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Bloom-Carroll Local School District board

11 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 39 min · 2,272 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026
Bloom Carroll staff reports 4-star state rating and 3 open bus driver positionsPlay 9:40
Newest meeting we have
Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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On the board: Jen Sherman, President · Joe Abbott, Member · Pam Bender, Member · Matt Bratton, Vice-President · John Ryan Gueli, Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 31 minMonday, September 14, 2026Bloom Carroll staff reports 4-star state rating and 3 open bus driver positionsReading and test scores
Play 9:40
Board meeting · 52 minMonday, August 10, 2026Bloom-Carroll board takes up 5-year forecast and middle school swim team proposalEnrollmentReading and test scores
Play 17:57
Board meeting · 41 minMonday, July 13, 2026District staff say school lunch prices will not change this year
Play 30:35
Board meeting · 45 minMonday, June 8, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Joe Abbott, Pam Bender
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Nov 10, 2025 – Sep 14, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatHow much of the members' speech we name isn't measured here yet.
Coverage not measured on whole meetings yet

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
Jen ShermanPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare0.1min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Joe AbbottMember · We could name only 1% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.0min, at least2 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least
Pam BenderMember · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.0min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Matt BrattonVice-President · 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
John Ryan GueliMember · 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

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 11 meetings on our record
Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance14%9%–20%
Public comment5%0%–14%
Ceremony and recognition1%0%–6%
Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 39% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Nov 10, 2025, heard from 2.

    2 on Nov 10, 20252 speakers1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 10 of the 11 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 14Aug 10Jul 13Jun 8May 11Apr 14Feb 9Jan 13Dec 8Nov 10
    Jen ShermanPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Matt BrattonNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot shownPresentNot recorded
    Joe AbbottPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Pam BenderPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    John Ryan GueliPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedNot recorded

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 3904686 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district