Carson City School District Board of Trustees

11 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 2 h 52 min · 7,484 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Board unanimously approves appointment to serve through July of 2029 Play 34:22
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Matt Clapham, Member · Rebecca Roberts, Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 55 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Board unanimously approves appointment to serve through July of 2029Speakers: Lupe Ramirez, Richard Varner, Tina Statucki, Molly Walt

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Board meeting · 1 h 38 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Carson City school board hears enrollment update showing 73 fewer students than budgetedChronic absenteeismBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Matt Clapham, Richard Varner, Molly Walt

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Board meeting · 2 h 49 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Carson City trustees approve modified bill draft request on educator evaluation frameworkSpeakers: Lupe Ramirez, Rebecca Roberts, Matt Clapham, Richard Varner and 2 more

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Board meeting · 2 h 05 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Speakers: Lupe Ramirez, Rebecca Roberts, Richard Varner, Molly Walt and 1 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Feb 24, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat3 members can be compared fairly; we rank at 4.

Coverage: about 62% of members’ speaking time named (41%–74%)

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

Molly WaltPresident · District 6 · runs the meeting, not ranked17.1min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart11.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Lupe RamirezMember · District 14.3min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Rebecca RobertsMember · District 23.9min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked6.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Matt ClaphamMember · District 3 · We could name only 4% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least5 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Richard VarnerVice President · District 45.6min, at least10 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.9questions asked per meeting, at least

Tina StatuckiMember · District 5 · We could name only 28% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%2.7min, at least6 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Michelle PedersenClerk · District 7 · We could name only 22% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%2.0min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.1questions 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 11 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

April 14, 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 finance12%5%–19%

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–7%

Public comment2%0%–6%

Safety and discipline0%0%–19%

The two readers didn’t agree on 28% 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 11; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Mar 24, 2026, heard from 16.

16 on Mar 24, 202616 speakers8 speakers3.5 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3200390 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district