Cedar Falls Community School District Board

11 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 51 min · 5,910 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 10, 2026: Cedar Falls school board approves 3-year contract for superintendent Play 25:55
Newest meeting we have: Aug 10, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Susie Hines, President · Kim Cross, Director · Nate Gruber, Vice President · Alan Hesiterkamp, Director · Bett Peterson, Director · Grace Rogers, Director · Lowell Stutzman, Director

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 · 45 minMonday, August 10, 2026Cedar Falls school board approves 3-year contract for superintendentVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Alan Hesiterkamp, Bett Peterson, Lowell Stutzman

Play 25:55

Board meeting · 29 minMonday, July 13, 2026Cedar Falls school board approves board policies on second readingSpeakers: Lowell Stutzman

Play 20:44

Board meeting · 36 minMonday, May 11, 2026

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Board meeting · 57 minMonday, April 27, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Dec 8, 2025 – Aug 10, 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

Susie HinesPresident · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted

Members · listed by seat

Kim CrossDirector · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Nate GruberVice President · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Alan HesiterkampDirector · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Bett PetersonDirector · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Grace RogersDirector · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Lowell StutzmanDirector · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.3questions 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

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance25%11%–37%

Public comment3%1%–7%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–21%

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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 4 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 13, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Apr 13, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.8 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 1906510 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district