Alex Densley
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Alex Densley ran for election to the Davis School District to represent Precinct 1 in Utah. He lost in the primary on June 25, 2024.
Densley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Alex Densley earned a high school diploma from Bountiful High School and a bachelor's degree from Weber State University in 2014.
His career experience includes working in insurance.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Davis School District, Utah, elections (2024)
General election
Nonpartisan primary election
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2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Alex Densley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Densley's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Born and raised in Bountiful. My schooling was done through Davis School District. I am a father of two kids who are entering the school system. I have a Bachelor Degree in Communications with an emphasis on Training and Development. I am involved in several community events including nearly 20 years with the Coats for Kids Car Show. I live in this community and want to make sure that our kids get the best experience.
- Finances: The has made poor financial decisions in the last 5 years. This includes closing schools they needed, selling land they need, and poor check and balances to name a few. Correct methods need to be in place concerning how our funds are spent and where they are spent. As your representative of the South end of the district we have been neglected financially by the district. The focus has been up North, when the focus should be all of the district.
- Policies: Having friends and family in the district, I get a good accounting of things function. The current policies have made it so teachers are unable to teach, kids are unable to learn, and there is no support for any of the staff in our schools. We need less red tape, less meetings, and more focus on what matters. The district has lost its way in the last several years, and it's time to change that.
- Community: For a school to do well there has to be community buy in. Teachers need the support of the community, and the community needs to feel their schools are doing well. The district has failed in this manor on the South end. Closing an elementary school, selling it's land, and changing the name of a high school are not how you build community. While I can't correct the closing of the elementary school, I can fix the high school. I fully intend to correct their mistake and bring back the Bountiful Braves.
Local control. I fully understand that the needs of a school in the North half of the district is going to be different than the South end. The school district needs to be able to what's best for its schools. This is done by working with the legislature on the State level to make sure bills aren't passed that may work for one district, but not ours. There needs to be that good balance of overall requirements, while still allowing local control.
Too many to list, but several are people from World War 2.
General George Patton from World War 2. His no nonsense approach to things is something I think we all could use a little bit of.
Jimmy Doolittle from World War 2. Multiple instances in making something happen, when it'd never been done before. Also someone who worked hard to show that you can embrace new technology to an extent. Listening: I have my degree in communications. I fully understand that this is a position in which my job is to listen.
Accessibility: It does no one any good if you try to reach your representative and they never respond back. I will respond in a timely manor.
My job makes me interact with people from all kinds of backgrounds and situations all over Utah. Due to this I use multiple skills that would carry over to this position. Critical thinking, listening, problem solving, training, development, gatekeeping, time keeping, de-escalation, contract law, state requirements, policy requirements, just to name a few. These skills are all things that would be needed for being on the school board.
To recognize they there are they to represent those that have elected them. They are not there for personal gain, or to run their own agenda. It is their core responsibility to represent and listen to those that have elected them.
That a regular parent made a difference. That I wasn't someone looking to promote and climb the ladder.
Y2K when we were supposed to loose all the computers. I was in elementary school and we were all concerned that nothing would work the when we got back to school
Elementary school custodian here in the district. I held it all through High School and the first part of my college career.
It changes as I read more and more books. One that I've gone back to though is "1000 Destroyed" by Grover C. Hall Jr. It follows the 4th fighter wing in World War 2.
There are way to many to pick from, but I'll pick one from one of my favorite movies. Max from "A Goofy Movie".
"Little things" by Good Charlotte
Not being to hard on myself for silly things that don't matter in the big picture.
To represent the area they have been elected to.
Policy: Davis School District is large and unique, with multiple demographics. The best thing I can do is provide a solid, good, core policy that each school can build off of to fit their own needs.
I already am involved in local organizations and local government that have impact on our school district. I fully plan to continue to strengthen those relationships that I already have in the community, and build and mend the ones that the current district has burned or damaged.
What constitutes good teaching? When the students feel they are challenged but can succeed.
How will you measure this? There are already so many ways the district measures this.
How will you support advanced teaching approaches? By providing the resources if at all possible for them to that advanced teaching. There are multiple areas that I would love to expand upon, but the resources we have as a district are limited. What I can do is try and build the relationships with businesses. This in turn hopefully can turn into internships, apprenticeships, job shadowing, and other opportunities for students before they graduate.
I would like to see a "Life 101" class that could be implemented on the Jr High or High School level. This class would cover multiple basics of how things work in life. How car insurance works and deductibles, basic tools and repairs, how credit works, just to name a few.
At the end of the day, there are all kinds of possibilities here, but we have other issues at the core of the district that would need to be taken care of first. Make that the funding from the State isn't messed with. I recognize our funding comes a lot from the State. We can't have a funding mechanism that can have money taken from it or changes so drastically from year to year. In this case working with our State Representatives to make sure we don't loose the funding.
They do a good job now, so I don't have anything really to say.
Professional help. That can take many different forms. Internally in the district there could be trained professionals that do it. We could also partnership or allow some businesses in the community. It could also be done through the schools benefits package. There are multiple paths here that could be done.
I don't have many jokes. But I did laugh at this one recently, so I'll share it.
Boss: Why are you late?
Me: So sorry, my car wouldn't start.
Boss: Why wouldn't it start.
Me: Because I wasn't in it....... A full review of all current polices. Eliminations of duplicated or overlapping polices. A reset of the core policies. A nice simple policy handbook at the end of the day that's not 800 pages.
An environment in which the student feels heard, is challenged, and feels they can succeed. This can be multiple different things depending on the student and grade level. The core of that though, does not change of feeling heard, challenged, and that feeling of I can do this.
It was rough for all. Thankfully it's in the past. While a lot of the restrictions were set by the government, some were done by the school district. I see it as something we all learned from; the good, the bad, and everything in between. I hope we never have to go through something like that again.
Approachability and Availability: Having been to multiple government meetings in my life, I understand that it's hard to stand up or address people. I also fully understand how intimidating that can be. To build my relationship with the parents, I would be available outside of just board meetings. I fully intend to have an open house or open zoom meeting in which parents can jump on and talk with me. I do the community no good if I'm not available to them. There would be opportunities to simply reach out to me, in multiple ways, that would best suit the comfort level of the parent.
Good core policy. Like any job, you'll leave if you hear the working hours are bad, benefits are bad, or if the work environment is toxic. A lot of recruitment can be done through the regular avenues of job fairs, indeed, linkedin, and others. People will come to a company if it takes care of its' employees. Word of mouth and referrals will beat any of the regular avenues. If we get good core policies that support the staff, faculty, and all others in the district, then we will be appealing to work for.
The school district should be an open book on their financial transparency. It should be easy to access and easy for everyone to read and understand.
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