today. >> Thank you, President Burgerer. First of all, I'd like to just give a good shout out to um Cindy because I was so impressed with what she's done. Um, I think she knows she navigates well what Grand Forks District policy is versus what the law is versus what the North Dakota School Boards Association is telling us that we should be doing, whether it's recommendations or and such. And I think that it just plays um that she does really well to work with the administration and the leaders. So that um

064I I just was very very much impressed um with that first meeting that we had even though we had 22 policies or I hope I got that number right to go through and everything else. And I would also say and commend that the administrative team as well as then with President Berger and Dr. Lun and myself we had some pretty good discussions um on all of these as well. So I think um with President Berger's support and Dr. Lond they will add as we go um comments but I think it's been decided that we will look at each policy separate as it stated in the memo that we are hoping to adopt the following pol policies as written or as amended on a first reading which um would be tonight then and wave the second

065reading. So that would be our process and I would just ask you to go to your notes. >> Correct. That's what we're looking at how to do it. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yep. Before we get to the first of many policies, anything to add, Dr. L? >> I would just say the reason most of these are being expedited is because they became state law on August 1st. Uh uh so so it's it's a time factor more than anything that so we don't delay it any further. just so people understand why. >> Yes, I appreciate that. And I would I would just add one thing on the other side of it is with schools starting uh wanting to get policies in place for onboarding of employees, for building level administration for staff, for students, for

066families. Um some of these impact families, students more directly than others. Uh but in in in a very real sense, time is of of the essence. Um and so um we'll we'll uh I'm sure have some robust conversation about some of these. Um but we'll just take uh beginning with uh ACG. Um as you can see um in all of these cases we're we're seeking a motion uh to to adopt these as written or amended. Um so this would be as written. Uh this is a new policy and you'll see later on in the packet. then we'll resend assuming this uh this passes um there's there's a policy to rescend 5640 but that's that's coming later. So um we'll just take these one at a time. Uh and I guess I could stop here and

067say unless there's a another preferred method to just pull out policies and and take the rest as a batch but I don't want to gloss over these either. So, uh, perhaps before I seek the first motion, any other comments in general from board members about the best way to proceed, um, comments about the work of the policy review committee? >> Yeah, Miss Flynn, >> I just have a question about the process. Um, I think previously the committee has made a motion or makes brings the first motion and then there's a second and then we have discussion. Is that how we're going to do that tonight? >> Certainly can be. Yeah. My more broad question was whether as a board you wish to go in order one through 20 whatever individually or or at the front

068end lift up certain policies to remove from let's say the the bulk but I'm happy to do this either either way. So um I don't know what common practice has been. Dr. L, do you remember? always. >> So, I guess that's what we were looking for as direction from the board. Then, as we as I as we've been saying, we could take each one individually or if there's just some ones that we want to just pull out and focus on those and then um take a motion to do a batch approval of the others. I personally specifically would like to have more discussion on board member compensation. Okay. >> And that that is uh which policy is it? >> Sorry. >> BBD. >> BDD. >> Okay. >> Some of the other ones I'm fine with

069batch, but that was one that I had. >> Sure. Well, how about uh since there's some of each, um I'll make a motion uh that we adopt policy ACG as written. Is there a second? >> Second. been second by Dr. Lun. Is there any discussion uh or other illuminating comments from the review committee about policy ACG? I'll >> take a roll call vote. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. Pomacino. >> I didn't hear. Palmino. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Burger. >> Yes. >> Nine. Yes. Zero. No. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. Uh I would make a motion uh that we adopt AB amended and GACA as written. Considering they both deal with virtual

070school and virtual instruction. Do I have we have a second by Dr. Lun. Uh any discussion or conversation about abaca? Yes, Mr. Cleven. >> On ab uh there's an added language about students can enroll in these schools through open enrollment. So how all-encompassing is that open enrollment? Like are we talking anybody can enroll to any virtual school anywhere or is it limited to GFPS? I just like a little explanation. >> Absolutely. Dr. Glatch. >> Yes, great question. So really open enrollment laws um are only restricted by the timeline. So by March 1st um students can apply for open enrollment. So there's an opportunity here for us to attract students from the region and perhaps even further since it's a virtual option instead of somebody who typically open roles today comes from like Emiro or a

071surrounding community and they drive themselves here. So my understanding is the sky's is the limit here or the cloud's the limit. And is that language like statutory, if you will, like we're being governed by some state code or statute, or is this a policy we're creating for ourselves? >> We already have a policy around open enrollment. Um, but it also is guided by DPI. And in this open enrollment, it's kind of consistent in phrasing to physical attendance at a school. >> Similar but different because when somebody like to date before we had the virtual high school option, students had to be in an area in which they could drive themselves here physically. Um, and again, my understanding is that that restriction is no longer in place for the virtual enrolles. My my questions are really

