00:00:07,530	Good evening. I’m Dan Eastgate, president of the Bismarck Public School Board. It’s 5:15 on Monday, June 9th, I call this meeting to order. Welcome and thank you to everybody for joining us both, uh, here at the city building at the Tom Baker Room or also online.

00:00:25,370	You can find our agenda under the school board tab at BismarcksSchools.org. Mr. Sher, will you call the roll, please, Mr. Eastgate here, Mr. Hager, Mr. Lee, Mrs. Peterson. Here, Miss Presky. Thank you, Mr.

00:00:49,870	Sheryl, board members of President accounted for Dr Fast, could you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God individual justice. Item 1C is the BPS mission vision and values. The BPS mission is to empower every learner to thrive. The BPS vision states together are strong relationships build inclusive, collaborative and innovative environments that create agency and inspire a passion for learning, excellence, and discovery.

00:01:19,700	The PPS values are inclusion, excellence, innovation, and leadership. You can also find a link in the agenda to the BPS strategic plan. Item 2 is to adopt the agenda what are the wishes of the board. I’ll moved to adopt the agenda. Second, The motion is 2nd. Mr. Chair, can you call a roll, please? Hager? Yes, Lee Peterson. Yes.

00:01:40,100	Presky? Yes. He’s good. Yes. Motion passes. Item 3 is public comment. The board recognized the central role that parents play in the education of their children, and we support active parent involvement in the educational process. The board’s practice of public comment reflects and aligns with policy BCBA and the spirit of its intent.

00:01:57,570	For classroom issues, it’s always best to follow the chain of command from the classroom teacher to the principal to the assistant superintendent, and ultimately to the superintendent for district-wide issues, please reach out to Dr F Fasnot’s office. If you do speak tonight, we simply ask that you be responsible, be helpful, and be respectful.

00:02:14,130	Our Bismarck public school students deserve to have adults model the expectations that we have for them. Groups are urged to select one spokesperson. Individuals will be limited to no more than 4 minutes and be notified with 30 seconds remaining to conclude their remarks.

00:02:30,300	We do not debate issues as a board, um, as they’re presented, but we’ll take such matters under advisement. With that, please stand the approach podium if you’d like to speak tonight. See nobody coming to the podium. Public Common is now closed. Item 4 is the monitor district operations.

00:02:52,570	Um, seeing tonight, I made, We did not have a monitoring report scheduled for the 1st June meeting, but we do have a reading for B, um, item 4 B B SR 5 Superintendent accountability. I’ll have a public reading and the board can determine, um, where the board is at. Here’s BSR 5, Superintendent accountability. The board considers Superintendent performance to be identical to district performance.

00:03:15,770	District accomplishment of the board’s results policies and district operation according to the values expressed in the board’s operational expectations policies will be considered successful superintendent performance. These two components define the superintendent’s job responsibilities and are the basis of the superintendent’s performance evaluation. The board number one, the board of determine organizational performance based upon its defined systematic monitoring process as outlined in its annual work plan.

00:03:40,100	Number 2, the board will require monitoring data on results and operational expectations policies by one or more of 3 methods. By internal report in which the superintendent submits information that certifies and documents to the board compliance or reasonable progress.

00:04:03,130	Letter B by external review in which an external third party selected by the board assesses compliance or reasonable progress with applicable board policies and letter C by board inspection in which the whole board or committee duly charged by the board formally assesses a compliance or reasonable progress based upon specific policy criteria. Number 3 The consistent performance standard for operational expectations policies shall be whether the superintendent has a reasonably interpreted the policy. And be complied with the provisions of the board policy.

00:04:28,370	Number 4 The consistent performance standard for results policies shall be whether the superintendent has a reasonably interpreted the policy, and B made reasonable progress toward achieving the outcomes defined by the board’s results policies.

00:04:48,600	Number 5 The board will make the final determination as to whether the superintendent’s interpretation is reasonable, whether the superintendent has complied and whether reasonable progress has been made. In doing so, the board will apply the reasonable person standard. 6. All policies that instruct the superintendent will be monitored according to his schedule and by a method determined by the board and included in the board’s annual work plan. The board may monitor any policy out of this defined sequence.

