Decorah Community School District Board of Directors

9 meetings on our record, 5 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · 1,640 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Jul 13, 2026: Decorah school board approves solar energy lease Play 24:39
Newest meeting we have: Jul 13, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Cindy Goodner, President of the Board of Directors · Brad Darling, Director · Lilly Jensen, Director · Carole Sand, Director · Aaron Zander, Vice President of the Board of Directors

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 2 h 00 minMonday, July 13, 2026Decorah school board approves solar energy leaseBudget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Aaron Zander, Carole Sand, Lilly Jensen

Play 24:39

Board meeting · 2 h 20 minMonday, June 8, 2026Decorah school board reduces management fund levy by 50%Speakers: Cindy Goodner, Carole Sand

Play 1:14:16

Special meeting · 14 minWednesday, May 20, 2026Speakers: Aaron Zander

Watch

Board meeting · 3 h 07 minMonday, May 11, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsReading and test scores

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 5 board meetings, Apr 27, 2026 – Jul 13, 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

Cindy GoodnerPresident of the Board of Directors · runs the meeting, not ranked6.0min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Brad DarlingDirector · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Lilly JensenDirector · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least0 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Carole SandDirector · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Aaron ZanderVice President of the Board of Directors · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.9min, at least2 of 5meetings 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 9 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance13%9%–18%

Public comment1%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–21%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–21%

The two readers didn’t agree on 26% 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 9 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 4 of the 9 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Jul 13	Jun 8	May 20	May 11	Apr 27
Aaron Zander	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Cindy Goodner	Present	Present	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded
Brad Darling	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Carole Sand	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Lilly Jensen	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1908730 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district