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School Site Council

Schools are required to form School Site Councils when they receive categorical funding from the state and federal government. California Education Code mandates that schools write a plan to describe how categorical money will be spent. A representative group of stakeholders develops this plan and makes
decisions on how to spend the money according to the plan (ED Code 52852). A School Site Council performs many important roles, including: 

  • Develops and approves the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)
    • Sets and reviews school goals and selects specific improvements
    • Establishes budgets to support the goals and actions in the SPSA
    • Recommends and submits SPSA to the Board of Education
  • Annually reviews and modifies the SPSA
    • Monitors and evaluates implementation of the SPSA
    • Evaluates the effectiveness of the Plan
    • Ensures alignment with the Local Control Accountability Plan
  • Collaborates with Advisory Groups such as ELAC and PAC
  • Encourages parent, family, and community involvement
    • Encourages broad representation of parents, community members, teachers and students
    • Includes all socioeconomic, ethnic, and programmatic groups represented in the school

Members (2025-2026)

Pine Hollow Middle School has a School Site Council consisting of 11 voting members, as comprised below. All members are elected by their peers via a secret ballot to a two-year term. 

PARENTS (2)   

STUDENTS (3)                  

PRINCIPAL (1)                     

TEACHERS (3)
  1. Salvador Castro    
  2. Melinda Cassin  
  1. Mylees Zaidat      
  2. Lily Mitchell
  3. Hugo Burk           

Andrew Strawbridge                                                        
 

Tiffany Lindgren

Patrick Dwyer 

Cindy Knapp 

 

 

* MDUSD Parent Advisory Council Representative

Meetings are every 2nd Thursday of the month

Pine Hollow School Site Council meetings are held the second Tuesday and begin at 1:00 PM on  minimum days and 3:00 PM on regular days on the scheduled date in the conference room. All staff, students, and parents are invited to attend, and meetings are open to the public.  

MEETING DATE

AGENDA

MINUTES
September 9  
October 14    

November 11

    
December 9    
January 13    

BYLAWS 2020 - 2022

PHMS Site Council Bylaws (2020-2022)

Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archive

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AGENDA

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March Agenda Minutes
Meetings held in November, and March did not have a quorum and no minutes were recorded

Appendix

Sign In Sheet (Template) (DOCX)

Glossary of Terms (DOC)

Member Nomination Form (DOCX)

Member Ballot Form (DOCX)