District reviews school safety, digital citizenship and safe‑walking‑route mapping; parent requests added public‑safety items

District staff presented the board with the school safety and digital citizenship reports the district provides to each School Community Council and described how safety concerns are routed to appropriate directors for follow up.

Susan Edwards said each school completes a safety report and a digital citizenship assessment; the district compiles those items and forwards them to the responsible director (facilities, counseling, IT, etc.). She said the most common safety and compliance gaps cited in SCC reports are requests for clearer public notice, minutes and contact information on school websites.

On safe walking routes, the district said GIS specialist Rick Shees populates maps for every school and that the district posts workable maps on school websites where the state’s interactive map has had outages. The district explained its process of meeting city and UDOT engineers in November–January to review requests (for crossing guards, crosswalks or bus hazard studies) and noted some requests can take multiple years for traffic engineering and municipal funding decisions.

During public comment, a parent, Jason Maldonado, said an altercation near the Jordan High baseball fields was made worse by poor lighting and urged the district to improve lighting so police can see and prevent after‑hours confrontations. Board members thanked Maldonado, acknowledged the district’s outreach and referred the concern to staff for follow up with police and facilities.

Edwards and other staff also described an automated SCC attendance tracker the district proposes to pilot; the tool would let schools check off who attended each meeting and allow IT to query attendance centrally.

Trustees praised district safety work and directed staff to continue coordination with cities on safe‑walking routes and to follow up on the public comment about field lighting.