00:00:10,000	The Mandan Public School District number one, may. Monday, May 18th, 2026. Meeting to order. Please join me with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:00:36,700	Thank you everybody. Do we have any changes to the agenda? Doctor Bitz, I see you moving your mic. I do. Um, under new business letter B, um, we have two new hires that I’d like to add. Um, Katie Arnesen, third grade at Lewis and Clark and Lacey Jochim. Uh, she’ll be middle school choir.

00:00:57,000	All right. Any other changes? Okay. What are the wishes of the board on the amended agenda? I would move that. We approve the agenda as, uh, with the changes included. All right. We have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, please call. Roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:01:24,700	Yes. Yes. Next item is public comment. Anybody in the audience wish to address the board? Seeing nobody moving, we will just move on to the administrator’s report. Uh, doctor Bitz, the first item is graduation, May 24th at 2 a.m., 2 p.m.. , 2 p.m.. Yes. And I believe we’re going to be outside.

00:01:44,130	The weather looks nice, so we’ll be outside at Starion Sports Complex. Um, I think five of you have said you’re going to be there. We’ll have chairs there. But, um, if anybody wants to come at the last minute or something changes, let us know and we’ll get a chair up there for you. All right.

00:01:57,830	And then also, I think you were going to add, you mentioned to me the feather tying. Correct. We have the feather tying ceremony for our Native American students. And that’s the day before Saturday, the 23rd of May. And that’s in Dakota Community Bank Auditorium at Mandan High School. And you’re all invited to that as well.

00:02:16,000	All right. Thank you. Anything else on that one? Any questions for Mike on that? Doctor Bitz? One question. Go ahead. Time should we be at star in. I think if you’re there 15 minutes before we’re good.

00:02:34,330	Actually, the answer is where do you want to park? It’s a lot better. There’s a lot more parking there than there was before. Uh, next item on the agenda is DPI Indian Education Summit, July 20th and 29th. Correct. And if any of you would like to attend, I believe Miss First has attended that in the past.

00:02:49,400	But if any of you would like to attend, let us know and we will get you registered. Is that in Bismarck? It is at the Capitol, right? It’s right in the Capitol. Yes. All right. Any questions on that one? If not, we’ll move on. North Dakota school board convention, new member seminar, October 8th and ninth.

00:03:06,700	Correct. The convention is October 8th and ninth. The new member seminar, which is required by state law for any new members, is the 8th of October. So, um, our new member, we’ll have at least two, maybe three new members, and they will need to attend on that date. All right.

00:03:22,700	Any further questions? I see there’s a couple of candidates in the audience, so make sure you guys jot that one down because you are required to take it by law. And it is very informational. It really does help you get a good understanding of what goes on. So put that on your calendar.

00:03:38,300	And October 8th and ninth. The ninth is the law side of it. And a lot of times on the law component. Oh, the eighth is the law. The eighth is the law. And the new member seminar. And then the ninth is the convention.

00:03:53,400	So you they will have to go to the eighth. They can choose to go to the ninth if it works for them. Yep. That’s right. The law one is runs same time, doesn’t it? I’ve always enjoyed the law side of it. All right then we’ll move on to the consent agenda and the consent agenda.

00:04:11,330	Tonight we have review and consider approval of previous board minutes from May 4th, 2026. Review and consider approval of 2026 bills and review and consider approval of 2026 revenues and expenditures. What’s the board’s wishes on that? Make the motion to approve the consent agenda? All right. We have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a second. Any. Please call. Roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:04:39,100	Yes. Yes. Yes. We have no unfinished business. We’ll move on to new business review and consider approval of Lewis and Clark. Schoolwide title one application. Doctor Retterath. Yes. Lewis and Clark has always been a Bible school for us when it comes to title one, so they’ve often been title one.

00:04:57,430	We had a year last year whether or not they weren’t, and now they’ve come back on, and part of that process is they have to go through the school wide process for that, um, to demonstrate how they can deliver services to all their students and how they’re using title one services and

00:05:11,270	innovative ways in meeting the needs that allows them to once to demonstrate that to use their title and services for any student in need of help, not just a student who qualifies on our free and reduced lunch. If you’re a targeted school, there’s you can only target those free and reduced lunch students.

00:05:28,230	Wherever you are a school wide school, you can leverage those resources for all. So it requires school board approval. You’ll see their plan. They’ve done a nice job of it is in the board packet.. All right. Any questions on that or are the wishes on the approval of the Lewis and Clark School I title one application.

00:05:47,430	I would move that we approve the, uh, title and application for Lewis and Clark Elementary. All right. We have a motion. We have a second, second, and we have a second. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Seeing and hearing? None. Please call. Roll. Yes. Horn. Yes. Yes. Yes. Shannon. Yes. Yes.

00:06:10,900	Yes. Next item on the agenda is review. And consider a request to hire the following certified staff. Casey Iszler specialist at Lakewood Kayla Gomez-Munoz teacher at MBA Grace Fehr.. Fear. Sorry if I made that wrong. I wasn’t sure what it was. Uh, second grade at Mary Stark. Tanya Asset, uh, fourth grade at Roosevelt.

00:06:35,700	Katie Arneson, third grade at Lewis and Clark. And Lacey Jochim, music at Mandan Middle School. Miss Retterath. We would recommend approval of all of these and welcome them to Mandan Public Schools. And these will fill the openings that we’ve approved for release of contracts from that we did last meeting.

00:06:57,400	So Anna Kennedy is Casey Iszler, so she’ll we’ll be able to release her. Daniel Peterson is Tanya for the fourth grade at Roosevelt. And then, uh, Kayla moon. Uh, Gomez Munoz is, uh, Nicole Hafner for MBA so that we’ll be able to allow those individuals to take on their next their next opportunity. And how many. Left? We have one opening left.

00:07:20,330	However, we I think we are hopefully going to hire that in the next day or so and we will be fully staffed. So I just notice here our next meeting is not until June 22nd. We’re going to need a special to approve that. I don’t think so.

00:07:37,630	Generally we have them sign the contract and then have you sign it when you meet. But if you’d like to have a special meeting, we certainly could. As long as we’re okay with it. It’s not a new FTE. It’s a filling of an existing. It would be the middle school counselor position that’s open. Okay. All right. I’m okay with that. All right.

00:07:52,870	What are the wishes of the board on the new hires? I move to approve the new hires as presented and welcome them to the Mandan public Schools. All right, we have a motion to have a second. Second, we have a second. Any further discussion? Any further discussion? Please call roll. Yes. Yes. Peter? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:08:20,100	Yes. And welcome to the Mandan team. That motion passes. Next item on the agenda is future meeting dates. May 24th. May 23rd is the feather tying at 10 a.m. at Dakota Community Bank auditorium. May 24th is graduation 2 p.m. at Starion Sports Complex.

00:08:40,970	June 22nd regular school board meeting 4 p.m. at City Hall. Notice the different date. It’s 4:00 July 20th. Regular school board 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Is there any other meetings or anything we need to be aware of seeing? Nobody mentioning anything? Meeting adjourned. Thanks,