00:00:10,630	All the public school district number one. March 16th, 2026. Meeting new order. Please join me with pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Any changes? Doctor.

00:00:43,730	I do. I have three letters of resignation. You should have hard copies in front of you. That I’d like to add to letter C of new business. Um, Jordan Typekit, Caitlin Long and Eldon Crowe and those just came in today, and all the other contracts are in them. Okay. Thank you.

00:01:06,830	Any other changes I’m seeing here? And then what’s the wishes of the board of the agenda? With the three additions? I would move, we approve the agenda with the changes. All right. We have a motion. We have a second. Second, and we have a second. Any further discussion or comments? Seeing and hearing. None. Please call. Roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:01:32,870	Yes. Next item is public comment. Anybody in the audience wish to address the board? Anybody willing to address the board? Uh, seeing nobody moving. We’ll move on then to the administrator’s report. Um, Mr. Legacy. Yes. Good evening. Included in your packet is a timeline for the deadlines for the school board election.

00:01:54,270	Um, coming up is the big one. April 6th at 4 p.m.. Is the filing deadline for candidates. Um, that paperwork needs to come to my office. Uh, for anybody that wishes to run for re-election or anybody watching. Uh, they need to reach out to me to get the statement of interest and the application.

00:02:10,470	Um, and I will get that to him. There is no signatures required on that. So, um, it’s not hard to run for school board. Um, just a reminder, we’re doing the election with the county. The election will be June 9th this year. All right. Any questions? Any comments? Um, and if you’re looking to get a hold of Mr.

00:02:29,530	Legacy, just call the regular, uh, center phone number and they’ll get you Ahold of him. In that case. All right. Um, update on Custer Elementary’s the next one. Doctor, redirect. Yeah. Just to kind of let you know where we’re at.

00:02:47,700	Last Wednesday, Doctor Bits and I went down and met one on one with all the staff at Custer Elementary. Our teachers and our paraprofessionals down there, and let them know what their placement would be for next school year. Honestly, I think it went extremely well. We were able to find good fits for everybody there. Uh, and so that went well.

00:03:06,970	I think people were relieved just to have the direction that they were going. And so that was, well, well received. Uh, May 1st, they already have it set up.

00:03:21,430	We’re going to be taking all of the Custer kids to their new schools, um, for tours so that they can start to get to know staff and teachers and get a feel for the buildings. So starting kind of that transition process, I know Mr.. N.C is working with his staff to probably schedule some sort of family events, doing some grilling, that sort of thing, kind of a Farewell to Custer type event.

00:03:39,070	So they have some fun things in the works there, and then we’ll continue to game plan as we get closer about how we want to move teachers and and get those things. If anything, in the past couple of years, with all of the building we’ve done, we’ve gotten pretty good at moving stuff, um, and have gotten a good process. So Charlie’s already kind of well on top of of that for us.

00:03:54,400	So things are moving along. Okay. Sounds good. Any any questions or comments for doctor? All right then we’ll move on to free and reduced lunch. You can continue on. That one. Yeah. And you’ll see that in your packet. Our district average this last month was just over 37%.

00:04:10,970	So with that we did have six schools that would be above that threshold. And we’ve typically used this in the past when we’re talking about title one funding. So our middle school Custer Lewis and Clark, Lakewood, Mary Stark and Roosevelt all fell above our district average. So would qualify if we use that potentially for title one.

00:04:30,730	Now obviously Custer will drop off next year. I do think we’ll see some increases, especially at Lewis and Clark, and they are already above that. But I think we could, um, we could see more kids qualify there, which could kick them into the everybody being free.

00:04:49,400	If you remember right now at Mary Starke, Roosevelt, Lakewood and Custer, because of the poverty rate, all kids have free lunch and free breakfast there. We think we could explore doing the same thing for Lewis and Clark next year, with adding those Custer kids in. So we’re talking with Jewell to take a look at that and would like to do that if we could. Okay.

