Davis Joint Unified Board of Education

21 meetings on our record, 11 of them from the past year and 10 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 3 h 22 min · 8,361 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 1, 2026: Davis school board reviews budget reduction timeline and process Play 1:35:30
Newest meeting we have: Oct 1, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Joe DiNunzio, Trustee · Elizabeth Moon, Trustee

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 8 h 00 minThursday, October 1, 2026Davis school board reviews budget reduction timeline and processBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Hiram Jackson, Lea Darrah, Joe DiNunzio, Elizabeth Moon and 1 more

Play 1:35:30

Board meeting · 2 h 41 minThursday, September 17, 2026Davis board approves 25-26 unaudited actuals, hears enrollment updateBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Hiram Jackson, Lea Darrah, Joe DiNunzio, Elizabeth Moon and 1 more

Play 1:15:23

Board meeting · 2 h 12 minThursday, September 3, 2026Davis board hears report on summer programs and staff trainingPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Hiram Jackson, Lea Darrah, Joe DiNunzio, Elizabeth Moon and 1 more

Play 1:10:24

Board meeting · 2 h 09 minThursday, August 6, 2026EnrollmentPhones in schoolSpeakers: Hiram Jackson, Lea Darrah, Joe DiNunzio, Elizabeth Moon and 1 more

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Who does the talking

Joe DiNunzio or Lea Darrah spoke the most of the 4 members we rank on the Davis Joint Unified board; the ranges can't say which

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Mar 12, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEach rank is a 90% range across 11 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 91% of members’ speaking time named (65%–94%)

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

—Hiram JacksonPresident · Trustee Area 1 · runs the meeting, not ranked20.7min, at least11 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart6.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · ranked by minutes per meeting

1st–2ndJoe DiNunzioTrustee · Trustee Area 317.3min, at least11 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated32%of the members’ talking · 18%–43%4.1questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–2ndLea DarrahVice-President/Clerk · Trustee Area 215.8min, at least11 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated29%of the members’ talking · 21%–38%2.3questions asked per meeting, at least

3rd–4thCecilia Escamilla GreenwaldTrustee · Trustee Area 510.6min, at least11 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated19%of the members’ talking · 14%–29%1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

3rd–4thElizabeth MoonTrustee · Area 410.1min, at least11 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated18%of the members’ talking · 13%–28%3.1questions 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

All 21 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

My concern, Trustee Escamilla-Greenwald, is we've got inconsistency around cell phone policy, it's entirely possible we— in fact, I know for a fact we have inconsistency in how technology is being used in the classroom. …Joe DiNunzioTrustee · Davis Joint Unified Board of Education · May 7, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:41:05
I have a little concern about the trespassing on campus and some of the vandalism things that we're experiencing. We see an uptick in that.Lea DarrahVice-President/Clerk · Davis Joint Unified Board of Education · Mar 12, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:19:49

On the map · Phones in school

April 2, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 7 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

Budget and finance10%6%–15%

Public comment5%4%–8%

Ceremony and recognition4%1%–8%

Safety and discipline1%0%–4%

The two readers didn’t agree on 25% 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 21 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 20; 20 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 2, 2026, heard from 22.

22 on Apr 2, 202622 speakers11 speakers9.7 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 9 of the 21 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 1	Sep 17	Sep 3	Aug 6	Jun 18	Jun 4	May 21	May 7	Apr 16	Apr 2	Mar 12
Joe DiNunzio	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Elizabeth Moon	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Hiram Jackson	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Lea Darrah	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0610620 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district