072not even questioning the policy. I'm trying to come to terms with what this means like in the great big picture of attending school. You know, frankly, I have misgivings about virtual school and I and I'm just trying to get a handle my own self like does this policy make that does it make it easier to go anywhere to school? Um, so my so I I appreciate the patience as I literally think this through as I ask questions. >> Great question. We we had that discussion uh at at the committee level. Dr. L, do you want to touch on that? >> I'm just wondering if if if Mr. Cleven is referring to the virtual instruction, the next the next policy uh versus the the versus the the the virtual school. >> Yeah. To be fair, I

073I did make a motion to both of those thinking they were near enough alike. I'm wondering if if answering his question maybe Dr. Galach would be it's revolve around the virtual instruction as well. >> Yeah, I think we're maybe crossing lines. So open enrollment is when a student outside of our geographically zoned area applies for enrollment in our district. Um the other policy talks about students who want to take courses through the North Dakota Center for Distance Ed. Is that what you're referencing, Dr. Len? Um, and that applies to students within our district um, who have that that enrollment option as part of their current course of studies. Not the same thing. They're not the same thing. >> Any other discussion, questions, comments about aba? And my apologies if putting them together was more problematic

074than than helpful. Miss Flynn, >> um, is would the purpose of virtual school be that it's all or all or nothing? Like someone can't do a hybrid, I'm going to take a couple here and there and then go in person. And >> that is correct. It's an all or nothing proposition. The only exception that we've made is that if a student is engaged in music courses, um, it's not possible for us to replicate that in place in the world of online. So, we have made that accommodation. And I don't know that there's more than one student who's taking advantage of that, however, who has a registered for enrollment in virtual school. >> Can they also do like sports in person? >> They have to remain eligible. >> Okay. >> But they would be assigned to

075their home campus for that. >> So it's similar structure and setup to how homeschool students currently operate that we allow them to do like a music and sports involvement or extracurricular. >> Correct. Yes. with the limitation to the like home homeschooled students can really enroll in any class as long as it's there's um space in that class. Okay. From our entire course catalog. >> Okay. >> Difference there. >> Yeah. And we may broaden it. We've um already had preliminary discussions for example with u director Ripley about the CIA. So some of those other classes such as autos, you know, things of that nature that would be difficult to even close come close to replicating online. Okay. Um we may open that up in the future, but right now we're just getting off the ground. Are

076there questions, comments from board members? Again, the motion on the floor is uh to approve ABDA as amended and GACA as written. Uh we'll take a roll call vote. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Pomicino, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. Burger. >> Yes. >> Nine. Yes. Zero no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. I would move that we uh adopt policy AB as amended. >> Second by Dr. Hodc. Any discussion? >> Yes, Miss Flynn. >> Are we adding a committee to the board since it says board committee now rather than superintendent committee? >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> So, Cindy will have to send out a new committee assignment email. Okay. >> Yes. So, uh there'll

077be a uh a process through which we'll we'll select uh um >> I'm just going to say I see Bill riding his bike my neighborhood every night. So, he might be a good candidate. >> You do know what happens board member Flynn to those who volunteer others, right? Uh any other questions about policy ABA? Mr. >> So what was the reasoning to make that now be a board committee? >> Like that seems like a pretty big change of structure. >> Yeah. So um someone from the policy committee want to detail our conversation? Basically, when you're talking about the district as a whole wellness policy instead of just leaving group or groups of people or out, we discussed it and it's recommended that it is a committee from um the North Dakota School Boards Association. It

078was put into as also if you went back to the legislature and their actions that they talked about it as well too. So I think those were the reasons that we said you know not we weren't looking for one more thing to do. We were looking more for involvement and engagement from others as well hearing their voices. >> Other questions from board members? Mr. Clever >> just follow up on that. So we're obligated to make that a board committee. >> Just one second. Give me a second. Second. >> So, uh, if I understand um the nomenclature and Cindy, please correct us. Um, the the the blue at least as we were given um at the committee level was that these changes were were required. Is that is that correct? Let's wait for Cindy's response. >>

079Um, pardon me. Yes, that is correct. The blue is new. The red striketh through is coming out. And I'm just checking the law here for answering that question. It's going to take me a minute. Can we come back to it? Yeah, while Cindy's uh taking a look at the state law, um we'll we'll um just come on back to this. Um you know, I I am aware that there's a motion on the floor. Um but I want to get an answer to the question before we vote. Um so um I I believe that uh if the um the person who made the motion and the second are amendable um to holding off on a vote just to pause um that we're we're able to do that. I certainly am because I want to make sure

080board member Cleven's question is answered. Um and the second on this particular motion was does anyone remember? >> Sure. >> Was it Dr. Hodc? Okay. Are you all right with >> pausing on that until we hear back from >> I think this was amended from the Northwest School Board Association per legislative action. >> The board committee is not legislative action. >> Yeah. >> So, >> are you all are you all right pausing or do you do you want to >> No, I just wanted to make that comment. >> Yes. might be able to do. >> Okay, let me just set this off to the side. Uh, while they're digging into that to u because again I don't I don't want to move forward without without the information uh coming to light. Um so we'll move

