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Shakopee school board: votes at a glance — consent items, donations, budget, pay equity and committee assignments
Summary
At its Jan. 20 meeting the Shakopee Public School District board approved routine consent items and passed several action items, adopted a revised 2024‑25 budget, accepted a pay equity report and approved committee assignments with one change.
The Shakopee Public School District school board took several formal actions during its Jan. 20 meeting. Key motions and outcomes are listed below.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda (personnel items, minutes, bills, supplier reports, trip approval): Motion to approve by Board member Brophy; second by Board member Aldrich. Vote: voice vote; chair declared motion carried.
- Donations resolution (Item 7): Motion by Aldrich; second by Johnson. Roll call recorded: "Murphy? Yes. Zidig? Yes. Valdez? Yes. Peterson? Yes. Smith? Yes. Aldrich? Yes. Johnson? Yes." Resolution passes.
- Revised 2024‑25 budget (Item 9.2): Motion to approve revised budget by Brophy; second by Aldrich. The board approved the revised budget; Finance Director Bill Bonazzi reported the district projects an ending general fund balance of about $12.7 million (approximately 10% of expenditures) under the revised forecast and noted a committed Fund 1 balance of about $287,000 dedicated to facility improvements tied to rental revenue.
- Pay equity report (Item 9.3): Motion to accept the district’s required triennial pay equity submission by Peterson; second by Valdez. Human Resources Director Heath Gray reported the district’s preliminary regression/scatter analysis shows no extreme outliers; the district submitted the statistical analysis to the state as required and the board accepted the report.
- School board committee assignments (Item 9.4): Motion by Aldrich to approve committee assignments as distributed, with removal of the Diversity Equity Leadership Team listing; second by Brophy. Vote: unanimous voice vote; motion carries.
Context and clarifications: several of the votes were routine or budgetary and passed with standard majorities; the most contested item on the agenda was the proposed elementary specialist schedule (Item 9.1), which the board postponed for two weeks to gather additional input (see separate story). The revised budget and the pay equity report passed on the same night the board delayed the specialist schedule vote.
Ending: The board’s approvals clear routine personnel and budget items while deferring a contentious programmatic change for more study.
