Deerfield School District 109 Board of Education

12 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 8 with unconfirmed dates · 2,715 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 17, 2026: Deerfield school board approves 2026-27 final budget and e-learning plan resolution Play 31:35
Newest meeting we have: Sep 17, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Ryan Kuo, President · Remoun Abraham, Board member · Rosie Bonar, Board member · Mitch Dornfeld, Board member · Kelly Jakymiw, Vice President · Kate Joyce, Secretary · David Murav, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 39 minThursday, September 17, 2026Deerfield school board approves 2026-27 final budget and e-learning plan resolutionSpeakers: Ryan Kuo, Kelly Jakymiw, Rosie Bonar, Mitch Dornfeld

Play 31:35

Board meeting · 58 minThursday, August 20, 2026Deerfield school board hears tentative budget projecting 22nd consecutive balanced operating budgetSpeakers: Ryan Kuo, Kate Joyce, Rosie Bonar

Play 30:04

Board meeting · 3 h 25 minThursday, February 19, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 3 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingRyan KuoPresident · shown, not ranked2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Members · listed by nameRemoun AbrahamBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Rosie BonarBoard member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Mitch DornfeldBoard member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Kelly JakymiwVice President1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Kate JoyceSecretary1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting David MuravBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Meetings on our record

All 12 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance8%2%–18%

Ceremony and recognition5%0%–11%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 30% 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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Feb 19, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on Feb 19, 20262 speakers1 speaker0.3 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 12 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 17	Aug 20	Feb 19
Rosie Bonar	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Ryan Kuo	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded
Kelly Jakymiw	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Kate Joyce	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Remoun Abraham	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded
Mitch Dornfeld	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
David Murav	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1711980 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district