One nation. >> John, will you please take a roll call? >> Yes. Jamie >> present. >> Randy present. >> Jayla >> present. >> John mayor. Jason >> present. >> Alicia >> present. >> We're all here. Thank you. John approve
the agenda. It's an action item. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by John. Do I have a second by Alicia? >> Yes. >> Thank you. To approve the agenda. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. Post. Same sign. Motion carries.
Announcements. The next regular schoolboard meeting will be on Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the GSL High School Committee room 443 444. Acknowledgements. Do we have any acknowledgements at this time? >> Well, I know I said this last uh board
meeting, but I also wanted to say it again to our Lake Lakeside staff because we were kind of in the middle of the distance learning um when we had our last board meeting and we got through all that. We're still working with lots of the flood situations afterwards, but staff did a great job getting through
all that and I just want to say thank you to them. And then also to say thanks to our staff. Uh we just started our try three for a great try two. Hopefully we'll have a really great try three as well. Hard to believe that it's already here. >> Thank you. Any other acknowledgements?
I'd like to acknowledge the passing of Phil Polarsi, longtime uh Gleno teacher and counselor at the middle school. Our condolences go out to the Phil Polars family at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with
them. The funeral will be on Thursday of this week. >> Thank you, Jamie. Mr. Phil just a glike or glinko teacher. Was he ever? He was a counselor at counselor at the middle school. >> Was he ever part of Silver Lake or was
they just >> just didn't quite make the the uh when we combined or when they combined? Okay. Uh at this time, any public input relating to the agenda? Second call for public input relating to
the agenda. And third call hearing. None. Reports and presentations. There are none at this time. Administrative and committee reports. Director of Finance. >> Thank you, Jason. Um, just a couple little things. So, we had a finance meeting um, a couple weeks ago just to look at the forecasted budget for FY27.
Um, Chris had sent an email out just to talk to some of the members after this meeting um, tonight just to kind of go over it again. Um, and then we'll bring more to the next board meeting um, on the process with that between admin and Chris working on that. So, and then
another thing, the HVAC list, I've requested to get an actual cost. I have not received that yet, so I'm still waiting. Um, some legislation things that are just since legislation is going on. One thing that stands out to me right now is the compensatory revenue.
Compensatory revenue is our free and reduced um percentages. Um, this year they're only doing it based on drug certification. So, that does not include applications. So, our cost right now, it looks like our revenue for that looks
like it could decrease by $200,000. Um, they got rid of the hold harmless in that. They're hoping that they would bring that back. Then that way the compensatory would be placed back. Um, listen to a webinar today on it. On July
1st of this year, the federal changed um the rules on direct certification and Medicaid on how a household income is. So they're seeing that lesser families are qualifying for direct certification, which would then hurt districts um when
they look at the compensatory revenues. So, us districts are trying to make them go back with applications as well, so that way we can have more families fill them out and we can get more compensatory revenue in that. Um, another thing that stood out, they would like to see more
money for safe schools. Um, and then along with long-term facilities, that has not changed since FY25. So, they would like to see that increased as well. Um, last thing is is health insurance bids. Um we received health insurance bids, but we are
waiting on for the best and final bids. Um in the next couple weeks, we'll hopefully we should be scheduling um a health committee meeting to go over those. So that way we can bring it to the board in April what the new rates would be. Um vision and dental, it looks
like there is no changes on those. Um so we'll bring that to the health committee as well. And that is it. >> Thank you. Do you guys get the updates from MSBA? And and if if not, let me know and we can make sure we get you on that um lister so that you do get it. Um
I also get updates, you know, from the legislative session from MASA that I'll try to forward you guys so that you guys can have that input of what's happening at the capital because obviously some big decisions are are being made. So let me know if you're not getting that stuff from MSBA because they do try to send
something out um pretty regularly. Any questions for the director of finance? >> All right, principal's reports, Mr. Butler. >> Yes. Thank you, Jason. Good afternoon, everyone. Um, I'll highlight some of the items on this written report. Um about a
third of the way down you see that our um our elementary leadership team will continue our work with Adam and Gregory school advocate out of the cooperative on um on March 18th next week and we'll we'll be at Lakeside for the for an afternoon work session there. Um want to
look down just below that um Minnesota Reading Corp and Minnesota Math Court. Um, remember Jamie, you had asked about about math um a month ago and uh you know I wasn't too hopeful that we'd be awarded a math tutor. Um and we weren't,
but we for the first time we were awarded two math tutors. So I guess they're moving out from the metro. So that notification came later that week. So we will have um for our site awards one uh reading tutor at each elementary site and one math tutor provided we can
recruit a math. So recruitment sometimes can be can be challenging when you know out here. So we're really hopeful though and um I'm excited to be a new opportunity for us. If you look down at the bottom there's not a lot new in title. Um just a reminder that title two you know that's been coming into our
budget discussions. um we can no longer use that toward class size reduction. So that that um is that is title two is professional development both for um the public school and then our our non-public partners.
