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Votes at a glance: Williston Basin School District 7 board actions, Feb. 3, 2025
Summary
The board took several formal actions Feb. 3, including approving construction alternates and a revised Sloane project budget, authorizing bidding for Hagan project design, recognizing an administrators’ negotiating unit and rejecting a teachers’ petition description.
At its Feb. 3 meeting the Williston Basin School District 7 board recorded these formal outcomes.
Approved - Removal of agenda item 5 (monitoring district operations GC‑3) from regular board meeting agendas until the July 2025 regular board meeting (roll call: motion passed). - Adoption of the remaining meeting agenda (motion passed). - Approval of Sloane Elementary alternates: hallway glazing (K–1), west‑side grading with irrigated turf and striping, and additional site irrigation; motion passed on roll call. - Reduction of the overall Sloane Elementary project budget to reflect verified bids and approve incorporation of alternates into the GMP; board approved a revised project total of $50,575,741. - Approval to have Hagan Capital Project 2025 fully designed (including DX dehumidification in the classroom fresh‑air unit) and to proceed to bid as designed; motion passed. - Approval to authorize administration to go out for bid on the Hagan Capital Project 2025 (related motion); motion passed. - Recognition of the Williston Basin Administrators Association as the appropriate negotiating unit for administrators pursuant to North Dakota Century Code (motion passed).
Not approved / referred back - The board rejected a proposed description of the Williston Education Association bargaining unit that extended membership language beyond the Century Code definition of a teacher; the board directed WEA to resubmit a description that conforms with North Dakota Century Code definitions.
Other routine approvals - Superintendent consent agenda and board consent agenda were approved (motions passed).
Notes: Several items were a roll‑call vote; where the transcript recorded the outcome the board announced “motion passes.” Vote tallies and mover/second names are recorded in the official minutes and contract documents maintained by the district.
