When: Today, 4 p.m.

Where: Board room, Minot Public School District Administration Building.

How to make your opinion known: Board members will hear special reports on the gifted and talented program, the full service community schools grant at Washington Elementary, the striving readers grant, the transitional math update, a PLC Self-assessment and continuum update, power hour credit update, ASCA/PBIS/TIPS, informed practices update. They will also discuss bids for the food vendor for the school lunch program, the beverage bid, a middle school assistan tprincipal, and negotiations with the administrators union and school employees union.

How to make your opinion known: Board meetings are open to the public. Board members are Jim Rostad, Laura Mihalick, Mark Lyman, Mitch Kraft, and Miranda Schuler.