7-11 Committee (Facilities Advisory)

The law requires a district’s board to approve a Committee comprised of no fewer than 7 and no more than 11 members. The Code also encourages districts to create a Committee representative of the ethnic, age group and socioeconomic composition of the district. The Committee should include at least one representative from each of the following groups:

(a) the business community (store owners, managers, supervisors);

(b) landowners and renters (with priority to neighborhood associations);

(c) teachers;

(d) school administrators;

(e) parents of students in the district; and

(f) persons with specialized knowledge in such things as construction, environmental impact, legal contracts, building codes and zoning and land use restrictions applicable in the city and county where the property is located.

Once applications are collected, MUSD administrators will review all applications and sort them based on the criteria specified above. Then, final members will be selected based on qualifications. All applicants will be notified once members have been selected, and the selected members will be asked to confirm availability for the first meeting.

Meetings will be scheduled based on member availability and preferences and are expected to occur between March 23, 2026, and May 8, 2026, with an intended final presentation of the Committee report to the Board of Trustees on May 21, 2026.

 

Meetings will be held in the evening after normal working/business hours and will be held at the Mammoth High School Multi-purpose Room or another school facility.

 

MUSD administration will provide sufficient advance notice to the Committee members regarding the date, time, and location of each scheduled meeting.

Once selected, the Committee will attend a series of public meetings with the ultimate goal of drafting a report to the District’s Board of Trustees with recommendations. We tentatively expect to hold four (4) meetings, with one meeting occurring approximately every other week.

 

The four meetings will consisting of: one organizational meeting; one or two meetings to receive additional data and information and to obtain community input; and one final meeting to solicit/request remaining public input and to finalize a report, including findings and recommendations for uses of the properties, for presentation to the District’s Board of Education.

Not every member needs to be able to attend every meeting, so long as a quorum of the members can attend each meeting. A “quorum” is the smallest number of members that need to be in attendance for the meeting to take place. That number will be determined after the Committee membership is established. We ask for applicants to make reasonable efforts to attend as many meetings as possible.

The Committee must evaluate the available relevant data to determine whether any of the properties in question are surplus to, or in excess of, District needs. The Committee will develop recommendations about the potential sale, lease or other use of the properties. The Committee will also submit a final report to the District’s Board of Education with its recommendations.

Each meeting should run no longer than two hours. With four total meetings, a final presentation to the Board of Trustees and limited time dedicated to reviewing correspondence and documentation related to the Committee in advance of meetings, we estimate members would dedicate about 12 hours over the course of several months.

MUSD staff and consultants will provide the Committee with information including, but not limited to, facilities introduction, enrollment data, as well as any other available data or other information requested by, or necessary for, the Committee's work. Members are asked to review the agenda and materials in advance of the meetings, but will be asked to do very limited additional work outside of meeting hours. A subset of the Committee may be selected
to present the final report to the Board of Education at a public meeting.