081on. Uh this is uh now um uh I'll make a new motion um that we adopt policy FFI uh which is again renamed and amended um on first reading and wave the second reading. Policy FFI. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Manley. Is there any discussion, comments or questions from board members? Yes, Dr. one. >> I'm just a little concerned if we have Cindy doing one thing, she's supposed to be doing a second thing. So, I'm a little concerned about how we're doing this because it it's going to she's trying to get us some information yet we're moving on and I don't think we can do that with her. >> Sure. No, I understand that. Um perhaps uh we at least if any of us on the uh policy review committee just want

082to share thoughts about this conversation or uh or um just to bring some light to FFI. Yeah. Dr. Glatch, do you have something? >> Fine. >> Well, I do have Cindy's notes going back to the wellness policy. Oh, >> AB. >> Okay. So for the sake of avoiding confusion, >> let's move back. Dr. Glatch, if you have something to add on ABA. >> Well, Cindy, if I may, I have your notes in front of me here. So the way it reads is that it says, "When this policy was first adopted, language was amended in the first and second paragraphs from the board to the superintendent and from the district wellness committee to the child nutrition director. Mostly because the board's delegation would elevate the district wellness committee subject to open meeting law and because the

083child nutrition director has working knowledge of the school meals and snack requirements. Uh the director Wendy Mankey feels the committee should be a district committee comprised of district staff and possibly wellness focused community members and she stated that she does not have um the time necessary to implement all of the provisions from the policy. That is an aside thing. So really it was just about the operations and whether or not it would be um fall into um open meeting is my understanding. >> And and this change would >> and this change would require this to be open meetings publicly announced. >> Okay. >> Just like our committee meetings. >> If if I may. >> Yep. Please. When we first adopted the policy, it came to us in the category from the schoolboards association as a

084required policy. In their policy structure, a required policy, we are not to change. It's based on several different areas of law and practice and um uh lawsuits. We don't know always to what part of the policy that applies. Um the change that's coming now is changing it back to the original required language and after consultation with Wendy Mankey in terms of just who forms that committee. There are six different laws, both federal and uh state, that are referenced, but it will just take me too long to read all of them. >> Well, I think you had me when you said it came from our our child our nutrition director. So, thank you. >> Y >> other questions or comments on ABA? Dr. on >> just just a generic comment about all these th this comes

085from the North Coast School Board Association which has a cadre of attorneys who have expertise in school law, state, federal and and so I I have a tendency to to you know trust but verify I guess but but but they're they're they're the experts and I think I I think they've come up with a pretty good policy. Other questions or comments from board members on ABA? We'll take a roll call vote. >> If I could just confirm on ABA, the motion is by President Burgerer and the second is by Dr. >> Hodak. Thank you. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. Pomacino Larson. >> Yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> With an apology that I belvered the discussion. >> Burger, >> yes.

086>> Nine. Yes. Zero. No. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. Make a motion that we adopt policy FFI as amended. >> It's been second by Mr. Manley. >> Pardon me. I already had a motion on that one with you making the motion and Manley seconding that. >> That's right. >> Thank you. >> That's correct. Any comments or questions from board members on FFI, which is now renamed to personal electronic communication devices prohibition during instructional time, Mr. Cleven? >> And I'll I'll assume this is all driven to comply with our recent legislative assembly. >> That's correct. Yeah, this was emailed uh from NDSBA back in June. Uh the law took effect on August 1st. >> Any other comments or questions? Dr. Hod, >> just an extra comment that um you know, reading through it and it's very

087detailed. it it's, you know, it's something that we're going to want every parent, every student, every employee to make sure that they've read and understand it, especially when you look at the enforcement provisions um regarding employee expectations and disciplinary measures. Um, we talked about that that um they may be subject to discipline up to and including termination. So, we this we weighed this one heavily in our discussion. Other questions or comments? Yes, Dr. Brener. Yeah, I >> I think it's good for the board to know that uh Dr. Galach has staffed this with middle school and high school principles and Mr. Baky with elementary principles relative to implementation and how it's going to look at each of our campuses. And it's important that we have consistency from building to building and classroom to classroom. Thank

088you. >> Questions or comments from board members? We'll >> take a roll call vote. Flynn, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Palmino, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. Um, at this point, um, are there, uh, and Dr. Hodc, I'll I'll ask this question of you before I make the next motion. Um, are there groups of these that you think we could combine or are we doing fine? Board members, we're we're five down. >> Any any thoughts? Proceed as >> Yes, Mr. Palomino, >> I'm just wondering if we do follow the format city does where we pull out the ones people want to talk about,

089set them aside, and we take care of all the others that we're all okay with, get that done. We may be able to knock off quite a few and only have three or four that we have more discussion about. >> Sure. So, uh then I'll open that up to board members. Are there policies remaining from um from 6 through 22? Um you know, we'll those last two we'll we'll take separately, but um 6 to 22. I think I already heard uh BDD from Miss Flynn um to discuss separately. Are there other policies? And again, I'm looking at on your list from GACB um through the end of the list, which is um the compensation and expenses. So, any other policies that any board members wish to take out and discuss separately from that list? Mr.

