I don't know. >> Welcome to the January 12th, 2026 Morehead Independent School District 152 schoolboard meeting. It is 6 p.m. I am calling this meeting to order. Starting on my left, please. >> Bing present. Present.
>> Mark present. Staff is present. >> Burgard present. Bjorkland present. >> Vote present. >> Thank you. Item B. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. >> Item C, preview of agenda. Dr. I need to revise the agenda this evening. I need to move uh item 4A
to follow public forum to accommodate our presenter schedule this evening. >> Thank you. >> Keith move to approve the agenda as revised. >> Thank you Cassidy. >> A second. I have a motion by Keith, seconded by Cassidy. Move to approve the
agenda as revised. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. >> Those opposed, same sign. That motion carries. Item E, public forum.
The public forum will be open for up to 30 minutes. Public form. Public comment on on an on an agenda item. Individuals who wish to speak during the public forum have submitted a written request by 100 p.m. on the day of the meeting.
The school board chair will call speakers to microphone and recognize one speaker at a time. Each speaker can speak up to three minutes. I see we have some public phone. >> That is correct. >> Okay, we'll start out with Jake Freriedman. Is it? Thank you, Jake. Make
sure the uh ratifying the issuance of sale of general obligation school building. >> If I can ask please if we have 30 to 30 minutes. Why can't we allow the other teachers who came to speak tonight? >> I'm sorry you're out of order. >> Okay. What does that
>> please sit please sit down? >> Why I would like to know up to 30 minutes and we have 30 minutes and a number of us had to register to speak. >> Yep. This is not an agenda item. We did not even have to have you speak today. >> What does that mean to >> Sir, please sit down or else we'll call somebody to have you removed.
>> I would like to know what does that >> sir please sit down. >> I would like you to call somebody and have you removed if you'd like to >> move on. Move on. >> Okay. So I would like to know what does that mean for the teachers who came here today who wanted to speak who have been suppressed from having their voices heard. What does that mean?
>> Thank you sir. Have a good night. >> Please answer my question. I work under this. >> We're in a we're in a recess right now >> for five minutes. Thank you. Resolution ratifying the issuance of uh and sale of
general obligation school building refunding bonds series 20 2026A. >> Okay. Thank you. Tonight we have Matt Hammer from Millers who uh led us through the process of refinancing a portion of the 2016
bonds. which will take you through uh the pre-sale report and uh overall I believe it was a good day uh as a result of this refinance uh we will be saving on this portion of the bond
uh or what was callable about 1.2 million in interest over the remainder of this. So Matt will take you through the process and then we ask that uh if you have any questions save them till the end and then uh we ask you to support the resolution uh for the sale of these bonds. So Matt, your turn.
>> Yeah, thanks Brandon. >> Uh good evening everybody. District's financial advisor uh Matthew Hammer from Millers. Um, as Brandon said, we've been watching the district's 2016 Avonds as a potential refinancing opportunity and
and discuss this with the board last fall in October. And at that point in time, we set a parameter um that we look to move forward with the sale if we thought we could generate at least a half million dollars in future debt service levy savings for taxpayers.
Um, we as we looked at the sale timeline and what we were anticipating in to start the calendar year, we felt like it was a good time to to take a look with some other market activity we were assuming that was going to happen at the beginning of the month or beginning of
the calendar year in January. And we uh moved forward with the sale on January 6th, the morning of January 6th. We ended up receiving 17 biders through a competitive bond sale process. And um that is a lot of market activity that
we've had interest in the district fund. So um our timing was really good. We ended up with a true interest cost percentage of about 2.46% which was about 30 basis points under what we were estimating in our pre-sale estimates that we uh produced at the
beginning of December. Um as Brandon stated uh that uh results in about $1.2 2 million of debt service savings that has to go back to taxpayers by law. The district can't take that into their budget. It is it goes by law. It has to
go back to reduce future debt service levies in subsequent years and uh savings will be recognized um over the next number of years as these bonds go through 2033. Um we're going to close on the bonds on January 29th. Um and then there's a
redemption notice period um which is 35 days. So those bonds will be redeemed um the old bonds of 2016 the portion of them that is are going to be called on March 5th and then the district will be paying on the new bonds um moving
forward uh with the lower um interest costs that the property owners will be seeing in future years. So we also went through a rating process as part of the sale. the district did get affirmed at their underlying rating
of A1. So Moody's kept that rating um with document uh and did uh obviously um with the support of the voters that the the district received um that new revenue that's anticipated to come into
the district's financial uh picture as we move forward into fiscal 206 is really been recognized by the rating agency and then ongoing as the district tries to continue to grow their fund balance as as you move forward again. um which should be beneficial as we move
forward um to potential future issues to try to keep that overall cost down when the district has to go to market. So with that all that said, I'll just reiterate uh the TRB Capital Markets was the low bidder. Um we received 17 bids.
That lowest interest cost was 2.6% and overall that's looking at about $1.2 $2 million of savings that we were able to secure in a sale of bonds on January 6th. So, all great news for for the district as part of the sale.
