Board President Gonzalez Timmons will call the meeting to order.

Board President Gonzalez Timmons will lead the Pledge of Allegiance.

The board will move to approve or amend the meeting agenda.

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  The NMSD Board of Directors values the opinion and input of the community. This is an opportunity for the public to offer comments regarding issues being considered by the board. On matters of the day-to-day operation of the district, such as policy, curriculum, academic standards, etc. the public is invited and encouraged to meet with the Superintendent.

The Student Board Members will have the opportunity to communicate with the full Board, administration, and community about school events and issues.

The consent agenda enables the Board to efficiently deal with matters that have been delegated to the Superintendent, but by law must be approved by the Board. Items on the consent agenda are voted upon as one block and approved with one vote. An item may be removed from the consent agenda only upon approval of a majority of the Board.

 The administration recommends that the Board of Directors… 

            … approve the consent agenda as presented (or as modified at the meeting).

Minutes from October 26, 2026 School Board Meeting.

The board will consider approval of General Fund Warrants, Capital Projects Fund Warrants, and Associated Student Body Program Fund Warrants.

The board will consider approval of Payroll and Employee Benefits Warrants. 

The board will consider approval of employee hire recommendations.

The board must approve surplusing of outdated and/or unusable textbooks/reading material and equipment. We are requesting the surplusing of outdated and unused materials as listed below. 

The board will consider approval of donations to NMSD.

Belfair Elementary, Sand Hill Elementary, and James Taylor High School have been identified for support under the Washington School Improvement Framework (WSIF). OSPI’s Office of System and School Improvement (OSSI) requires that each identified school’s annual School Improvement Plan be approved by the local school board before it is submitted.

Each building team prepared its plan using OSPI’s Integrated Student Supports (ISS) Implementation Template. Each plan includes:

• a review of school data
• root-cause analysis
• SMARTIE goals with evidence-based strategies
• a progress-monitoring calendar
• the required examination of resource inequities

The school board adheres to the principles of Policy Governance ©. The board has written four sets of policies: Ends, Executive Requirements, Board-Superintendent Relationships, and Governance Process. The Ends policies describe the student outcomes the superintendent is charged with achieving. The Executive Requirement policies set the parameters within which the superintendent must operate as he/she leads the district toward the expected Ends. The BoardSuperintendent Relationships policies describe the way in which the board will oversee the superintendent’s performance and the superintendent will support the board. The Governance Process policies describe how the board and its individual members shall conduct business, represent the community, and relate to each other.

No less than once per year, the Board receives and considers evidence regarding the level of compliance with the provisions of these four sets of policies, a few at each meeting. The following are those policies to be monitored during this meeting.

A monitoring report is included in this digital board packet. The administration believes that all provisions of this policy have been following and implemented. 

The administration recommends that...

    ... the board find the superintendent's performance to comply with ER-10. 

The administration also invites comments regarding the superintendent's performance.

As part of the Board's ongoing review of its Policy Governance framework, the Board will conduct a second reading of proposed revisions to Policy ER-1 (Expectations of the Superintendent). The proposed revisions were developed through Board discussion and are intended to improve clarity, reduce redundancy, and modernize policy language while preserving the Board's governance expectations and oversight responsibilities.

The Board will also resume discussion of proposed revisions to Policy ER-3 (Treatment of Parents, Students, Staff, and the Public). Following the October meeting, the Board agreed to table further consideration of ER-3 to ensure all Board members had the opportunity to participate in the review and discussion of the proposed changes.

The Board may consider action on ER-1 and provide further direction regarding ER-3 following discussion.

This is the Board's opportunity to discuss, propose and/or make revisions to the policies. The Board reviewed these policies for compliance in its previous meeting. This is an opportunity for the board to consider any needed changes to these recently monitored policies. 

Please sign in, state your name, and limit comments to three minutes.

The NMSD Board of Directors values the opinion and input of the community. This is an opportunity for the public to offer comments whether or not they are on the agenda. On matters of the day-to-day operation of the district, such as personnel, policy, curriculum, academic standards, etc. the public is invited and encouraged to meet with the Superintendent.

This is an opportunity for Board Members and the Superintendent to make any comments or announcements that may or may not be related to agenda items or public comments.

Director Gozalez Timmons will process the board's self-assessment of the meeting.

The next regular school board meeting will be held on December 14, 2026 at 6:30pm at the NMSD Administration Office Boardroom. 

President Gonzalez Timmons will adjourn the meeting.