090Cleven? >> U FF, please. >> FF. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Cleven. Are there other policies that you wish to take out and discuss separately want to make sure we okay so so again we'll we'll take out FF and take that separately BDD will be a separate discussion any other policies from the remaining on the list and then I do intend uh to talk about the the rescending uh of 5640 uh and then the final FFKBR will be a separate discussion. So um one final time board members. Okay. So I move that we approve GACB, GACE, FFK, ACCB, FGA, DCCA, FF C A DB D A B E BC A BC C B A B A K A A A C and G A A D >> uh as written or amended on first reading and

091wave the second reading. It's been second by Dr. Lun. Any discussion? We'll take a roll call vote. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Kodak, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. Lun Manley Connino Burgerer >> yes >> nine yes zero no zero absent >> motion passes um I would now uh well since we've taken this out perhaps we can have some discussion before a motion on FF and and we'll start with you if you don't mind Mr. Cleven, since that was your request. So, um, we'll take your comments first. >> Scrolling back. >> Sure. Yep. Take your time. >> There just seem to be several changes to it. Uh, and I just wanted to kind of make sure that we understand why the changes are necessary. And, uh, frankly,

092I'd also like to be sure we're not overly punitive. I just think especially because darn it >> I'm no rock star. I'll never get used to a microphone. Um just to make sure we talk about it because there are a lot of changes and to make sure we're not being overly punitive here for you know al and I hate to use the word normal behavior but things that don't require law enforcement action. >> I don't have particular concerns here. I just want to have a description of why all the changes. >> Uh any response from policy review committee members first? Uh Dr. Len. >> Uh I think the changes are based on on uh House Bill 1328 and and Northakota School Board Association took that bill that got passed and put it into policy format.

093So I think that's what you're seeing is is results of the law that was changed uh uh through the state legislation. Anything to add, Dr. Hodc? >> And just to once again point out that um as Dr. Lun said, this law became effective as of August 1st. So, we've got to be on the ball and have it in our policies and recognize it. uh my cursory notes and I'm no legal scholar um but House Bill 1328 talks about referring students to juvenile court once the district exhausts all of its other uh school discipline policies. Um correct me if I'm wrong, anyone who maybe followed that more closely than I did. I would just say that everything in blueprint on the second page is verbatim from House Bill 1328. >> Uh any other questions or comments

094about policy FF from board members? We'll take a roll call vote. >> Who made the motion and second on this one? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, we've just had discussion. >> I'll move for approval. >> Thank you for the correction, Mr. Cleven. It has now been moved by Mr. Cleven uh to adopt FF as amended. Thank you. And a second by Mr. Palmino. Any further discussion? We'll take a roll call vote. >> Well, before that, I appreciate the fact there's a lot of may and consider language in here. So, there's a lot of latitude for for just wisdom here. So, I appreciate that. >> Yeah. Thank you. Also, thank you for keeping me on track. I appreciate that, Mr. Cleven. We'll take a roll call vote. >> Pomacino, >> yes. >> Manley, >> Lun, >>

095yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Podc, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine. Yes. Zero. No, zero absent. >> Motion passes. Uh, now on to policy BDD. Uh, perhaps we'll follow the same format if you don't mind, Miss Flynn. uh uh comments about this policy and then we'll uh perhaps offer some background as the policy review committee. We'll open it up to discussion from board members and and we'll go from there. So, um Miss Lynn, do you want to start us out or would you like >> to Okay, thank you. Um, I have just a couple comments and I um did get some clarification from Dave today. So, thanks for chatting with me about some things. Um, I um am mostly just

096concerned about waving the second reading of this um because I think there could be some extra work in conversation done. Um, a couple points that I had thought about was, um, I've been on the board since 2016. Some have been on the board longer than I have. Um, and the compensation has increased very minimally since my time and probably more minimally since others. Um, I know that this, you know, role on the school board is is not simply about compensation. And I think many of us would agree that um we would certainly do this work on our own time, but um there's an election coming up next year and I think that in order for us to get ahead of reducing some barriers um when I have gone out during different election cycles and um

097talked to people about running for school board, some of them especially with young families and um it's no secret that I'm the only mom with young kids in the district on on the board. And so I certainly understand that I come from that perspective. Um but I've had to use babysitters because of conflicts with my husband and I many times and um can relatively afford them. Um but I know that that's a big barrier for individuals who um have resisted trying to come onto the board because of the compensation piece. I know in 2016 um I think we started talking about it like the year after or 2018 when I got off or when I was on the board um that was the first time we talked about it and the appetite then was very

098minimal. Um I think at some point we raised the president's salary to be a bit larger because their time commitment was larger. Um, but in comparison to other school districts, and I know it's not apples to apples, so certainly, um, the way other people operate is maybe not one and the same as we do, but it's always a factor to take into consideration. Um, we were the lowest then and I I would think that we're probably still the lowest in compared to, let's just say, the big five. Um, I also, um, think that the cycle of the board, um, I've probably brought up a a few times that like this is something that we maybe should talk about. Maybe not an official request, but, um, it feels like we're just kicking the can down the

