Community Council

Community Councils play a significant role in improving student achievement in each local school. By sharing their unique perspectives and expertise, parents, teachers and administrators have a wonderful opportunity to address the critical academic needs of the school.

The charge to analyze data, identify needs, set goals and align resources—and then report back on progress– establishes Community Councils as providing front-line accountability to our school communities.

Thank you to the West Valley Community Council for working together to support all students learning at the highest levels.

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: West Valley STEM
• Time: 4:30 PM
• Next Agenda: At this time, there is no agenda to review.
• Schedule: Every 2nd Thursday from September-May
• Meeting Dates:
  • 09/11/2025
  • 10/09/2025
  • 11/13/2025
  • 12/11/2025
  • 01/13/2026
  • 02/12/2026
  • 03/12/2026
  • 04/09/2026
  • 05/14/2026

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.

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.

2025-2026

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $90,482.06
• Funds used for: 1. Fund an additional .5 FTE to hire a teacher to bring down student teacher ratio in the classroom. This will also give the teacher more opportunites for small groups with each student. 2: We will hire a paraprofessional under the direction of a licensed teacher or coach, will work with students to allow for increased time in small-group and individualized instruction to support academic growth and achievement. 3: We will purchse chromebook so each student will have a chromebook to do I-Ready math. 1. Teachers will be provided with RAZ kids reading Software to help teach informational text. 2: Part-time para-educators, under the direction of the teacher or the literacy coach, will work with students to allow for increased time in small-group and individualized instruction to support academic growth and achievement. 3: Parents and families will be invited to attend an academic enrichment open house evening before school starts. Teachers will be paid a stipend to attend and will share key information, strategies, and resources to help parents know how to best support their students throughout the year, particularly in literacy at home.

2024-2025

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $105,398.17
• Funds used for: Software < $5,000. Technology related supplies < $5,000 each - devices, computers, E-readers, flash drives, cables, monitor stands. Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes)

2023-2024

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $104,267.31
• Funds used for: Salaries and Benefits (teachers, aides, specialists, productivity, substitutes). Technology related supplies < $5,000 each - devices, computers, E-readers, flash drives, cables, monitor stands.

Rules of Order and Procedure

• Our Community Council adopted these rules of order and procedure on 09/11/2025. The vote count: number approved 6; number not approved: 0; number absent 0.
• 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,  1 school employee(s) who is/are elected in even years,  0 school employee(s) who is/are elected in odd years, and  2 parent / guardian member(s) who is/are elected in even years,  2 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 there are three unexcused absences we will replace that member of the community council.

School Community Council Handbook

School Community Council Handbook (English)

School Community Council Handbook (Spanish)

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.