00:05:06,970	Any other questions? Go ahead doctor. I just refresh my memory here for September 25th. Is that last year’s numbers? Yes. Yep. Percentage like for the high school that the number of students was dropped significantly. Then for October. Yep, yep. We used last year’s number on the September. Yeah.

00:05:30,000	Basically if you qualify, if you’re qualified in May, they give you the first month free the next year without having to refile. So we always start high. And then those people fall off if they don’t do the paperwork. All right. Any other questions? Anything else? All right then we’ll move on.

00:05:50,300	State Superintendent Levi Bach Meyer visit to men in high school, May 5th, 1030 to 1230. Doctor bits. Yeah. Mr. Borgmeier is set a goal to visit every school in school district in North Dakota. He will be at Mandan High School on May 5th. Cinco de Mayo. So you’re all welcome to attend.

00:06:08,630	I think I don’t know that you all need to be there, but I think it would be nice if any of you can make it work into your schedule. Um. He’s gonna. He wants to walk through the building. He wants to visit a government class. He wants to speak to some students, some educators.

00:06:21,870	So I think his time is pretty well filled. But I think it would be nice if, you know, 1 or 2 of you could be there at least. All right. Uh, let, uh, doctor bids know, because if there’s more than enough, we’re going to have to make sure we know it. I think we’ll just notice it. Just notice it anyway. Yeah, I.

00:06:38,270	Think so. That’ll work. I’ll take care of it. Anybody have any questions on that? And I’m assuming we’re just going to meet probably if we go just meet in the front. Yeah. I told him that I would meet, I’d meet out front and I’d meet him at the big M, so.

00:06:54,300	Okay. All right. Uh, next item on the agenda is play lab, open house. Uh, March 31st, 1115 to 115 doctor bits. Yeah, just an invitation to all you again. And we will notice this as a meeting.

00:07:08,200	Um, I know it’s in the middle of the day, but if any of you can make it, I think it would be a nice for you to attend. A little bit for the public on what Play Lab is, if you wouldn’t mind. Yeah. Play lab is Janet Bassingthwaighte, who? I think she spoke to you two months ago.

00:07:25,270	Three months ago? Um, she has just done a fantastic job. She’s got a coalition of how many partners? I would say. Yeah, 15 partners or so. They meet monthly, and they plan programming for birth to age five students. Um, she’s just done a remarkable job.

00:07:48,270	Um, we just noticed the readiness skills of our kids coming into kindergarten are so much better. So, um. And it’s in the old locker room at Ferris Field. Um, we had a donor, um, come forward and paid for all the carpet and the acoustic. Uh, and they’ve just got toys in there where kids can learn by playing and, uh, just a really. It’s really a neat sight.

00:08:09,000	If I could add to that, to the work that she’s doing. She’s done a bunch of state level work, too, on kindergarten readiness has really started to get the attention of I’ve had the lieutenant governor’s office reach out, as well as some, um, senator or superintendent Mark Myron, as

00:08:24,100	well as some legislative, um, interests. So I think there’s real interest in the work that she’s doing, which is neat to see. So hopefully some of those individuals will be there as well. Okay, great. Anybody else have any questions? Seeing none. Then we’ll move on to the consent agenda.

00:08:40,530	And the consent agenda. Approve previous board minutes from March 2nd, 2026. Approve interview minutes from March 5th, 2026. Review and consider February 2026. Bills review and consider February 2026 revenue and expenditures report. Uh, what are the wishes of the board and the consent agenda? I’ll make a motion to accept the consent agenda.

00:09:02,370	And we have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a second. Please call. Roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Next item is unfinished business. We have no unfinished business. So we’re going to move to New business review and consider a first reading of the following policies.

00:09:26,870	Uh, we got, uh, jth education of homeless students JTA ah, education of homeless student dispute resolution JT e Mendon district level dispute resolution form JTA, dash e2, McKinney Vento dispute resolution, Initiation Forum g a I a solicitation by staff members GBK a reduction in force gbr I aa Legislative duty political leave GBR id military leave GBS professional

00:09:58,470	organizations GCB classified positions gdb administrator hiring, promotion, transfer gd administrative leave and suspension GD communicable disease. Significant contagious diseases GD R communicable diseases. Significant contagious diseases. Um doctor Redruth, you just want to go and go through them all.

