East Helena K-12 School District Board of Trustees

16 meetings on our record, 13 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 02 min · 1,915 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026: East Helena board approves choir trip to New York and travel club trip to Japan Play 56:55
Newest meeting we have: Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Scott Walter, Chairman · Stacy Baird, Board member · Martin Balukas, Board member · Brandon Hansen, Board member · Tyrel Murfitt, Vice-Chairman · Tiffany Richardson, Board member · Tristan Ulmer, 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 · 2 h 10 minMonday, September 14, 2026East Helena board approves choir trip to New York and travel club trip to JapanReading and test scoresSpeakers: Brandon Hansen

Play 56:55

Special meeting · 24 minTuesday, August 18, 2026East Helena trustees approve fiscal year 2027 budgetSpeakers: Tiffany Richardson

Play 9:49

Special meeting · 2 h 17 minMonday, August 10, 2026Speakers: Martin Balukas, Brandon Hansen, Tiffany Richardson

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Board meeting · 1 h 48 minMonday, July 13, 2026Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Tyrel Murfitt, Stacy Baird, Martin Balukas, Tiffany Richardson and 1 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 13 board meetings, Nov 10, 2025 – Sep 14, 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

Scott WalterChairman · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted

Members · listed by seat

Stacy BairdBoard member · We could name only 8% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.5min, at least4 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Martin BalukasBoard member · We could name only 16% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.9min, at least5 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Brandon HansenBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.5min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Tyrel MurfittVice-Chairman · We could name only 18% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.2min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Tiffany RichardsonBoard member · We could name only 5% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least3 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Tristan UlmerBoard member · We could name only 2% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.1min, at least3 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions 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 16 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance12%6%–20%

Safety and discipline5%1%–11%

Public comment1%0%–3%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 21% 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 16 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 8 had at least one. The busiest, on May 27, 2026, heard from 7.

7 on May 27, 20267 speakers4 speakers1.8 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3000655 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district