I can take any questions at this point. Questions from the board? >> Doesn't look like there's any questions. You have more to add to this? No, not on my end. I think uh was we're very happy with the results. Um always happy to
partner with the district and um these types of things is trying to as we uh work with the district to be good fiscal stewards of district dollars are really important things as we are always trying to manage the district's commitments in the best way we can. So very pleased
with being able to generate about $1.2 million of savings for the district's taxpayers as we move forward. Thank you. M so >> I'm ready to make a motion. >> Thank you. >> Move to approve the resolution ratifying the issuance and sale of general
obligation school building refunding bond series 2026A and the aggregate principal amount of 34,525,000 as presented. >> Thank you, Cassidy. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a motion by Melissa and second by Cassidy. Move to approve
the resolution ratifying the issue issuance and sale of general obligation school building refunding bonds series 2026A in the aggregate principal amount of 34,525,000
as presented. Any further discussion from the board? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed saying sign. That motion carries. Thank you for your time tonight. >> Yeah, thank you very much for
accommodating my online schedule. So, take care. >> Okay, moving on would be item number three, organization of the school board. We have election of officers. So, we have the um board chair is up for
election. So, we're going to open up nominations for board chair. Cassidy, >> I'd like to nominate Dave Marcort as board chair. >> Thank you. Are there any other nominations?
>> I would like to nominate Cassidy. >> Thank you. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Okay. So, can I get somebody to cease
nominations? Close them. Motion. >> I move to close nominations. >> Thank you. Do I have a second for that, Keith? >> I'll second. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Laura Lee, seconded by Keith to cease the
nominations. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Nomations are closed. I believe we do a written vote. We will have the vote over. Thank you so much.
>> Yes. Can >> I resend my Can I pull out of that category? >> Yes, you may. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Can I move to cast on a unanimous valot? >> Yes, you can. >> Go ahead. >> So move forward.
>> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. Thank you, Cassie. I have a motion by Matt. Thank you. Glad I glad I'm not the only one. >> Yes, it's all motion by Matt, second by
Cassidy. Move to vote Dave as the board chair. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same sign. >> I. Thank you, Lie. That passes. Motion
carries. Dave, you now have the gavl. You get to do the rest. >> Yes. Here's the agenda. So, we already did the chair. You have to do the vice chair, clerk, and so on.
Okay. Uh nominations for Let's see. Where are we at? >> Chair. Why is it Why is it What's this going on here? It'd be vice chair instead of acting this. Why does it say this right here? Should be vice chair.
Sure. >> Oh, okay. I just changed. Okay. All right. So, nominations for vice chair. Melissa, >> I nominate Cassidy Burkeman. >> Nominations for vice chair. I'll nominate Matt V. All right. Any other nominations for vice chair? Matt,
>> I ask that my name be removed. >> Thank you. Nominations for vice chair. >> All right. So, a motion for >> I motion to cease nominations for vice chair. And do
I have a second? I'll second it. All right. And okay, I have a motion to cease. And do I need to do a vote for that one? No. I move that unanimous vote for the vice chair. >> All right. I have a second for unanimous for vice chair.
>> Second. >> Any discussion? All right. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Same sign. >> Motion carries. All right. Cassid's vice chair and next
would be treaty treasure >> treasure. So nominations for treasure. >> I nominate Keith to treasure. Any other nominations for treasure? Nominations for treasure. And last call for any other additional
nominations for treasure and deceased nominations. >> All right, we have the cease nominations. >> Okay. And then motion for >> cease nominations. >> Oh, all in favor of cease nominations
say I. >> I oppose. Same sign. All right. Now, a motion to accept it. Right. >> Oh, I can just do that. >> Boy, am I out of What am I doing here?
>> So, we're good on that one. >> Yep. >> All right. So, clerk, nominations for clerk. Melissa, >> I um will nominate Matt Bowen. Any >> nominations for clerk?
I nominate Melissa. >> Can I withdraw from >> you both are with or not? >> I would like to withdraw. >> Melissa, do you want to keep your name on or nothing? I I'll keep my name on if >> Okay.
Any additional nominations for clerk? And the last time, any more nominations for clerk? >> All right. Motion to cease to cease. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I oppose. Same sign. All right.
So, we are good with clerk, treasure, vice chair, chair. That's it. >> That's everything. All right. >> Move on to school board >> and then >> committee appointments. >> Okay.
Move on to B. School board committee appointments. And that would be let's see activities. So we go each one individually or how do we want to do that? >> You can do that. Um there are committees that the officers are automatically on.
Business and finance, you have the chair and the treasur automatically on that. Um the governance committee is board chair, vice chair, and past chair. >> So should we just ask for any changes if you want to make any changes? Okay, that'll be quicker probably. So if
you're looking at the committees, there anybody that wants to switch or get removed or committees or >> keep I'd be interested in the activities advisory council if there is a spot. >> Can I be willing to move to alternate
there? >> Okay. So I'll remove myself. I remove myself from that one and then that will be alternate and Keith will be. Okay. Any other changes that you see will be a part of but not a part of
three times also or not any changes. >> No, we don't have to. >> Okay. So, >> okay. So, we're good with committee now changes. So, move on to set meeting dates, times, and locations. >> Is that a motion on here somewhere?