00:10:26,270	If it’s okay with the with the board, I think we’ll just handle them all in one package at the end. Yeah that’s okay. I can touch on some high points and if there’s one you want me to go back to, please let me know. Those first J policies. You’ll see. Um, all center around our McKinney Vento funding. If you remember, that’s the money we receive for students who are experiencing homelessness.

00:10:42,970	And we’re currently doing a federal review on that. And so there was just some updates there. So that’s why you see those policies, probably the policy that we made the most significant changes to is, is the political leave, the legislative political leave policy.

00:10:58,400	Um, you will see that in your packet. I believe it’s on page like 49 of the packet. We wanted to make sure that we clarified not just legislative leave but other political leave in there with term limits coming in due to the legislative, um, body right now.

00:11:14,400	We thought it was important that we make sure our policy is up to date on this in case we do have individuals decide to run for office. So you’ll see some, um, more significant changes there. Outside of that, most of the changes to these policies were pretty minor in nature. Can I ask you a question? Yes, doctor.

00:11:32,230	So when I read through the new stuff there, it says, um, she’ll not be entitled to receive any salary or fringe benefits during the entire term. And then when you go down to the next paragraph there, it says the employee is responsible for the organization and coordination of the regular school responsibilities.

00:11:50,770	Uh, that seems to contradict itself, because if you’re still responsible for some of your things and we’re not going to pay in the paragraph before it, or am I reading this is two different things here. I it’s probably true.

00:12:07,670	Well, I believe the intent was that they’re responsible for coordinating with their principal to make sure there’s a sub and to make sure their duties are covered, but then not necessarily to carry them out while they’re on political leave. So before they leave, they’re responsible for coordinating those pieces and making sure it’s covered. But our expectation is not that they’re continuing to carry them out while they’re on leave.

00:12:24,170	And adhere, it says, may take unpaid leave, um, if they’re not eligible, it should should it probably say shall take. We can change that. Yes, I’ll make that note. But isn’t that true? I mean, because if they’re not going to be paid, um, May would make it sound like it’s a choice. You have a choice.

00:12:41,870	Yep. Nope. You’re correct. I’ll. I’ll change that from me to shell. But probably the bigger question is, do they have a choice? No, I don’t not that’s not my understanding is that they do not have a choice. Would you read it differently to Doctor Bits? I always thought it was like military leave.

00:13:00,530	And maybe I was not at this meeting, so I don’t know. But with military leave, if somebody is deployed, they get their choice. If they take if our pay is higher than what the military is paying them, they can take our pay. But then we get the pay from the military. Um. But it doesn’t say that in here.

00:13:18,130	No, I know, so that’s what I thought this was supposed to say. I that’s what I believed it had said before, but maybe it didn’t. It did not before. But we can take it back to the group and look at that.

00:13:30,670	In comparison to military leave and then bring it back next time we have policy and personnel next Monday. Uh. I would personally think you should take it back and. Let’s look at it. Yeah, it leaves a few gray areas here. And when you got gray areas, somebody’s gonna. How do you handle it? Yeah, let’s just take care of it.

00:13:45,400	Yeah, I can take it back to policy and personnel on Monday. Does anybody else have any questions on this policy particular. I would just like to say that, uh, when we did meet for this, um, I agree with, uh, Carly that when we talked about the employee is responsible for the organization and coordination

00:14:06,270	of the regular school responsibilities. We were talking about that the teacher would get all that stuff lined up before they left for their political leave. Okay. Yeah. But I think the point about mayor shall take leave is we can clarify that and bring it back.

00:14:25,870	Well, and with with doctor bit said I mean that even throws another wrinkle into it because if you could do it that way, like military, then that’s even a little different. Yeah. Yep. No, I can take it back for sure. We will do that. So we can take that one off. It’s for jury duty.

00:14:41,130	Yeah, I was gonna say I have jury duty in April 7th, and if I get $5 or $25, I have to give it back to the school. But I get leave from this, you know, whatever I collect or whatever, I get paid, it goes back to. The school. I think my day is March 27th. It must be anybody that’s working for the school or on the board.

