Community Council

Welcome to our schools Community Council. Our purpose is to address the academic needs of students at the local level by evaluating and providing opportunities and programs for their benefit.

"School improvement is the responsibility of everyone, from students and parents to professionals and public officials. As we clarify roles, expectations, and responsibilities, we increase the likelihood of each contributing significantly to this most important enterprise. Our children's future academic success is at stake. School community councils are one way we can work together to make schools more successful. A council is an advisory body. All of its actions and plans are overseen by the local school board. School Community Council members are often willing volunteers who care about the success of students and overall school improvement. "

Meeting Schedule and Agenda

Community members are invited to attend council meetings, but do not hold influence over council discussion points or decisions. If you have a concern for your Community Council, please reach out before-hand to one of the council members.

• Location: Conference Room (#22)
• Time: 4:30 PM
• Next Agenda: Review the agenda for our upcoming meeting.
• Schedule: Second Monday of Every Month (unless otherwise noted)
• Meeting Dates:
  • 9/12/24
  • 10/07/2024
  • 11/11/2024
  • 12/09/2024
  • 01/13/2025
  • 02/10/2025
  • 03/10/2025
  • 04/14/2025
  • 05/12/2025

Council Members

Council Members are chosen by election and are a mixture of school staff and community members. Candidacy and election procedures begin before each school year.

If you would like to serve on the Community Council, please contact us at Taylorsville Elementary for more information.

Serving on the Community Council allows parents to directly influence the way LAND Trust funds are used during the school year. Being a Community Council member also lets parents help make decisions on our Title I budget, has insight on class sizes, helps give ideas for parent nights and overall influences the culture of our community.

Invitation to serve on the council: We warmly invite parents to serve on our school's community council. Information about council vacancies, declarations of candidacy forms, and elections are emailed sent out in August of each year.

Serving on the Community Council allows parents to directly influence the way LAND Trust funds are used during the school year, which can include programs, materials, and other education-based solutions.

LAND Trust

Please visit this LAND Trust Public Report page to see the dollar amount our school receives each year from the School LAND Trust program, our school's final reports from the last two years, and a copy of our school's current LAND Trust plan.

The actual, current, and expected funding history for each school can be found online using the LAND Trust Funding Report.

Current Plan 2024-2025

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $55,824
• Funds used for: Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes)

2023-2024

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $50,370
• Funds used for: Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes)

2022-2023

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $44,411.26
• Funds used for: The full budget was used for salaries and employee benefits of existing paraeducators in the building.

Rules of Order and Procedure

• Council members will receive training to understand the responsibilities of the council. Council members receive training before preparing and taking action on School LAND Trust Plans and reports.
• All meetings are open to the public and the public is welcome to attend. (required)
• The agenda of each upcoming meeting, with draft minutes of the prior meeting, will be made available to all council members at least one week in advance, and will be posted on the school website. The agenda will include the date, time, and location of the meeting, and any proposed action items.
• Written minutes will be kept of all meetings, prepared in draft format for approval at the next scheduled meeting.
• Approved minutes will be retained for three years.
• The chair conducts the meetings (required), makes assignments and requests reports on assignments. In the absence of the chair the vice-chair shall conduct meetings.
• The council must have a quorum to vote. A quorum is a majority of council members.
• Meetings shall be conducted and action taken according to very simplified rules of parliamentary procedure as required in 53G-7-1203(10). Council actions will be taken by motions and voting with votes and motions recorded in the minutes. These rules of parliamentary procedure can be found in the district community council handbook.
• The council consists of the principal,  0 school employee(s) who is/are elected in even years,  1 school employee(s) who is/are elected in odd years, and  2 parent / guardian member(s) who is/are elected in even years,  3 parent / guardian member(s) who is/are elected in odd years.  (Size of the council MUST BE ADOPTED BY VOTE OF THE COUNCIL and consistent with 53G-7-1202. Elections are required to be staggered with half of the council elected each year.)
• In order to ensure that a quorum can be present, the following process shall be in place to remove and replace a member, as needed: If a member has not attended 4 or more School Community Council meetings in a given year, barring extenuating circumstances, the Council will put it to a vote to remove the member. If the vote carries, the Council will post to the community the vacancy and ask for applicants, giving them until one week prior to the next Community Council Meeting. If there is more than one applicant, the Council will appoint the member to fill the seat for the remainder of the school year. If the member\'s term would have continued to the next school year, the vacancy will be filled using the adopted process of filling vacancies at the beginning of each year with this particular vacancy being posted as a 1 year only vacancy so as to maintain the balance of Council members being replaced each year.

School Community Council Handbook

School Community Council Handbook

Teacher and Student Success Plan / Continual Improvement Plan

Teacher and Student Success Plan / Continual Improvement Plan

Council Elections

Elections are not in progress at this time.

Meeting Archives

We only keep minutes for the current school year and the previous 3 school years. If you need older minutes, please reach out to a council member, and we'll do our best to accommodate you.