It took a long time though. It's like how are we gonna get tuna? I'm not in charge. I just follow it home in my last start which was fine. No one's
okay. We're trying to fill this box. All right, at this time I'll call the meeting to order. I want to make a quick announcement. We're having some issues with our live feed. Um, and if it does go out, uh, Mike is going to be recording everything and he'll get it uploaded through our YouTube channel as soon as possible. Um, but I'll call the
meeting to order and please join me for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. John, will you please take roll call? Jamie, present. Randy present. Caleb present. John here. Jason present. Alicia here. Thank you, John. At this time, I'll um
entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So move. Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. Second by John to approve the agenda. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. Jason. Addendum. Oh. Oh, yep. Excuse me. It's right here.
There is an addendum to the agenda. Item M. You guys, do you approve that? Yes. John? Yep. Okay. Um, all in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Oppos. Same sign. Motion carries. Announcements. The next regular school board meeting will be on Monday,
December 8th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. at the GSL High School community room 443 444 with a recess at 6 PM for the truth and taxation hearing. And we'll reconvene after that meeting uh when the hearing is done.
announcements. You go to acknowledgements as well. Right. So, I think there's a lot of um acknowledgements that are going to be done in our uh reports. So, I'd like to kind of wait on a couple of them. Um because there's some big ones here that
we'd like to talk a little bit about and I know Mr. Foss is going to talk a little bit about that and I know that there's some other things and so um there's lots to be proud of. So, we'll just give a a couple of minutes when we have our presentations to go through the acknowledgements.
Okay. All right. Any public input relating to the agenda? Second call for public input relating to the agenda and third call for public input relating to the agenda. Hearing none, we'll move
on to reports and presentations. We have Jeff Cely here from AERS. Jeff, you want Thank you for having me. So pleasure to be here and assuming this is on. Thank you. So, we want to talk a little
bit about um refunding and uh some additional roof projects. So, first of all, I want to I want to say that uh we're here tonight to talk mainly about the refunding, but you guys are considering some additional roofing
costs and so forth. And if you're doing the refunding, even though they are separate issues, it makes sense that if you're going to add uh some additional new money projects uh to this to do it
at the time we're doing the refunding. So, they're two different financings, but we would combine them into a single bond, and that would save you the upfront costs of issuance on a second bond. So, it'd be a fairly significant
uh material savings for you if you did them at the same time. Now, you may or may not decide to add to the refunding. Uh that's up to you. But let's talk about the refunding to begin with here. Let's see if this works.
Turn it on. Uhhuh. There we go. So um a refunding you can think of it as refinancing. Refunding is the municipal bond term for refinancing.
So you issue new bonds at a lower rate than the old bonds and you pay off the old bonds. Simple as that. Uh it provides you the opportunity to reduce your debt service payments. And of course, it's subject to certain
restrictions on state law. Um, that said, the payments or the savings would go back to the taxpayers because this is on your debt. It does not become money that's freed up that you can use elsewhere. Uh, so the original amount, we're looking at the school building
bonds issued in 2015. So it was series 2015a. The original amount was 23,695,000. It was a result of a successful election held May 12th, 2015. And many of you might remember this conversation. We
actually had this about a year ago because at the time rates were looking promising that you could save money on this refunding and then rates jumped over a very short period of time, wiped out the savings. We put it on hold at
that time. Uh so um the election allowed you to uh uh improve your have site improvements for existing high school district-wide safety and security uh facility and site improvements for the Lincoln Junior High School campus and
then relocation of districts uh kindergarten through grade two to your existing campuses. That's what the election was for and the bond uh subsequent bond. So the what we're looking at doing as
we're analyzing this um we looked at every maturity now every maturity or principal payment this goes through 2045 okay your existing bond 2015 and we looked at every maturity or principal
payment every one carries its own interest rate. Okay? So, it's not like a mortgage where you have an interest rate over a 30-year period. Every principal payment has its own interest coupon.
Okay? So, in analyzing this, um the 2041 through 2045, your last five maturities did not save money if you refunded them. the everything before that the 2027 next
year's through um um 2040 did save money. So what we're looking at is refunding your 2027 maturities 2829 all the way through 2040 and then
leaving your 2041 through 2045 maturities. So you would still have those five maturities outstanding on 2015 A bonds. So, we would not refund everything on it because if we refunded the 41 through 45, it would start
diminishing your savings just because of the coupons that are out there or the interest rate I should say on those maturities versus what they would be on the new bonds. Uh so, uh your your uh old bonds had interest rates of coupons
of 3.75 to 4%. Now you had a call date last year. So in order to issue tax exempt or bonds at taxexempt rates, you had to wait for that call date. Well, we have because um we're actually a year beyond that. So
we're what's called a current refunding in which case you can issue tax exempt bonds uh for it. So the current refunding I mentioned the 27 through 20 240 maturities. It's about $12 million worth of principal that's
refunded. The estimated new amount would be about 11.3 million. And then we estimate you'll get a a premium uh to make up the difference between those two. A premium is simply where the the underwriter, the purchaser of your
bonds, they're going to buy it. They're going to resell it. Okay? they don't hold on to it for an investment and they're going to give you a premium price. So, you're going to get money upfront. Now, that is what we've been seeing for years in this particular market. And and
why would somebody give you money up front? Well, because if they bought um these maturities and sold them at the market, it'd be a very low interest rate and investors would not want them. So
they sell them at a higher interest rate to their uh uh secondary investors, but in return you're paying a little higher interest rate, they're going to give you extra money upfront to make up for that. So if people are paying money
upfront for a higher interest rate, why would they do that versus just a, you know, your current market? Because it's tax exempt. So my interest earnings I can save you know 30 plus percent on that because it's tax exempt. Uh so
therefore I'm willing to pay a premium and then pay a little higher or get a little higher interest rate because it's taxexempt interest rates. So the savings we're estimating at around $460,000 $465,000
and it it's likely to fluctuate. we have a little bit of cushion built into our estimates. Um, so we're estimating somewhere between 450 and 500. Well, if you recall when we talked about this last year, we were refunding everything, but it wasn't adding up nearly as much.
