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Salt Lake City School Board elects leadership, affirms ethics and approves consent items in roll-call votes
Summary
At its Jan. 7 meeting the Salt Lake City School District Board of Education elected board president and vice president by roll-call votes, reaffirmed its annual statement of ethics unanimously, approved most consent-agenda items with two members abstaining, and held and later reconvened closed executive sessions with formal roll-call approvals.
The Salt Lake City School District Board of Education held a series of formal votes during its Jan. 7, 2025, public meeting, choosing board leadership for the January 2025–January 2027 term, reaffirming the board’s statement of ethics, approving the bulk of the consent agenda while moving several items for later discussion, and authorizing closed executive sessions. The votes were taken by roll call.
Board leadership: The board elected Nate Salazar as president for the term January 2025–January 2027 after Charlotte Fife Jefferson nominated him and a second was made. The roll-call recorded recorded votes in favor from Mohammed Baid; Ryan (Brian) Jensen; Bryce Williams; Charlotte Fife Jefferson; and Meg Salazar; Amanda Longwell and Ashley Anderson were recorded as opposing or not in favor in that roll call. The motion carried.
Vice president: The board then nominated and elected Brian Jensen as vice president for the same term. Jensen accepted the nomination and the motion received a second; recorded votes in the roll call included Amanda Longwell (yes), Bryce Williams (yes), Charlotte Fife Jefferson (yes), Ashley Anderson (yes), Nate Salazar (yes), and Mohammed Baid (recorded as no in that roll call); another board member recorded a yes. The motion passed.
Consent agenda: A motion to approve the consent agenda while pulling items 6.a, 6.b and 6.c for separate discussion was moved and seconded. In the roll call Amanda Longwell recorded an abstention and Charlotte Fife Jefferson recorded an abstention for the pulled items; other members voted yes and the motion to approve the remainder of the consent agenda passed.
Statement of ethics: The board read aloud and voted to reaffirm its annual statement of ethics drawn from board policy B1 and the Public Officers and Employees Ethics Act. The motion to approve the annual board statement of ethics passed unanimously in roll-call voting (recorded yes votes included Bryce Williams, Charlotte Fife Jefferson, Ashley Anderson, Nate Salazar, Mohammed Baid, Ryan Jensen and Amanda Longwell).
Closed sessions: The board voted, by roll call, to move into a closed executive session earlier in the meeting to discuss the character, professional competence or physical or mental health of an individual (statutory purpose cited by the board). Later the board voted again, by roll call, to return to closed executive session to discuss similar personnel and legal matters and to adjourn immediately afterward; the motion carried.
The meeting record shows formal roll-call votes for each of these actions. The board’s minutes and the posted agenda identify which agenda items were pulled for later discussion and show which board members registered yes/no/abstain in each roll call.