099road in my opinion to delay the conversation. And I think we should get ahead of the election next year so people who are wanting to join the school board know what their salary is and that we've made an attempt to at least make an effort to dialogue about the conversation about compensation. Um, and I think when we talk about as a board, um, obviously it was talked about in policy committee. Um, and this is nothing against the vice president role, but I think to single out one leadership position instead of talking about it as the board as a whole, um, doesn't align with how we've had other conversations about compensation with bargaining groups as well. So, I I think that we can kick it back to policy committee and they could possibly come up with

100a solution. Um, but delaying the conversation about board conf compensation, I don't support. Um, and I'm not saying I wouldn't support an increase for the vice president. I just don't like the part about delaying the conversation. There's nothing that says we can't backdate anything. This isn't like in law that we have to wave the reading and we have a timeline. Um, but I think that there's room for the policy committee to create solutions about looking at do we increase compensation, do we not? Um, but I do think we could get ahead of like a two-year cycle essentially where um, we can get ahead of an election. Board members come in, they're there for a year, and then we put it on the the agenda annually. But especially if we kick the can down the road

101for next year, I feel like new board members coming in are then going to have to decide on their own compensation. I just don't think that timeline is maybe the most appropriate. So I would like to see this go back to the policy committee to have a broader conversation about board compensation as a whole, not just one leadership position, and to make a decision sooner than later rather than delaying it till next year. >> Thank you for that. Uh we'll go to policy review committee members first. Dr. L. >> That's the problem with looking at minutes is we we had a 20-minute conversation that the three of us said about the exact same thing you said is that we we think that compensation should be increased. But what we thought is we need to get

102feedback from the full board on it. And that's and that's why but but and I think the other sentiment at least I've got I don't know about the other two is I I I have some issues of increasing my own salary the very first year. So so we had talked about well maybe what we should do is get feedback from all of the board and then go back and look at okay change the policy and increase it as of July 1 2026 salary will be increased to this this amount. So, so it's hard to put all that in minutes, but we had I think the three of us were on the same page to similar to what you were saying and we talked about the same things. Young families, families with young children. Uh uh

103we we certainly, and I made the comment at the committee, we don't want nine Eric Luns on the board who are, you know, retired or semi-retired. We want we want we want a cross-section and diversity on the board because that's going to be our our best board. So, I think we're we're on the same page. What we wanted, I think, was to get feedback from other board members about about what should we do, and Dave was talking about we should try and do it similar to we do most contracts is okay, well, in 2026 27, it'll go to this and then, you know, so two-year cycle similar to what we do with all the other work groups. I don't think we're we're we're far off. But the thing that I don't think was clear is

104we wanted the feedback from the whole board. And >> Dr. Hodak, anything to add? No, basically that's what we we we said we better go back to the board as a whole to give you our ideas and then to hear from the board as to what the board felt that we should do. We did look at um Brandon put together or brought to us the board compensation information that was compiled by the Fargo business manager. And so we looked at, you know, um, Mandans, Bismarcks, Minuts, and and such. And I do believe that I made the comment that, um, we're not in their shoes. So, um, you know, when you look at Bismar getting $9,000 a year, you know, what do they do for that and such. So, we we just went back and forth

105and we just decided to bring it forth this way. and um looking at the way we negotiate with others within the district, that's where that 2-year came up. And so that would grant us possibly a 2year period time between now and 2026 to get set for whatever the board would like to do. But I do want to echo as well um we did discuss the fact about new people wanting to get on the board that have children and if they needed um you know daycare or what what would be the barrier to not and if this was a barrier um then we would want to address it. >> I just have one other thing to add and then we'll open it up to all board members for how best to proceed. I am intrigued by

106the idea of um in whatever guard rails or language want to be put in place of of having this go back uh to policy review committee. Um, I would like to see a decision made in advance of whatever the first day is of declaring candidacy for, you know, the election and and I don't know exactly what that date is, but it's usually a, if I remember from four years ago, a February date, but but that, you know, along with the posting of here's the form to fill out and here's and and the board has already passed, you know, for 2627 and 2728, you know, this is going to be the compensation. So it isn't something that oh well the board's working on it or the board's you know talking about it or it might be

107this or might not be this but that it's it's concrete um you know for for everyone to know going in and I don't know if this is possible either but something in the policy that says exactly to your point um that okay then then the the policy review committee will meet by November of every oddnumbered year so that by a December meeting of every oddnumbered year, even if that board chooses to keep it the same. At least it's in policy that they're talking about it because there's never a good time to talk about money. There just isn't. And so if there's never a good time, then the time is now. And and to set up future boards for success in this regard is to say this is a part of the regular cycle of doing

108board work. We've got this for lots of other parts of our board work is to say, guess what? you're going to have this conversation in advance of same people, same board members, new, you know, new candidates, new potential board members making that decision to campaign knowing that the board has talked about compensation. So, I however that looks or lands, um, I would I'd be intrigued by that possibility. Um, other comments from board members who haven't weighed in yet? Uh, >> yeah, sure, Dr. L. So I think that I think the intention was is let's get feedback from the whole board and then go back at a subsequent meeting and and revise the policy further uh to to to look at that compensation since since I I think we were the three of us are on

109the same page that we we didn't want to increase everybody's board compensation for 2526 but for 2627. So we've got some time. I agree we'd want to do it before anybody looks at can whether they're going to run for school board or not. So, so, but I just think we wanted to get the feedback of other people because I even brought up the the weird idea of why don't we just tie it to a percentage of what the average district employee got? If the average district employee got 2.3%, why don't we tie it to that or something like that? I mean, I wanted to hear other people's thoughts about how to how to do that. So, >> other thoughts from board members? This is this is the feedback the policy review committee is looking for.