Over on the back um we've got some new information there on the MCA. You can see the schedule for grades three through six for reading and math as well as for science. Um and we're starting to to look at summer. Um we we do know that
the dates for uh K through six summer school will be July excuse me July 6th through the 30th and we're working on extended school year. Um the bulk of the the programming will be in in July but uh more details to come on that
school community partnership um lakeside gather literacy night last month. We will have ours at at Lincoln next week. You can see the numbers there from um kindergarten kindergarten roundup which was last Thursday. We had 50 families register and Kim is working on contacting
additional 74 families who received mailings and then I will also finish with acknowledgements as as Mr. Sanji said, you know, John and his whole team, specifically Marco and Ben at Lakeside, um Chad and the city of Silver Lake for
flexibility on FIED and our our elementary PTO um just very active in um you know, saying put in requests, we'll consider that. So, we really appreciate them for supporting our our students and staff.
What what questions might you have, >> Bill? Are things I think I see you're acknowledging Chad and the city of Silver Lake for uh the use of the auditorium. Are things going okay with regard to FIAD being offsite? I mean, as best as can be until the gym gets put
back together. Yeah, from from what I've heard, you know, there are some minor adjustments that need to be made in activities because what the facility can sustain and can't sustain, but yeah, I think with with just a lot of cooperation and flexibility, it is going. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it
had a little tiny bowling thing that we had to adjust to um with with some paint chips and and things like that that that uh we should probably acknowledge Harvey Mlichek for helping us out and helping uh get that fixed, but uh it it is
working. Um the gym floor is is done right, but it's not done in terms of being completed. They still need to let it sit for a few days. Apparently, they're going to have the sanding start uh next week. And once they get the sanding done, you know, we talked, we even met a little bit with with trying
to get a a plan together for some painting in there to really spruce up the the facility. Um and then once we get the sanding done, they can go through the the process of of the painting and the and the waxing. and um still on schedule at this point in time
to be done by um our our little mini spring break. So, a few weeks. >> Any other questions for Mr. Butler? >> All right, Mr. Cross. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. Uh I'm going to start with
ACT is coming up. By the time we meet next, our ACT will have been done. It'll be held on April 7th at the Gleno City Center. Uh, I have put together a permission form for those that will be driving themselves. Um, we do have transportation that will be provided for those that don't want to transport
themselves or can't. Um, that permission form will go out about 2 weeks prior to the ACT test. And the reason for that is as a parent myself, sometimes if you get information too early, you forget about it. Uh, and as a student, one's a long time ago. If I get it too early, it ends up not at home. So, 2 weeks prior and an
email will be sent home to parents as well to to make sure they're on the lookout for that. Um, state testing schedule, we're actually in it right now. It started March 2nd and it ends May 8th. Uh, that's the last window for science to to get in. Um, which brings
me right into my third point of what our plan is at the junior senior high level. Um, we've been kind of fortunate the last couple years, uh, last year specifically, that we had half days built into our calendar with the readact and we used advantage or we use that to
our advantage to make testing days and it worked really really well um, from the side of scheduling to test. Um, but we obviously don't have that this year with our calendar. So, we tried to build it in where we are running a half-day testing schedule on April 14th