>> Motion. We have this one, please. >> Yep. It's right in your packet. >> PG. back side. Here we go. >> So, we need a motion for um
>> immediately. >> I would like to move to the opposite Mondays so we're not uh at the same time as the city council meetings. >> So, do we want to do a motion first and then discussion or do we
motion. We need a motion first, right? And then discussion or do we discuss it first? >> Need a motion first, I believe. Then we can discuss it after a motion. They want to make Keith. I'll make a motion. Move to approve the meetings of
the school board at 6 PM in the MAPS operations center board room 600 on the second and fourth Monday of each month except for a change of day on to Tuesday May 26th 2020 due to the Memorial Day holiday and one meeting during June July
and August. The summer meetings would occur on June 15, 2026, July 20th, 2026, and August 17th, 2026, and one meeting in December, December 14th, 2026 at 6 p.m. All right.
>> I'll second it. All right, we have a motion and second to uh move to approve the meeting of uh school board at 6 pm on Matt's operating center boardroom 600 on the second and fourth Monday of each month except for the change of date on Tuesday, May 26,
2026. Three Memorial Day holiday and one meeting during June, July, and August. Summer meetings would occur on June 15th, 2026, July 20th, 2026, and August 17, 2026, and one meeting December, December 14, 2026 at 6 p.m. No
discussion. >> I would like to I motion I'd like a motion to address. Okay, >> I would like to move to the first and third Mondays rather than the second and fourth Mondays
>> so we don't have all meetings at the same time as Morgan City Council. >> Thank you. I just remember we switched this one other time and I don't remember I thought it was we already switched to get away from the city council meetings
or was not wrong in that Brandon. We did switch it to the first and third Monday a couple years ago and uh we we switched it back uh because the business office had an easier time of getting the bills paid on uh with that uh using the third
they used the third week to pay the bills and then we approved them on the on the fourth. And uh the rationale when we did it last time was so we didn't have a conflict but um it didn't turn out that they came to our meetings or we
went to theirs. So it's up to you guys though. >> You moved it back >> and you moved it. So you went to the first third you moved it back to the second fourth. >> Thank you. >> Any other discussion? Oh man. With all due respect to my colleague, uh I had uh
I had arranged my annual calendar based on that understanding. So it would it would it would be an inconvenience for me. But yet if it would if it would I I would yield as well, but just it would mean I wouldn't be here as often as I I wouldn't have the best attendance.
>> Others discussion. I would just say that maybe it's something we can discuss over the summertime and we can always it's not like we have to keep we can change it over halfway through the year, can't we? Or is that too hard to do?
>> You can if you want to. >> I I'm for either one. >> December, June, July, and August are the third Monday. >> Yeah. I I don't personally don't have any qualms doing either or so. So, it's
up to the rest of the neighbor. So, it doesn't matter to me, I guess, >> Mr. Sure. >> And and my schedule changes in June. So, it it would really be helpful to me if we could have throughout the academic year as it is and then I would certainly be open to change after that. >> Okay.
>> So, we could you okay with something like that? I'm I'm still discussing. Would you still be okay with something like that? >> Yeah, I just think it's important for us to be able to uh go to our own city school or city
meetings if we need to. So, >> okay. >> So, we have a motion on the table right now to keep it at 6:00 on the second and fourth Tuesdays or Mondays, sorry. Right. >> So, we'll have a motion or we'll have a vote, I guess, on that. So, all in favor
of motion to the table right now, please say I. >> I oppose. same sign. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. A strong eye. >> Consent agenda. No, I think I'm all right. So, consent agenda number three. All items in the consent agenda are
considered to be routine and have been made at uh to the school board at least two days prior to the meeting. The items to be enacted by one resolution. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless the schoolboard member so requests in which event that item will be removed from the agenda and
considered under separate resolution. To the extent possible, schoolboard member inquiries on consent agenda items are to be made directly to the district administration prior to the time of the meeting. A superintendent approval of December 15th, 2025 schoolboard meeting
minutes. B. business, administrative services, change of contract, resignations, termination, and new employees. >> I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Scott. Oh, sorry. Motion by Li and
second by Scott to um approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Looks like we're
moving on to refund being bond. No, we did that already. Band and orchestra major magnitude trip request. Dr. Jeremy Larson. Yes. Anthony and Pam Ren are here tonight on behalf of the high school band and orchestra programs to
discuss their request for a major magnitude trip to Orlando in March of 2027. Thank you for your time. We appreciate it. Uh plans are well underway for a spring 2027 major magnitude trip with both the band and the orchestra. Uh we have traveled together in the last
couple of trips and it's been a wonderful experience. So we're looking forward to doing that again. Um I'll let Pam speak to uh when we're thinking about the trip, but we're looking forward to being able to present uh have a public performance as well as give the students an opportunity to experience what it's like to be in a studio
performance, be a studio musician. Uh they have some cool clinical experiences there at Universal Studios, which is where we're looking to go. We'll be staying on property there um and uh having four nights there um and and having a three-day pass for the parks, which is a great opportunity for the