So, it was uh about half, I believe, of what this savings that we're estimating is right now. And as I mentioned, that goes back to the taxpayers uh for debt service. So it makes sense right now. Uh
of course the the timing of this uh we have tentatively set up a schedule that you would be authorizing the initial resolution at your December meeting and uh on at your January meeting we would
sell uh the bonds. Now that can be adjusted. We set it up that way for a specific purpose. Um that being that annually we see the first couple weeks in January uh re bonds that sell during that time
tend to bring in very good interest rates. Um and the reason being is because the underwriters, the financial institutions, they generally have a calendar year, fiscal year, and uh because they they buy these, they have them in inventory
and they resell them. At the end of the year, they want to clear out their inventory. So come January one, they've cleared out their inventory. They don't have much to sell in the new fiscal year. So they want to get out there right away and restock their inventory
for selling it. So it tends the demand is higher. It usually brings good interest rates. Uh so that's why we chose that time frame. Now let's switch gears a little bit and talk about your your your roof projects. So you have
some roof projects. You passed the bond. We issued the bond in 24. So So you you have your 2015 bonds, the refunding ones we're talking or the ones we're talking about refunding. You have your bonds that you issued uh um in last year and
those were for uh successful election uh for roof projects and then you have a very small abatement or parking lot type bond. Okay. Um the uh you you have some costs that you want to deal with and one
of the concepts is that you would take um an estimated amount maybe a million dollars um from you would issue bonds to finance some roof projects and pull them out of that bond and finance some of those other things that you need to deal
with in in the existing bonds. So, if you were going to issue bonds, you can go ahead and do that now. Uh, because there was a change in the law. Back when you ran the election to deal with roofs, you you you you had too many roofs to go
ahead and issue um like facility maintenance bonds and you didn't have enough revenue to make the debt service payments. So, you went out and asked the voters. the law has changed since then and now you can issue facility maintenance bonds to pay for uh these
roof projects. Um so as we look at it um this table here is your uh uh facility maintain sponsors. There's really three components. The first two apply to you. The last one does not apply to you. That's the the largest 28 districts in
the state. uh they have a little different rules, but the first two so you can issue facility maintenance mods for deferred maintenance uh health and safety, uh fixing up parking lots, you know, any type of deferred maintenance. Um the
deferred maintenance ones, they take away from your general fund. You have to use your general fund dollars, your facility or LTFM dollars, long-term facility maintenance dollars, which run through your general fund to make the payments on it. So, you're you're very
limited on what you can do because you're using those funds for other things. You don't necessarily want to take those funds and use them on bonds, okay? Because you're already spending it and it's a limited amount. Um but uh you
could address indoor air quality issues, asbestous um and fire suppression, also called a facility maintenance bond, but you can levy to get the revenue. So it's outside of your existing annual
LTFM appropriation and uh general fund. You can levy to make the payments on. Well, this year they said, "Well, now you can do roofs with it." So, they added to it. So, this has a tax impact uh by utilizing that particular avenue
of of revenue. So, it's it's new uh this year. And when we look at a million dollars paid over 13 years, uh because we we we want to we don't want it so small that it goes out, you know, 16 17
years. So, uh, we looked at and said about 13 years seems right. Um, level principal and interest payments. Uh, your tax impact on your average home 275,000 is about a dollar and a quarter
a month. So, it's it's uh a manageable impact on it. And here it lays it out in a visual where you can see your tax impact on your other debt service is uh close to nine um uh percent. Uh the
orange would be added on to that. So, uh we figured out the tax impact for you. Like I said, your average is about $275,000 home. So, less than $2 a month on that. um on a 13 levy. Now, we can we
can shorten that a little bit if you wanted, but that's looks to be about right. Uh so the next screen here, so who's paying for the tax on your debt service in general, but on this? So your
residential um is about 46% is being paid by your residential or your homeowners. Um, your egg land and build and that includes a house, garage and one acre on a on a farm. Uh, your
commercial industrial is about 13%. Your egg land and buildings which uh would combine with the you know the house garage and one acre falls just like any other home. But the egg land and buildings the farmers would pay about 12% of your existing debt and this
new one. And then the states are egg credit would be about 20 28% 29%. So they get the egg credit on this. So to summarize this um
this would the refunding part would reduce your overall debt service. Okay. It's we talked about two parts of it. We'd combine it in one financing but there's still two in components to it. Um, and we would target some roof
replacement funding with that second component. Um, combining the refundings, the refinancing and the roof would lower your o your initial cost of issuing the bonds. You'd be paying for one bond
instead of two. Um, and then on on all of it, of course, because the refunding has to do with your existing debt, there would be the egg credit associated with it. So, that's kind of a summary of what
we're dealing with. Uh, any questions? So ultimately I think it the stars have aligned for us to take this opportunity right and so that's where we asked Jeff to come in here to kind of talk a little bit about a little bit more than
originally of just re you know reissuing the bonds and so there is this opportunity to address some more of the the the roof issues because there is a few more things that we could certainly be doing.
