School Community Council Meeting

I have the privilege of being on Westmore's Community Council. It wasn't that hard to get elected since there was only two of us on the ballot last spring! In fact, we have been hoping that more will join us. Altogether we have eight members including the principal. Anyway, last year I attended all the meetings as a parent and not as a council member and I was hooked. I learn something every time I go. For those out-of-staters reading this let me explain what a community council is: Utah has designated some funds for education. It is the Trust Land Fund-the interest that the national park earns and it goes for education. Anyway, each school in the state of Utah, elementary, Jr. high, or high school has a community council and they decide what the school will do with the funds earned from the trustlands. Anyway, I'm sure I'm boring people but this is my BLOG; I can write what I want. Anyway, we meet once a month for an hour and this month we had a district board member JoDee Sundberg there. We split up in two groups and we discussed these two questions: 1) What do you value about your local public school and 2) What are the characteristics of a quality public school? Then JoDee wrote down our top answers and she will meet with other members of the board who did this exact same process at every community council meeting in the district and they will make sure that Alpine School District is meeting the needs of its patrons. Anyway, I just think it was so neat to be involved in this and I love learning different things about what is going on at Westmore. The first meeting in August we got to meet all the new teachers and I wouldn't have had that opportunity if I wouldn't have attended the meeting! It is just fun.
I need to note two things that I am well-pleased with myself: I cleaned off my bed today while the babies were napping and I will be able to sleep in my bed now!! And number two, I walked at least a mile at the Fitness center track today with my sister, Emma.