Buchanan Community Schools Board of Education

7 meetings on our record, 4 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · 1,558 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Jul 20, 2026: Buchanan school board hears Puerto Rico trip report, takes up contracts and policies Play 6:58
Newest meeting we have: Jul 20, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Katie Berry, President · Jennie Brackett, Trustee · Jake Brown, Trustee · Harvey Burnett, Vice-President · Scott Carlin, Trustee · Chris Carlson, Treasurer · Kelly Laesch, Secretary

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 02 minMonday, July 20, 2026Buchanan school board hears Puerto Rico trip report, takes up contracts and policiesSpeakers: Katie Berry, Harvey Burnett, Jennie Brackett, Jake Brown

Board meeting · 29 minMonday, June 8, 2026Speakers: Harvey Burnett, Chris Carlson

Board meeting · 2 h 22 minMonday, May 18, 2026Phones in schoolSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Scott Carlin, Jennie Brackett

Board meeting · 1 h 41 minMonday, March 16, 2026Speakers: Katie Berry, Chris Carlson, Jennie Brackett

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 4 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingKatie BerryPresident · shown, not ranked4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings

Members · listed by nameJennie BrackettTrustee4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Jake BrownTrustee1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Harvey BurnettVice-President2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Scott CarlinTrustee1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Chris CarlsonTreasurer3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Kelly LaeschSecretary—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Meetings on our record

All 7 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

May 18, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance8%1%–21%

Ceremony and recognition7%1%–14%

Safety and discipline1%0%–3%

Public comment0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 24% 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 7 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 7 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Jul 20	Jun 8	May 18	Mar 16
Jennie Brackett	Present	Present	Present	Present
Scott Carlin	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not shown
Harvey Burnett	Present	Present	Present	Present
Katie Berry	Present	Present	Present	Present
Kelly Laesch	Present	Present	Present	Present
Chris Carlson	Present	Present	Present	Present
Jake Brown	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2607140 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district