2025-26 Agendas & Minutes

School Community Council Minutes

September 16, 2025

Present: PJ Anderson, Kyrell Younker, SherRee Jacklin, Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Teri Rhodes, Nicole Zollinger, Kathy Christiansen, Vanessa Hall, Don Darrington, Amanie Crosbie, Brooke Pugmire, Kathy Bullen

We were welcomed by Shane and introductions made.

Council Membership

Nicole Zollinger was nominated as the new Chairman last year. Vanessa has been added to the committee as a new teacher.  We need 2 more parents to meet the council requirements. Don’s term is up but would like to stay on another term if needed. We will keep him as a candidate for this year when we send out a ballot for voting.  Shane asked if we wanted to have a counselor on the committee?  It was expressed that it is beneficial to have a counselor. Lyndee Agee will stay on as a Counselor/School employee member.

We currently have 4 voting school members, and committee decided to have 7 parents.  Shane asked if we wanted to have one more school member? Shane recommended to have the school members stay at 4 and make one of the Vice Principals a voting member.

Nicole made motion to approve this. PJ Anderson seconded the motion.  All were in favor.

Nicole made a motion  also to have Lyndy and a Vice Principal as voting members.  SherRee seconded the motion. All were in favor.

We will post openings and ask for nominations for 3 parent positions by email and then will also send out voting information on google form.

Don will be one candidate.

Rules of Order & Procedure Approval

Shane reviewed the Rule of Order and Procedures.

1.     It was proposed to have our first meeting in August, when we will take care of membership.

Nicole asked for motion to set first meeting in August to solidify membership, PJ seconded the motion and all were in favor. The chairman will be selected last meeting of the year.

2.     Dismissal of members: we will address as need arises.

3.     Filling Vacancies:  Will use the same procedure.

4.     Agenda items:  Principal will review with Chairman.

5.     Absentee voting: Do we allow absentee votes or can they only vote if at the meeting. Nicole motion to allow absentee votes, PJ seconded, all were in favor.

6.     Tie votes:  We will table this item as well as the Electronic meetings until next month.

School Community Council Training

The annual School Community Council Training will be on Tuesday, October 7th, at 4:30. It is usually a digital meeting. We will email verification on the date.

National Honor Society change

The National Honor Society has been around forever and Sky View has had a chapter for about as long.  We pay a hefty membership fee but we have never been a recipient of any National Honor Society scholarships.  Having a local chapter has requirements, but our chapter hasn’t been good about following them good.  If we don’t have someone who is willing to make the chapter work good then we probably don’t want to continue having a chapter. The requirements are different than our Honors program which includes rigorous courses.  We reviewed Sky View’s chapter requirements and we don’t do service.

Brooke asked students still have place to do service or somewhere to fit. Shane said they are some options with the Interact club and looking to work with Just Serve organization.

Cell Phone Policy   

Shane asked if there was any parent feedback with Sky View enforcing the no cell phone policy?  He explaind that students still have access between classes and RCK.

So far we have had 5 verifications, 9 warnings, 23 first offenses, no second offenses.

Teri asked if SV has new policy or if it was the district policy.  Shane explaind that Gov. Cox passed bill to ban cell phones  Shane said for some teachers this is no change. We are just trying to have a non -distracting classrooms.  Policing it is tough though but is nice for teachers to have a back up reinforcement.

Vanessa said she has liked because this is first time the policy is written down.

Brooke said as a parent they appreciate it. 

Don asked about smart watches, air buds etc.  The policy includes all of them.

If teachers feel like they are using watches like cell phones, then policy applies.

Teri expressed appreciation from the district to the admin for enforcing them.

Counselors Scholarship               

Tabled to next meeting.

School physical updates

(Flags, Bleachers, sidewalks, mural)

Shane reported on the new facility updates.  We have got the new bleachers on the football field installed. Were hoping to have ready for last spring sports, but have pushed to have ready for fall sports.  Capacity is 350 more, so we got another section, deeper and rows wider including a new press box which safer.  We’ve added new lights and painted steps to make things more safe.

We have also removed our old flagpole which was broken and are in the process of getting new flagpoles on the west side by the circle drive. We added a sidewalk from bus lane and new signing/lettering on the outside wall by the circle drive. We are trying to make it look like front of school.

Getting bids has been a little difficult with the flagpoles.

The Bobcat is finally in the roundabout and looks great!

Nicole mentioned that all 4 pedestrian lights are not working

Shane will talk to Smithfield city to make sure they are working.

Andrea Talbot painted a mural in the hallways over the summer.

