Standard 3.7 Strategic Resource Management

Standard 3.7: The institution demonstrates strategic resource management that includes long-range planning and use of resources in support of the institution’s purpose and direction.

School Community Council

The Utah State Legislature passed a law in 2000 requiring every public school in the state to establish a School Community Council at the school-site level (Utah Code. Section 53A-1a-108). Each School Community Council consists of the principal, school employees, and parents or guardians of students attending the school. The School Community Council determines their school's greatest academic need and prepares a plan to address that need with the school's portion of the money distributed from the School LAND Trust program. Attached here you will find the link to the SCC page of our school website and this year's Trustlands budget. This budget is how the SCC decided to allocate our Trustlands moneys.

Part of the SCC's work is to write a School Improvement Plan. The SIP outlines goals identified by the SCC and action steps towards those goals. Another artifact posted here is the PHS School Improvement plan for the current year as drafted and approved by the SCC.

School Trust Land Budget Proposal 2020-21

Trustlands Budget

Copy of School Improvement Plan 2020-21

School Improvement Plan

SCC Webpage

Growth (Construction) Plan

Our current building was constructed in 1967. In 2023, we will break ground on the new PHS, which will become the 3rd incarnation of our school. In the fall of 2025, we will move into it, ushering PHS into a new age of "high levels of learning and growth for everyone" (PHS Mission Statement). This artifact is a link to the published information from the district about the construction of the new building.

New Construction Plan

Student Groups and Fundraising

Our student groups at Payson High School greatly inform the long-range planning of the institution. Groups and clubs are a large part of planning many of the yearly student activities and experiences available to students. Each group is allowed to do two fundraisers a school year to support their group's individual mission and purpose. Organizations are encouraged to use different ways to fundraise.

Many of these groups allow us to save financial resources because they provide strategic services in-house. For example, our student broadcasting team has provided online streaming of high school extra-curricular activities while we have had COVID-19 restrictions in place that have limited in-person attendance. This service has not only saved the school money from hiring a professional team to broadcast, but it has provided a valuable and applicable learning experience for the students participating in video production. We really try to consider what students and faculty can provided services, products, or resources before we reach outside of the school community.

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