and April 22nd. Um, the way that this will work is the morning on each of those days from basically when they walk in the door until lunch will be regularly scheduled school days. In the afternoon on those two days, students in grades 7, 8, uh, 10, and 11 will test in
the areas of reading, math, and science. Seniors will be able to go home as like a senior privilege is how I'm going to spend to them if they would like. Uh if they want to, they are more than welcome to stay in school on those afternoons. 9th graders will need to stay in school those afternoons as they will have
specific activities planned here for us. Um but I just in working with leadership in talking with Sarah Beckman, who's our our school assessment coordinator, um I really wanted to try and stick with that half day testing schedule. And I I know we couldn't change a schedule to just
build it in. So, we're trying to build it in ourselves. This information will go out to parents if you as a school board are okay with that and we kind of process through if you have any questions here tonight uh prior to those dates and MCA testing at my level taking place. Um
prom will happen on April 25th. Uh I know I've talked about that the last two weeks, but that seems to be what is like the most important thing here for the next probably month. Um, grand march will be at GSL. Dinner and dance will be at the Crow River Winery. Um, special thanks Emily Canerza and Morgan Hanky
for planning that. And I know the junior parents as well for planning the afterprom summer school. Uh, right now letters are going to be sent to students and parents to those who qualify for credit recovery. Um, funding is changing a little bit on that because of CO dollars that we've utilized well since
CO to to provide summer programming both the junior high and senior high level. Um those dollars are now gone uh because CO is behind us and those dollars have been used up. We're going to go back to utilizing what we did the first couple years I was here with Targeted Services and partnering hopefully with Wonia
schools. Um I have a call into them there on spring break right now, but I plan on uh having a conversation with their business manager next week uh to talk about what that looks like. And then I'm also going to be looking into some grants for our junior high to possibly still continue to provide enrichment opportunities for our seventh and eighth graders. Um and then
acknowledgements. Uh our close-up students and Mr. Lumpky are currently in Washington DC and just want to say thank you to him uh for his work on putting that together and providing that opportunity for our students. What questions do you have for me?
>> How many students have >> I think we have seven, but no quoting on that. It's it's usually between five and 10. >> All right. Any questions for Mr. Foss? Thanks, M. >> Thank you. Uh, superintendent report.
>> Thank you. Just a couple of things just for our remind uh our families that we do not have school on April 3rd and April 6th. Um, April 2nd would be our community schools expo that we're having. We have a great uh group of of businesses that are going to be coming
in for that day. uh they're going to be here from 10:30 to 12:30 and hopefully we'll get our students to get through the expo and and and do those types of things. Um and then um you kind of working here with Emily as well with the with the staff on phase two letters and
being able to get their training done. Um we'll we have anou that we're working on currently that will probably if we get everything taken care of that we'll probably get to the board here in April um or May um in the next couple of months but that outlines basically what
the high school staff is doing for the phase 2 letters uh training or not I should call it letters training the read act training they're not specifically doing letters it's um new house uh training is the is the ultimate what they're going to be doing but our English department is
basically the ones that are going to be going through that training and uh it has to get finished by I believe June 30th of 2027. Uh but we're working on on a plan to to get that taken care of. So that's what I have.