kids. New for us to be um staying at Universal Grounds. We usually go to Disney as well, but we wanted to experience what their performance opportunities were as well. The estimate for this trip is around $2,400. It should not exceed that, but um that's about where it's at, which is where the
last trip was too. So, >> y um because there isn't a school calendar approved yet, our dates are not set. We strive to go in the spring and um looking at the two draft calendars right now. Um it it might be a little
bit challenging to overlap with some sort of spring break. Um, if one draft passes, there is significant days off over Holy Week and Easter, which we probably would not pull kids to travel at that time. And then on the other calendar, there is um some a couple days
right at the beginning of March, but from the band perspective, we are always a little bit cognizant of the different state tournaments that our teams um might be a part of because that is also um the band tends to be a part of those things as well. So, um, we will, um,
kind of see what the calendar for the 2627 school year ends up at and as soon as we see the finalized calendar, then we'll be able to move forward um, really narrowing down those dates. But those are some of the things that we will
consider as we look to those dates. >> And we expect that students shouldn't miss um any more than three school days um with with the amount of days that we would be gone. So shouldn't impede more than that. Um we also both provide fundraising opportunities for students to be able to
go on these trips and so those have been well away during this year as so we would entertain any questions that you might have. Any questions? Scott move to approve the major magnitude field trip request for Morehead High School band and orchestra
students to travel to Orlando Florida in March of 2020. >> Yes. >> I'll second. All right. I have a motion by Scott, second by Cassidy to move to approve the the major magnitude field trip request for Mor High School band and orchestra students travel to Orlando, Florida in March of 2027. Any
discussion? Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. >> I. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. >> All right. Enjoy, guys. Thanks. Have fun planning. >> All right. We move on to BenG program
updates. Steve Moore. Thank you. I'd just like to take the opportunity to talk about a few things that we've uh been working on over the last year in terms of energy. Uh so it's a pretty holistic uh program update. I'll be talking about
the specific initiatives implemented implemented in FY26, the results of those specific energy projects, and uh I'll review some three-year energy data to show uh the direction that we've been heading in terms of our energy consumption in the
district and then wrap it up with some next steps. And anytime if you have questions, I'll try to keep it I you know how I tend to love data, but uh I tried to pair it down. So um but if you have any questions or need any additional information, I'd be happy to
stop at any time and answer those. So this is in line with our strategic plan and focus area which I'm in charge of is facilities and operations. Uh the goal is to for energy savings and operational efficiencies to help reduce our our operational cost uh on my side of the
house. So objectives are reducing our energy use by 5% by 2026 from our 2023 baseline and then extending out to 2030 uh by 10% um from 2023 baseline. Some key deliverables this year is to conduct
an energy analysis at DoddS and Horizon West Middle School and the career academy. and then implementing two LED lighting projects, one at Horizon East and one at Popesfield. So, u those initiatives we've completed in
August. I had a team a contractor come in to replace all the lighting. There was roughly 2200 fixtures in Horizon East changing everything to LEDs. Um I got they're coming back next week to work on some of the uh areas where we have some specialty lighting for our special education areas. Uh they're not
functioning properly, so we'll get those working. We implemented some energy conservation member measures uh started last June of 20 2024 and now I have some data um and and some to show what kind
of savings we realized by these ECMS completed a barrier replacement at Horizon East in October and then I'm going to talk a little bit about stopping the natural gas containment program at Robert A. Okay. So, our Horizon East lighting project, we completed that and we
received right off the top a $34,000 rebate check uh which was presented here at the school board and projected annual savings um of energy 36,000 on&m that's bulb replacement and things like that about 12,000 a year. So, we estimate
about 50,000 savings annually to my facilities budget which is a significant savings. So, I'm going to that we're doing the analysis and it'll take a year to complete that. The project was done in August. However, I pulled some data from our B3 database, which is a Minnesota
requirement to track energy usage and costs. And so, this is September. The blue is 2024. And this is our electric draw and kilobtus. Uh, and it's weather that WN with the asterisk is means it's weather normalized. So when you look at the
data, it normalizes for the weather, the temperature and what kind of weather patterns we have to equalize that data. So the three months um comparatively where we had new lighting put in at Horizon East, I've seen a significant savings by month in the in the electric
usage. So that's good news. Um but that's just a initial snapshot. It'll be good to see what it what it is overall in a 12-month period. So, um, another thing too is when we, uh, the where you save the most money is when you save
peak demand time. And so, that fluctuates and there's complex um, formulas used by Mohead public service that I don't understand. And so, what I'm going to do is show you our reduction to energy, but then also show you the savings in dollars and, uh, talk
a little bit about that. So, um, ECMS at Horizon West, I'll talk a little bit about what those are in the next slide. We had five identified. We've implemented three of them. And, um, when we started the project, we estimated those ECMs would yield about an annual
savings of of 12 to$13,000 a year. After collecting data from, uh, June 2024 to today, we've actually saved that amount $50,000 annually uh, pred predominantly in gas savings. And I'll show you why.
