Juneau Douglas High School Site Council By-Laws
JHDS Site Council Bylaws – Revised 5/3/10
Revised/Approved by JDHS Site Council 5/3/10
Approved by Board of Education for the Juneau School District 9/14/10
The Juneau-Douglas High School Site Council “Site Council” was created and empowered by the
City and Borough of Juneau School Board of Education to represent the membership of the
Juneau-Douglas High School community in an advisory capacity. The council shall address
issues brought by its membership and by its constituencies.
“The Board of Education believes the process of adopting and implementing educational
policies should be shared with those who are most directly affected by those policies, i.e. the
students, parents, citizens, support staff, teachers and administration of each school
community. To foster an educational climate that is more conducive to student learning and
academic success, to encourage creative, local approaches to problem-solving, to provide
parents and communities with the means to have a more effective voice in the education of
their children (and to bear greater responsibility for educational success), the Board of
Education is committed to a process of decentralized school governance known as site-based
decision making.” Juneau School District’s Site-Based Decision Making Operations Policy.
I. Membership
1. The Site Council serves as advisory to the school administration, school district and
school board. Their responsibilities do not include making policy or budget decisions,
though the council may send letters, petitions, resolutions, etc. outlining requests
and/or opinions of the Site Council. All letters, petitions, resolutions, etc. representing
the site council shall be considered by the council at a regular meeting, passed by a
majority of a quorum, and signed and delivered by the chair.
2. The site council shall have 18 members to be broadly representative of the school
community, with provisions made for the inclusion of minorities, special and/or hard-
to-reach populations, from the following groups:
1 JDHS Administrator (non-voting)
1 School Board Member (non-voting)
4 JDHS Certified staff (1 member representing JEA)
1 JESS (Juneau Education Support Staff)
4 JDHS Student Council Members (one from each grade level)
4 Parents of current JDHS Students
3 Community Members (which may include, but are not limited to, members
from the business community; Native, Filipino and/or other ethnic groups; post-
secondary; government; not-for-profit; etc.)
3. Members represent the interests of their constituency and will be seated at the May
meeting by a process outlined in the JDHS Site Council Operating Procedures.
II. Terms
1. A member’s term of service on the JDHS Site Council shall consist of two years, with
one-half of the two year terms expiring in odd years and one-half expiring in even years.
2. Student membership seats are for one year.
III. Absences
1. Absences shall be noted in the minutes.