Um, and by doing this opportunity, we can kind of in an outabout sort of way, hope I'm saying this right, take advantage of the refinancing to address some roof issues
and potentially keep the taxpayer neutral or a very small increase. So, it's a great opportunity. Did I say that? All right. Yes. And and uh to address a couple
questions that Michelle and I had talked about is the timing of it. So, we had set this up to try to take advantage of those historically higher demand uh in early January. Um I understand if if you need to change
that, obviously you can change it. um it's just set up that way because we think you're going to get the strongest interest rates. Now, will it amount to a a large difference? Uh not unless something really significant changes in the market if you kick it back two weeks
or even a month. Um but it's likely it's likely to amount to some difference in rates. Uh again, um probably not significantly unless unless something drastically changes in the market. Um,
so you can go ahead and change the timeline on it. Um, we're obviously we feel you're in the strongest position keeping the timeline, but it's flexible. Um, so that was one of the things we talked about uh uh
being able to do that. Oh, the other thing we talked about is um since you may not have an exact cost yet on some of those roof projects that you would finance uh in this particular case since uh you you would choose a
number that you would finance up to and so say it's a million dollars and we would if you don't have the numbers before this takes off next month uh um we would set it up for if if you choose
the million the million dollars and that's what you would hold to basically. So if it came in higher you would use some of your other bonding or other funding to deal with it and a million came from having it be somewhat neutral. And it's kind of that
number that potentially addresses some of the projects that we still have. If we choose that amount, what's your timeline of getting that number? Do we need to have something approved from a board
action standpoint before December or is December okay for us to be able to get this decision on our number? You understand what I'm asking? Like yes, you you still have to go and get
MDE approval to issue the facility maintenance bonds. um they if you add this to it, I question whether they would be able to turn stuff around in time for you to
stay with this existing time frame. Um you may have to kick it back a month. Uh we would certainly try to pull everything together and submit it uh and see if if you really wanted to stay with this time frame. Uh, but
I'm a little concerned they would they would the fact they have to approve it and there's a process that would necessitate moving that sale date back. Sure. Is it a full review?
No. No. Jeff, when you use the the $275,000 home and a hypothetical $1 million bond issue and coming up with$1 to2 per month, where does the $275,000
home number come from? Uh we basically get the total residential uh valuation in the district from the county and then they have the number of
households or homesteads and we divide the total by the number of homesteads. Okay. So when you get that information, GSL is a little unique um in a sense that it's six communities versus one and
it crosses counties. Um, so with that being said, um, how do how does that factor in a community of 100 like Bisy versus a community of roughly close to
6,000 in Gleno and all communities of GSL within that size, if you will, from 100 to 6,000 in population. So when we ask the county for this information, um they are going to provide uh the
uh the property that's within this school district within their county. Now, the fact that one community may have uh maybe more affluent or whatever as far as housing costs and so forth,
um we don't we don't have that information to break that down. So, so one community may have an average lower value than another community, but the county will take your school district, whatever's in your school district,
number of uh homesteads and in that particular county, and they'll give us the gross numbers on both the valuation and the number of homesteads. Okay. Thank you. So, as far as the timeline goes, November 24th would be a better date
than December 8th for you. It for us to make a decision on a number or as far as this that gives us a a chance to try to maintain,
you know, the time frame we set up and get it off to MDE to try to get them to turn it around quickly and so forth. Um, again, I can't I can't speak for how long it'll take them to do it, and so we might end up having to change it. But if
if the decision isn't made till December 8th, then everything's going to be moved back at least a month. Okay. And then you're just risking from your professional opinion the potential value. It could change. And so then
change. Yeah. And that's where not necessarily taking advantage of what we think would be the best time to sell these. Yes. And and again, I mean, that's just based on what we've seen historically year-to-year. Um there could be a year
in which if you sold bonds a month later in February, you might get stronger rates than January. Might be better. Yeah. Um so you aren't locked in. I mean the the the the numbers are not locked in until you actually sell the bonds and
take the hits. And from a board perspective, you know, we're not asking for an official decision right now, right? This is why we've scheduled the the work session after the board meeting to to have further discussion on where this goes.
And then obviously the next time that we meet, whether that's the 24th of November or the the December board meeting, um I think that's when we're ultimately going to ask for a decision. Okay. Anybody have any questions for Jeff?
All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Jeff. All right. At this time, uh, FFA is up. Well, hello. We're from the FFA chapter. And, um, before we get started, we just wanted to kind of remind you that we were just at our national convention.
