Members in Attendance: Jeanna Ogden, Annie Swinton, Rachelle Crane, Mike Larsen, Trish Larsen, Wesley Blake, Chad Johnson, Mark F. Stewart, and Karren Allen.
Members not in attendance: Tori Ott and Lupe Hill.
Business Items:
- Welcome and Minutes
- Welcome to the meeting.
- Minutes read and approved. Minutes are on the Pahvant website.
- Review & Finalize Next Year’s Proposed Plan/New Legislation
- Natalie Gordon with the Trust Lands Committee at the State Office, helped Mr. Johnson with new legislation which cut some verbiage and simplified the Plan from 3 pages to 1½ pages, and 3 goals into 1 goal with bullets.
- Mr. Johnson added the last bullet on #2.
- Council agreed to add another bullet on #2 to include professional development based on PBIS, positive behavior strategies, such as Restorative Practices, which changes the way we deal with students.
- Mr. Johnsn attended the legislature meeting yesterday. Possibility of adding 1 more slot to the 2 we currently have to the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Program. Wants to continue to fund the programs we currently have to ensure we can keep them, including Science field experiences
- Coding explination was removed from Plan, as per Natalie Gordon.
- Budget
- Current Trust Lands estimate-$86,903, almost $7,000 more than anticipated.
- $2,000 will be added to Professional Development to cover the additional positive behavior strategies training.
- TSSA is $22,009, with a probable 1% increase.
- Anticipate TSSA to be spent on Social & Emotional Helth of students, ie. Refocus Room furniture and materials, which will help students academically. It cannot be used for capital expenses, ie. building the room.
- Robotics Program
- Juab Elementary has a great robotics program. We are going to take a field trip.
- Students will fill out a 2 question interest form. Names will be drawn to participate.
- 10 3rd grade students, 20 4th grade students, 20 5th grade students, and 5 adults will visit their program.
- Purpose
- Watch how students interact with the robotics, and
- Teachers to know what is needed to do our own program most effectively.
E. Students are mastering the robotics we have in 2-3 days
F. Legos makes a robot with gears and an app for $250 each. It can be coded to swing and hit a ball off a tee. The kit is similar to the Maker Space kits.
G. We need more training and materials.
H. It is our school’s desire to build a great Robotics program that evolves into competitions and is a resource to the rural schools in Central Utah. Juab is the closest school with a robotics program.
- Roundtable discussion Trust Lands Plan or Robotics
- Suggestion was made to use an overall STEM approach for our program, maybe involve an engineering aspect
- Fund some of the materials for the Robotics program with Trust Lands also.
- Suggested to add a bullet to the Plan for Professional Development on positive behavior strategies, possibly something like Restorative Practices, as it changes how we deal with student behaviors and $2,000 to the budget.
- It is believed that the Community Council’s priorities are in the correct order.
- The question was raised as to funding music year-round, in addition to ½ year of art and ½ year of possibly dance? Possibly through extra slot added with the BTS Program.
- Robotics instruction is happening during the school day, 6 days this year. Hoping for 9 days of coding next year with a primary focus to get robotics/coding instruction in the grade-level rotations, as happens with science.
- Trust Lands/Community Council Audit
- All schools in Sevier District will be audited.
- Council members may be contacted.
C. Everything we have done meets the law.
D. We need to have a Rules and Order of Conduct for our council meetings. Mr.
Johnson will adapt one he found online to meet our needs and email it to all
members as a “Draft” along with the finalized Trust Lands Plan and Budget with
the adjustments discussed today.
E. Remaining $5,000 of the $7,000 not previously anticipated, will be put into Salaries
and Benefits.
VII. Trust Lands information online
- Meeting Agendas
- Minutes
- Trust Lands Plan
- Budget does not have to be online, but a Summary of how the Trust Lands Money was used does.
- Meeting Rules and Order of Conduct
VIII. Next Meeting will be scheduled for the beginning of next year.