Des ordered the Mandan Public School District I work at Mandan City Hall, Bosch Frehlich room. Today is Monday, August 18th 5:30 p.m. Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance My the United States of American which it stands a nation uh the injustice We have the approval agenda. Any changes to the agenda? I do, um, letter C under new business. I have a resignation, and I believe you have a hard copy of that resignation in front of you. Any other changes Seeing none? What are the wishes of the board? I would move that we approve the agenda. uh, and the change or the addition, excuse me. a second. Approval agenda. Mr. Mitch, please call roll Yes Yes Yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Next up, public communication. Anybody in the audience questioning to speak anything on the agenda? Play in the audience Ain’t nobody, move on. Administrators support, uh, 2025, 26 enrollment update Doctoritz, correct, you have a, should have a couple of sheet in front of you, front and back. Um, the blue highlighted sheet is where we are this year. Um, you can see that as of right now we have 4560 students that we expect here tomorrow, and that’s between our early childhood special education program through grade 12. Um, you can see we have 305 kindergarten students, um, highlighted in green. If you look at the other side of that sheet, um, with the date highlighted in pink. You could see that last year we started school about almost 2 weeks later, so it’s a little different, but um you can see that we started with 4,543 student s on the end, but we had 330 kindergartner, so we are up about 17 students, um, when I left today, uh, Carry Power, our registration specialist said she had another 16 students to put in, but I also know that there’ll be some no shows, um, tomorrow that we just haven’t got records requests or they haven’t notified us that they’re leaving. Um, I’m guessing we’re gonna be relatively flat, pretty close to where we were last year. Once we pulled those kids out, um, we’ve been going up anywhere from 40 to 100 students every year for a number of years, and this is a relatively flat year for us as far as enrollment, um. it is concerning that we only have 305 kindergartner. If you look down the uh, our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade have like 360, 370 kindergartner, um, even if you go back to our 1st and 2nd grade, we are about 330, 340. So this is a, a real dip for us, um and I guess it’s, it’s a little concerning when I visit with Bismarck, West Fargo, Fargo, um, they, they’re kind of seeing the same, uh, enrollment numbers across their districts as well. that When we did our enrollment projections and worked with the company that talked about that. Did they talk about any of those trends happening with, um, like the kindergarten thing. I mean, what, what’s their feel? because I know that if you read at the national level, there’s people are having fewer children and, you know, I mean, there’s just lots of things happening in the world, and I was just curious. They had such a wide variance. They did use the birth rate and they did the high and the low and we’re within that, but we’re much more towards the low level of that. Um, his actual enrollment data, and he doesn’t count early childhood special ed, so it’s different, but we’re right where he says we’re supposed to be overall, except we exceed enrollment projections in the middle and high school and were lower in the elementary. Last year we sent about 355th graders up to the middle school, and we’re only bringing in 305 kindergartner, so we’re down about 45, 47 kids were down about 47 kids. across our seven elementary schools. really is an official numbers entail to September or something. Yeah, it tells, tell sometime in September. It’s with such an early start, I think we have a lot of kids who we haven’t got that they’re just registering in their new districts and we haven’t got their, we haven’t exited them out because we haven’t got a records request yet. Anything else Moving on, uh, Jessica, you’re 2026 committee assignments. Um, that’s also in your packet, um, one change from what I handed out in July, on the joint facilities committee, uh, that we share with the Park District, uh, that’ll be Rick Horn and Darren Haugen, um, Mr. Wolff had a, he was on there previously. He had a conflict and Mister Haugen is going to replace him. Otherwise, I haven’t changed anything since July. So I’m assuming that that will move forward with that. OK. And then Northwest School Board Association Fa Conference. Correct, that’s usually the end of October. Um, it’s usually right around Halloween every year. Um, this year, they changed it. It’s October 9th and 10th. Um, we don’t have any new members of the board, but the new members seminar would be the 9th, and that’s also the legal seminar, um, and then the actual convention starts the afternoon of the 9th and goes all day on the 10th. So if you’re interested in attending, um, let me know and we will get you registered. Dr Brits know if you plan on attending. Except we’re on the consent agenda on the consent agenda, we just have one item, prove the previous 4 minutes from August 4th 2025. I’d move to approve the previous board minutess from August 4th. I think. Motion in a second, to prove the minutes. Mr. Redmini, please go roll Yes. Yes. Yes yes Yes Yes, yes. You have nothing under under unfinished business under new business, we have reconsider approval of the fiscal year 2016 so application. It’s all need application. Titles 12, and 4. I murder off. Yes, you’ll find a, a kind of a summary of our consolidated application your packets. Since we have been now officially given our all of our funds have been released. Um, so just to walk through it a little bit, we are due to do tribal consultation tomorrow, um, being within 60 miles, um, of a reservation we’re required to do consultation on our federal funding. We go twice a year in the fall we go on our consolidated application and then the spring we go down and meet on our Title 6 funding, which is specific to our indigenous education program. Uh, this year they’re doing it via Zoom, so I will meet with them tomorrow on it, but that’s, I included that within the packet as well. So technically we have not done tribal consultation yet. It will be tomorrow. But if we look at our Title One funds, I put it in there. We’re almost dead even to what we got last year,,,, $1,408,000 up about $2000 but real even distributed between our, uh, eligible elementary schools, which this year are Lakewood Custer, Lewis and Clark, Mary Stark and Roosevelt, Lewis and Clark is an edition from last year. They’re one of ours that tend to kind of bounce on and off. They’ve been a Tad one in the past. They were not last year. They’re back on this year. In addition to our middle school, and then we do serve the two private elementary schools based upon the formula. Uh, we only serve students who would fall within attendance areas that are Title I schools, um, that happened to go to those private schools. So that’s where