• School Community Council Minutes

    Wednesday, April 12, 2023

    Media Center

    4:00 p.m.

     

    Present: Jullie Payne, Chad Hawkes, Marisa Herd, Alex Fife, Sasha Beorchia, McKay Wilson, Katie Weber

    Absent: Chantel Labrum

     

    1. Welcome

      1. Alex proposed that we call the meeting to order, and Sasha seconded the motion. 



    1. Approval of past minutes

      1. Alex approved the past minutes. 



    1. Review of Old Business

      1. Trustland and TSSA Funds- Review how funds have been spent

        1. We have used all of our trustland funds. 

        2. We have 23% off our TSSA funds remaining. We still need to purchase the reading mastery books and some novels. 

        3. We need to purchase 4 projectors. Jullie talked about how we will space how many projectors/TVs we will need to buy each year. The district will pay ½- we have to pay 1,500 for each projector. 

     

    1. New Business

    1. Safety Discussion Update

      1. The state is allowing $3,000 for each school to have a “Safety Specialist” in each school. This will be a stipend position. There are currently stipends for the PBIS team. 

      2. The district bought the entry camera. The entry camera has good sound but not a good picture. They fixed it but then it had a good picture but not good audio. The district is working on it. The company will be coming out to help. 

      3. We did have a safety review a couple of months ago, and a man was walking around the school. We had another one a couple of weeks ago. 

        1. All of the classrooms have class numbers in the exterior windows of each room. So that if there was an emergency, local authorities would also know what rooms need help from the exterior of the school. 

        2. We talked about locking the doors and how  it’s hard to keep the doors locked all the time. We talked about maybe getting “door pinch guards” to help us be aware if our doors are open. 

        3. We got our climate survey back. We are doing good as a school- but we did score a little lower on building resources like air conditioning, PA systems etc. They will hopefully get started on replacing our PA system soon. 

        4. Next week, April 20th is the “Great Utah Shakeout”. We will have an earthquake drill. 

        5. Our playground is not fully fenced. There is an expense for putting this in. The district will not fully fence our school. There are security cameras on the exterior of the school. The district will also put in another camera for us. 

        6. We have talked about the carpool line- and Sasha brought up how it seems like anybody could take a kid. We talked about how long we want carpool to take- we also brought up having a tag that would hang into the car to let us as the school know that they can pick up their child. We also talked about finding the balance between restricting access but also being safe. We do need to make sure that there always is an adult outside. Sasha will come and watch with Jullie to see how we could improve our carpool line. The idea was brought up to have an aide be in charge of the carpool lane. Jullie will look at the schedule and see if we can make that work with their hours. Sasha also proposed an idea to have 2 adults back at the carpool lane to help the carpool pickup go smoother and safer. McKay looked up the stats of abduction, and it is really low. So we talked about how we can tighten up our physical safety procedures at the pickup lane. 

    2. Discussion of School Needs 

      1. The Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports (PBIS) committee has made posters to streamline expectations for specific areas of the school. The “learn” and “safety” posters have been made in “tag” form so that paraeducators and teachers can wear it and easily refer to it. 

      2. We did talk about lunch times. Lunch is 15 minutes- and Nan lets them go outside at 10 minutes. There also is an overflow table if necessary, and for kids who need longer to eat. 

      3. We don’t have any updates about the grant that was proposed to put a sidewalk in along 800. There were only like 13 kids who were over there. There also isn’t a bus over there. This is through North Logan City. It was through Alan Loose. We don’t know if we got the grant yet. 

    3. Any other items of discussion:



    1. Adjournment

      1. Alex moved to adjourn the meeting, and I, Marisa seconded the motion. 




    Next Meeting: May 3, 2023  at 4:00  pm- School Media Center