So, thank you for all your support with that. And we did receive the highest award available which was models of excellence which means that our chapter is the number one chapter in the nation which is pretty cool. So we're also having a big celebration later this
month that all of you guys and the entire community is welcome to come to and there'll be more details in the future. So those of you who are at convention, do you want to share your favorite parts quick? Uh well yeah I got to present the model of excellence presentation. So, I got to
do that in front of a panel of judges and then receive that award on stage in front of 70,000 people. So, I think that was pretty cool. Um, I went had the pleasure of going this year and my favorite part was Sam's mom went and she was next to us and we
heard the gl and we just started screaming and then I got about 12 bruises because of her mom smacking me. Uh, my name's Busy. I had the pleasure of going to nationals as well and I'd say my favorite moment was realizing
that we won and I maybe shed a tear or two. It was a pretty pretty big moment. I texted my uh grandfather right away. So, it was awesome. Enjoyed it. My name is Beth Wendinger. I did attend national convention this year and my favorite part definitely was getting announced as
number one chapter in the nation. It was a huge accomplishment for us. Yeah. So we are the um egg issues team. So what egg issues is is our team gets to decide on an agricultural related issue that is impacting our community
and then we research the issue, create a script for a skit and then present it at the state competition in December. So our issue is land availability. It's called where the ground is gold. So, we're talking about farmland and who's it's available to to who it is available
to and the prices because a big issue right now is land prices. And I know we'll kind of talk about it later on about the specifics, but this leaves a lot of struggle for new and upcoming farmers to get into the farming industry while leaving open opportunities for
your big-time farmers to get more land and also for land developers to come in and build housing and to bring urbanization into our community. So, what we're here to do today is just kind of explain what our issue is and then get some feedback from you guys because I know some of you definitely have some
farming experience and know how this issue might be impacting our community and we want some of your feedback and how we can make our issue better. So, my character is the new young farmer or the new young farmer's wife in this
situation. So, I get to represent all the mothers in farming and how the financial aspects of it really impact us. I didn't say before, but I'm Sophie Dojo. Um, I am filling in for Krypton Wish. Uh, so I'm not technically on the
team, but I'm here in spirit. Uh, Krypton's role is the bank teller slashnarrator. So, she goes what auction or auctioneer, sorry. Um, so she kind of goes through like the bidding and stuff. My name is William Hoopenbecker. Uh I
would typically represent the um government financial agent. However, due to uh certain members uh Landon Matheni not being here today, I will also represent uh urban development. My name is Busy and I play the young
farmer in our skit. I'm also Sam's wife in the skit. So there's that, too. Sam's wife. Sam's wife. Husband. husband. I I'll remember that. You'll remember that one. You'll remember that one. But anyways, uh I I represent the young farmer trying to get
into egg production and find some land. My name is Beth W or Yeah, I already said that. Um I'm the big-time farmer/operator and McKenzie mean minion men. She is sick today and cannot attend, but
she will be the widow of the farmer who passed away. Something I forgot to mention is where our skit is. So, our skit takes place at an estate auction where 120 acres are for sale after Randall Thalman's passing.
So, one of the major things like issues affecting this um is the price of land. The price of land in Mloud County is $111,000 per acre, whereas in Ren Renville, it's
only 9,000. Some of the pros of this can be our economy. it's drawing people in from the or like it's bringing people into the cities that can buy the houses that housing developers are getting and they're supporting our local businesses. Uh the cons are young farmers cannot
like get into the business because the price of the land. Um and another con is that land is going to more corporate farmers. Um I will be speaking on the more Oh,
I'll be speaking on the urban influence and the pros and cons that that entails. So, some of the pros that this our script entails would be the keeping of rural America. Um, this would be the providing provided services and benefits from doctors and dentists that would
move from the cities and more urban areas. Um, and what their expertise could bring to the uh community. Um and also the pro another pro would be the local revenues that would be come to small businesses and their growth
through more people coming to the econ to the community. Um some of the cons that comes with this though would be urbanization and overgrowth. Um so that'd be like becoming the new hutch or chasa. Uh that could cause a lot of local people to be concerned with
amounts large amounts of people coming into such a small community. Um, and also limits on what we can farm. So, Mloud has no hog or poultry sites. And at Sibly County, where I live, there's plenty of hog and poultry sites. Um, but
Mloud doesn't have as much accessible land, farmland for these sites to be uh put up and farmed because of the urban areas. They don't like the smell and
what that entails. Um but yeah okay uh today I will be speaking on the more act uh macroeconomic side of the issue. Um the percentage of the US GDP made up of agriculture has fallen drastically from approximately 15.5% in
the year 1900 to 0.9% in 2017. This is due to a variety of issues. Um, it can primarily be summed up to the expansion of urban development, causing the market to shift from a more primary producer economy to a more uh secondary
manufacturing and uh tertiary service industry. In 2024, the United States imported a record $213 billion of agricultural products, which is only expected to increase 6% year-over-year. Every year the US loses approximately 2
million acres of farmland. Uh this loss of production forces more reliance on foreign interests taking overall power away from the United States voter. Who was involved in this issue? 2022 the National Young Farmers Coalition did a
survey. 59% of farmers under 40 said affordable land was very or extremely extremely challenging. Everyone is affected by this issue. From those in the big cities who are seeing upcharges in their produce to individuals who are witnessing land that was once farmed being turned into housing developments.
From old farmers who can no longer keep up with the farm to young farmers who can't afford to take over. It would cause a food scarcity risk causing the problem of feeding the growing population. Also, if there are not more farms or more entering the farming industry, this could cause a economic
problem as well as a financial issue. and causing people to no longer enter the workforce. So, like I said earlier, we're here now that you know what our issue is and who it entails and the pros and cons. We just want to know a little bit about what you think of our issue and if you
have any recommendations of things that we should be talking about or personal experiences that you guys have seen how this issue impacts our community. one of the I this has come from a personal issue
because it's happening too close to me but um what happens is that there's farmland and stuff that's being developed in the Twin Cities area closer to the Twin Cities area and what happens is that it's they're receiving a large sum of money for their land but what
happens they don't want to pay tax on it so what happens is that they turn around and then They they're moved and they happened and moved a big dairy and they just built it by you know within a half mile 3/4 mile of our place but um they
had to do it because otherwise they they didn't want to pay tax on it. So they call it I can't and I'm going to fumble this. This might be a 1031 exchange or something but all they're doing is the um developer is actually building the
the new dairy. you know, they're financing. They're it this all the money is going in there because that way they don't the farmer the farmer who's selling the land closer to the, you know, the shock area. It doesn't have to pay any um capital gains and tax on it.
