Banning Unified Board of Trustees

8 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 27 min · 4,316 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 9, 2026: Banning Unified board approves 2025-26 unaudited actuals financial report Play 38:27
Newest meeting we have: Sep 9, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Sharon "Liz" Huerta Brewster, Trustee · Lucia "Lucy" Martinez-Lara, Trustee · Leslie Novalis, Trustee · Laura Troutman, Board Clerk

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 03 minWednesday, September 9, 2026Banning Unified board approves 2025-26 unaudited actuals financial reportReading and test scoresSpeakers: Shelly Ruiz, Leslie Novalis

Play 38:27

Special meeting · 4 h 24 minSaturday, August 29, 2026Banning Unified trustees hold governance and ethics training

Play 1:53

Board meeting · 53 minWednesday, August 12, 2026Banning Unified board approves CSEA agreements and hears summer school reportsSpeakers: Shelly Ruiz, Laura Troutman

Play 16:33

Board meeting · 38 minWednesday, June 24, 2026Speakers: Shelly Ruiz, Laura Troutman, Leslie Novalis

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Feb 11, 2026 – Sep 9, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 40% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 40% of members’ speaking time named (15%–75%)

Minutes = time we heard them speak per meeting, from the speech we have named so far, so each is a floor: at least that much.

Runs the meeting

Shelly RuizBoard President · #5 · runs the meeting, not ranked6.9min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Leslie NovalisTrustee · #1 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.0min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Sharon "Liz" Huerta BrewsterTrustee · #2 · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Laura TroutmanBoard Clerk · #3 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.0min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Lucia "Lucy" Martinez-LaraTrustee · #4 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least0 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Minutes speaking per full board meeting held while seated; a meeting they missed or stayed silent in counts as zero · bar = minutes named so far · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

All 8 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance7%2%–16%

Public comment1%0%–5%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–26%

The two readers didn’t agree on 11% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 8 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 5 had at least one. The busiest, on Mar 11, 2026, heard from 4.

4 on Mar 11, 20264 speakers2 speakers1.1 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 6 of the 8 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 9	Aug 29	Aug 12	Jun 24	Mar 11	Feb 11
Shelly Ruiz	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Laura Troutman	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Leslie Novalis	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded
Sharon "Liz" Huerta Brewster	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Lucia "Lucy" Martinez-Lara	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not shown	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0603840 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district