Committee Responsibilities
The 2024 Debt-Free Mill Levy Oversight Committee is charged with becoming familiar with the 2024 Debt-Free Mill Levy program. It is responsible for monitoring the progress of the implementation of this program, including ensuring that expenditures are in alignment with the ballot language approved by voters. This committee is composed of members of the community, parents/guardians of current PSD students, principals, representatives of the employee associations and staff.
The 2024 Debt-Free Mill Levy Oversight Committee is not a decision-making entity and does not make recommendations about specific projects to be funded by this mill levy. Instead, the committee is responsible for reviewing the district’s plans for use of this funding and information provided by the district specific to the cost and completion of these projects.
March 2025 Committee Update
On March 25, 2025, the 2024 Debt-Free Mill Levy Oversight Committee met for the first time. PSD staff shared an update with committee members on current plans for spending funding collected from the mill levy. The information shared with the committee was also presented to the Board of Education in February 2025. View the Mill Levy Spending Update - February 11, 2025 >>
As this update was shared with the committee, several topics for further exploration were identified. These include:
- Exploring the alignment of ballot language around “small, neighborhood schools” to the plans for allocation of small schools funding from this mill levy to PSD schools.
- Exploring the intersection of this committee’s work with the work of the Comprehensive Planning Committee, which will begin meeting in April 2025.
- Monitoring possible future funding cuts at the state and federal level and the ways in which these changes might impact the use of PSD’s general fund and other available funding sources.
Committee members were also asked to volunteer to serve in the co-chair role. The co-chair is responsible for coordinating with district staff on committee meeting agendas and presentations to the Board of Education. A co-chair will be selected via lottery from among those who volunteered. The committee is also working toward scheduling its first update to the Board of Education. It will present an overview of its work to the Board once a year. It is anticipated that this update will appear on the Board of Education agenda on either May 27 or June 10, 2025.
Going forward, the committee will meet twice a year, unless otherwise determined by committee members. The next meeting will be scheduled in the Fall of 2025.
Committee Members
This committee consists of 20 people, serving two-year terms.
Appointed committee members (nine) include:
- Chief of Staff: Lauren Hooten
- Chief Financial Officer: Dave Montoya
- Lead Assistant Superintendent: Traci Gile
- Two representatives from PEA identified by the President of PEA: Oren Logan and Craig Moyer
- Two representatives from ACE identified by the President of ACE: Brad Randall and Judy Kinner
- Two representatives from PASE identified by the President of PASE: Josh Richey and Deborah Meyer
Members selected by lottery (11 members) include:
- Four principals (one elementary, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative or K-12 school) to serve as advisors: Starr Hill (K-12/Alternative); Hayden Camp (Elementary); Carey Christensen (High School). Note: No middle school representative applied.
- Four parent/guardians with students currently enrolled in PSD schools: Tory Pappas, Jeffry Lindquist, Rebecca Everette, Brady Martucci
- Three community members who reside within district boundaries: Darby Remley, Michelle Finchum, Margot Duque
There may not be more than one representative of any given school seated on the committee, either as an appointed or lottery-selected member. If the lottery generates multiple representatives from a single school, the lottery will continue to be run using submitted applications to ensure a diversity of school representatives.
Applications to serve on the committee were posted on the PSD website, social media and distributed via PSD Now in January 2025. Selection of membership will be completed in early 2025 and the committee will begin meeting in spring 2025 as well. The committee will meet, at a minimum, twice a year and more frequently if deemed necessary by members of the committee. The committee will also provide one annual update on their work to the PSD Board of Education during the Board’s public meetings.