May 14, 2026 – Minutes

Park Lane Elementary

School Community Council Meeting Minutes

May 14, 2026

Attendees: Justin Jeffery, Kristen Baird, Emily Fife, Ashley Mills, Amanda May, Steve Leavitt, Jeanette Knight, Kinley Garfield, Melanie Griffith, Christopher Sharp

Meeting called to order at 6:06pm

Agenda Items:

A.   Welcome & Follow-up Items

a.     Review and approve March minutes

                                               i.     Motion to approve: Kinley Garfield, Second: Amanda May – Council unanimous in the affirmative

1.     Steve Leavitt abstained from voting

                                             ii.     Celebrations

1.     Unfortunately, we are losing Principal Jeffery to Silver Mesa next year, but he has spoken to our new principal, Ronnie Mulqueen, and believes she is going to do a great job! He’s heard nothing but great things about her.

2.     BJ Weller is staying at Park Lane as Assistant Principal

B.    Review of recent 25-26 Data including TSSP and Land Trust data

a.     Review goals and available data

                                               i.     ELA Goals

1.     Kinder – 85% of students will be proficient

2.     1^st – 5^th – 80% of students will be proficient

3.     ACC – 70% of students will increase their reading proficiency by 15%

4.     All grades have made great growth through the school year. 2^nd – 5^th all meet their goal scoring between 90% and 94%. Kinder and 1^st are slightly below scoring 76% and 74% respectively.

a.     We’ve discussed several times how the 1^st grade scores are not a good representation of what they understand because the assessments throughout the year are all so different. The DWSBA is probably a better measurement of what they kids learn daily but this year students only took a math DWSBA. The BLT team is discussing intervention for those 2 grades.

                                             ii.     Math Goals

1.     Kinder – 5^th – 80% of students will be proficient

2.     ACC – 70% of students will increase their math proficiency by 15%

3.     Again, 2^nd – 5^th grades meet their goal with 4^th and 5^th grades achieving 91% and 94% respectively. Kinder was just shy at 79% and 1^st fell at 64%.

4.     Teachers are interested to see how next year will be structed due to the passing of HB273 which limits technology use in the classroom. ST Math, Lexia, and Reflex will no longer be allowed. BLT has considered paying to use Lexia in 1^st and 2^nd grade. The SCC proposed ideas like asking for parent help in the classroom during breakout sessions and offered to help teachers prep new curriculum over the summer. Interventionists will continue to work with students who are on grade level and teachers with students who are below grade level. They have also discussed aligning grade schedules (K & 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd, and 4^th and 5^th) so mainstreaming ACC kids will be easier.

C.    Budget Requests

a.     Stipend request for SPED Team Lead

                                               i.     The district provides compensation for each grade’s BLT member and team lead. The SPED team has 1 BLT and 1 team lead because their team is so large and they split the money from the district. Justin would like $500 to compensate those teachers. We had a lengthy discussion but ultimately the majority agreed to grant that request.

                                             ii.     Motion to approve: Justin Jeffery, Second: Steve Leavitt, – Council was not unanimous

1.     Those who voted in favor: Ashley Mills, Steve Leavitt, Amanda May, Jeanette Knight, Melanie Griffith, Justin Jeffery, Chris Sharp, Kinley Garfield

2.     Those who opposed: Kristen Baird and Emily Fife

b.     Teacher cell tower grant requests

                                               i.     YTD we still have $2,435 in the budget. There are 4 requests that total $2,134.99. All 4 were approved.

                                             ii.     Motion to approve: Jeanette Knight, Second: Amanda May – Council unanimous in the affirmative

1.     Kristen Baird abstained from the vote.

c.     Proposal to pay teachers to prepare new Math curriculum materials over the summer

                                               i.     Justin would like to compensate teachers $250 per day up to 2 days over the summer to prepare new math materials. There is a large list of materials the teachers need to print, cut, laminate, etc.

                                             ii.     SCC proposed asking parents to help. We offered to prepare a sign-up sheet that could be distributed via newsletter or the PTA Instagram account.

                                           iii.     Motion to approve: Amanda May, Second: Kinley Garfield – Council unanimous in the affirmative

d.     Cell Tower Budget Proposal for 2026-2027

                                               i.     Justin proposed using the cell tower funds in a similar fashion to years past. Park Lane SWAG for teachers, classroom grants, classroom attendance incentives, professional development, teacher incentives, and campus beautification.

                                             ii.     Motion to approve: Jeanette Knight, Second: Melanie Griffith – Council unanimous in the affirmative

D.   Review & Planning

a.     Next Year Planning/Discussion

                                               i.     Up to Ronnie Mulqueen!

b.     Discuss needs for Park Lane moving forward

E.    Odds and Edds

                                               i.     None

Meeting dismissed at 7:21 pm.