You know, that's u one of the things that's um it happens especially here when we're closer to the metro area, you know, whether and it happens all over, happens up north and everything. the they're trying to transfer the tax impact that they have, you know, and
then they're taking that funds and moving it out and that definitely affects the the you know, we have a good friend of ours is um an operator. His son's trying to get his foot in the door and it's difficult. It's it's hard for
him because like you said, the average cost per acre, you know, is significantly higher here, especially if you take 120 acres. you know what is it a four you said a $4,000 difference roughly from 9,000 or you know even four 3,000 but you know you take that over
that's a significant cost and then with today's interest rates is you know it's a another huge cost so I just want to say I been not very very actively involved but I have been actively involved with the FFA program and um I
was here when you got home the um on Saturday night and I really enjoyed it. It was pretty special um celebration that you had and um I applaud every all your hard work that has gone into it because I understand that was a
three-year um kind of a three-year com combined if I'm correct there. Yeah. Yep. and because you took the last three um years presidents with you and um uh I have always been impressed and I have been also blessed with the opportunity
to help um select um the leadership for the next year and I I that was a wonderful experience in my book. So I want to thank everybody for their commitment and their hard work. Thank you.
Does anybody else have anything? I am a farmer's wife. Um, for us, diversity is a good thing. So, we have beef cattle and we farm crops as well. So, land and livestock is very beneficial for us because we are able to
save on our input costs as far as fertilizer um because of the amount of manure that we have to spread. Because of that, it also has enabled us some opportunities to maybe jack up some of the land prices and pay more um because we have to go
somewhere with that manure. So yes, um diversity is definitely a good thing and also uh utilizing young farmer loans has been beneficial for our family and I know also some other local families where it allows you to get lower
interest rates to be able to um pursue some of the land sale opportunities as well. So congratulations you guys. John, to your point about like at the exchange of acreages and stuff, if you're ever in the Farmington area, go to the Farmington High School.
They're overlooked by a large dairy operation yet. And they have a steer operation right next door and literally across the gravel road, which is going to be tar soon because those urbaners don't want to drive on a grapple road. But uh it's all town houses and it's a
steerard, another steeryard and another hog operation. And that family owned all that land. Yep. For the life of me, I haven't figured out why they haven't retired yet because I know they sold all that property to all these developments. But it's interesting to see that down there. Have
you guys had done any studies on like back in 1960 and 70 um a a bushel of corn or took it took uh you know one one acre would only produce what John 100 to 120 bushels of corn. That would be correct.
Yeah. And now we're looking at 200 to 220 is a pretty good average. Oh yeah, that would be so it takes less acres to feed families. Has you guys have done any studies on that kind of stuff yet? I don't think so officially. to know, but we'll definitely look into it and add it in because that'd be really good
to have. All right, I don't have anything else. Anybody else? Congratulations. It was awesome being there. I was there, too. Yeah CONGRATULATIONS. Thanks for presenting. Good luck.
All right, we'll move on to administrator and committee reports. Director of finance. Thank you, Jason. Um just a quick thing. Um we had a facilities and finance meeting was held um the other night where we just discussed the bond
refinancing which again we'll have more discussion after the work session. Um a little update on the silver gym. um we've kind of came to an agreement um with the company. So hopefully during Christmas break when there's no students around before um summer, they'll be
coming in and they will grind the floor to remove the existing um floor that they had put. Then they will do um a moisture primer to help with that and then um lay another layer of epoxy what they had just done. Um so that is being
taken care of. Um, auditorium seating we're still kind of looking into. Um, we have some quotes for the seats. Um, Michelle has been doing a very good job with that still and we'll be going to um, Steven Seminary in December um, to also present to them as well. Do you
have anything else for me? Any questions for Trisha? If not, we'll move on to principal reports. Mr. Butler. Thank you, Jason. Um, and good evening everyone. I'll highlight a few of the items on this written report. Um again,
I I I want to share um the uh staff's implementation of what we're learning through the science of reading um with our walk to learn model. Um you can see the the final two letters live sessions there at the top of the report. Um we are we are continuing with monthly grade
level data meetings with um with kindergarten on um Wednesday of this week where we we take a look at student achievement, move them in and out of groups that um that are appropriate for their level. I will uh I will go down um toward the
bottom. We are we're in the middle of uh the fall title amendment. That that window opened on um November 1st. And then I'll go to the back. Um couple things we've we've talked about. I want to highlight um kindergarten enrollment
has come up the last few few months and we are currently at 90 in in kindergarten. And I want to conclude by um acknowledging our elementary PTO. Um it's amazing walking into that fall festival um on October 24th and thinking, you know, how that all comes
together. Just a real testament to um to everything they do and it's a wonderful event. Any uh do you have any questions on that? Okay, hearing none. Um, Mr. Thanks, Mr. Butler. Good evening. Most of my report is going to be acknowledgements and and um thank
yous. Uh, the one thing I do want to talk about, and I we have a couple months that I'll continue to bring it up here before we get there, but is MCA testing. Um, we're going to be looking at again what that looks like here at the 712. Uh the past two years we've utilized our half-day schedules uh just because it worked well into our
calendar. This year we don't have those half days. So working with uh assistant principal Beckman and then our leadership committee to see what that'll look like this spring, but again we have time to work on it. I'll keep you guys informed on what that what that looks like moving forward. Um as far as school and community partnership, uh we have
our Veterans Day program tomorrow at 10:00 in the purple gym that is open to our community. Um I want to say thank you to Paul Lumpky for planning the event. again this year. Um, and then thank you in advance to our speaker, chief warrant officer, retired Jeremy Sheic, that will be coming in to speak
uh tomorrow. Um, I'd like to thank our senior high student council for putting on the blood drive, which was on um Halloween, October 31st. Um, I don't have the exact number right now of units, but I believe we were right around 30, which is usually what our goal unit is for the fall blood drive.
