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Votes at a glance: Bismarck School Board actions taken Jan. 13
Summary
A concise list of motions the board recorded on Jan. 13, including adoption of a two-tier bell schedule to begin in 2025-26, retention and compliance findings for OE 8 and GC 7, approval of the July 2025–July 2026 meeting schedule, and adoption of the consent agenda.
The Bismarck School Board recorded the following formal actions during its Jan. 13 meeting. The list records the motion text (as stated on the record when available), the recorded votes in the meeting transcript, and notes about next steps when provided in board remarks.
1) Adopt agenda - Motion: "I move that we adopt the agenda." - Vote (recorded in transcript): Lee — Yes; Peterson — Yes; Presky — Yes; Hager — Yes. - Outcome: Adopted.
2) Accept OE 8 monitoring report and find in compliance - Motion: "I will just move that we accept OE 8 and find, in compliance." (board member motion recorded) - Vote (recorded in transcript): Lee — Yes; Peterson — Yes; Presky — Yes; Hager — Yes. - Outcome: Accepted; board found OE 8 in compliance (administration noted one indicator with exception and described follow-up).
3) Retain GC 7 Board members' code of conduct and find in compliance - Motion: "I would move that we retain GC 7 Board members' code of conduct." and separately "I would move that we determine the Board as in compliance with this policy." - Vote (recorded in transcript): Lee — Yes; Peterson — Yes; Presky — Yes; Hager — Yes. - Outcome: Retained and board found policy in compliance.
4) Approve board meeting schedule for July 2025–July 2026 - Motion: "I'll move that we approve the schedule for school board meetings for July 2025 through July 2026." - Vote (recorded in transcript): Lee — Yes; Peterson — Yes; Presky — Yes; Hager — Yes. - Outcome: Approved; administration will make adjustments as needed.
5) Approve transition to two-tier bell schedule (elementary starting first) - Motion: "I would approve the transition of BPS to a 2 tier bell time schedule with the elementary schools starting first. And, we would like to direct the administrative team to continue planning for this transition, which will begin with the 25/26 school year." - Vote (recorded in transcript): Lee — Yes; Peterson — Yes; Brezke/Presky — Yes; Hager — Yes. - Outcome: Approved; administration directed to continue planning; routing by vendor Transpar to be finalized and firm start times to be published to families.
6) Adopt consent agenda - Motion: "I'll move that we adopt the consent agenda." - Vote (recorded in transcript): Peterson — Yes; Presky — Yes; Lee — Yes; Hager — Yes. - Outcome: Consent agenda adopted.
Notes: The transcript records the roll-call-style yes votes for the items above but in several cases omits a single board member's recorded vote in the excerpt; the recorded roll calls listed above are verbatim from the transcript blocks. Where the transcript included administrative follow-up (for example, routing work and childcare capacity tied to the bell schedule decision), those directions are included in the relevant article about bell time implementation.
