Bullhead City School District Board

8 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 49 min · 2,261 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 8, 2026: Bullhead City board votes aye on $89,375 cooling tower engineering bid Play 1:26:57
Newest meeting we have: Oct 8, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Melinda Sobraske, Board President · Sheila Barnett, Member · Charlene Dias, Member · Fred Rushton, Clerk · Barbara Zarzycki, Member

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 48 minThursday, October 8, 2026Bullhead City board votes aye on $89,375 cooling tower engineering bidSpeakers: Fred Rushton, Sheila Barnett, Barbara Zarzycki

Play 1:26:57

Board meeting · 1 h 49 minThursday, August 13, 2026Bullhead City school board hears preliminary state assessment results and letter grade projectionsEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Fred Rushton, Sheila Barnett, Barbara Zarzycki

Play 1:12

Board meeting · 1 h 28 minThursday, July 9, 2026Bullhead City board holds hearing on fiscal year 2027 proposed budgetSpeakers: Fred Rushton, Sheila Barnett, Charlene Dias

Play 25:56

Board meeting · 2 h 48 minThursday, May 14, 2026Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Fred Rushton, Sheila Barnett, Barbara Zarzycki

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Mar 20, 2026 – Oct 8, 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

Melinda SobraskeBoard President · at-large · runs the meeting, not ranked1.3min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart4.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Sheila BarnettMember · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.6min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Charlene DiasMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Fred RushtonClerk · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.4min, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Barbara ZarzyckiMember · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least3 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 finance18%11%–28%

Public comment1%0%–4%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 20% 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 6; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 13, 2026, heard from 1.

1 on Aug 13, 20261 speaker1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 5 of the 8 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 8	Aug 13	Jul 9	May 14	May 6	Mar 20
Barbara Zarzycki	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Sheila Barnett	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Melinda Sobraske	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Fred Rushton	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present
Charlene Dias	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0401500 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district