Cascade Elementary SCC minutes 10-5-17
Business:
Mr. Campbell introduced the council to Grace Rex who attended our meeting today. She is the DCC member, i.e. our SCC district representative. It was great to have Grace at our meeting.
There was some discussion about the Cascade re-build and possible move. The decision was postponed by the school board until November. We await their decision. They are considering the effects on the entire district as a whole, on good spending practices and what will be best in the end. Change is hard but usually turns out well. Example: Hillcrest spends roughly $8,000/student/year while Cascade spends roughly $5,000/student/year.
Amending this year’s budget:
Mr. Campbell sought feedback from other schools that purchased Dibels for the older grades (4-6) and all the feedback was that it wasn’t worth it. With resources such as Lexia and Wonders, we will use those to assess grades 4-6. This makes a necessary change to the school goal wordage on this year’s trustland plan. It also saves us $3840.
Collaboration cost $4000 less than we planned, saving us another $4000.
Attendance Advocate: Mr. Campbell wrote a grant and received funding toward additional pay for our Attendance Advocate Heather Peay. This saved us an additional $4000.
Mr. Campbell suggested 1) we increase spending for the STEM resources so that each teacher gets $100 to use. $1800 would go here. 2)Pay for school aide Jennifer Nelson to do double-dose for grades 4-6 in reading before/after. Budget $5000 3) This leaves $5040 for Professional Development conference and subs for Ron Clark attendees. (More than double what he had hoped.)
Shelley Colton moved to approve Mr. Campbell’s suggestions. Julie Walker seconded the motion.
Motion was unanimously approved.
SCC Elections/meeting Rules of Order:
Elections will be via email over the next couple of weeks as in the past. Discussion regarding adopting something similar to Hillcrest’s rules of order for meetings. We discussed membership numbers. Shelley Colton motioned to adopt putting a cap on our SCC numbers of 15 with a minimum/maximum for employee members of 3/5. Doug Wyatt seconded the motion. Motion approved unanimously.
Agenda items for the upcoming year:
- School design
- Get a group to tour newer schools for input.
- Hope for single-story plan (district has 2 basic new school floor plans. One is single floor, one 2-story. We as a SCC will have the opportunity to five input to modifications and unique needs of Cascade.
- We will make a list of suggestions and ideas at our January meeting with the opportunity of looking at the floor plan options. Include safety issues with our plan suggestions.
- STEM FEST- plans for projects will be made available for Eagle Scout projects. Tracy Naval will contact Dr. Shumway for plans for the earthquake simulator.
Doug Wyatt motioned to adjourn. April Chrystal seconded the motion. Motion approved unanimously.
In Attendance:
Boyce Campbell
Doug Wyatt
Tracy Naval
Julie Johnson
Julie Walker
April Chrystal
Shelley Colton
Grace Rex (DCC visitor)
