Meeting Notes and Agenda:
Attendance- Dr Bruce Eschler, Melissa Jones, Trudy Barnes, Krystal Hansen, Rebecca Brown, Patrick Doyle, Elizabeth Demke, Rachael de Azevedo, Matthew Toone, Terri Culberson
Excused- Dave Barrett (the birthday boy!), Brandie Kafentzis
Absent – James Barron
Abstained from voting- (if necessary)
- Welcome and Approval of February Minutes:
SCC Chair, Patrick Doyle, welcomed the Council and asked for a motion to approve February meeting minutes.
Rebecca Brown motioned to approve February 2025 minutes, Trudy Barnes seconded and motion approved by unanimous vote
- School Review and Updates
Dr. Eschler provided review and updates:
Budgets—review and discussion, explanation of TSSA/FTE changes. Additional savings in Land Trust allowed space to provide more AVID summer conference attendees.
Land Trust/TSSP – Signature page circulated and signed for 2025-26 Land Trust/TSSP budgets
- Counseling Center Updates
Melissa Jones: Registration, 10th grade PCCRs, upcoming ACT/AP testing. Questions about the updated registration cards this year (single page ranked request card) – feedback has been positive, process has been simpler for counselors – some tweaks will be made for simplification, but overall it has worked well.
- Other Items–
Dr. Eschler: next year planning and enrollment, including the effects of boundaries and feeder schools. Teacher of the Year – Jaron Putnam! Quality and number of teacher nominations have been consistently growing, regardless of enrollment numbers. District is putting together a committee to review/approve a common bell schedule across all high schools in the district. This would go into effect no earlier than the 2026-27 school year. Rachael de Azevedo will be the rep from our JHS SCC. Bathroom update: 1500 hall and 2500hall – should open this week (will have a couple of updates after backordered fixtures arrive); then will work on other 1500 bathrooms and two single-use bathrooms. The bathroom by the auditorium is now coming along – doors are on back-order currently. Then will move on to remaining bathrooms – with the hope to have all of them updated and completed by end of summer 2025. Auditorium and gym AV systems should be updated over the summer.
- Adjourn—Terri Culberson motioned to adjourn, Matthew Toone seconded motion, unanimous vote to adjourn. Adjourned 6:26pm.
*Next meeting Wednesday, April 2, 2025 @ 5:30pm in Centennial Room
