2023-24 Agendas & Minutes

Mountain Crest High School Community Council 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: 

Denise Mouritsen Wendy Osborne Tom Williams Michelle Scott Tiffany Brady (excused) Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers Scott Rigby 

Ysabel Segovia Sari Sparks Tim Smith 

Rob Phelps Sharon Kunzler Teri Rhodes 

Michelle Hunsaker (excused) 

1. Welcome and Introductions – Denise welcomed all committee members and the Cache County Bond Committee (Scott, Tim and Teri). 
2. Identify a President-Elect – Rob Phelps was nominated to be the president-elect. A vote was taken and the committee was all in favor so Rob is the president-elect this year. Michelle Scott was the president-elect last year so she is the President this year. 
3. Review and approve May meeting minutes – This will be done at the next meeting. 
4. Review School Plan and Budget – This will be done at the next meeting 
5. School Community Council training—October 3rd --This will be a ZOOM meeting, the link will be sent at a later date. 
6. Cache County School District Bond Discussion – Currently Cache County is the 11th largest district in the state of Utah out of a total of 41 districts. Currently there are 20,000 students, 25 schools and the district services 27 communities. Currently of the 17 elementary schools in the district 11 are above capacity. If the $139

million dollar bond is approved it would fund the following projects: -Build 2 new middle schools. 

-Convert Spring Creek middle school to an elementary school. 

-Build 1 new elementary school 

-Help fund bringing all schools in the district to the same level of security

Other outcomes if the bond is approved: 

-Move 6th grade back to the middle school so elementary would be K-5 and middle school would be 6-9 grade. 

-All elementary schools would be able to have all day Kindergarten. -Solve capacity problems for all elementary and middle schools. -Create one feeder middle school per high school. 

-The bond will not raise the tax rate the school district receives from property taxes. 

7. Other – No other business was discussed. 

Next Meeting: 19 September 7:00 a.m. 

Adjourn

Mountain Crest High School Community Council 

Tuesday, 19 September 2023 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: 

Denise Mouritsen Wendy Osborne Tom Williams (excused) Michelle Scott Tiffany Brady (excused) Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers 

Rob Phelps Sari Sparks 

Ysabel Segovia (excuxed) 

1. Welcome and Introductions – Michelle welcomed all committee members. 
2. Review and approve May & August meeting minutes – The minutes from the May and August meetings were reviewed. Brian Chambers motioned to approve the minutes, Rob Phelps seconded the motion. All were in favor and the minutes were approved. 
3. Review School Plan and Budget – Denise Mouritsen led a discussion identifying Mountain Crest’s 2 main goals: test scores and freshman orientation. There are many actions taking place to reach these goals. One is a “Stang Thang” has been implemented. Every month each secretary, custodian and cook identify students going above and beyond and recognize them and each student will also get a t-shirt. This will help to cultivate a positive atmosphere for kids. Mountain Crest would like kids to get invested in the school and doing good deeds. 
4. Other needs from the Mountain Crest community – Sip ‘n Stang has been established and is a concessions stand run by student clubs (DECA, FBLA and other business clubs). Students learn to run the stand, review inventory and stock the stand and overall business practices.

Next year Mountain Crest will have their parking lot redone. 

If there are any other needs at the school such as upgrading and updating, please let Denise know. 

5. School Community Council training—October 3rd from 6:00 -7:00 pm --This will be a ZOOM meeting, the link will be sent out.
6. Other – Rob has been working to establish who will be doing regular maintenance for the “MC” on the hill. Possibly the freshman and sophomore exec will be in charge of keeping it maintained. Most of the maintenance is keeping the weeds down and occasionally updating the paint. 

Parent-teacher conferences will be October 9 and fall break is October 12-13, so there will be no school those days. 

Next Meeting: 17 October 7:00 a.m. 