So, um, the remaining three ECMS, uh, we don't know what those savings are going to be, but we expect it to be much higher since we already blew the estimates out of the water for those first three ECMS. So, the ECMS are primarily boiler operation, timing,
adjusting, uh, air side, air handler schedules, and um, collecting data and how these things run. So instead of running flatline, uh it it economizes and and moves uh to the
demand and the pressure. I won't go into the I have lots of sweet graphs that show how this works, but the bottom line is for investing about $9,600, we yielded that $42,000 savings, which is a payback of.19 years, which is which
is crazy. So super happy with that. Um, an example of this is what we do in the west cafeteria. So, this is just scheduling how an air handler runs. And this is just one. So, prior to implementation, that's when in the red
is when it's running. We shifted times and closed the run times and saved about 86 total hours of run time for the air handler. All of those air handlers in the building accumulated to those gas savings that I talked about in the previous slide. The big one here is the
pack auditorium. So we tightened that up a lot tighter than it used to be. Um so uh but interesting story, we saved a ton of run time. This is where a lot of the money came from. But I was sitting in the play the fall musical and it was on
a Saturday night and we were still tweaking some of these time the timing. I was sitting in there getting pretty hot. So, I got on my phone and my daughter's in charge of me not working after hours. So, she's she's
going, "What are you doing on your phone?" I'm like, "You'll thank me later." So, I adjusted and put it in occupied mode during that theater performance. And you could feel the the AHU10 kick in. It was it was great. So, anyway, uh I share that story because it's not it's there's it's not perfect.
And so, we try to account for those special events. So when we do have the musical or performances that instead of stopping at, you know, that air handler turning off at at 6, we'll keep it on until those performances are done. So we have to map that out and pro but that's
all programmable by a calendar in the system. So um but that that's a lot of savings there because that is a high a big use uh power um air handler. Um moving on to Dorothy Dodds, same thing. We estimated about 12,000 to 13,000 in
savings and we've uh assumed about 25,000 which was expected because Dorothy Dodge is a smaller building um and a lot less used use after hours. So it was tightened up pretty good. Same ECMs that we implemented at West, we implemented at Dorothy Dods. The reason
I think those two buildings, they both have an ice plant for the chiller system. Um and both designed and installed by two different companies. The one at Dodd works really well. and other one at Horizon West does not work very well which is another reason why we got more savings at Horizon West because
of the those efficiencies. Um and then just like picked the second grade wing air hammer at DODS and we really tightened up that. So we used to run it on the weekends and there was no reason to run it on the weekends so we turned all that off. Um and so we're
doing this and we saved 3,333 total hours of run time. That's That's big savings. So, that's pretty exciting. So, you're probably asking yourself, why the hell didn't I look at this before? Well, it's a ton of data and we have hundreds of air handlers in our
facilities. So, that's why I hired Train to do this study because I don't have I can't pull the data. They're pulling months and months of hundreds of thousands of data points to to dial in on this stuff. So, uh next boiler replacement. So, there's
eight boilers at Horizon East. I've replaced two two years ago. I placed two this summer. Um and just right out I'm filling out the paper. Worked out Excel Energy and we'll get a rebate at $17,000 per unit cuz they're uh super high
efficiency 97% uh plus efficiency boilers that we're putting in. And I'm hoping um to be able to run this building on four boilers instead of eight. So I'd like to take those other four offline which will save us more money. But I'm
not going to do that when I have to uh heat $250,000 of a building. I got to make sure before I turn it off. So, um and then the last one uh so three buildings that have uh we have the capability to switch from gas to fuel
oil and that allows us to get a a uh break rate on natural gas. So the column that's circled is if we were on the curtailment program, that's how much it costs annually for natural gas at these buildings. Now, interestingly, another
thing that came up is I got to figure out why ASP is so much more than Hopkins when they're very similar buildings, very similar boilers. But I need to peel that back cuz I was a little I was like, what's going on here? So, um, so what we're going to do is I'm taking ASP off
because we had some problems and I had to spend about $10,000 on the fuel oil system and I'm like, is it worth spending that? Are we saving that much money? Well, come to find out, what I'll do is we're going to pay more per year and it's at an increase of
$5,300 because we'll pay a higher gas rate. However, when you look at the increase uh between last year and this year, 27% increase in fuel oil fuel oil prices. So, what does that cost? About we use
about 5,000 gallons a year in fuel oil. So, you take all that estimated overtime because Excel Energy always calls at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday to go into curtailment. So, I got to send one guy each to each building to switch it over.
Um, so we're going to save on overtime and so estimated is about $13,000 at Robert OSA alone. And I I'm not going to pull the trigger on Psfield Hopkins until I make sure those numbers are right. And those numbers came from Excel
Energy. So I want to make sure they're right before I curtail or stop curtailment at Propel and Allen Hopkins because if if my calculations are correct, we're going to save about $44,000 annually. uh even by paying a higher natural gas rate. So it they make
it look good on paper, but it's really a kind of when you add all the costs, it's not worth it. And we had a problem at ASP where I couldn't keep the boilers running on fuel oil, so I had to keep it running. And you pay a huge penalty. That two
days cost me $12,000 in penalties because I couldn't switch over fuel oil cuz the system was broken. Okay, so more savings. That's not even in this chart. All right. So, total annual savings, gas, electric, and stopping after 10
months, about $125,000. And we got about 70,000 in onetime rebates. And that new boiler energy savings is not in that top number. So, that's the year, excuse me, in review for our energy savings. Any
questions on those projects? >> Any questions? Matt, >> just to say again, Steve, to have you at the tiller is is something that we really thankful for. We have a lot of confidence in you and thank you for these savings. It's uh clearly above and beyond the call of duty. Thank you.