00:14:55,330	Must be server. All right. Okay. Um, that, like I said, that was the one with probably the most substantial changes. Were there any questions? We did touch the policy a little bit. There’s no real major changes in there. With the exception.

00:15:15,800	And number four, we did, um, highlight that or add in there that continuous district service will not be counted for employment would in which a license was not required for the position, such as a paraprofessional. So if I’m working for the district for seven years and for as a paraprofessional and three as a teacher, three years as a teacher, what would count for the policy? Not those four years as a paraprofessional.

00:15:33,730	Okay, anybody got other questions before I ask another one? Policy GAA. Okay. Uh, solicitation by staff members? Yes. Right now it’s as before you made the change. District employees are not permitted to solicit time or money from other employees or students without the approval you took out, uh, from other employees or students.

00:15:58,370	So to me, um, that pretty much indicates that they can’t solicit from anybody at any time. I’m talking. And I’ll use an example here. Let’s say, um, Coach Sheldon wants to go solicit some money for the football team. He’s going to have to come and get your approval every time.

00:16:16,470	So that’s the intent here, is that anybody’s going to solicit on behalf of the school, has to have the superintendent or designee approval. Yeah. Or principal’s approval. Yes, yes. We designate that to the principals. But we just think it’s wise to know where our teachers are and coaches are what they’re raising money for. Okay.

00:16:37,400	I’m okay with that. I just want to make I just wanted to make sure I understood what the policy change was. Yeah. And I think a lot of it stems from, I mean, lots of different things.

00:16:51,730	But we’re seeing increasing like, uh, on Amazon donors shoes type wish lists of teachers soliciting for classrooms. Um, personal things like Pampered Chef. It just gets really muddy. And so, um, the intent was that anytime you’re going to solicit something that you need to have the approval of, of your supervisor in the building. Okay. I’m just trying to understand what the policy change was. Yeah.

00:17:09,830	Anybody else have any sense? I took up all the time here. All right. What are the wishes of the board of, um, the first reading of the following policies. The ones I read off. I would move that we approve the first reading of the of those policies. Except for GBR. I.

00:17:28,500	All right, we have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion, any further discussion? Seeing none, please call roll. Yes. Yes yes. Yes. Yes yes. Yes.

00:17:55,370	Next item on the agenda is review and consider approval the deletion of the following policies GBD, staff meetings and GDA administrative positions. Doctor Ritter Roth. Yes. And so the first one, the staff meeting that came into play before we compensated in staff teachers for subbing is where that policy started with.

00:18:14,500	But now if I’m a third grade teacher and we have a third grade teacher out and we split up the classroom, we do compensate our teachers for their subbing time. And so the policy and personnel Committee didn’t feel like this policy was needed anymore, because that’s really where that stemmed from. And then the second one is just we had a duplication of that policy. So it was in our policies twice.

00:18:30,630	So we still have that policy in there. We just needed to get rid of a duplication of it. So um, that policy still exists. It just exists under one different letter now. All right. Thank you.

00:18:49,130	Anybody have any questions? Comments? If not, what are the wishes of the board? I would move that. We, uh, approve the deletion of the of those two policies. All right. We have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion, seeing and hearing. None. Please call. Roll. Yes. Yes. Yes yes. Yes yes. Yes. Uh, next item on the agenda is review.

00:19:13,270	And consider the following certified resignations Lisa Yoakum music at Red trail. Kara Blasko ski instructional coast at men in high school Jordan Typekit first at Red trail Kathleen Lang SLP at Red Trail and Elden Crow building. Trades at men in high school. Doctor Pitts. Yeah, contracts are due at 4:00 today.

00:19:36,600	So, um, we’ve been getting a few resignations. Um, these are. We just got three of them today. Um, these are teachers that are leaving us. I’d like to thank her for their service. I’m sorry. They’re all going, um, but wish them the best in the next chapter of their life. All right.