Any questions for super superintendent Sanjio hearing? None. Do we have any committee reports? We had a community ed um advisory committee meeting and I guess two things coming out of that is um the advisory
board is um putting together along with Matt a survey to garner some data um to gather input and stuff for future programming and some other decision making just to kind of see um how past
programming has happened and the uh feedback that individuals have on that and that'll help like I said for future programming and decision making. And then also there was a discussion regarding um trying to continue to get
additional volunteers for coaching positions um for various sporting activities in community ed and what we can do to perhaps recognize um individuals for stepping up. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Jamie. Any other community reports? Hearing none, we'll move on to approve the consent agenda. Please note there is a addendum to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. Motion by Jamie. Do you have a second? Second by Kayla. Two for the
consent agenda. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Same sign. Carries. All business. There's none at this time. New business. um donations. Uh the following donations were accepted with appreciation. Um GSL boosters uh
for wrestling mats and GSL concessions for also a wrestling event. So thank you to those two organizations. >> And just real quick, if I'm not mistaken, I believe that that's the wrestling mat that was down in the state tournament this year. >> May they do that?
>> Yeah. All the new mats every year. Yeah. So, it was pretty cool to to see our our map out there. >> Thank you. Item B, uh, service cooperative agreements 2026 to 2027 action item. The Gleno Silverlakes, uh,
district utilizes several services provided by Southwest Central, uh, service cooperative. The following services are recommended by the administration. um health and safety management assistance for 2026 3959 regional management
information center other revenue reporting um items for 28,369 student data privacy programs for 224545 special ed services $264, uh563 and behavior analysis services for
$18,900 director finance and Zichek will provide information about the contract during the meeting. Do I have a motion at this time? >> Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? >> Second. Second by John. Trisha.
>> All right. So, we do this every year to renew our service contract with the co-op. Um some changes that you're going to see the biggest change even with our enrollments numbers going down um special ed services. So the decrease of this is because we have hired our own OT
person, occupational therapist. By doing that, we're saving the district, you know, um some funds, money. Um the decrease is a 23.75%. If we would have kept what the OT with the co-op, um that
would have been a 5.844% increase. Um, so by doing having our own, we're saving the district um some dollars there. Another thing just to remember the behavioral behavior analytic services, we changed that package last year. Um, we were needing
more hours. Um, so that's why that package, it used to be option B. It was like what, 60 hours? >> We went from 60 to 90 hours. >> Yes. Um, and we're talking over with Bill, we want to keep that. It seems like it's been helping a lot more. um
that's needed. Um another area um that decreased in special ed is the teacher blind visual impaired. Um we don't we don't have many students in that no more. So that is part of the also why special ed um went down.
Technology is not um included in this um because we signed a contract two years ago and that contract is good till FY29. So that's why technology is not included in this. Do we have that person hired for the occupational therapist?
>> That was approved I believe by last we approved the person that >> any questions for anyone. >> Bill, can you refresh our memories? The behavior analyst services what that
consists of. Again, I you mentioned 60 hours to 90 hours. What what types of things do we get for those services? >> Sure. Um it's not only special education. Um so I'll start with an example. You know if if we if we need um some input let's say on on a on a bigger
system um a classroom, a lunchroom, a gym, um a whole building. We've we've occasionally use that person for that. Um primarily it is special education. um at the lower elementary
levels it's you know we get a lot of kids coming in they're not identified right they present needs they're not identified because our what does our programming look like so that has been the largest benefit at the early elementary um they do get involved in programming with kids who have existing
IEPs if things change um with with a student as as they get older and behaviors change and then it's it's an important element if we ever want to transition a student to um to the alternative learning center out in Cosmos, they they really need to be
involved for that. So, it's it's um it's multifaceted and and um we're we're using um every every hour. So, they work on six sixh hour days. Um so, we went from 10 days to 15 days if my if my math is correct on that.
>> And does that help? >> Yeah, it does. Thank you for that clarification or that reminder. Is it also within those hours multiple individuals that we are gathering those services from from the cooperative? >> So we we have been um assigned one
behavior analyst and and we've had Sarah for several years now. So and I' I've heard that she will be back with us next year. And it, you know, helps too as I'm thinking the workshop week really helps with kids who are transitioning between buildings, whether it's preK tok second
to third or sixth to 7th um as well. So, we're glad to have Sarah back because she knows those kids. Yeah, that's what I was just going to say too that there's that benefit of having that consistent individual that gets to know the kids and families and that obviously helps
the student and the families, but it also helps the staff, too. So, thank you for that clarification and that additional reminder of what we're getting for those services. >> All right, anybody have any other questions?
