2024-25 Minutes

September Minutes 

9/4/24 

Present: Amy Ivie, Emily Jensen, Savannah Leonhardt, Jodi Mangum, Robert Cohoon, Rachael Willis 

Robert moved to approve May’s minutes. Rachael seconded the motion. This passed unanimously. 

Amy gave each member a copy of the guidelines for the community council and asked that we take them home and read through them. Members need to come back in October ready to combine the two documents. We need to be sure to add a process for selecting a chair and vice chair, a process for removing a person who doesn’t attend meetings on a regular basis, and state somewhere in the document that a quorum is the majority. It was decided that the process for selecting a chair and vice chair would be that a council member can be nominated by one of the existing members. 

Amy then gave each member a copy of the rules of the community council. We read over and discussed them. Rachael moved to approve the rules. Emily seconded the motion. This passed unanimously. 

Rachael nominated Robert to be this year’s chair. Emily seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Robert nominated Savannah to be the vice chair. This also passed unanimously. 

Amy presented this year’s school Trustlands and TSSA plans to the committee. They were discussed in depth and each member received a copy of the plans. 

Robert motioned to adjourn the meeting until Oct 2, 2024 . Savannah seconded the motion.

Next meeting will be Oct. 2.

Meeting Canceled

January Minutes 

1/8/25 

Present: Amy Ivie, Emily Jensen, Deidra Hartwell, Rachael Willis, Jodi Mangum, Amy Hyde 

Rachel moved to approve November’s minutes. Deidra seconded the motion. This passed unanimously. 

Amy Hyde presented the state’s Common Sense Media program to the committee. She delivered a lesson to us that she has given to the upper grades. She explained the lesson as she went. She also told us that the lessons were divided into K-3 and 4-6 presentations. The lesson we participated in was on click bait. It was very engaging and interesting for the committee members. 

Amy shared that with Amendment B more money for trustlands did get approved. 

Amy then presented the school’s winter acadience test results to the committee. Overall the school did very well. Almost every grade was able to move students up from the well below benchmark and below benchmark areas of the test. The only two grades that weren’t able to move up were third and fourth grade and they only went down 1 and 2 students respectively. We will keep working with the children. 

Amy presented the council with the results from the school’s stakeholder survey. We received approximately 152 surveys back which is about half. Overall everyone feels good about the questions that were asked on the survey. Everyone that had concerns and left a name on their survey has received a personal phone call from Amy. She has been able to discuss their concerns with them. 

Amy then shared the school budget with the council. Most of the budget has been spent. 

Deidra motioned to adjourn the meeting until Feb. 5. Rachel seconded. This passed unanimously. 

Next meeting will be Feb. 5, 2025.

Meeting Canceled

March Minutes 2025 

3/5/25 

Present: Deidra Hartwell, Amy Ivie, Emily Jensen, Jodi Mangum

Deidra moved to approve January’s minutes. Emily seconded it. This passed unanimously. 

Amy gave an update on Trustlands and TSSA budgets. We should be at 10% in trustlands by next month and TSSA will get there. 

Amy then shared the rough draft for the Trustlands plan for the 2025-26 school year. The first goal will be to increase school wide Acadience reading assessment scores by 2% from the fall to the spring. 

The second goal will be to motivate/recognize individual students through our reading incentive program. Part of this funding goes towards our one-book-one school reading. 

The council agreed that the goals look good. Emily made a motion to approve the plan. Deidra seconded the motion. This passed unanimously. 

Deidra moved to adjourn the meeting. This passed unanimously. 

Next meeting will be April 9.

April Minutes

4/9/25

Present: Deidra Hartwell, Amy Ivie, Emily Jensen, Savannah Leonhardt, Rachel Willis, Jodi Mangum

Deidra moved to approve March’s minutes. Savannah seconded it. This passed unanimously.

Amy gave an update on Trustlands and TSSA budgets. We will be in compliance by the end of the school year.

Amy then presented the TSSA goals for the 2025-2026 school year. Goal #1 is to increase school-wide attendance by 2% from fall to spring. Goal #2 is that using the iReady exam, the math median progress towards typical growth will be 50% or higher on the middle of the year. The goals were discussed by the council, and Savannah moved to approve them. Emily seconded the motion. This passed unanimously.

The council then went over the officers that will still be on the council for next year and who will be off. Discussion was had about there being one open spot for parents or guardians next year.

Savannah and Jodi both expressed desires to stay on the council next year.

Discussion was had by the council about moving the school community council meeting to the first Thursday of the month in the fall and adjusting the time to accommodate everyone’s schedule.

Savannah moved to adjourn the meeting. This passed unanimously.

Next meeting will be September 4 2025 @ 3:50.

Meeting Cancelled