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Shelton complaint findings to air Tuesday County Board tit-for-tat continues BY SHANNON FIECKE sfiecke@swpub.com
Ave. W., Shakopee. Shelton has also c on s ent e d to t he meeting being aired on public cable access, Wolf said.
BOARD FIGHTS Scott County Administrator Gary Shelton will publically face accusations made against him by a county employee. On Tuesday, the private investigator hired by the county will present her findings to the County Board in a meeting open to the public. Shelton declined a closed-door meeting with the board. “His wishes are for it to be open,” said Scott County Board Chairman Tom Wolf of Credit River Township. A county employee has lodged a number of charges against Shelton, and the investigator interviewed a number of officials in recent weeks to determine if the charges are founded. The board will receive her report at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the County Board room at the Scott County Government Center, 20 0 Fourth
As the board prepa res to he a r Gary complaints against Shelton its top administrator, commissioners have their own infighting going on. Last week, a twoye a r P r ior L a ke city resident, Lloyd E r b au g h , c a l l e d on Commissioners Joe Wagner of Sand C r e e k T ow n s h ip and Dave Menden of Tom Shakopee to apoloWolf gize for a discussion that occurred in early January about the appointment of chair and vice chairman. Erbaugh was astou nded t hat Wag ner t hought Com missioner Barbara Marschall of Prior Lake
cou ld n’t ser ve as vice chai r p erson while also having a new fu l l-time job with the CA P Agency. E r b au g h c o m plai ned du ri ng a public comment period of the March 6 Joe board meeting that Wagner this was sexist. “For any woman who has worked inside or outside the home, wher e t he daily challenges of raising kids, feedi n g a f a m i ly, attending to the issues faced by single, married or retired women, this comBarbara ment raises serious Marschall concern about the value Wagner and Menden place on the contributions made by more than half of the human beings in Scott County and on the planet,” he said.
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Digger’s owner facing felony tax charges BY ALEX HALL ahall@swpub.com
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Fifth-grader Genevieve Popola of Prior Lake shows a hula hoop who’s boss in the Grainwood Elementary School gym on Tuesday. Hula hooping was just one of the stations in gym class that morning as part of the school’s Jump Rope for Heart fi nale, the last day of the American Heart Association-sponsored initiative that encourages cardiac health through jump roping.
The owner of Digger’s Polaris and Marine in Prior Lake is facing nine felony tax charges after he allegedly failed to pay his business’ sales taxes on 34 separate occasions. Eagan resident Douglas Adrien Nagle, 52, is charged with four counts of failing to pay sales taxes, four counts of failing to file a corporate tax return and one count of making a sale without a permit
School Board OKs $18,500 in integration funds Dollars fund initiatives between Prior Lake-Savage, Shakopee and Jordan BY MERYN FLUKER mfluker@swpub.com
T he P rior L a ke - Savage A re a School District is changing the way it approaches student integration. Administrators revealed plans for their refocus at Monday’s Prior LakeSavage Area School Board meeting, when members approved $18,500 in 2012-13 integration funding from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). That $18,500 is a 14-percent increase from the $16,225 the district for the efforts received last year. District 719 borders the BurnsvilleEagan-Savage School District, which
Minnesota law classifies as “racially isolated” because it has at least 20 percent more students of color than any of its surrounding districts. Because of that, District 719 receives integration dollars to provide educational opportunities to those students, whom statutes deem “protected.” Because the Burnsville district already had a contract with the Lakeville Area Public Schools, in 2009 District 719 entered into an integration partnership with the Shakopee Public Schools and the Jordan School District. District 719’s dollars had been used to allow students in partner districts to attend Camp Eco-Adventure, a four-day out-
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door day camp that met for two sessions during summer. Integration funds covered everything from scholarships, salaries and even transportation. Camp Eco-Adventure still will be offered through Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools Community Education Services, but it will no longer be the pinnacle of the district’s integration efforts.
after the permit has been revoked. Nagle allegedly owes the Minnesota Department of Revenue more than $600,000. According to the criminal complaint filed in Scott County, Nagle allegedly failed to remit sales tax to the state Department of Revenue on 34 separate occasions between June 2008 and October 2011. He also allegedly failed to file corporate tax returns for 2007 through 2010, and after his sales tax license was revoked last October, Nagle allegedly
made a retail sale that he collected sales tax for. The complaint states that Nagle registered his business with the Minnesota Secretary of State on Oct. 2, 1997, and that he failed to pay sales tax to the state for 15 months in 1998 and 1999. Nagle eventually paid his back sales taxes in 2003, says the complaint, but again failed to pay sales tax for several months in 2008 through 2011.
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History Since 2009 — when the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District first entered into its integration partnership with the Jordan School District and the Shakopee Public Schools — District 719 has used its integration dollars to fund sessions of Camp Eco-Adventure, an environmentally centered camp for students ranging from 4 years old to entering sixth grade, with a focus on including populations of “protected” students from those districts. As part of the pact, District 719 has provided transportation in order for those learners to attend the camp. Here’s a look at how those efforts fared in the last two years: 2010: Six students from Shakopee and one student from Jordan to attend the summer camp 2011: No students from Shakopee or Jordan opted to attend either session of Camp Eco-Adventure Source: Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools Community Education Services
“The biggest reason is that the purpose of integration is to be able to collaborate with the other districts ... to be able to provide educational opportunities for our students as well as those students,” said Jeff Holmberg, director of curriculum,
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instruction and assessment. “[Camp Eco-Adventure] is a great experience for our kids, but we were not finding a very large constituency of kids from Jordan or Shakopee participating.”
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