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Votes at a glance: Salt Lake City School District board — Jan. 21, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal actions taken at the Jan. 21 Salt Lake City School District Board of Education meeting, including motions to enter executive session, consent agenda votes, committee assignments and meeting-structure approvals.
The Salt Lake City School District Board of Education took several formal votes at its Jan. 21, 2025 meeting. Below are the recorded motions, vote tallies and short notes about next steps.
1) Motion: Enter closed executive session to discuss the character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of an individual, and pending or reasonably imminent litigation. - Motion (text as stated in meeting): “that the board go into close[d] executive session to discuss the character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of an individual, and pending a reasonably imminent litigation.” - Mover/Second: motion was made and seconded on the record (mover not named in roll-call segment); roll-call vote recorded as unanimous yes by listed board members. - Vote tally: Bryce Williams — yes; Charlotte Fife Jefferson — yes; Ashley Anderson — yes; Nate Salazar — yes; Moham (Mohamed) Dibade — yes; Bridal Jensen — yes; Amanda Longwell — yes. - Outcome: approved. Board entered closed session and announced it would return by 5:30 (per meeting notes) and later reconvened in public following the closed session.
2) Motion: Approve consent agenda with exceptions moved to action (consent items approved except items 2A and 5 moved to action agenda). - Mover: Ashley Anderson. - Vote tally (roll call): Charlotte Fife Jefferson — yes; Ashley Anderson — yes; Nate Salazar — yes; Moham Dibade — yes; Ryan (Bryce) Jensen — yes; Amanda Longwell — yes; Bryce Williams — yes. - Outcome: approved; items 2A (Dec. 3 minutes) and item 5 (Joint Educator Evaluation Committee member request) were moved to the action agenda for separate consideration.
3) Motion: Approve Dec. 3, 2024 meeting minutes (item 2A pulled earlier). - Mover: (board member moved and seconded during action agenda; motion recorded) — motion passed. - Vote tally (roll call): Bridal Jensen — yes; Amanda Longwell — yes; Bryce Williams — yes; Charlotte Fife Jefferson — yes; Ashley Anderson — yes; Nate Salazar — yes; Moham (Mohamed) — yes. - Outcome: minutes approved.
4) Motion: Approve Joint Educator Evaluation Committee (JEEC) member request (item 5). - Mover: motion to accept (mover noted in discussion, vote recorded); board member Amanda Longwell voiced concerns about representativeness but the motion passed. - Vote tally (roll call): Amanda Longwell — yes; Bryce Williams — yes; Charlotte Fife Jefferson — yes; Ashley Anderson — yes; Nate Salazar — yes; Moham — yes; Bridal Jensen — yes. - Outcome: approved; staff noted board direction to consider broader representation and review membership in future.
5) Motion: Move board meeting structure/study-session proposal to action and adopt two-business-meetings-per-month model with study sessions before one meeting; adopt board committee assignments (as amended). - Mover: Ashley Anderson (motion to send to action and later motion to adopt study-session model and committee roster); second recorded as Charlotte Jefferson in earlier procedural vote. - Vote tally when adopted: Bryce Williams — yes; Charlotte Fife Jefferson — yes; Ashley Anderson — yes; Nate Salazar — yes; Moham Dibade — yes; Bridal Jensen — yes; Amanda Longwell — yes. - Outcome: approved. Board will begin scheduling study sessions before a business meeting starting in February and adopted committee assignments subject to minor corrections recorded in the meeting.
6) Motion: Return to closed executive session at the end of the meeting (to discuss personnel and pending litigation) and adjourn immediately after. - Mover: motion recorded and seconded; roll-call vote recorded as unanimous yes by listed board members. - Vote tally: Charlotte Fife Jefferson — yes; Ashley Anderson — yes; Moham — yes; Bridal Jensen — yes; Amanda Longwell — yes; Bryce Williams — yes; Nate Salazar — yes. - Outcome: approved; board returned to closed session per its stated motion and adjourned upon its conclusion.
Notes: Vote tallies above match roll-call statements recorded in the meeting transcript. Where the transcript did not give a speaker’s full name for the mover of a procedural motion that was not separately named, the entry below notes the mover as “not specified” or cites the speaker who announced the motion in the record. The board recorded votes by roll call for all motions listed here.
Ending: District staff will follow up on action items that were moved to future meetings (committee assignments, meeting structure implementation, JEEC representation and requested study sessions), and the superintendent was asked to provide additional information on the proposed reorganization at a future meeting.