00:05:05,570	If it is determined by a majority of the board, the conditions weren’t monitoring at times other than those spec specified by the annual schedule. Number 7 Each November, the board will conduct a formal summit of evaluation of the superintendent.

00:05:24,800	The summary of evaluation will be based upon data collected and decisions made by the board during the year related to the monitoring of results and operational expectations policies. The board will prepare a written evaluation document consisting of a, a summary of the data derived during the year from monitoring the board’s results and operational expectations policies.

00:05:48,230	Be conclusions based upon the board’s prior action during the year relative to the superintendent’s reasonable interpretation of each results policy and whether reasonable progress has been made towards achievement. And Letter C conclusions based upon the board’s prior action during the year relative to whether the superintendent has reasonably interpreted and operated according to the provisions of the operational expectations policies and ends a public reading of BSR 5.

00:06:12,770	Board members, any Any discussion or any motions? I would move that we retain BSR 5’s Superintendent accountability. I second. We have motion in a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, Mr. Cher, Lee Peterson. Yes. Presky. Yes. Hager? Yes, Eastgate. Yes, motion passes, and for BSR 5 is the board determines in compliance, in compliance with exception or out of compliance. Mr.

00:06:42,200	Hager, I’d move to find us in compliance. second. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Mr. Chair, the role. Peterson Presky. Yes. Hager? Yes. Lee? Yes. Eastgate. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you, board members. Uh, item 5 on the agenda matters reserved for board of action.

00:07:05,170	We just have 5A board member school visit updates, which I do believe we have a few to report, and Ms. Presky, I’ll start with you. OK, well, yeah, on the last day of school, I went to Jeannette Myre and met with Dr Kimberly Herman, um, and also had just kind of a fun atmosphere to be at in the school with the last

00:07:22,230	day. Um, we talked about a number of things, gotta, gotta look of the school tour, um, lots of smiling faces around the building. Anxious for a summer break, um, a couple of things that stuck out to me that I’m just gonna focus on this report is just, um, number one, that the kids, she

00:07:42,000	emphasized that the kids really need love, consistency and structure, um, and, you know, that theme really kind of wove into our whole conversation, um, just about the needs of the students in the school. Um, one of the things that she pointed out is that she feels that the class.

00:08:04,900	s at Jeanette Myre are too large. Basically because of the, um, the great needs that they have at Jeannette Marie, uh, And this came out to me in in various other school visits, but You can’t really have a, um, a set number of students per grade level, and that should be the standard or that should be what what we base, um, the

00:08:27,830	class sizes on, um, It should be, do those, do those classrooms have greater needs, and then really adapt those uh that classroom size based on those, those needs that that, um, classroom or that school has, uh, basically can’t, you can’t compare the class sizes with other schools.

00:08:51,970	You can’t compare Jeannette Myy with maybe, um, one of the other schools in town because they, uh, the school might have some different needs and greater needs. Uh, that wove into really some discussions about behavioral, um, issues that the school sees again, another um topic that we talk about a lot in our school visits and that we as a board have recognized,

00:09:13,730	um, she is very supportive of us expanding the renewed expansion into elementary students, um, and just really recognized that, uh, that many of these students need a different atmosphere in order to learn.

00:09:37,770	However, some good news and all this is that according to her behavioral data, uh, their behavioral issues have decreased by 50% from what they were last year. So really, um, a good, a good Point to highlight there, um, as far as their greatest challenges, um, most of them are behavioral related, uh, feel that the school needs, um, enhanced behavioral supports.

00:10:02,430	The smaller class sizes and also just talked about the building set up as a whole that the parking and the entrance to the building, um, is a challenge, um, and you know, overall, uh, this really stuck out to me too that. The location of that school, um, South 12th and Expressway has really influenced the image of the school.