Um, I'd like to thank Mike Hardy for planning our Polar Plunge, which was also on Halloween, October 31st. Uh, Mike raised Mike and all of the individuals that plunged raised nearly $10,000 for Special Olympics of Minnesota and then the GSL Unified program. So, that was a huge success.
Um, looking back on that, the blood drive, the Polar Plunge, and Halloween all on one day was a bit much, but we made it through successfully. Um, in acknowledgements, I would like to acknowledge our FFA. I know they were here um just a second ago and and we got to see a little bit of their
presentation. Um but more in depth, uh I would like to congratulate our quiz bowl team for getting fifth in the nation. I'd like to congratulate Abby Smith, who was eighth in the nation as an individual in Quizbowl. Um and I'd like to recognize six American degrees, which is the highest degree you can receive in
the FFA program. Um all former graduates of GSL. Kellen Nelson, Owen Shower, Kyle Hagen, Elise Bcher, Ken Dozel, and Zoe Rush Meer. Um, and I know that Pasy is not here. She left. Um, but I think it's really important to bring this up as well. Uh, when Pasy interviewed here,
um, several years ago, um, you know, you go through the general interview questions and at the end, you know, do you have any questions for us? And I'll never forget the question that she asked. She said, um, how will my successes be measured? Or how will you measure my success? Basically, is the question that she asked. And I kind of
said, you know, your successes will speak for yourself. What are your goals? and she said, "My goal is to build the best FFA program in the state of Minnesota." And not only did she do that, she basically said, "Hold my milk carton. I'm going to build the best one in the nation." And she did that. And I I think as much as we recognize our
students, uh we have about 110 FFA members. Uh when she took that program over, I think there were seven. Um she as an adviser has built that program to what it is today. And I want to I want to recognize Rebecca Pascus for the work that she has done as well with our FFA program. And then lastly, I want to
recognize our musical um that just completed last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It was a the showing of MMA Mia. Um wonderful show. If you did not get a chance to see it, I wish I could say you didn't miss out, but you did. Um and special thanks to
Shelby Lofrren, Jordan Boy, Travis Eker, and Jasmine Stuber for all of the work with that. So, any questions for me? All right. Yes, it was a wonderful show. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Uh, Superintendent Sanju. Yeah, just a a couple of things, you know, in terms of the acknowledgements.
Uh, as you can see, there's a lot of stuff that's going on at GSL. There's a lot of wonderful positive things and and it's really fun to uh see all the success stories and things like that. for the GSL FFA. I know that they're planning a a fairly significant um celebration that's going to be taking
place and and and those details will be coming out letting uh you know some media people under know and and then the community and those types of things. Um so it it just it takes a little bit. Um but of course when you win the Super Bowl, you don't go to the White House in the next day, right? It takes a little
bit of the time. Um but uh really really a lot to be proud of. Um The other thing that that I would today I had a meeting down in Marshall um and we're talking a lot about tax impact and those types of things, but just to give you guys some heads up, they've talked a little bit
about some of the future of their of their buildings and um those types of things and and there's going to be a regional meeting probably sometime in December, more than likely January where they are going to want some board representation to go to that. Uh I'll keep you posted on that whole piece. Um
but that will be coming here fairly fairly soon. Um around that time uh is the MSBA workshop too. So um you guys have got some uh materials on that uh at your at your spot here. And then there's
also the U Southwest West Central election. Uh and so if you vote and you want me to send that in, you can certainly do that tonight. If you want to take your time and send that to me, um I can do that or you can obviously vote and send that in yourself as well.
But you guys have a ballot there um in front of you. Uh just looking ahead, the last day of the try is the 25th of November and then we have a workshop day on the 26th. Uh I want to thank uh families for November 5th. We had a half
day and and their flexibilities uh to allow our staff to have their staff development. uh really appreciate their flexibility on that. Um we are GSL is a official toys for tot drop off site. There are several places to be able to drop off toys. Um we're going to help
advertise for that. Um and so if there's anybody out there that is going to bring any toys in for the toys for tots, we can come to any one of our offices and we'll we'll accept them. And then finally, oh, uh, we we also started the food drive today where we're working with our school to help the the food
shelf here in in Gleno. Uh, it's from now until November 21st and then we'll be delivering the food on the 21st with our NHS students. And then finally, we we talk a little bit about how wonderful of rules that our students are. Um there's this uh what I would call
unofficially official rule where students that would go out and trick-or- treat would get um they can't have any Reese's peanut butter cups because they need to go to Mr. Sanju. Um they did a great job and so you guys get to share in some of my uh um what do I Reese's
peanut butter cups because I got several of them. So uh thanks to all the students that uh helped follow the rules about uh with during Halloween. So enjoy your Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, everyone. All right, any questions for
Superintendent San Andrew? All right, we'll move on to committee reports. Do we have any committee reports this month? Not necessarily a committee report, but I'd just like to go back and acknowledge one additional thing. I want to kind of piggyback what Bill Butler said about
the PTO and the fall festival. um going into the common the old commons area here at the high school and also the purple gym. Um for it to be on a Friday evening after a long long week of of
teaching and learning um teaching by the staff and learning by the students and support by the parents to see the number of people that turned out for that fall festival um for our gsl community. I just I was in awe. I it was phenomenal
to see the turnout and the energy and the excitement. And um that doesn't happen without the partnership of many many people like Bill said. And um I'd like to just acknowledge the 284 staff. I'd like to acknowledge the GSL teaching
staff and administration. And of course, like I said, the PTO, the parents, um, that are part of the organization and also just in support of their own children, even if they're not part of the organization. Um, it could not happen without that partnership of
everyone. And like I said, of course, the energy of the students and and even the the student volunteers, the different um athletes and and teams that were represented in um operating some of the um games and activities that were
taking place. Um it was neat to see the older students kind of be mentors and things like that. Um and involved with the younger students here at GSL. So just a really really great partnership and just another example like Chris said
too of the great great things that are happening here at GSL and how many things that start small continue to grow bigger and you know even to piggyback what Mr. Fos said with the polar plunge and stuff too and Mike Hardy's work with
that um it just continues to grow and it just continues to flourish and um once again everybody benefits from that. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you to everyone. Thank you, Jamie, for your comments. Any other comments at this time?
