May 8, 2025 – Minutes

Park Lane Elementary

School Community Council Meeting Minutes

May 8, 2025

Attendees: Justin Jeffery, Kristen Baird, Emily Fife, Ashley Mills, Steve Leavitt, Joseph Demma, Jeanette Knight, Amanda May, Greg Liddiard, Katie Dahle

Attending Virtually: Christopher Sharp

Meeting called to order at 6:06 pm

Agenda Items:

1. Welcome & Follow-up Items
   1. Review and approve last meetings minutes
      1. Motion to approve: Joseph Demma, 2nd: Jeanette Knight – Council unanimous in the affirmative
      2. Christopher Sharp abstained from voting as he was not in attendance at March’s meeting. Greg Liddiard was not present for the vote.
2. Celebrations (COVID academic success & other)
   1. Park Lane has been recognized as a positive outlier in our COVID recovery. Our scores bounced back much quicker than other schools in our area. The Utah State School Board sent a representative to interview our teachers and find out what we did to recover so quickly.
3. Review of recent 2024-2025 Data including TSSP and Land Trust Data
   1. Review goals and available data
      1. Every grade has increased their reading scores since the fall except for 1st who just fell a little behind. 1st grade still made tremendous progress
      2. ACC did incredible with 97% of their 2nd -5th graders making 20% growth
      3. MATH – K-2nd were very close to meeting their goal. 3rd and 5th met their goal. 4th was only 1% shy of their goal. 1st graders didn’t meet their goal but the test isn’t a great representation of what they learned this year considering they aren’t tested on the school year curriculum. The 1st grade teachers are very happy with the growth they saw.
      4. ACC – more ACC students were included in mainstream classrooms this year showing great growth for the group. And in Kindergarten, 100% of the students met their 20% growth goal which is amazing!
4. Canyons School Board Topics
   1. Follow-up per Chromebook conversation and School Board moves
      1. Katie Dahle, our Board Member representative, attended tonight to provide these updates. After receiving feedback from district SCC’s and parents, the district doesn’t plan to make changes to Chromebook filters. The majority of feedback was to keep the filters the same and let parents request higher restriction if wanted. The district is continuing to investigate options. BARK has been implemented as another safeguard. The district has implemented a “3 Strike Rule” meaning if students are caught searching inappropriate content 3 times, their Chromebook privileges will be dissolved until they have met with counselors. The district has also begun a RFP process to explore filtering programs other than what they currently use, Content Keeper. A Tech committee made up of parents and district employees will meet in May to continue discussing solutions to keep our students safe online. Our SCC suggested potentially higher filter restrictions for grades K-3 and giving 4th and 5th graders more access. We also suggested emailing parents when their students search inappropriate terms. Katie said she would present both of those suggestions to the committee.
5. School Boundary, Consolidation and Closure Study
   2025. Due to slower population growth, increasing home prices in our area, and low enrollment, the district has launched a boundary study for 8 elementary schools. Park Lane is one of those schools. The district is currently in the process of evaluating each school on a whole rubric of criteria such as supplemental programs offered, academic achievement, current student population, bus parking, facility condition, buildable property, etc. Once they have given each elementary a score, they will begin to make boundary decisions and present options to each community. They plan to hold open houses in September to present their proposals and give parents/administrations the opportunity to provide feedback. They are also considering how to fund these changes as there are several BOND options that can be used. The timing of these changes is still TBD. If changes are effective for the ’26-’27 school year, the board must vote on the changes by December 31, 2025. They plan to be fully transparent and give parents/administrations plenty of opportunities to provide feedback.
6. Budget Requestions
   1. Teacher Cell Tower Grant Requests
      1. We had 6 requests and ended up approving all of them.
      2. Motion to approve: Amanda May 2nd: Joseph Demma – Council unanimous in the affirmative
   2. Other budget needs/updates
      1. None
7. Next Year Planning Items for Discussion
   1. Budget Requests for 2025-26
      1. Cell Tower Grants and Budget Plans. The 25-26 cell tower budget proposal was approved including moving funds into the principal’s account for luncheons and teacher appreciation.
      2. Jeannette has asked if we could get a new piano for the choir. Lori has been looking into options.
   2. Next Year Staffing and Needs
      1. There are a couple open positions Principal Jeffery is trying to fill including Playworks, a para, and Recess/Copy Aide.
   3. SCC Status for Next Year
      1. Everyone plans to return. Several members need to reapply in September.
   4. Next Year Planning
      1. Chris Sharp will attend all SCC related meetings over the summer
8. Miscellaneous
9. 1. Other items to discuss?
      1. No

Motion to adjourn: Jeanette Knight, Second: Amanda May– Council unanimous in the affirmative

Meeting dismissed at 7:38pm