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Minnetonka School Board elects officers, adopts 2025 meeting calendar and routine designations
Summary
At its Jan. 7 organizational meeting the Minnetonka School Board elected its leadership slate for 2025, adopted meeting and study-session calendars, and approved routine administrative designations including official newspaper, radio station and auditor.
The Minnetonka School Board on Jan. 7 elected its leadership for 2025, approved the district's meeting and study-session calendars and adopted routine administrative designations for the year.
Patrick Lee O'Halloran was nominated and confirmed as board chair; Kim Marie Foss was confirmed as vice chair. Dan Olson was reappointed treasurer and Chris Vitale was confirmed as clerk. The board also approved Paul Bourgeois as deputy clerk/deputy treasurer (appointment announced in the meeting packet). All motions to fill officer positions carried by voice vote.
The board adopted the regular meeting calendar and the study-session schedule for 2025 as listed in the meeting packet. It also adopted the salaries for board members (unchanged from prior years), designated a list of nine official depository banks, and reappointed the Sun Sailor as the district's official newspaper for legal notices. WCCO AM was designated as the official radio station for emergency announcements; the district noted it will also notify local television outlets and post updates on the district website.
The board reappointed CliftonLarsonAllen LLP as the district auditor (the firm has served as auditor since 1999) and set the superintendent-evaluation dates for midyear and June review per board policy. The board approved a district mileage reimbursement rate set to the federal mileage rate (70¢ per mile as presented) for employees not covered by contract. Committee assignments and liaisons to external groups (for example the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnetonka Foundation and advisory committees) were also adopted as recommended in the packet.
Most of these items were presented by Superintendent David Law as routine organizational business and carried by voice vote after a motion and a second. There was no substantive debate recorded on these agenda items during the meeting.
Votes at a glance (organizational items) - Chair: Patrick Lee O'Halloran — motion carried (voice vote). - Vice chair: Kim Marie Foss — motion carried (voice vote). - Treasurer: Dan Olson — motion carried (voice vote). - Clerk: Chris Vitale — motion carried (voice vote). - Deputy clerk/deputy treasurer: Paul Bourgeois — motion carried (voice vote). - 2025 meeting calendar: adopted (voice vote). - 2025 study-session calendar: adopted (voice vote). - Board member salaries: adopted (no change) — motion carried (voice vote). - Designated depositories (9 institutions): adopted (voice vote). - Official newspaper: Sun Sailor — adopted (voice vote). - Official radio station for emergency announcements: WCCO AM — adopted (voice vote). - Auditor appointment: CliftonLarsonAllen LLP — adopted (voice vote). - Superintendent-evaluation dates: set per packet (voice vote). - Mileage allowance: set at federal rate (70¢/mile) for noncontract employees — adopted (voice vote). - Committee assignments: adopted (voice vote).
Ending The organizational business concluded before the meeting moved into a school site report and later agenda items. No roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting minutes for the routine organizational motions; each item was approved by voice vote with the phrase "motion carries" recorded in the transcript.