00:10:28,500	And she has a strong desire to really work on changing the narrative that surrounds Jeannette Myri. Um, speaking of narrative, uh, first thing I did when I walked in the class or into the school was spin the wheel, uh, which you all have talked about, and I had yet to do so, um. Yeah, drumroll.

00:10:51,530	I’m on Team Ohana and which means family, so yep, green t-shirt and I forgot to bring it. Sorry about that, uh, but yep, uh, Timo Wahana, so who else is on that team? OK. Yeah. So that’s what I got for tonight. Thanks very much, Ms. Presky. Welcome to Team Ohana. Powerhouse, um, appreciate that.

00:11:18,800	Um, I have, uh, just a quick school visit update and it’s actually not a school, but every few years, we also get to go tour central administration, which this year, um, serving as the president getting to be a Dr F Faszant’s office quite often, which is at the central Administration office.

00:11:33,830	So, it’s like getting called to the principal’s office every couple of weeks, um, but don’t get a chance to always go around the rest of the building, so it was, it was fun to be able to see, especially since, since we’ve purchased the building, I had toured it a few times, but to get to see the spaces now and some of the more final refined um. ways.

00:11:48,300	So, uh, we, we headed upstairs and, uh, I got a couple different tour leaders, Miss Amanda Meyer, Miss Danica Nelson, sure appreciate both of them. Dr F Fast followed along, made sure that I was getting where I was supposed to go, um, but they did have an exact team meeting going on as well, so some of the folks are out of their their offices, so I

00:12:01,330	didn’t get to, to bother as many of them as I would have liked, but I did get a chance to steal from the candy jars at some of the desks. So, um, upstairs is a conference room, uh, our Avid team is up there, uh, Dr Johnson’s.

00:12:16,870	3 little library shelf, which I don’t know if that’s uh advertised, but I heard about it, Dr Johnson, a lot of academic books there, some really deep reading, um, so check that out. You didn’t think I knew about that, did you, Dr Johnson? I hear you laughing. They saying I was giving or taking. Uh, I heard they were free to give.

00:12:31,330	I thought you were, you know, generous spirit. I did not take any yet, but I’ll be back now that I know it’s there. You got to leave one to take one, Uh, LDI supports in an education office.

00:12:45,800	We have a lot of great things that happen across our whole district and they’re housed there at central administration, and that’s where they collaborate with the others that are the heads of the different departments, um, and they talked about that, some of the great collaboration spaces used by all kinds of the groups, so they might have, um, for instance, if, you know, I, I know we get in the secondary principles probably come in there and meet every so often.

00:12:58,000	And so we have these really great collaboration spaces where we’re able to get a lot of people together throughout the building, um. LDI staff, like I said, uh, Amanda Meyer walked me through all the space, and I had a chance to visit with many different people.

00:13:10,930	We talked a little bit, um, it can get a little bit confusing for some people, but we working on K through 8 virtual academies, which is really helping service, uh, homeschool students that are also BPS students through that, so it’s, it’s a good thing in that way as I talked to Ms.

00:13:25,000	Meyer and Dr F Fasan about it there in the hallway that day. I’m always about in-person teaching, try to push that way, but we know we have some students that are opting out of going to a school building all the time, um, and this is a way for BPS to still help.

00:13:38,030	Give what I, what I think is still the best education that we can give, um, through BPS. So it creates a framework for helping get those students, a lot of them may come into BPSs high school, so it just helps create that. Um, Danica Nelson also gave, like I said, gave a tour.

00:13:54,130	So we checked out student services, so our English language learning department, students in transition, um, it was really neat to see the spaces they have some of the, again, a different collaboration area down there where they’re able to have um people come through and check it out, students and families that might be new to our district to get an idea. what we have going on, um. Stopped by Shannon Scott’s office.

00:14:09,530	Hi, Shanna, you weren’t there that day. Sorry I missed you, um, Lisa Simmons, Ell coordinator, Andrea Seibel’s office just had a chance to get a visit with some of those folks. So also at the cab is our activities department, um, which houses Mr.