>> Thank you. And there's more. So, good news is here's the last three rolled up energy usage in um in the past. So from that baseline 2023, so 2024 we reduced energy usage by 5.3% and
we've had energy savings stuff going on for the last several years. Um but um and then now we're we're at 11.5%. So we've already exceeded our 2030 goal. So I was correct in setting the bar low enough. Um just joking. Um so I'm going
to have to readjust those goals for next year and we'll try to figure out how we can save more energy. But that's a significant savings across the board in two years. Now, interesting. I was hoping this would be a big cash number difference, right? It's it's a significant uh
decrease, but when you look at our district energy costs, and these are rather normalized as well, um the slope is still negative, but it's not as big in dollars. But if you think about if I hadn't if we hadn't done this, then this
would not be a negative slope, it'd be a positive slope. So even though I wanted money back in our pockets, at least we're not having to spend more money as energy costs rise uh throughout, you know, across the country. So we'll keep moving. But I want I was hoping for like
a great big fat paycheck. But when I was thinking about 10% of a $3 million a year utility bill, I was hoping to have 300,000 coming back to our budget, but that's not how it worked. But we got a little bit back, but we'll keep
working at it. Um, by facility the last three years, um, this gives me some So, Hopkins is an anomaly. Um, why is that going up when every other bu most other buildings are trending down? I don't know the answer to that. So, I got
to peel that back. Verizon and biggest users are Verizon and High School, of course, because they're the largest in square footage. So, that energy opportunities are there. And you say, "Well, that's a new building in the high school. It should be really efficient, right?" But that's
construction time. I got to get a couple more years of data after the construction project's over because it's highly inefficient. You spend a ton of money on heating buildings when it's under construction. So that's why that first bar is huge because that's when a lot of that um you know open we were
trying to heat spaces and um in that main in that first phase and then so as we're finishing phases it's it's it's going down and it's planning out. Um, and I also hope to think that some of our we have solar panels on seven of our buildings and those kinds of
initiatives have contributed to these trends. And then Rinardson um is trending upward down from the previous year, but I'm not sure what that's about, but um we'll look into that too. So, uh next steps, we're going to do
some ECMs at the career academy uh in Horizon East in 27. Um, on the heating side, we've done the lighting and then, uh, I won't r this this I could go on for days. Uh, fault detection and
diagnostics. It's it's a powerful computer program that allows us to get notifications on when individual components of heating system of HVAC systems are not operating properly so we can get ahead of failures. Um, so
anyway, that that's going to be sweet. Uh, so that'll be my uh that's my hobby is is fault detection and diagnostics. I live an exciting life. Okay, any questions? That's all I got today. >> Steve, since it's the running less time,
does equipment last longer as well than I assume? Will that's even more cost savings in the >> Yep, absolutely. And there's one ECM that we're looking at on the chiller for some reason because that ice plant's not operating. Typically chilled water temperatures at 42 degrees Fahrenheit somewhere around there. We're having to
push through 33 degree Fahrenheit just above freezing the water to maintain uh cooling temperatures in the in in the normal months in Horizon West and that shouldn't be happening. So if I cuz so now what you have the chiller is trying to cool and run all the time and so that
chiller is not going to last as long as it's designed. Sure. >> So, yes, those components will be have longer longer lives and save us uh money down the road. >> Any other questions? Uh Keith, want to go first? >> Sure. Um you mentioned the the I think
it was Hopkins that was the anomaly. Um I was just kind of obviously the anomaly I think what you're investigating is great. The other thing I'm curious on is um with the number the number of parli going from I think eight to four. Um, that seems like that'll be a no-brainer
cost savings. What's what's kind of the the backup like if if the system were to fail, you had mentioned I think it was SGR that you couldn't flip over or something. >> ASP. Yeah, >> it was ASP. What's the backup system in case if something does happen? >> So every So if I like Horizon West runs
on four boilers and they'll cycle. So it doesn't take four boilers to run it. The high school has four boilers. It typically runs on one or two and then they cycle and then they load shed. So it so it it averages out what your boilers are running, increases life
cycle and then uh improves efficiency. So that's that there's always enough >> and there's two older boilers that were put in originally in Aspen Hopkins. Those I haven't taken out yet because when the fuel system went down and I couldn't run the two newer boilers, that
old boiler was able to at least provide enough heat uh to be manageable and allow us to keep the school open. So, there's redundancies built in systems. >> Yeah. Y perfect. Thank you, Tony. >> Um I just wanted to comment on the support center seeing that graph go
down. You've I mean you've put a lot of work in that and so that energy savings is very noticeable because it was such a money suck for a long time. >> Oh yeah. Still it's still >> Absolutely. But yeah, >> but it's fun to see that go down. >> Yeah. And a big part of that was replacing both the roof systems and so
and those RF values increased tremendously. So we got other projects to look in in there as well. So yeah, thanks for noticing that. >> Anything else? >> All right. Thank you, Steve. Great presentation. >> Thanks. All right, moving on to 2026. E- rate
category one internet. >> No, it's just a presentation. Um, category one internet bandwidth award Danmarker. >> All right. >> Mine won't be quite as exciting as Mr.
savings there, but I think we'll be a little bit surprised. So, uh, we're here to talk about we talk about it every year typically. Um, this is a unique year because we are bidding category 1. So, just to remind everyone
in the room, you pay 75 cents for any phone line you own. It goes into a fund called the universal service fund that those generate dollars for schools and public libraries. We receive dollars back in the form of a reimbursement at
60% of every dollar we spend. So, we're here tonight to talk about category 1. I'll be back in a month to talk about category 2. Category 1 delivers internet to the building. Category 2 delivers
internet to the classroom. So, that's items inside the building. So tonight it's getting bandwidth in this first one from the high school to every other building. So you can see we had a series of biders
and um we are recommending bid award to Midco. They are the lowest cost provider. Um they have our uh existing bid that expires June 30th.
