Laurel Hill School Department Building CommitteeLuis Fernando De Leon and Roxann Hunsaker

Objective:

• To provide an example of the responsibilities of the School Department/Building Committee • Committee make up• Background• Consistent Issues• Process

Our team

Consists of:

• Administration• ETA Staff • General Education Teachers• Dual Language/Bilingual Teachers• School Librarian

Background

There was no building committee at Laurel Hill until 2013-2014 school year

Many issues were not addressed because of this

Consistent Issues

• Custodial• Organization• Safety• Supporting/creating new committees• School environment/culture• Social outings/team building

Our Process:

About 4 days before a meeting, SD head emails staff, asking if

there are any issues that need to be brought up

Next step:

If there is an issue, staff will use their “building committee issue”

forms to email the issue to a member of the committee

Building CommitteeIssue Form

• Building Committee Issue Form

• Issue: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Possible Solutions:• _____________________________________________________________________________________________

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• Please fill out this form. Be sure to provide the team with at least one possible solution to the problem. Place this form in the mailbox of a committee member: Roxann Hunsaker, Jackie Rizzo, Cindy Pratscher, Crissy Ventura, Chris Davis, Carmen Hermiz

Step 3:

Next meeting, the issue is on the agenda

Agenda Example:Laurel Hill ElementaryBuilding Committee/Social Committee MeetingMonday September 8, 2014

Reports:• Celebrations• Budget

Building Issues:• Copy machine• Open house times

Social Issues:• Hot chocolate race

Step 4:

We meet to discuss issues brought up by staff and principal

Step 5:

Building Committee comes up with a plan to solve the problem as best as

they can

Last step:

One of our members writes out the minutes and they are emailed to staff to be sure that we are all informed of the decision made and the process of

implementation.

In a nutshellBuilding Committee:

• Evaluates•Make a Decisions•Communicates

Thank you!

•Q & A