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CHSD 99 School District Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 5 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · 4,708 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026
South High lap pool stays on hold as state denies drain cover variancePlay 1:00:03
Newest meeting we have
Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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On the board: Don Renner, President · Kara Casten, Vice President · Katie Courtney, Board member · Ken Dawson, Board member · Christopher Espinoza, Board member · April Finan, Board member · Michael Riske, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 2 h 12 minMonday, September 14, 2026South High lap pool stays on hold as state denies drain cover varianceSpeakers: Ken Dawson, April Finan
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Board meeting · 1 h 43 minMonday, March 2, 2026EnrollmentPhones in schoolSpeakers: Ken Dawson
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Board meeting · 2 h 01 minMonday, February 9, 2026Chronic absenteeismSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Don Renner
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Board meeting · 56 minMonday, January 26, 2026Speakers: Don Renner, Kara Casten, Ken Dawson
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 5 board meetings, Jan 12, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 39% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.
Coverage: about 39% of members’ speaking time named (19%–76%)

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
Don RennerPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare2.3min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart7.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Kara CastenVice President · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.2min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Katie CourtneyBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.0min, at least0 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted
Ken DawsonBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share1.5min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.3questions asked per meeting, at least
Christopher EspinozaBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.0min, at least0 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
April FinanBoard member · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.4min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Michael RiskeBoard member · 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

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 10 meetings on our record
Clips

What Ken Dawson said

I know they're professionals. I don't think they're cherry-picking anything. But in the light of total transparency, how we analyze and present the results from all the surveys, could we keep that consistent? It. So if we're going to outsource the other ones, why can't we have the morale outsourced as well with open-ended questions?Ken DawsonBoard member · CHSD 99 School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 1:52:10
On the map · Phones in school

January 12, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings. 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

Ceremony and recognition11%4%–19%
Budget and finance3%0%–8%
Safety and discipline1%0%–4%
Public comment0%0%–2%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 36% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 9; 2 had at least one.

    1 speaker1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 5 of the 10 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 14Mar 2Feb 9Jan 26Jan 12
    Ken DawsonPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recorded
    Don RennerPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Kara CastenPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresent
    Katie CourtneyPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Christopher EspinozaNot recordedPresentPresentNot recordedPresent
    April FinanPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Michael RiskePresentPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 1712570 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district