110So, Mr. Clean. >> Well, I think that that 2-year cycle makes a lot of sense. Uh, and the as far as deadline for that, when's our annual budget due? You know, like that seems like a natural time to define all those compensation things. >> That would be October. Is that correct, Mr. Bombach? >> Yeah. Preliminary budget needs to go to the county auditor August 10th and then the final October 10th. So, >> I mean, that just seems like a good deadline for anything financial. and the two-year cycle seems to make sense. Um, and a and a cap, like I think what Dr. Lond was saying, some cap. So, there's always a a a guardrail from stopping people from making selfish decisions. Like, I think that makes sense and that and then we're just anywhere from

111zero to the cap in the cycle. I think those ideas make sense to me. >> Other thoughts, feedback from board members? Mr. Larson, >> I think if we I mean I did a quick Google search and it looks like Fargo, West Fargo, May not Bismar um all publish. So if we learn what that the in info is from, you know, similar sized uh entities, then we'd have a pretty good starting point. And I don't think if we do a 2.3% and if we're the lowest by a wide margin, we should maybe do a bump up and figure it out. I personally don't care that much. So, but I'll um I think that people deserve to be compensated properly, too. If I had to pay for, you know, a babysitter for 100 bucks to come and

112sit here with you folks, I'd probably resent you pretty quick. Just I'm just saying. Just saying. >> You know, it's it's not in the in the uh uh schoolboard norms, but I appreciate your honesty. I know it's not listed specifically, but thank you, Mr. Larson, for your honesty. Dr. L. We we've got that information from the Fargo business manager. So, I don't know. We can we can we could send Cindy can send that out to all the board members and then you could maybe look at it and give us some, you know, written feedback or something, right? Or we could come back to another meeting and get it. But, but we've got we've got that information. It's from the Fargo business managers. >> Other feedback, thoughts, comments from board members? I would just like to

113maybe delay doing anything with this and just send it back to policy committee. >> Is uh is there anything to add to that? any certain, you know, I understand sending it back. Cindy can let us know the next meeting date of the policy review committee, but any other guardrails ascribed to that? Any other, you know, we want this to come back before the board at a certain time so that a final decision I mean just so that we I I want to make sure we take the next step and then the next step so it isn't just wallowing in in committee work. So perhaps we hear the date first and then we talk about how best to proceed. >> September 11th. September 11th is the next scheduled meeting of the policy review committee. >> My

114thought would be to have a solution of a compensation increase and a timeline. I don't know if others would support necessarily increase and I don't want to force the hand of the policy committee to say you must come back with an increase, but I think that that's given where we've come since 2016. I think that we're due as a board and getting ahead of next year's cycle, especially with the economy and where things have gone. Um, or maybe a reason why there isn't an increase or, you know, I trust that they can logically come up with what that number looks like based on the data that that committee has um, and a cycle of of how we can talk about that. >> Mr. Palomino. >> I guess I I would agree with the policy as

115written for this school year and then we look at 2026 27 to adjust the compensation for all board members because I do agree with that the vice president is putting in more time than president instead of delaying it. The school year is almost ready to start and I think we knew going into this school year this is what we were going to get paid. Other thoughts or comments? Dr. Hodc? >> Um, first of all, I would echo that we would like to have um if this this appears to be going back to our committee, um any of those parameters or thoughts from you, uh especially the one, you know, about um the vice president and the president getting um paid a little bit more or if there's other parameters that you're thinking about. Um because

116once you get this board compensation sheet, you will see that um some of the districts talk about, you know, that they only have five board members. Some of them talk about the meetings, the amount of meetings that that a board member has and and goes to and all of those sorts of things. So I think that would be very important to us. And then as well as um what you've heard um so I'm wondering if some homework would be that the board members would get this and then before we meet that they would provide some immediate feedback to us look at this discuss this um so that we have that in front of us. I I just want to interject. Uh I don't believe we can do that outside of the regular meeting of the

117school board. Okay. >> Um certainly we can ask board members to receive resources and and do homework. Um but I I I'll look to Cindy, but I I don't believe that that we can solicit feedback in any other fashion other than uh at the meeting of the board. Um so what I would suggest um unless anyone wants to move this timeline up um regarding um this conversation of going back to committee um is you know our meeting will be September 11th um again unless we want to schedule something else um and then we could bring back um for the first of two readings our you know um uh suggested policy revision. Um, and that would give us robust conversation at first reading, you know, that next regularly scheduled schoolboard meeting after September 11th. And that