Adjourn

Mountain Crest High School Community Council 

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: 

Denise Mouritsen Audrey Andrus Tom Williams Michelle Scott Sharon Kunzler Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers (excused) 

Rob Phelps Sari Sparks 

Ysabel Segovia Dave Clark 

Audrey Andrus 

1. Welcome and Introductions – Michelle welcomed all committee members. 
2. Review and approve September meeting minutes – The minutes from the September meeting were reviewed. Rob Phelps motioned to approve the minutes, Betsy Clark seconded the motion. All were in favor and the minutes were approved. 
3. School Community Council Training Review – Most of the committee was able to attend the online training done by Cache County District and agreed that the training provided great information. 
4. Review School Plan and Budget – Denise Mouritsen reviewed the school plan and budget with the committee. Currently Mountain Crest is working on how to raise student test scores in English and Math by additional staff and will be implementing more tutoring.
5. Other – 

1 – The school report cards will be released at the end of October.

2 – Mountain Crest does not officially offer DLI, but it offers all the same classes that the other schools that have DLI offer.

3 – Currently Mountain Crest Staff is trying to make all students feel like the belong at Mountain Crest. Students are involved in Sip n Stang which is the school store. They will offer extended lunch to encourage students to go support extra-curricular activities. 

Next Meeting: 12 December 7:00 a.m. 

Adjourn

No Meeting Held

Mountain Crest High School Community Council 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: 

Denise Mouritsen Audrey Andrus Tom Williams Michelle Scott Sharon Kunzler (excused) Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers 

Rob Phelps (excused) Sari Sparks 

Ysabel Segovia Dave Clark 

1. Welcome – Michelle welcomed all committee members. 
2. Review and approve October meeting minutes – The minutes from the October meeting were reviewed. Brian Chambers motioned to approve the minutes, Sari Sparks seconded the motion. All were in favor and the minutes were approved. 
3. Flex – There is a desire to make students time in flex more productive and meaningful for faculty and students. Next school year flex will be moved from the beginning of the school day to part of it during lunch and the rest held at the end of the school day. Benefits from this more are: 

-This will give students an opportunity to talk with teachers about assignments given that day before they go home for the day.

-Student athletes who are travelling for a competition on a school day generally miss the last class period of the day and this would ensure they don’t miss valuable learning time. 

-Lunch has always been split into two groups. With the change of flex, lunch will now be combined so all students have the same lunch and it will be longer. Part of the longer lunch will be dedicated time for teachers to meet with students. -Assemblies will still be held during flex. 

4. Mustang Academy – This is a new required course for all 9th graders. There will be a parent night held for incoming freshman to discuss. The counselors will also go to South Cache to discuss this new required class during registration time. This class will go over attendance, how to make up missing assignments and life skills. 
5. Mental Health – CCSD would like a mental health person in each high school beginning next school year. The district will cover some of the cost while the 

individual schools cover the remainder. This position is valuable and will be able to help many students at each school.

6. ISP (In School Placement) – Kids that are on the path to dropping out or not graduating need extra help. ISP helps kids to integrate back into a regular school schedule. Currently there are no more than 10 kids per class. They can do packets (credit recovery) and BYU Independent Study (paying for original credit). 
7. Ideas for Plan for Next Year – Come next month with ideas on what we should cover with our school plan. 

Next Meeting: January 16th 7:00 a.m. 

Adjourn

Mountain Crest High School Community Council 

Tuesday, 16 January 2024 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: Denise Mouritsen Audrey Andrus Tom Williams Michelle Scott (excused) Sharon Kunzler (excused) Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers 

Rob Phelps Sari Sparks 

Ysabel Segovia Dave Clark 

1. Welcome – Rob Phelps welcomed all committee members. 
2. Review and approve December meeting minutes – The minutes from the December meeting were reviewed. Brian Chambers motioned to approve the minutes, Ysabel Segovia seconded the motion. All were in favor and the minutes were approved. 
3. Review old trust land budget – Denise Mouritsen reviewed how the funds have been spent so far this school year. All expenses have been according to the approved plan. She will go online and update the budget there also to reflect expenditures. 
4. Ideas for FY25 Plan – Mountain Crest has multiple budgets it works with every year and Trustlands are one of the budgets. Historically expenses have been spread across multiple budgets. Denise is in the process of having the same expenses come out of one budget instead of multiple budgets to reflect how other schools do their budgets. For FY25 it is proposed that the Trustlands budget will be used to fund the following: 

-Mustang academy. A new required course for all freshman to help them be successful in high school. There will be a parent night in March to explain this new course to parents. 