00:14:26,570	Dave Zidelman’s office there along with his team, Kerry Wells, Kylie Johnson, Nicole Fitzgerald, and the great work they do. And if you know, you know, BPS, we just had state track a couple weeks ago. Great job, EPS, um. They do a ton. They host a ton of different events here in town and, and really, uh, Mr.

00:14:40,970	Zittleman does a great job, but he has those great, that great team there, Carey Kyle, and Nicole that helped make a lot of it happen. We host WDA for a number of different things. We have a number of state tournaments, so a lot of great things coming in and out of the, the cab office. Of course, Mr. Sher’s office is up there as well.

00:14:53,430	The business and operations manager, um, and you have a chance to see Jenny and Amber up there at the desk friendly faces that can kind of greet you in direct traffic. So, um, BPS Foundation is up there, our communications, Mr. Steven. Coots is up there, and many others.

00:15:05,600	I won’t be able to say all the names, but we, we really have a ton of really talented people that are there and helping make BPS a great job, um, and a lot of the people were out in the schools, I should mention that a lot of the folks that weren’t at the exact meeting were out in the school serving wherever they needed to be at that day,

00:15:19,000	elementary and everything, so, uh, to Mr. Bernhardt, Dr Johnson, thanks for what you guys do there, um, I know you don’t always have a school to claim as your own because as well if you’re out in schools all the time and, and working with our leaders so appreciate everybody at the BPSalb.

00:15:32,900	Thanks a lot. Dr F Fast, uh, or and and Mr. Sher, the principal of the cab. With that, uh, we’ll continue moving on to item 6, which is the consent agenda. What are the wishes of the board? I’d move that we adopt the consent agenda. Second. Your motion in a second.

00:15:58,000	Any further discussion? Sing none, Mister Sher. Presky Hager, yes Lee Peterson. Yes. Eastgate. Yes. Motion passes. Item 7 is the superintendent’s report, Dr F Fasnot. Um, good afternoon, board members. Nice to see all of you.

00:16:19,830	Uh, don’t have much for myself this month or this meeting, um, maybe wait till next month, but I do want to kick this over to Mr. Sheer and Major Projects, so. Thank you, Dr F Fasnott, uh, President Eastgate members of the board in front of you, we have uh our major project right C currently we have one project happening and uh that’s the CT center.

00:16:39,030	So what I can tell you is sheetrock is happening in concrete is being finalized, um, and the exterior wall wall panels of that north part, which is just shelled, um. is happening.

00:17:00,370	The other big thing that um kind of excited to ask or not ask to to report on is we haven’t asked uh to a major sponsor that looks very promising, so we do have one thing left on phase one that would be nice to get in and that’s the structural steel mezzanines, um, to tie those in to phase one.

00:17:16,870	So if we’re able to secure that funding will be bringing that to for the board’s consideration to do those as part of phase one and also tied to that is we’ll be kicking off a major. got a kind of a change of plan on how to raise some money, um, so my hope is that we do that this summer, uh, followed up with a lot of phone calls from Dr F Fastnatt myself to say, hey, did you see your email? Did you watch the video, um, and now

00:17:33,470	let’s try to get part of this gap closed to get this thing finished, so, um, that’s all I really have, uh, included the financials, uh, for your, for you also and would answer any questions the board would have related to our single major project. Board members. Any questions for Mr.

00:17:54,300	Sher tonight? Dr Fassnner, I would add just comment on what Mr. Sheer is saying. We knew we have that financial gap to close yet. I will say it, the nice thing is having a structure somewhere you can take people, see the space, show these, uh, organizations, businesses, partners in our community like this is what you’re buying into.

00:18:11,430	This is why you’re supporting kids. This may be even how you support your own company has been valuable where they see the space, so again, the work that Mr. Sheer and our foundation, um, going out talking to these people. bringing him into that organs that facility I think is helping, so thank you for your support on this. Thank you, Mr.

00:18:28,570	Chair, thanks for that report. Appreciate it. Uh, board members, if there aren’t any other questions for the superintendent’s report, all