118would still give us time to have a second reading, you know, uh, amending, changing, revising, adopting policy. Um, and I think, and I I'm not looking at the calendar because I'm processing this, um, that um, we would still well, we'd certainly make it before the candidacy deadlines, you know, early winter, but but also possibly that final budget. Um, that final budget though is for the 2526 school year. So, if our if our policy is talking about beginning July 1st, that's not really a deadline. I mean it is and it isn't. Um, you want to respond to that? >> Yeah. No, thank you. I was just looking at the calendar thinking that same thing. If there were changes to take place on the fiscal year 26 as in this current budget, we might get a little

119far behind that. As in the next school board meeting after the dates you just said, September 11th, the next school board meeting would be September 22nd, which would be the day where the budget's considered. Um, so if it were for the following year, plenty of time to work that in. >> Yeah. So any any decision about this current year, it's it's becoming apparent, will have to take place tonight. Whether that's, you know, as outlined in the memo or we we leave it as, you know, this school year's already been decided. The policy review committee is tasked with coming up with a recommendation on September 11th. Comes back to the board for first reading on September 22nd. Robust conversation. and you've all been provided resources and then a second reading and adoption uh at our first

120October meeting which again gives folks plenty of time to look ahead to uh potential candidacy campaign election reorganization on July 1st. Is that a fair characterization about one potential timeline? I'm not trying to steer us in any one direction, but is that one way we could proceed? Uh, Miss Flint. >> Um, if possible, it's possible to backdate pay. Correct. >> Yes. >> So, I don't know that we need to decide. I think my issue is just decide taking one position out and deciding on that now without having a another conversation about you've got feedback. Go back. here's what we, you know, it's not that I don't support the additional leadership position increase. It's just that I I don't think that taking one leadership position and making a decision without talking about the whole is appropriate.

121I think we should do it all in the same or have a reason for why we would consider. Um certainly those roles do a lot and there's a lot of work put into that. They're not one and the same just like we're not one in the same board as opposed to Bismar. So I think there's just some extra considerations and this is the first time we're hearing it and so you know I think giving feedback it's important to then take it and let everyone process and if the committee decides yes we're still going to increase the vice president and the board votes on it it's possible to say effective you know as well. So I I just can't support doing one without the other in terms of just more information collecting and conversation. >> Other

122comments? Dr. L, >> might I suggest just a slight modification of your timeline? We we have an we have an August 25th schoolboard meeting, do we not? It's on my calendar at least. Um, why couldn't we get the feedback from board members on August 25th at the board meeting? We'll be doing it. We'll be doing it at an open meeting. We can get the feedback, get them the information they need, get feedback on the 25th and then when we meet on September 11th, we can finalize a policy to bring it back to the next school board meeting. That way, that way we'll get the feedback. We won't do it. We won't skirt any open meeting issues and stuff. >> Could that be added under recommendations for discussion for >> August 25th? >> Would board members

123be amendable to that? >> Okay. Is this enough for the policy review committee to go on? Dr. L, Dr. Hodc, I'm I'm looking at the two of you. Does this feel like we wanted to come back to the board for feedback? Is there anything that you feel like we're still missing or points of view we haven't considered? Board members we haven't heard from. >> The only one that there was a correction on on this was that were with shall or keep um that we wanted to make sure that the um Go ahead, Dr. Lyn. >> Yeah, that that the third paragraph that that keep should have been kept. We >> we must keep keep >> but but but we can we can fix that at our September 11th meeting. No, I'm I'm comfortable with the

124outlined plan. >> Just ask one final time, any other board members wishing to offer feedback, another point of view that hasn't been considered. Uh any other conversation uh for tonight, recognizing that we're not at least it doesn't sound to me like we're taking action on policy BDD tonight. So, if that understanding is incorrect, uh please someone speak up. But anything else in this conversation? Yes, Mr. just for point of order and and and kind of put uh you know maintaining a meeting. Do we need to take an action formally on this to table it for discussion? So we wouldn't use the language of tableabling. Um because there's a there's a whole set of circumstances then to take something back off the table. Um uh but we could entertain a motion to send this policy BDD

125uh back to the policy review committee and add it to the agenda for discussion on August 25th. Something to that effect. Is that is that clear enough, Cindy? >> I would make such a motion. >> Okay. So, there's been a motion by Mr. Cleven um to send this feedback back to the policy review committee uh for its work at the September 11th meeting and to add under items for discussion uh on on August 25th and with again the understanding that board members will be provided resources in advance of that discussion. So that's the motion. Is there a second? >> Second by Dr. Hod Mr. Cleven. Did I misrepresent? >> Well there so there's a motion in a second. That's fine. But I wonder if it shouldn't be a recommendation for action at the next board

126meeting. >> So to clarify, it would there wouldn't be anything to act on because on August 25th, the policy review committee would not would not have met. Uh the the the action, at least in my understanding, would be after that next meeting of the policy review committee on September 11th. >> Then then the motion as as written. >> Okay. So that's that's been uh it's a motion on the floor by Mr. Cleven and a second by Dr. Hodc. Cindy, do you have that motion clearly enough? Is there any conversation or discussion about the motion on the floor? >> We'll take a roll call vote. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Manley, >>

