Conejo Valley Unified Board of Education

18 meetings on our record, 13 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 14 min · 15,999 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 7, 2026: Conejo Valley Unified board receives and files Unlocking Land for Housing study Play 1:21:54
Next · Wednesday, November 4, 2026: 5:30 PM · CVUSD Board Room (located inside Conejo Valley High School), 1402 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362-2198 · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Oct 7, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Karen Sylvester, President · Lauren Gill, Vice President · Cindy Goldberg, Board member · Bill Gorback, Board member · Lisa Evans Powell, Board member

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 · 3 h 11 minWednesday, October 7, 2026Conejo Valley Unified board receives and files Unlocking Land for Housing studySpeakers: Karen Sylvester, Lauren Gill, Bill Gorback, Lisa Evans Powell and 1 more

Play 1:21:54

Board meeting · 1 h 31 minWednesday, September 2, 2026Conejo Valley Unified board adopts Unity Day and bullying prevention resolutionsBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Karen Sylvester, Lauren Gill, Bill Gorback, Lisa Evans Powell and 1 more

Play 43:21

Board meeting · 1 h 51 minWednesday, August 12, 2026Speakers: Karen Sylvester, Lauren Gill, Bill Gorback, Lisa Evans Powell and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 51 minWednesday, June 17, 2026Speakers: Karen Sylvester, Lauren Gill, Bill Gorback, Lisa Evans Powell and 1 more

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Who does the talking

Lisa Evans Powell spoke about 10 minutes a meeting, the most on the Conejo Valley Unified board after its president, who runs the meeting

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 13 board meetings, Nov 5, 2025 – Oct 7, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEach rank is a 90% range across 13 resampled meetings, so "2nd–4th" means the data can't place them more exactly. The ranges may widen as we name more of the speech.

Coverage: about 92% of members’ speaking time named (85%–93%)

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

—Karen SylvesterPresident · Trustee Area 1 · runs the meeting, not ranked18.4min, at least12 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · ranked by minutes per meeting

1stLisa Evans PowellBoard member · Trustee Area 29.6min, at least13 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated44%of the members’ talking · 32%–52%1.3questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–3rdCindy GoldbergBoard member · Trustee Area 44.9min, at least13 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated22%of the members’ talking · 19%–28%0.8questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–3rdBill GorbackBoard member · Trustee Area 34.6min, at least13 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated21%of the members’ talking · 18%–26%0.6questions asked per meeting, at least

4thLauren GillVice President · Trustee Area 52.4min, at least12 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated11%of the members’ talking · 9%–17%0.1questions 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 · line = our margin: members whose lines overlap may sit in either order · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

Next meetingWednesday, November 4, 20265:30 PM · CVUSD Board Room (located inside Conejo Valley High School), 1402 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362-2198Board of Education Regular Meeting - Nov 04 2026The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 18 meetings on our record

Clips

What Bill Gorback said

I just want to say, uh, back when I was an active counselor, there was little attention paid to social-emotional. And I think the growth that we have had, not only our district but society in general, into the emotional— social-emotional needs, the psychological needs, and the psychologists that help help achieve those needs is fantastic.Bill GorbackBoard member · Conejo Valley Unified Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 34:26

On the map · Phones in school

April 15, 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 recognition11%6%–17%

Budget and finance6%3%–11%

Public comment5%2%–9%

Safety and discipline0%0%–15%

The two readers didn’t agree on 27% 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 18 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 12 had at least one. The busiest, on Feb 18, 2026, heard from 28.

28 on Feb 18, 202628 speakers14 speakers6.6 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 0609640 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district