The Swimming pool is getting an overhaul. Nicole has been helping with that. There is now a district committee so we can be consistent with Mountain Crest.

Brooke talked about if there was a way to get the monthly SV happenings info out to community. A lot of older people don’t use the internet but like to come to events at Sky View. 

Meeting adjourned until Tuesday, Oct 14, 2025

School Community Council Agenda

October 14, 2025

Welcome                                                                                                      Nicole

Approval of Minutes                                                                                                        

I.                    Membership/Elections                                                           Shane

                      Introductions

II.                 Counselors Scholarship                                                          Lyndy Agee

III.               Website Requirements (by Oct 20^th)                                  Shane

IV.              English Scores                                                                           Brady

V.                 Media Center                                                                            Kandyce Barber

VI.              Rules of Order and Procedure                                              Shane

                  a.     Voting Ties solution

                   b.     Electronic meetings

School Community Council Minutes

October 14, 2025

Present: SheRee Jacklin, PJ Anderson, Teri Rhodes, Kandyce Barber, Vanessa Hall, Aimee Egbert, Nicole Zollinger, Brady Fonnesbeck, Shane Jones, Lindsey Black, Lyndy Agee, Amanie Crosbie, Don Darrington, Brooke Pugmire,

We were welcomed by Nicole. She motioned to approve the Minutes from last month’s meeting. PJ seconded the motion. All were in favor.

Membership/Elections

Shane introduced the new members of the Council.  There were 5 people on the ballot.  The voting form was emailed out to all parents and was open for about 10 days. Aimee Egbert and Lindsey Black were voted in as new members and Don Darrington was voted in for another term.

Counselors Scholarship

Counselor, Lyndy Agee, talked about USHE (Utah Systems of Higher Ed) Scholarships. There is the Opportunity and the  Prime Scholarship.  The Prime Scholarship is worth $500 and is for students who take a certain amount of BTECH or Concurrent classes. The Opportunity scholarship  right now is $4000. To qualify students must take college level math, english and science and maintain a  3.3 gpa. They sent letters out to students who were close to meeting the requirements and encouraged them to take the additional classes. The number of students receiving the scholarships increased from previous year. The Opportunity Scholarship recipient numbers went from 33 to 90, and the Prime went from 11 to 45.

Website Requirements (by Oct 20^th)     

We continued reviewing the Rules of Order and Procedure from the last meeting. For the Voting Ties solution: Our membership is 7 parents and 4 school employees. If some are absent for a vote, then the Asst. Principals will be able to vote.

Nicole asked for a motion, PJ motioned to approve the procedure for Voting Ties./ Brooke seconded and all were in favor.

The last thing we needed to review was the topic of Electronic meetings. We would like everyone to meet in person.  But if for some reason anyone would like to Zoom the meeting, please let us know in advance. We will not plan on electronic meetings unless requested.

Shane verified that everyone had the chance to watch the training.

The Trustland Website will be updated and the school website will be updated to have all the required items posted by October 20th.

English Scores       

Brady reported that our English teachers have been really good in working with students to increase their ACT English scores.  Reading scores have been going up as well.

Blake Heaton, Matt Wahlquist , Jon Rash  and Becca Louviere have been recognized by the Superintendent for their work with this.

We are 4th out of 257 schools in the State on our English scores. We are going to create a professional learning community for math to do the same as we have done with the English department.

Nicole mentioned that it’s hard to sell kids on education, and if we have staff that can do that is great.  Brooke asked if they could work with the freshmen students as well.  We are looking at expanding it to the Freshmen level as well.

Shane said what is good, is that we have created an environment where the students know we care and that helps students care.

We will soon be starting on our ACT Prep classes for the Juniors.

Media Center

Kandyce Barber is our Media Center coordinator and has done an incredible job in our Media center. This is her 4th year at Sky View. Part of her responsibility is covering the Digital Citizenship requirement for students. She has had the 9th grade classes come in so she can teach the course to them. She said she struggles with high school students a bit because she realized that they all pretty much know what they should do.  She would like to cover more with AI. Her goal is to get information on to the daily announcements.  

Shane said Digital Citizenship is one of those things that the legislature requires but lets the school decide how to teach it.  We used to do assemblies but those don’t work out anymore. We’ve been able to incorporate it into our regular classes. Technology and social media is tough to navigate. 

We get GoGuardian alerts all the time but usually about half are legit. The District has done a good job on filtering and keeping students safe.

We are continuing to enforce the cell phone policy.  The students are learning.

Other:  Meeting adjourned

Next meeting Tuesday, November 18^th, 2025