127yes. >> Palmino, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no, zero absent. Motion passes. And if you remember, uh, we've got two left. Uh, let me scroll back up here. My my computer went to sleep. This the the conversation was so robust that my my laptop timed out. Uh, so now we are um there we go. Just had to find the right page. Um, so, uh, I would move that we resend policy 5640 because it has been replaced by policy ACG. >> Second. >> It's been second by Dr. Hodc. Is there any discussion? We'll take a roll call vote. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Pomino, >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. Burger. >> Yes. >> Nine. Yes. Zero

128no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. I would move that we adopt FFK-BR as amended and to make it an official board regulation of the district. >> Second. >> A second by Dr. Hodc. Is there any discussion on FFK-BR? >> We'll take a roll call vote. >> L. >> Yes. >> Pomicino. Flynn? >> Yes. >> Anderson? Yes. >> Cleven. >> Yes. >> Manley. >> Yes. >> Larson. >> Yes. >> Hodak. >> Yes. >> Burger. >> Yes. >> Nine. Yes. Zero. No. Zero. Absent. >> Motion passes. Thank you for all of your work on agenda item 5D. Everyone, we're moving on to 5E, consideration of proposals for gasoline for vehicles. Uh Mr. Bombach, >> President Burger, members of the board, each year we take and advertise for proposals related to gasoline for vehicles. We will take a

129a look at a full weeks of different prices and then also consider any discount at the pump and you'll see the results here. Um the gateway senics came in with a deeper discount at the pump as well as better pricing over that time period. So they were selected as absolutely the better of the two pricings available to us but they don't have quite the same reach. Circle K can uh facilitate refueling across the state or across a broader region. So administrative recommendations to accept both of those proposals with the priority of in town refueling um to Gateway Cynics. Questions for Mr. Bombach? I would seek a motion that we accept the proposals from B1 Inc. doing business as Gateway Senex for priority in town refueling and Circle K Holiday Corporation for other in town and

130out of town refueling. It's been moved by Mr. Palmino. Is there a second? Second by Mr. Dr. Manley. Any further discussion? We'll take a roll call vote. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Manley, >> yes. >> Larson, >> yes. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Pomacino, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. 5F. Consideration of proposals for filters for HVAC units districtwide. Mr. Elwine. Thank you, President Burger. Uh, each year we go out for bids for filtr filtration for all of our HVAC units across the district. Um, this year we went out and we received one written proposal. We had one other interested party that did not submit. Uh, but it was techniques for a total

131cost of $105,178.15. Um, this is no increase from last year. So that was a that was a good thing for us. Um so this just covers our air handling units and anything within our HVAC systems that requires a filter. Uh so the administrative recommendation is to approve techniques filtration as a supplier of district HVAC filters. I'll stand for any questions. >> Questions from board members for Mr. Elwine. >> Mr. Cleven. >> So the total cost did not change from last year. >> Correct. >> Other questions from Mr. Eline. It's been moved by Dr. Lund to approve techniques filtration as the supplier for district HVAC filters. Is there a second? Mr. Cleven, any further discussion? >> We'll take a roll call vote. >> Flynn, >> yes. >> Hodak, >> yes. >> Anderson, >> yes. >> Manley,

132>> yes. >> Lun, >> yes. >> Cleven, >> yes. >> Pomacino, >> Larson, >> yes. >> Burger, >> yes. >> Nine, yes. Zero, no. Zero absent. >> Motion passes. 6A. Announcements. Are there any announcements? Yes, Mr. Larson. >> I missed the opportunity earlier, but Dr. Lund did say to trust lawyers, so let's do that. I have one you probably know, but this is for the public writ large. uh Career Impact Academy ribbon cutting at 1:00 this Wednesday, August 13th, and open houses, tours, opportunity to ask questions from staff members at the Career Impact Academy. All taking place this Wednesday, August 13th. It's an exciting time for the district. Mr. Elwine. >> Yeah. And just a point of clarification, the ribbon the ribbon cutting ceremonies at 1:00 and then we have an open house from 3

133p.m. to 6 p.m. >> Thank you very much. Are there any other announcements? 6B, board requests for future consideration. Anything that you wish added to a future agenda? 6C, schoolboard meeting norms. Mr. Cleven, how did we do? >> You guys did a great job on being prepared. >> Thank you. Uh so as you can see um we are now at 6D. We're going to recess uh for travel time to Valley Middle School at at uh which point we'll reconvene this meeting and have a tour uh of that building as well. And so uh upon arrival just linger close uh we'll wait for all board members uh as well as administration and staff and then we'll reconvene this meeting. Uh it will still be a part of the regular meeting of the school board for tonight.

134Uh so please limit your discussion even at the tour uh to the topic at hand. Um yes. Did you have did you have something? Yes. >> Just parking would be on the street out in front of the um New Valley Middle School. If there's no room there, then it would be in the university tennis court parking lot. >> Anything else related to uh the tour? Okay. So we are in recess.