All right, we'll move on to approve the consent agenda action item enclosure number one. Do I have a motion? So moved. Motion by Jamie. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Randy to approve the consent agenda. All in favor, please indicate by saying I.
I post same sign. Motion carries. There's no old business at this time. We'll move on to new business. Uh item A, donations received. Information only. The following donations were accepted with with appreciation. Um nice list of
um organizations there that donated to FFA convention, a tuba, some activities, and the first grade field trip. So, thank you for those organizations. Item B, approve roof project bids action item based on the results of the roof bids. TMCO along with Superintendent
Sanju and consultant Sander. Uh it is a recommendation to accept the bid from McDow for phase three of the roof replacement for Lakeside Elementary for 2627 at a cost of 2 million $398,700. This work uh will be completed by the
summer of 2027 and I'll entertain a motion and then we'll have discussion. Do I have a motion? Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. Uh second by Kayla uh to accept the bid from McDow. Uh any
questions or comments? If you recall, we wanted to go out early to lock in prices and that's where we think we can get a a little bit better deal, which is why we're we're doing this process now. Also, you um all the board members should have another sheet. It kind of
says November 6th on it. So, this is kind of an outline that Michelle had put together and kind of presented um at the facility facilities meeting. Um if you remember when TMCO um presented last month, they were um showing that we were
going to fall short. Um but with our interest that we don't let them know of our interest amounts and stuff, um we will not be short. We will actually be a little bit over. So, that's what that bottom number is. So, we're project we're projected at this time to have a fund balance of
$29,129.96 as an overage or we're going to be at a positive a positive when it's all said and done. As long as nothing goes wrong, right? Well, that's better than a negative at this point. Does anyone have any questions on this
paper in front of you? I have Miss Sander here if she has anything to say. She's been so quiet tonight. Are you saying that's unusual? Yeah. Right. All right. Hearing no questions. I have
a motion by Alicia, second by Kayla to accept the bid from Mcdow for phase three of the roof replacement for Lakeside Elementary for 2627 at a cost of $2,398,700. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Item
C, request for of approval for STEM trip 2028. Action item closures number two and three. A request has been made by Amanda Kutky for approval to move forward planning an August 2028 junior high uh junior high school STEM trip to Alaska. Is the recommendation of
Superintendent Sanji to approve this request. Do I have a motion? Motion by John. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Randy to approve the STEM trip to Alaska for in August of 2028.
Any questions? And just it's kind of another example, they they try to do this early so they can lock in pricing then that means that the pricing is a little bit cheaper for families. Um and then obviously you you guys know that the board approves all overnight trips which is why these trips
are always in front of you. And so all right, I have a motion by John, second by Randy to approve the STEM trip to Alaska in August of 2028. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I.
Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Item D, SEIU 284 contract action item. Superintendent Sanju and school board negotiators, directors Kenan and Luckard recommend approving the SEIU 284
contract for the 2526 and 2627 school years. The total package is an increase of $269,82 over the two years and equals a 10.03% total package increase. Do I have a motion?
I'll make a motion. Do I have a second? Second. a motion by Jason, a second by Alicia. Do we have any comments or questions? I'll just say a couple of things if you unless you guys want to jump in a little bit. Um, not a ton of language, lots of
uh back and forth. We did end up going to mediation and we spent a a Friday night here, a very very long Friday night in terms of of ultimately getting this done. Um, but in the end, I think it was a very fair contract. Um, a big
shout out uh to both Kayla and Alicia and their work. They put a lot of time into this and Kayla got to see negotiations at its best, right, for the the whole time. So, a special thank you to you guys and and obviously to Trisha for her work behind the scenes as as
well. Um, the contract that we had, we just officially heard from 284 today that it passed, right? But in terms of that, we're going to be signing the contract first tonight and then going back to them and getting it signed. Uh because
it we did find out this afternoon that it their vote passed. So, which took place on Friday afternoon. So, okay. All right. I have a motion by myself and second by Alicia to approve the 2520
through 27 SEIU 284 contract. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I oppose same sign. Motion carries. Item E, approval of education Minnesota GSL seniority list action item enclosure number four encloses the educ education Minnesota
GSL seniority list follow following the required posting for 20 days receipt and verification of challenges if any and subsequent changes in the senority list if any. that the administration recommends adoption of the enclosed education Minnesota GSL snorty list for
2526 school year. Do I have a motion? Motion by John. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Kayla to adopt the education Minnesota GSL seniority list for 2526. All in favor of this, please indicate by saying I. I.