those numbers come from. We use TED on one primarily for staff that we do use some supply and um to some for our homeless liaison working in our district, but primarily for Title One staff. And you can see that breakdown on the first page, the enrollment numbers are on here were as of, uh, earlier this spring when I did the application. So that’s what they based him off of those aren’t necessarily our current enrollment right now. Our district poverty rate is up almost 4%, about 3.66%. We’re at 34.94%, um, and so you’ll see Mary Stark still continues to be our highest, although Custer is right there as well. Um, Lakewood’s number 3 at 48%, then Roosevelt, Lewis and Clark, and Mandan Middle School. And you’ll see the FTEs that are associated with each of those buildings on there. So that’s title 12, we primarily use for instructional coaches within our district as well as some professional development piece. We did see about a $12,000 increase there. We’re at $369,000 there, uh, again, constructional coaches, district-wide professional development is what we use. Uh, these dollars for, and then 4 is what we use for our school nurses. We use, uh, one of our family liaison physicians out of there, and we can use some of it for technology. We have in the past, we aren’t currently doing that though, and we did see a about a $2300 increase there. So about even for that. And then just a reminder, we do out of equity for our, our students to run lookalike programs at both Fort Lincoln and Red Trail with our instructional coaches that even though there aren’tEle schools, we support an FTE in each of those buildings so that they can run a similar intervention and process as our title schools do to ensure that all of our students have those opportunities. So that’s just kind of a quick 30,000 ft view of our title funds. So like I said, very, very similar to last year. We’ll see how it looks moving forward. I’m pretty confident in one, not going anywhere. We’ll see what happens with 2 and 4, but right now we are fully funded like we were last year. And with that all, any questions? as far as the man in Title IV FY 21 and this was 25.. 0 yep, sorry. Thank you. are funding is at pretty much everybody about the same word. stayed the same ones They actually redid the Title I funding formula. It used to be totally based across the state, um, on free and reduced lunch, and now they base it on census poverty data. So what is the poverty of your community for us that stayed pretty, pretty on even. I think we ended up about Ryan was about 60,000 less maybe, give or take, but for the most part pretty even. Some communities saw a huge drops. If they’re, um, like I think a Saint John, they have a lot of people come from other communities in the school for them, but their community itself, census data was not nearly that low, so they lost a ton of Title I money if that makes sense, and they’re wanting districts to work cooperatively, that if you are having a lot of students come from another district, then you need to work cooperatively on sharing those funds, um. so it was a big change for some. We got lucky in Mandan that it was not a huge change for, for us, but it does open the door that if we ever wanted to look at a different metric outside of free and reduced launch to determine eligibility we could. We haven’t figured out a great what, what that would be necessarily, or you haven’t spent a lot of time on that, but if we ever wanted to look at a combination of factors, it does open the door to do that. If, if I may, Mr. President, just a reminder, um, we’re not really specifically talking about our child nutrition program, but if you remember last spring, um, Mary Stark Custer, Lakewood, and Roosevelt, um, all students who attend there will get free lunch and free breakfast, and that’s based on their poverty level. Um, we’re gonna get reimbursed for those. I think that’s gonna be a nice benefit for the families and students that are in those schools. applying for We, we do still need free and reduced lunch forms because they do trigger things. However, because they’ve gone to that sensory sensus data for um poverty rate. It’s not quite as important as it was when it was straight free and reduced lunch. It was extremely important. Still is cause it’s still triggers other services for us and other supports, but since they use the community census data now, it lessens that a little bit. And then just because it’s the next thing on there, I just included in there the information that I share, um, when we do tribal consultation. It’s very much a breakdown of our consolidated app application and an overview of the services we provide. I’m a little disappointed not to be able to go down there in person this year. We always just have really good conversations, um, with the Health and wellness Committee, uh, down at Fort Yates and Travis Albers, I can’t say enough of how impactful he has been for our district and the connections he has, um, so I just included that for your information. And then next meeting I can come back with Ho their signed letter that they signed off on our consultation. and consider approval of adding a 1/7h to an existing teaching contract for Ruth Sutherland. We should probably have approval of our consolidated application, um, just on what I presented today, the wish of the board regarding the application. I would move that we approve the uh 2026 consolidated application. or Ms. R Reminiitch, please call roll Yes Yes. Yes Yes, yes, yes. Yes Yes All right. Next up, review and consider approval of adding a 1/7h to an existing teaching contract for Ruth Sutherland Manhatt Middle School. Facts. Yes, as we talked about, we are higher numbers right now in our middle school and high school, and their elective sections were pushing over 30. And so they asked to add an additional section of facts, and Ruth has agreed to teach that overload, so we just need to add an additional 1/7 to her her current contract. And we appreciate our willingness to do it. I’d moved to uh approve adding the 7th to the existing teaching contract of Ruce Sutherland. OK Motion the please call roll Yes. Yes Yes. Yes Yes And the letter C, uh resignation. Yes, uh, in front of you should have, ah, Jayden Underwood’s letter of resignation, and we would recommend that you accept it and thank her for her years of service in Mandan. We’ve got a plan in place for starting school. We do, yep. I’ll make a motion to accept uh Jane Underwood’s resignation. OK. Along with that, I’d like to thank her for her service to the school district. Mr. Reminiic, please go a roll Yes Yes. Yes, Yes, yes, yes. Yes Yes Next up we got future meeting dates, uh, today, August 18th, we have a school board retreat at 6 o’clock here at the City Hall. August 25th, facilities and finance, 5 o’clock. Braves Center. September 2nd, regular score meaning note the time is 7 o’clock at the City Hall. on September 15th, regular school board meeting, 5:30 at City Hall. And after that on September 15th, budget hearing at 6 o’clock at City Hall. Any other meetings this time? All