00:19:59,030	Any questions? Concerns from the board or motions? I would move that. We approve the most certified resignations and thank them for the work that they’ve done for Mandan public Schools. All right. We have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Um, if not, please call. Roll. Yes, yes yes. Yes. Yes yes.

00:20:27,270	Yes. Uh, and again, thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the students at Man and wish you the best on your future endeavors. Then we’ll move on to review and consider a request to hire the following certified staff Charles Brander, health amend and Middle school.

00:20:44,970	Bailey Cook, special Ed strategy strategist at Lewis and Clark. Courtney Sanders, first grader at Lakewood Thomas Powers, sixth grade science at Mendon Middle School Erica Gorman, seventh grade math at Mandan Middle School Campbell Fleck, uh, SLP at Mendon High School and Cambria Real L.D. at Men and Middle School doctor bits.

00:21:06,300	Yeah, I think, uh, not only Mandan contracts were due today, but all over the state contracts were due. So I think our principals tried to get a jump on it and get people hired before they get under contract somewhere else.

00:21:22,330	Um, it would be our recommendation for you to approve these contracts and welcome these teachers. Demand then public schools. All right. Any questions? Comments on any of them seeing none. What are the wishes of the board? I would move that we approve those certified staff that are listed. All right. We have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, please call roll.

00:21:45,270	Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes yes. Yes. Welcome to the Mandan Public Schools team. Uh, last item review and consider approval of a contract for assistant superintendent. Yes, doctor Pitts, and welcome to the table over there. Mr. Burke is here tonight. Um, and, uh, you guys made the decision to hire him as assistant superintendent.

00:22:10,930	I think it’s a great choice. And I think you should formally approve his contract and welcome him to his new position. All right. Or should we table it for a while? Make him sit. On my contract. What are the wishes of the board? I would move that. We approve the contract for Assistant superintendent, uh, Wade Mackey.

00:22:36,570	All right, we have a motion. We have a second. We have a couple of seconds. Everybody is willing to get up and do it. Any further discussion, any further discussion? Seeing none. Please call. Roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Peter. Yes. Yes yes. Yes. Welcome aboard as Assistant Superintendent. Mr.. We look forward to working with you. Thank you.

00:23:02,170	I do have to say, the only negative feedback I’ve gotten about this is from my own daughter, who’s not very impressed. Mr. Mishkin is not going to be at Roosevelt anymore. So I’ve had some issues at home, but we’re very excited. We’re very excited to have him.

00:23:13,930	Well, welcome to the and you’re welcome to come for the rest of the meetings if you want to learn and go things. You got questions for anybody on the board. Feel free to be able to talk to us and go ahead. If you want to add some some information here.

00:23:26,670	Yeah. No thank you. I’m honored and humbled, I guess, uh, um, seeing, uh, well, being 30 years in education, 19 of those years here in Mandan, seeing a former student on here get hired, uh, Thomas Power tonight is, uh, Cory told me about the other day.

00:23:44,530	Um, you know, I’ve seen full circle, and I’m excited to work with Doctor Rath. Um, going forward, I know there’s a lot to learn. I learned a lot just tonight already. Uh, but I’m a quick study, so looking forward to working with you and Mandan public Schools. Yep, yep.

00:24:00,930	And like I said, you know, I mean, we’re also a source for you. Don’t be afraid to call us and ask questions. So thank you. To both of you do. Actually, I mean, both of you guys. So welcome. All right. Um, next item, future meeting dates, March 23rd. Policy and personnel, 4 p.m. at the Brave Center. March 23rd. Student achievement at 5 p.m.

00:24:17,670	at the Brave Center. March 30th Wellness Committee 4 p.m. at the Brave Center in April 6th. Regular School Board 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Any other meetings? Yes. Do you.

00:24:34,270	Want to add? I’m going to put the March 31st play lab open house, uh, at the Ferris Field for just in case any of you attend. It’s at 1115 on March 31st. And then the state superintendent visit with the Mendon High School with Levi Bach Myer on May 5th at 1030. Also in there in relation to it. Anything else? If not. Thanks, everybody. Have a