Community Council Minute
September 27, 2023 @ 3:30pm
Main Office Conference Room

Members
Dannon Loveland (Chair) Jill Beer (Principal)
Sheli Field (Vice Chair) Cole Thomas(Teacher)
Sara Doutré (Secretary) Heather Fairbank (Teacher)
Candie Miller Susan MacMurdo
Brent Chamberlain Ryan Frazier
Tessa Burton

Agenda

Welcomes

Introductions

State Training

  • The Rules of Order for our committee are located online

Elections

  • Committee Chair: Tessa Burton motioned to nominate Katie Lee-Koven as chair of the committee, Debbie Brough seconded the motion. Voting was unanimous (9 parent votes)
  • Committee Co-Chair: Tessa Burton motioned to nominate Jessica Shumway as co-chair, Debbie Brough seconded the motion. Voting was unanimous (9 parent votes)
  • Secretary: Rebecca Maughan was designated as secretary

EOY and BOY data

  • Hillcrest has a lot to celebrate – Kindergarten at 96% at or above benchmark at EOY. Goal for the district is for grades to master high frequency words. Hillcrest is at the district average
  • The second language team has decided to teach high frequency words in their respective languages, we look forward to positive effects in AAPPL
  • Envision math will be used consistently across the school, more rigorous than Go Math
  • Katie requests data from previous years to be able to compare with this year’s data
  • Meghan asks why BOY is so different from EOY
  • Kym asks if there is data from other DLI schools to compare with Hillcrest

SIP Review

  • Amendment – Parent Teacher Connections
  • Request from Jill to amend the Budget in the SIP, moving $13,000 from Substitute/Contractors to Salaries, bringing the total for Salaries to $20,000, and the total for Subs to $9,000. Also to move $4,000 from library books to software and textbooks.
  • Tessa Burton motions to approve the amendment, Debbie Brough seconded the motion. 9 Parents voted unanimously to approve the amendment.

Other Discussion Items/Public Input

  • 5th grade requested funding for IXL subscription ($1,800). Discussion about pros and cons, and the SCC decided to not fund IXL.
  • Parent Teacher Connections will be Oct 16-19, sign ups begin on Oct 1
  • Frank Schofield requested feedback on a potential meeting Oct 5 for the community regarding a proposal to use half of the old Hillcrest Building
  • Meet the Masters is ready to go, Tessa will coordinate with Jill to figure out teacher schedules
  • Katie will contact the City about an additional crosswalk on the corner of 900 N in front of the school
  • Olivia asked if bus policies/ bus driver policies could be easier to locate on the district website