Colonial School Board

10 meetings on our record, 8 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 32 min · 5,628 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 15, 2026: Colonial board takes up counseling plan, Red Rover hiring contract and policy reads Play 22:50
Newest meeting we have: Oct 15, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Beth Patruno, President · Chris Epstein, Board member · Richard Carpenter Jr., Board member · Sharon Marino, Board member · Mark Marsico, Board member · Gail Plant, Vice President · Rasheda Randall, Board member · Tomas Santiago, Board member · Jeremy Schwartz, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 37 minThursday, October 15, 2026Colonial board takes up counseling plan, Red Rover hiring contract and policy readsSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Gail Plant, Chris Epstein, Sharon Marino, Rasheda Randall and 2 more

Play 22:50

Board meeting · 23 minThursday, September 17, 2026Colonial board takes up bond refinancing and $645,000 HVAC grant applicationSpeakers: Beth Patruno, Gail Plant, Richard Carpenter Jr., Chris Epstein and 2 more

Play 10:36

Board meeting · 16 minWednesday, August 26, 2026Colonial board considers August 30th, 2027 as first day of 2027-28 school yearSpeakers: Richard Carpenter Jr., Chris Epstein, Sharon Marino, Mark Marsico and 2 more

Play 9:36

Board meeting · 41 minThursday, April 16, 2026Phones in schoolSpeakers: Chris Epstein, Sharon Marino, Tomas Santiago, Jeremy Schwartz

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 7 board meetings, Nov 20, 2025 – Oct 15, 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

Beth PatrunoPresident · runs the meeting, not ranked1.1min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Chris EpsteinBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.5min, at least6 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Richard Carpenter Jr.Board member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Sharon MarinoBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.6min, at least6 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Mark MarsicoBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least2 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Gail PlantVice President · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Rasheda RandallBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.7min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Tomas SantiagoBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least5 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jeremy SchwartzBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.9min, at least7 of 7meetings 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

All 10 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

April 16, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition17%6%–29%

Budget and finance0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

Public comment0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 49% 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 8; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Jan 15, 2026, heard from 1.

1 on Jan 15, 20261 speaker1 speaker0.1 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 10 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 15	Sep 17	Aug 26	Apr 16	Feb 19	Feb 9	Jan 15	Nov 20

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 4219470 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district