Burbank Unified board

12 meetings on our record, 5 of them from the past year and 7 with unconfirmed dates · 14,240 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Jun 4, 2026: Burbank Unified board approves new public information officer position on 4-1 vote Play 3:20:18
Newest meeting we have: Jun 4, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Abby Pontzer Kamkar, President · Armond Aghakhanian, Member · Laurette Cano, Clerk · Kelsey Olson, Member · Emily Weisberg, Vice President

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 4 h 46 minThursday, June 4, 2026Burbank Unified board approves new public information officer position on 4-1 voteBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Abby Pontzer Kamkar, Emily Weisberg, Laurette Cano, Armond Aghakhanian and 1 more

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Board meeting · 5 h 23 minThursday, May 21, 2026Burbank Unified board hears high fiscal risk rating, delays several new positionsSpeakers: Abby Pontzer Kamkar, Emily Weisberg, Armond Aghakhanian, Kelsey Olson

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Board meeting · 4 h 07 minThursday, April 16, 2026AI in schoolsBudget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Abby Pontzer Kamkar, Emily Weisberg, Laurette Cano, Armond Aghakhanian and 1 more

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Board meeting · 5 h 37 minThursday, March 5, 2026School closuresBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Abby Pontzer Kamkar, Emily Weisberg, Laurette Cano, Armond Aghakhanian and 1 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 5 board meetings, Feb 12, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat5 board meetings on our record; we rank members seated for 8.

Coverage: about 60% of members’ speaking time named (38%–66%)

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

Abby Pontzer KamkarPresident · Trustee Area 4 · runs the meeting, not ranked25.1min, at least5 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart7.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Laurette CanoClerk · Trustee Area 1 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 83.5min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked6.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Emily WeisbergVice President · Trustee Area 2 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 810.5min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked6.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Kelsey OlsonMember · Trustee Area 3 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 89.3min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked9.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Armond AghakhanianMember · Trustee Area 5 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 87.4min, at least5 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.6questions 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 12 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment17%12%–22%

Budget and finance11%6%–19%

Ceremony and recognition4%1%–8%

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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 11 had at least one. The busiest, on Mar 5, 2026, heard from 28.

28 on Mar 5, 202628 speakers14 speakers11.5 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 5 of the 12 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Jun 4	May 21	Apr 16	Mar 5	Feb 12
Abby Pontzer Kamkar	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Emily Weisberg	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not shown
Laurette Cano	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Armond Aghakhanian	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Kelsey Olson	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0606450 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district