Um, so they have no buildup. They simply need to turn the gauge up in a back room and we will double our bandwidth. So we will be doubling our bandwidth and saving $1,450
a month for the next 10 years. So that uh equates to an $87,000 savings over the course or the life of our internet account. So doubling in bandwidth and sorry let me rephrase that it's only a 5-year term
for internet again we have -ate rules they don't allow us to do certain things past certain term lengths so with category 1 internet bandwidth we could do one year a threeyear or a 5year because we save $1450 a month and we
double our bandwidth for the entire district we are going with the maximum length term here which is five ers we also our contract also requires the provider to provide 100 external IP addresses and those external IP
addresses are what allow us to deliver our bandwidth and assign certain servers and services so they're accessible from anywhere in the world um so you can see there the suggested resolution so I'll
pause if there's questions or you can act on >> any questions So I motion >> I think you should re resend your comment about Mr. Savings but anyway um I'll make a motion move to approve the e-ate category 1 contract with Midco
business of Sou Falls South Dakota for 10 Gbits per second of internet bandwidth as well as 100 external IP addresses at a cost of $960 per month for a contract term length of 60 months beginning July 1, 2026. Move. >> I'll second.
>> Motion by Keith, second by Li to approve the -ray category 1 contract with Midco business of Sou Falls, South Dakota for 10 gigabytes per second of internet bandwidth as well as 100 external IP addresses at the cost of $160 per month
for a contract term length of 60 months beginning in July 1, 2026. Any discussion? A lot of words I don't understand. So again, this is our out of pocket cost and then up to anywhere from 12 to 18
months later, we get 60% back. Okay. >> So we got to front the money, apply with the government, do the red tape piece, and then wait for the check to arrive coming back. >> Any other discussion? All >> in favor, please say I.
>> I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right, move on to the next one. Dan, go ahead. So the next one then is another category of one bid and this is an expiring fiber connection that connected uh Dorothy DoddS and the Vista Center
for Education to our high school. So again we have a star topology network. Every building connects to the high school. So all services go into the high school. From there we distribute out through buried dark fiber. Why is it dark? that allows us to control what we
put on each end and we can control uh what travels across that fiber. So, um the these two projects now are an expiring 10-year contract
and we have since then rebid this. So, I will say the one thing that has changed from the previous bid 10 years ago when we bid tight uh dark fiber 10 years ago, the federal government said schools
could just choose to bid that. The federal government has stepped in and said you can continue to have a preference for dark fiber, but you must bid lit fiber. And that's primarily being driven by
metro areas. it's extremely cost prohibitive to trench underground and so they want to maximize use of fiber that's already there and so that's what a lit fiber is. If we would go with a lit product that means that a contractor
or a vendor is providing us bandwidth in this case between the high school and Dorothy Dods and we have no control over how that runs. Okay. The other negative of a lit environment is we lose all redundancy
because we get a single pair and yes they give us a certain amount of bandwidth but if it goes down it goes down and we are out of luck with a dark fiber scenario when we put electronics on the other end we have spare pairs and
we have spare uh electronics. So short of a trencher cutting through all six strands of fiber, we should not have an outage. So you can see here, here's the bid. I just want you to point out, look
at the 120 month figure and look at those totals cuz this is what allows us then to award a dark fiber contract because these bids are higher. And again, I'll point out there is no
redundancy at this monthly charge. So now if we go to the dark fiber side of things, you can see there's certainly more biders, more competitive biders, established people uh in the area that
already have fiber in the ground. Um the current contract is held by 702 communications. So again, 702 Communications built out their fiber 10 years ago. So the only cost they have with that fiber is if
there is breakage or if someone moves a road or a sewer line, they potentially have that cost to um move that line and reconnect it for us. It's another reason why public entities like us, we lease
because we're not out any construction costs, right? All of these vendors will tell you they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with the 20th 20 20th 21st underpass project because the
fiber had to be moved multiple times, right? Cuz there were temporary railroad tracks. And then when the trestle actually went in, they had to remove it again. And then they also had to move it to us cuz what did we do? We tore down an old high school building and built a
new one again. None of that cost came out of our pocket. That all has to be built in their bids. So I will point out here that dark fiber lit fiber we only have three options for length of
contract. 3 years, 5 years and 10 years. Um, if we go back to when we awarded for Vista and Dorothy Dodds, we bid it for 10 years, but at the same and then, uh, when we first bid DC, uh, excuse me,
when we first bid the CA building, which was right around CO time when that opened, right, we only awarded a 5-year contract there because we thought the costs were not as low as they should be. Last year, we rebid that and you so we
now have a new 10-year contract with the CA. And as you recall, we had savings there as well because again, the buildout cost was built into that first contract length. So, what I'm trying to tell you here is 702 doesn't have to do anything, right?
