Board of trustees

Key facts

• Members: 7, chosen by voters¹
• Recorded votes, Jan. 2023 to Oct. 2026: 398²
• Votes with no “no” votes: 327 of 398, or 82%²
• Votes that failed in that time: 1³

In short

The board has 7 members, chosen by voters.¹ From Jan. 2023 to Oct. 2026 it took 398 recorded votes.² 327 of them, or 82%, had no “no” votes.² Only 1 failed.³

Why it matters to your tax bill: the board sets the tax rate and approves the budget and every bond sale.

Related: index · consent votes · superintendent · who decides

The board of trustees runs the district for the public. It has seven members. Voters choose them.

Think of a board like a homeowners’ group. The members do not mow the lawns. They set the rules and the budget. Then they hire someone to run things day to day.

What the board does

The board’s main hire is the superintendent. The superintendent runs the schools and leads the staff.

The board also:

• adopts the budget each June,
• sets the tax rate each summer,
• calls bond elections and approves loans, and
• votes on big contracts, school zones and closings.

How it votes

The board meets about twice a month. It votes in public. Each vote is written in the minutes.

Many items pass together in one vote. That is called a consent vote.

We read the minutes from Jan. 2023 to Oct. 2026. Here is what we found. All counts are our math.²

What we counted	Number
Recorded votes	398
Votes with no “no” votes	327 (82%)
Votes with at least one “no”	71
Votes with two or more “no” votes	7
Votes that failed	1

Most votes are not close. Only seven votes had two or more members vote no.

Who shows up

The district’s attendance records are incomplete. On recorded votes, trustees were marked absent for 294 of 5,081 votes (5.8%, about 1 in 17).⁴

Big choices inside one vote

Some big program cuts were approved as part of the yearly budget, not in separate votes. Cuts to IB (International Baccalaureate), Quest and middle school dual language were part of the budget votes. Those passed 6–1 in June 2025 and 6–0 in June 2026.⁵ Health-plan choices had their own votes. Examples are ending transfers and not raising the district’s share. Those votes were 7–0, 6–1, 6–1 and 4–1, from Jan. 2025 to Jan. 2026.⁶

So what: to see how a member voted on a program cut, you often have to look at the budget vote, not a separate vote.

By contrast, the board moved 2017 bond money in 18 votes on 17 items from 2020 to 2026. Only 1 of those (a $500,000 traffic signal) was on the consent list.⁷

The rare “no”

Each vote has up to seven member votes. Counted from minutes of 404 votes, Dec. 2022–Oct. 2026.⁸

Member vote	Count
Yes	2,483
No	80
Abstain	5
Stepped aside (recused)	2

So about 3 of every 100 member votes were “no.”

Failed votes

Since Dec. 2020, the board has failed only three motions in our records.³ All three were about schedules, rules or zones:

• Jan. 2021: a school calendar, 3–4.
• Aug. 2021: COVID rules, 2–5.
• Jan. 2024: one zoning plan for a new elementary school, 2–4.

This page does not judge any member. It counts what the minutes show.

The other side

• Many unanimous votes can mean work was done before the meeting, in workshops and committees, not that nobody asked questions.

Questions to ask

• Where does the board post its meeting minutes and videos?
• How does the board report actions taken after closed session?

Changes to this page

• Nov. 2, 2026: We made clear the vote count counts motions, not consent items.
• Nov. 2, 2026: We cut a line about trustee pay that our sources do not show.
• Nov. 2, 2026: Added questions to ask.
• Nov. 2, 2026: Added the steps for our vote counts to the notes.

What you can do or watch next

• Watch board agendas, posted before each meeting.
• You can speak at public comment or email trustees.
• See index for every recorded vote.

What we still don’t know

• Minutes only show the final vote. They don’t show what was said in closed session.

Numbers marked “our math” are our estimates, not official figures. The notes show the inputs and the steps.

Footnotes

1. Board minutes on BoardBook. Each recorded vote lists seven members. ↩ ↩²

2. Our count of every motion in the board minutes from Jan. 12, 2023 to Oct. 15, 2026, posted on BoardBook. Our data had 400 motions. One was withdrawn. One more was a copy: the Feb. 13, 2025 minutes list three votes, but our data had that day’s consent vote twice. That leaves 398. For some votes, the count comes from the words in the minutes. One failed (Jan. 18, 2024): 2 yes, 4 no, one absent. The minutes do not say who voted which way on that one. In two other votes (Jan. 23, 2025 and Dec. 11, 2025), the minutes say one member voted no. This counts motions, not agenda items, so it is not the consent count; one consent vote can pass many items. Our math: 400 − 2 = 398 votes. 398 − 71 = 327. 327 ÷ 398 = 82%. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. Board minutes. Jan. 28, 2021: school calendars, 3–4. Aug. 23, 2021: COVID protocols, 2–5. Jan. 18, 2024: Elementary School No. 30 attendance zoning, scenario 3, 2–4. Our records run from Dec. 17, 2020 to Oct. 15, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Our count from the district’s meeting records, Dec. 3, 2020 to Oct. 15, 2026. Absences on votes include members who left partway through a meeting. ↩

5. Board minutes, June 19, 2025 and June 18, 2026, budget adoption motions. ↩

6. Board minutes, Jan. 23, 2025; Mar. 27, 2025; June 19, 2025; Jan. 22, 2026. ↩

7. Board minutes, Sep. 2020 to Apr. 2026; our table. ↩

8. Our count of member votes in board minutes, Dec. 1, 2022 to Oct. 15, 2026: 404 votes (one withdrawn motion and one copied motion left out). Yes 2,483; No 80 (3.1% of votes cast); Abstain 5; Recused 2. For four votes our member-by-member list was missing or incomplete, so we re-read the minutes and used the totals they state (Aug. 10, 2023: 6 yes, 1 abstain; Jan. 18, 2024: 2 yes, 4 no, names not given; Feb. 13, 2025: 7 yes; Dec. 11, 2025: 6 yes, 1 no). On Jan. 23, 2025 our list was complete: 5 yes, 1 no, 1 absent. ↩