-Reducing class sizes in core classes such as math. 

-Fund the salary for a full time person to address mental health issues with students so they can be successful. 

-Mustang success. Students can take BYU independent study classes to get credit towards graduation. This will also help fund after school tutoring. 

5. Other – The district has sent out a survey of calendar options for next school year. Parents are encouraged to look at the 4 options and vote for the one they prefer. The final calendar will come out soon. 

Next Meeting: February 20th 7:00 a.m. 

Adjourn

Mountain Crest High School Community Council 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: Denise Mouritsen Audrey Andrus Tom Williams Michelle Scott Sharon Kunzler Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers 

Rob Phelps Sari Sparks 

Ysabel Segovia (excused) Dave Clark (excused) 

1. Welcome – Michelle Scott welcomed all committee members. 
2. Review and approve January meeting minutes – The minutes from the January meeting were reviewed. Michelle Scott motioned to approve the minutes, Betsy Clark seconded the motion. All were in favor and the minutes were approved. 
3. Counsel signature form – Denise Mouritsen passed around the counsel signature form. Committee members reviewed the budget and expenses and signed the form. 
4. Review FY25 Plan & make changes where necessary – Denise Mouritsen went over the budget and plan for FY25. The committee went over the proposed expenses and discussed why each would be impactful at Mountain Crest and help achieve the stated goals. The areas that will be funded in FY25 are the new Mustang Academy, reducing class sizes, mental health and Mustang Success.
5. Other – Denise Mouritsen, Darren Perks and Tom Williams reviewed the pros and cons so far with the longer lunch on Friday and what changes will be implemented next school year. The longer lunch will have more structure and make students more accountable for working on missing assignments.

Next Meeting: March 19th 7:00 a.m. 

Adjourn

No Meeting Held

No Meeting Held

Mountain Crest School Community Council 

Tuesday, 21 May 2024 7:00 a.m. 

Location: CELF-Center 

Members: Others: Denise Mouritsen Audrey Andrus (excused) Tom Williams  Michelle Scott Sharon Kunzler (excused) Darren Perks Betsy Clark Brian Chambers 

Rob Phelps Sari Sparks (excused) 

Ysabel Segovia Dave Clark 

Wendy Osborne 

1. Welcome – Michelle welcomed all committee members 
2. Review and approve February meeting minutes (the March & April meetings  were cancelled) - The minutes from the February meeting were reviewed. Rob motioned to approve the minutes, Michelle seconded the motion. All were in favor  and the minutes were approved. 
3. New members for the committee next year – Denise has sent out an e-mail to all  parents to solicit new members for next year. She has had multiple parents reach  out wanting to join the committee and they will start with the committee in August  for next school year. 
4. School updates – Next week is graduation and the last week of school. Everyone  at school is busy with all the final assemblies, senior events and final assignments. -This summer beginning June 24th the entire school parking lot will be repaved.  -There will be little to no parking at school from June 24th until the project is  complete in August. 

-Next school year begins Mustang Academy for freshman and the new class  schedule with flex being split into two different times. 

5. Other – Denise reviewed with the committee the budgeted items for next school  year. The school has a Trustland, TSSA and sometimes the Principal’s Trust funds  as sources of funds for Denise to use according to the guidelines that come with  each source of funds.  

On the ballot this November is a constitutional amendment to “Raise the Cap”. The  Trustlands endowment is currently approximately $3.3B and this would allow the 

Trustlands to distribute 5% instead of 4% each year to schools in Utah. The current  yearly allocation is approximately $106M at 4% and it would increase to  approximately $119M at 5%.  

Next Meeting: August 27, 2024 at 7:00 AM 

Adjourn