Post same sign. Motion carries. Item F, approval of SEIU Local 284 seniority list. Action item enclosure number five. Encloses seniority list for employees of local 284 following the required posting for 20 days, receipt and verification of
challenges, if any, and subsequent challenges in the seniority list if any. The administration recommends the adoption of the local 284 seniority list for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion? A motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Kayla
to adopt the SEIU local 284 seniority list. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Post same sign. Motion carries. Uh item G, approve the audit. Action item. Uh
Troy Gabler, our auditor from Clifton Larson Allen LLP, provided an overview of the audit summary and financial statements for the school district for 2425 school year at the October 13 board meeting. The superintendent of schools recommends the board accept the audit
and the financial statements of the 2425 school year as prepared by Clifton Larson Allen. Do I have a motion? Make a motion. Motion by Randy. Do I have a second? Second. Second by John to accept the audit summary and
financial statements from the 2425 school year by as prepared by Clifton Larson Allen. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All in favor of this motion, please indicate by saying I. I post same sign. Motion carries. Item H,
pair professional hours action item. Principal Butler requested approving the following change of hours for pair professionals listed below for the 2526 school year due to student needs. Uh pair professional duty brand uh is approved for 15 hours weekly. Proposed
hours will be 26 27.5 that's a change of 12.5 additional hours effective on 102725. Do I have a motion? Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. I'll make Randy
to approve the following change of hours. Prepare freshman as requested. Any comments or questions? So basically the student is going to school more. Okay. Which is a good thing. Yep.
All right. Any other comments? Hearing none. We have a motion by Alicia, second by Randy to approve the following change of hours for par fresh as requested. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Item
I, substitute teacher pay. Action item. Superintendent Sanji recommends increasing substitute teacher pay by $10 a day for a total of $160 per day effective 1111 2025. Do we have a motion?
I'll make a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Second by John to increase pay for substitute teacher pay from $150 to $160 per day. Any comments? So this kind of I think we did this a
year ago, couple years ago when when we settled the 284 contract because that's kind of outlined on how the substitute pair of professionals are paid. And then when you compare this to our substitute teachers, we kind of make those adjustments. And so, um, the the where
we're at is right in line. I think it's pretty good. Obviously, we could give more. Um, but at the same time, I think we're we're fairly competitive. And, um, I'll knock on wood because now it's going to probably affect it. But for the most part, we've been really good with
our subs this year. I was just going to ask, how's the pool been? Has it been It's been good. um we we've actually seen a decrease in our comp hours from our staff u because of part of the reason is because we've had some some substitutes. So um and that's a that
that's a that's a good thing. So Okay. What's the substitute pay for a pair of professional 284? It's now $18 an hour. Um what is it? 10 cents below the bottom. What? And I
think that's now at 1812. 1816 is the 1816. So it's it's 1806 per hour. Yep. Okay. All right. We have a motion u by Jason, second by John to increase pay for
substitute teachers from $150 to $160 per day. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Post same sign. Motion carries. Item J, annual or item J, annual resolution for combined polling places
due to the change of Minnesota statute 205A.11 division 2 effective July 1st, 2017. This resolution must be completed by December th 31st of each year. The resolution establishes combined polling places for multiple precincts and
designating hours during which the polling places will remain open for by voting for school districts. Elections not held on the day of a statewide election. The combined polling place would take place at the Gleno City Center uh from the hours of 10:00 a.m.
to 8:00 p.m. Do I have a motion? Motion by Alicia. Do I have a second? Second. second by Kayla to designate Gleno City Center uh as the combined polling place and setting the voting hours between the hours of 10:00 a.m.
and 8:00 p.m. Any questions or comments on this, it's something that we do each year with that change in the law. So, yep. Hearing none, John, will you please take a roll call vote? Please signify for or against when your
name is called. Jason four. Kayla, four. Alicia, four. Jamie, four. Randy, four. John, you can be the last one. Sure. Four. All right. The motion carries. Um, thank you, John.
You bet. Item K, uh, second reading policies action item. The following policies received their first reading at the October 14th schoolboard meeting. It is the recommendation of the policy committee, directors Gordes and Luckard and the superintendent of schools to
adopt the following policies. Do I have a motion? Motion by John. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Randy to adopt the policies as listed above. All in favor, please indicate it by saying I. I post same
sign. Motion carries. Item L. There's no uh miscellaneous at time at this time, but we have an item M, which is our addendum to the board agenda. Um, this is the approved school resource office officer contract. It's an action item. Superintendent Sanji recommends
approving the contract with city of Gleno for a three-year contract for the school resource officer from August 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. Do I have a motion? Motion by Jamie. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Kayla to approve
three-year agreement with city of Gleno for the school board school resource officer from August 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. Any comments or questions? Um there was yeah there was no real changes. The only thing um that changed
was um our agreement amount um that we paid them. Um they we added a little bit of inflation verbiage not to exceed 3.25 25, which is pretty much what we do with all of our other contracts, but it will go off by um kind of like the state's
inflation rate. So, if it's less than the 3.25, that's what we'll use, but it won't be a max of 3.25. Yes. Yep. But the base amount remains the same. So, if I figured it out at the 3.25, it's um would cost the district an extra
$1,800 for a full year. Is there anything in the contract or is it just a an understanding that I believe the city of Glenco when they have full staff of their PD that it's I think a nine member
staff as full-time that if they go below that or in search of officers to fulfill that nineperson full-time uh staff that our resource officer would be pulled
back more for city responsibilities, whether that be patrol or whatever the case. I believe there's a part in there. Yes, it was just added this year that um kind of Mark Larson and I kind of agreed um to write verbiage in there. So, yes, there is wording in there. Um if say all
of a sudden during the middle of a semester that we have paid already, what they will do is go look at how many days that she has actually here and then they would be reimbursing us back. Okay. Are there other language things that have changed or been added or
deleted within the contract besides something like that? No. Okay. All right. Any other questions? So, I got a motion by Jamie, second by Kayla to approve three-year agreement with City of Glango for school resource officer from August 1st, 25 to June
30th, 2028. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I post same sign. Motion carries. Adjournment action item. Do I have a motion? Motion by John. Do I have a second? Second by Randy
to adjourn at 7:14 p.m. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. We'rejourned.