August 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM - Regular Business Meeting

Call to Order: Chair

Pledge of Allegiance

Introductions

Statement of Mission
Our mission is to become a justice-centered school community who fuels the unique genius of each student. 

Land Acknowledgement
Brooklyn Center Community Schools acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral and contemporary lands of the Dakota (Dah-koh-tah) people. We also recognize the Anishinaabeg/Ojibwe (Ah-nee-shah-nah-bayg / Oh-jib-way) whose lands were colonized by the United States and are currently occupied by the State of Minnesota. Our community sits upriver from Bdoté (Buh-doh-tay), the place where two rivers meet and most importantly, the center of Dakota (Dah-koh-tah) spirituality and history. We commit to the work of being a justice-centered school
community. Together, we will work to decolonize our minds and spaces, and to be good stewards to Mni Sota Makoce (Mini Soh-tah Mah-koh-chay) and good relatives to each other.
 

Approve Agenda for Regular Business Meeting

Approve Minutes 

Open Forum:  See procedures that apply to the public comment at Brooklyn Center Schools regular board meetings on the back of the request card. The request card available at the sign-in table.

Monthly Financial Update

Consent Agenda

Personnel, Non Resident Students and Donations

Approval of the Consent Agenda

Discussion Items

Action Items

Approve Directors and Unaffiliated Professionals Annual Salary Increase- 4% for 12 month employees and 3% for less than 12 months

Approve SY26 Strategic Plan Report 

Approve Second Read Board Policy Revisions/Updates:

• Policy 416 Drug and Alcohol Testing (Significant changes since last update)
• Policy 417 Chemical Use and Abuse (Significant changes since last update)
• Policy 524.5 Personal Communication Devices (New policy from MSBA to further solidify student cell phone use expectations)

Approve Non-Substantive Review/Revision - (Policy review/revisions where revisions do not change the substance of the policy.

• 802 Disposition of Obsolete Equipment and Material (Legislative change from MSBA)

Approve First Read Board Policy Revisions/Updates:

• 206 Public Participation in School Board Meetings/Complaints About Persons At School Board Meetings and Data Privacy Considerations/Public Hearings. (As discussed at the July meeting, we plan to move forward with the MSBA recommended version of policy 206 while we further develop procedures for public participation in school board meetings.)
• 613 Graduation Requirements (Significant changes, mostly legislative, since last revision)
• 620 Credit For Learning (Significant changes, mostly legislative, since last revision)
• 624 Online Instruction (Significant changes, mostly legislative, since last revision)

Approve new transportation contractor contracts

Reports/Information

School Board Member Reports

Superintendent Report

Leadership Reports

Director of Human Resources - Tammy Albers

Director of Data and Accountability - Michelle Ford
 

Director of Special Services - Deirdra Yarbro

Director of Community Engagement - Seth Ryan

DIrector of Educational Equity- Josh Fraser

Director of Curriculum and Instruction - Jena Carlson

Director of Operations - Guttu Meleka 

Communications Coordinator - Olivia Doeden

Principal, Brooklyn Center Secondary - Arslan Aziz

Principal, Brooklyn Center Elementary - Keisha Davis

 Principal, Alternative Programs - Michael Miller
On Military leave* -No report

Principal on Special Assignment - John Huber

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Adjournment