School Community Council Meeting Notes
Summit Elementary Conference Room
11/12/25
3:45 pm
Council members In attendance: Jasmine Wilhelm, Beth Jenkins, Aimee McNeil, Allie Franz, Amanda Larsen, Jan Shaw, Elizabeth Sant, Clarissa Rich
School Board Members in attendance: Teri Rhodes, Cathy Christiansen
Principal. McNeil reviewed the budget with the council. Not much has changed since last month but more of the proposed budget will be spent and updated in the upcoming months.
Principal McNeil reported we are still waiting to hear if we received grant money from the Safe Routes program. The grant was written and submitted to have a cement pad put in as a precursor to getting the intersection at 100 S and 100 W turned into a 4-way stop. She also informed the council of a request made to the district to use the North field owned by the school as a drop-off/pickup lane with only right hand turns to improve safety.
The Cache County School District Safe Technology & Digital Citizenship was reviewed and discussed. Current measures being taken to teach online safety to students includes the Digital Literacy curriculum being taught by Miss Heidi during library time. Additional measures are White Ribbon week run by the PTA to teach about online safety. In past years the school had an assembly teaching students about online safety and that is also under consideration for this year.
An issue was brought up to the council about internet ads popping up during typing last school year. Teachers on the council said they had not seen that in their particular classroom. It was also brought to the council’s attention that this year a switch was made from edutyping to typing.com. Principal McNeil is going to ask her teachers about this particular issue.
Principal McNeil updated the council on current Title 1 numbers. In order for a school to qualify for Federal Title 1 Funding the percentage of the student population receiving free or reduced lunch must be greater than 40%. This year's Summit percentage of students receiving free or reduced lunch was 40.5%. Principal McNeil informed the council that if a school does not qualify for Title 1 funding they are given a year of probationary funding and then will not receive it the following year. This year Summit qualified, but Principal McNeil pointed out next year there is a boundary change which could greatly affect that percentage. The result of not qualifying for Title 1 funding would be felt greatly by the school and teachers not being able to have as much in classroom aide support.
School Community Council president, Jasmine Wilhelm, asked how we could help as a school community council. The council brainstormed ideas for an education campaign. At back to school night and in emails, Principal McNeil explains how filling out the Free and Reduced Lunch form benefits our school and encourages parents to fill it out even if they don’t think they will qualify.
- To increase awareness and the number who fill out the form the council proposed a possible student incentive for parents filling out the online form and turning in something that said they filled out the form.
- It was also suggested to include the paper with the link in the back to school homework packet.
- Another idea was to have QR codes and chromebooks available in classrooms at back to school night for parents to fill out the form after the teacher explains how helpful it is to the school.
- Last year the ELL teachers helped parents complete forms in the library, but got back logged. It was suggested that the Watch Dog program could possibly be asked if any members speak Spanish and could help with filling out the forms on back to school night.
- The council agreed that educating parents on how Title 1 funding benefits students and teachers by giving more differentiated support for students at all levels could also increase how many people fill it out.
