Monday, January 24, 2022

Minutes, Regular SOT Meeting, 3:30 P.M.

Grant M. Bowler Elementary School
1415 W. Whipple Ave. Logandale, NV 89021
Held over Zoom and in person: Started @ 3:36 PM, Ended @ 6:16 PM

Voting Members in Attendance Additional Individual in Attendence

Taci May – Parent Kelby Robinson – Principal
Rachelle McCombs – Parent Veronica Zinovitch – Asstistant Principal
Emily Pack – Parent Lindsay Dalley - MVCEAB
Denise Hoy – Teacher (Over Zoom)
Michael Lacy – Teacher
Darelene Millington – Support Staff

I. Welcome and Roll Call

A. Taci – 1st; Rachelle – 2nd; Vote - Unanimous

II. Approval of Minutes

A. Rachelle – 1st; Darlene – 2nd; Vote - Unanimous

III. Review Norms

IV. Public Comment on Agenda Items

A. Lindsay Dalley – 1st time per pupil funding has been put into
practice, we have been waiting for 5 years. Potential for several
issues to appear. CEAB wants to observe what is happening at
all the schools. They don’t want CCSD to keep all the school’s in
individual boxes.

V. School Performance/Continual Improvement Planning

A. What is the school Plan of Operation? (Taci)
B. Combination of School Continuous Improvement Plan and
Budget (Kelby)
C. Leadership Team provides insight while SOT oversees
 D. Kelby and Leadership Team had to quickly piece together
current plan. SOT will collaborate with Principal on it moving
forward.
E. We will use this meeting and February meeting as discussing
Event 7
F. Kelby reviewed the current plan including school goals, areas of
concern, and plans to address concerns.
G. What are the pros and cons of having separate leadership team
dive into the data and goals to review them, as opposed to SOT
digging into all the details?
1. Denise – Having school leadership team working with
data and goals has worked well and is closer to the action.
H. Motion – School Leadership Team will review data, measure
progress, and keep SOT informed of progress for School
Continuous Improvement Plan. SOT will take input from the
Leadership Team Summary and has final vote on approval.
1. Motion – Rachelle
2. 2nd – Emily
3. Vote – Unanimous

VI. Covid Parent Volunteers

A. Rachelle – A lot of bad feelings between Parents and CCSD.
1. Community support could be improved by better
communication between the school and parents when
changes in policy are coming about.
2. Can we get the school’s / admin’s thought process out
better to parents to help garner additional support.
3. Image being projected with locked doors at the
elementary school is not about safety, it is about control
B. Having parents clean playgrounds between each class use would
require parents to be here all day.
C. How can we get parent volunteers in to help teachers?
1. Work study program at High School provides aides to
some elementary school teachers.
D. Kelby – Anything we can do to facilitate positive feedback from
community towards teachers would help. Teachers are
currently receiving lots of negative input with little positive.
E. In the future, volunteers will be better structured and
scheduled.
VII. Principal Update:

A. Update on Leadership Team Committee for Grade Level Goals

and Parent Involvement (Kept on Agenda for Next Meeting)

VIII. Budget:

A. MAPS Skills Follow Up

1. MAPS Skills going away at end of school year. NWEA gave
school free access until the end of the year.
2. What types of programs do the teachers use to help
students?
3. Feedback from Leadership Team about programs and
what programs would be best used.
B. Teacher Requests
1. Let’s look at everything we use and decide what we truly
need.
2. What are we doing for Chromebook and iPad use.
C. Review of Strategic Budget
1. Total budget at school level - $4,376,000.00
2. Receiving ESER funds - $110,182.00
3. Carry Over Funds –
a) Can CCSD just take carry over funds if we don’t
allocate it?
b) Should we allocate it and have it designated for
specific areas?
c) $100,000.00 in carry over funds. Designated for
supplies.
4. Kelby gave breakdown of how attrition money works.
a) District gives back what we don’t spend
b) Can be reallocated as we see fit
5. Kelby reviewed how he would like to spend categories in
strategic budget.
a) Licensed Staff
b) Kindergarten – 4
c) 1st Grade – 5
d) 2nd Grade – 5
e) 3rd Grade – 5
f) 4th Grade – 4
g) 5th Grade – 4
 h) Additional Specialist
(1) Specialist would do interventions and science
i) Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA)
(1) TOSA would work with teachers to improve
their craft. Provide example lessons.
6. Motion – Approve budget as presented by School
Principal Kelby Robinson
a) Motion – Michael
b) 2nd – Darlene
c) Vote - Unanimous

IX. Non Agenda Items:

A. Can we have a future discussion on the PAC Coalition and
support they can supply
B. PTO will move forward on selecting Rachelle’s replacement
C. Next meeting: Monday, February 7th @ 3:30 pm

X. Public Comment on Non Agenda Items:

A. Lindsay - What is the cost breakdown for utilities and trash
disposal?
1. Whatever services are provided by the district provides,
they are supposed to give us a cost breakdown so we can
decide whether to use them for services or not.
2. The law says whatever it costs them, they are supposed to
give us if we choose

XI. Close of Meeting – 6:16 PM

A. Emily – 1st
B. Darlene – 2nd
C. Vote - Unanimous