Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Board of Trustees

15 meetings on our record, 5 of them from the past year and 10 with unconfirmed dates · 24,386 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 8, 2026: Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD board hears math progress and middle school belonging updates Play 0:47
Next · Thursday, November 5, 2026: Time not posted · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Oct 8, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Cassandra Hatfield, President · Marjorie Barnes, Member · Carolyn Benavides, Member · Kim Brady, Vice President · Ileana Garza-Rojas, Secretary · Paul Gilmore, Member · Cinthya Noda Vazquez, Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 48 minThursday, October 8, 2026Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD board hears math progress and middle school belonging updatesReading and test scores

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Board meeting · 3 h 26 minThursday, October 1, 2026Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD staff report $10.3 million spending reduction in budget updateSchool closuresBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Cassandra Hatfield, Ileana Garza-Rojas, Marjorie Barnes, Paul Gilmore and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 19 minThursday, September 10, 2026Trustees hear principals present campus improvement plan highlights at work studySpeakers: Cassandra Hatfield

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Board meeting · 4 h 02 minThursday, August 6, 2026School closuresBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Kim Brady, Marjorie Barnes

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 5 board meetings, Apr 9, 2026 – Oct 8, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

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

Coverage: about 75% of members’ speaking time named (49%–82%)

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

Cassandra HatfieldPresident · at-large · runs the meeting, not ranked19.9min, at least5 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Marjorie BarnesMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.4min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Carolyn BenavidesMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least0 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Kim BradyVice President · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.5min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Ileana Garza-RojasSecretary · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.6min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Paul GilmoreMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.0min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Cinthya Noda VazquezMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least2 of 5meetings 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

Next meetingThursday, November 5, 2026Board of Trustees Meeting: Regular Meeting #5The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 15 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

We saw that our emergent bilingual students were on track, but then when we look at all students, we see off track. So is there a specific subpopulation or specific campuses that you're targeting as a result of this data?Cassandra HatfieldPresident · Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Board of Trustees · Apr 9, 2026Watch the full meeting from 31:54

Is there a way that we can red flag kids that take the PSAT as a freshman or sophomore that we can see, hey, handwriting's on the wall, these kids are gonna need extra help and extra prep in order to take the SAT and get that score.Kim BradyVice President · Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Board of TrusteesWatch the full meeting from 36:15
Am I reading this correctly that we are not considering a base pay increase for teachers?Cassandra HatfieldPresident · Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Board of TrusteesWatch the full meeting from 2:16:03

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%4%–20%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–19%

The two readers didn’t agree on 25% 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 15 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 5 had at least one.

2 speakers1 speaker0.8 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 2 of the 15 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 8	Oct 1	Sep 10	Aug 6	Apr 9
Kim Brady	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Ileana Garza-Rojas	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Marjorie Barnes	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Carolyn Benavides	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Paul Gilmore	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 4813050 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district