They're already in the ground. They're already in our building. They have no construction costs. Every other vendor has to put fiber in the ground. fiber into our two facilities and then decide what how they can make
money over the course of the next three, five or 10 years. With that being said, Dakota Carrier Network bid the exact same amount as 702. So from a scoring standpoint, they
actually score the same. And so we as a school district have the option to choose either vendor. It was recommended by our - consultant and I am recommending as well that we continue on
with 702 communication because there is no buildout costs. There is no chance they won't be able to make the July 1st deadline for cut over. Right? If we have a horrendous winter, frost in the ground, too much snow, right? DCN will
could have a shortened construction period and they may miss the deadline and so that was explained to them why they are not being recommended to get this contract. So you can see we are going to save $858
a month over what we were paying before and we are going from four strands to six strands. So, we get another pair of redundancy. And as you know, in the past, we I've
shared with you how we use that spare pair to do off-site backups from building to building. So, we will have the ability now to use two more sites for off-site backup. That saves bandwidth going to the classroom.
So adding two strands, saving $858 a month. The total cost is $550 for two sites. So the bid award is 2.75 per site. So with that being said, I'll entertain questions, but I will remind
you if you look at your packet, there is a word difference there. The underlined word total I would like you to insert because we want to make sure that 702 doesn't think they can charge us 550 for
Dorothy Daw and 550 for Vista. It's 550 total. Any questions or motion? I put the word total in here. Okay. I move to approve the -ate category 1
contract with 72 communicate of Morhead Minnesota for six strands of leak dark fiber to connect Dorothy Dods Elementary and Vista Center for Education school sites to Morhead High School at a total
cost of $550 per month for a contract term length of 120 months beginning on July 1st, 2026. Six. >> Scott, I'll second it. >> I have a motion by Laura Lee, second by Scott to move to approve the rate category 1 contract of 702
communications, Inc. of Nor, Minnesota for six strands of lease start fiber to connect Dorothy Dods Elementary and uh Vista Center for Education school sites to Morhead High School at a cost at a total cost of $550 per month for a
contract term length of 120 months beginning on July 1st, 2026. Any discussion? Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thanks, Dan, for the information. And
again, 60% back. We front the money and then 60% comes back. >> All right. Go ahead. Uh, next is to close the meeting. Uh, Logan, >> I move to close the meeting at uh 7:11
p.m. pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13D.03 for the purpose of discussing negotiations. >> I'll second it. >> Got a motion to uh close the meeting at 7:11 p.m. pursue the Minnesota statute section 13D.03
for the purpose of discussing negotiations. Uh we'll be back in about what 3 minutes. Oh, any further discussion? Sorry. You need a motion on that. All in favor, please say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Back in five minutes.
>> Back in five, I guess. Okay. Okay, go ahead. >> I move to open the public meeting at 7:54 p.m. Cassidy. I get a motion by Lor Lee, second by Cassidy to open the public meeting at 7:54 p.m.
>> Further discussion. >> Any further discussion? All >> in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Post same sign. Motion carries. So, we'll open up. >> Check out.
>> Anybody's outside? No. >> All right, I'll go ahead on to continue with new business. Uh, food and nutrition service master agreement. Dr. Ger, >> um, a new 2-year contract was successfully negotiated with food and nutrition services. Um, the changes are
as follows. Um there are language changes to article 6, article 9, article 13. There were two memorandum of understanding, one for posting notifications. Um and the other a retention statement. The financial statement is 2526 the cost of $34,917
an increase of 3.62%. and 2627 $27,71 a percentage increase of 2.77%. And a total uh two-year master unit cost of $62,618 6.39%
total package. >> Thanks, Scott. Move to approve the food and nutrition services master agreement for 2025 to 2027 with the language changes and total cost as presented. Lauren
motion by Scott, second by Laura Lee to approve the food and nutrition service master agreement for 2527 with the agreement changes and total cost as presented. Any discussion?
Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Superintendent. >> Yeah. Last Friday, Deb sent out a transmitter that uh talked about the MSBA uh items. She'll uh more than likely
resend that for those that are going uh tomorrow. And then uh it is MSBA week. So, please watch out for the weather. I believe that's the fifth year in a row. We will be battling some sort of weather on the way home. So, wish you the best
and um we'll see you we'll see you down there. But uh please uh pack appropriately if there's bad weather, winter survival kit, all those kind of things. And I think we have uh awards
night Wednesday night uh for for Dave. So uh let's show up and support Dave, those that are going to be there. And then I will not be doing any piano playing after that is done. So good. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. Should we go get them to pack
our cars with, do you think? Milky Way. >> No, we might be gone. >> I think they're gone. Yeah. >> All right. Ajournment. Move to approve the adjournment of the
January 26 meeting at 7:58 p.m. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Cassidy. Motion by Keith, second by Cassidy to um adjourn the January 12th, 2026 board meeting at 7:58 p.m. Thanks, guys. Nope. You got to say
no further. Any further discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. All >> oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Now we're adjourned. So Scott, uh,