All right, we have a motion by Alicia, second by John to contract with Southwest Cooperative Service Cooperative for the services as listed above for the 2627 school year. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. All same sign. Motion carries. Item
C, baseball and softball spring official rates. Official rates before official. Athletic uh director Schwarz recommends increasing junior high baseball and softball umpire rates to $95 per night at uh at an increase of $15. This is
based on the association rates. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Randy. You have a second by John. Any questions? >> Well, this basically just came because you know the other associations are
going. So, these are our own people that we're getting, but we have to be competitive or else we won't get those people. They'll go someplace else. And so, um, he's recommending this $15 or it's about a $15 increase. Yeah. That to go in so that we can technically keep
our own. >> I think it might or two with their sports. >> Yep. So, >> when was the last time that we increased it? >> I don't remember. they take a look. So, you know,
sometimes the the the increases happen just naturally through the contracts that you get through the associations. And so, they make those adjustments just by, you know, when you have a contract with certain official associations and they say, "Hey, we're going to move up our fees and this is what you get. You
kind of just that's what you get because that's what the conference is going going with." Um, these are, like I said before, they're they're our own people. So, there's really no >> individuals >> there. Yeah. there. No contract or association that we're connected with,
but you're going off of what others are paying them because we want to keep them here. As opposed to saying, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm going over here because it's more dollars." So, that's why uh he came and said, "Hey, I need to do this." And the season started pretty quick. So,
I said, "Well, we can get that on the board agenda then and do that." It's kind of the sign of the times, I guess. And my reason for asking when the last increase was is just, you know, are we anticipating that this is going to be a trend? I mean, are we anticipating that this is going to be something that we
continue to incrementally increase each year, every other year, every so often? My guess is that we probably will just stay competitive, as you said, Randy, but also just um not only competitive, but just to lack of people. >> Lack of people. Yeah. lack of holding.
>> I think it's been about maybe six or seven years since we've increased. >> It's been a while since we've increased. >> I know a couple years ago we were having trouble getting umpires, but I think that had a lot to do with just people weren't homeiring as much anymore. Um,
throw a few more dollars out there. Maybe somebody want >> you do get more people when you're paying making it worth their time. And there's times where it gets to be very useful. >> Yeah.
>> All right. Any other discussion? We have a motion by Randy, second by John to increase junior high, baseball, and softball umpire raised to $95. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. Post and sign. Motion carries. Item D, first reading and policies.
Action item is the recommendation of the policy committee to bring back the following policies for adoption at the next schoolboard meeting. Uh 101, legal status of the school district. 203.2 order of the regular schoolboard meeting. 406 public and private personal
data. Uh license 424 license statute status. 506 student discipline. 603 uh curriculum development. 618 Assessment of Student Achievement. 713 Student Activity Accounting 722 Public Data and
Data Subject Request. 7:30 post insurance compliance 807 health and safety policy. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Lisa. Second, >> a second. >> Second by Randy to bring back the
policies listed above for adoption at the next regular schoolboard meeting. Any questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Item E, second read of policies action
item. The following policies received their first reading on the February 10th board meeting. Is the recommendation of the policy committee, directors lumpy and Lard and the superintendent of schools to adopt these policies. I think that's Randy, right?
>> All right. Directors Gors and Lard. Uh, superintendent superintendent schools to adopt these policies. Excuse me. Do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Randy. You have a second. I'll make a second uh to adopt the
policies listed above. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. >> I. >> I. Same sign. Motion carries. Item up is miscellaneous. We have none at this time. You have a motion to adjurnn. Motion by Alicia,
>> second by John. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. >> I. We adjourned at 5:25 p.m. or 5:29 p.m.,