Elizabethton City School District board

11 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year · typical meeting 43 min · 2,689 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 20, 2026: Elizabethton school board approves student search policy, acts on vacant seat through November Play 34:05
Newest meeting we have: Aug 20, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Eddie Pless, Chair · Phil Isaacs, Member · Robert Lewis, Member · Jamie Bass Schaff, Vice Chair · Josh Smith, 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 · 39 minThursday, August 20, 2026Elizabethton school board approves student search policy, acts on vacant seat through NovemberSpeakers: Phil Isaacs

Play 34:05

Board meeting · 42 minTuesday, July 14, 2026Board approves new 4-year contract running through July 31st, 2030Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Eddie Pless

Play 18:08

Board meeting · 29 minThursday, June 18, 2026School board approves $221,883 track resurfacing and first reading of therapy dog policySpeakers: Eddie Pless

Play 23:19

Board meeting · 1 h 19 minThursday, May 21, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Eddie Pless

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Nov 20, 2025 – Aug 20, 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

Eddie PlessChair · runs the meeting, not ranked4.4min, at least5 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Phil IsaacsMember · We could name only 2% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least2 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Robert LewisMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Jamie Bass SchaffVice Chair · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Josh SmithMember · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least1 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 11 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition29%16%–41%

Budget and finance1%0%–5%

Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

Public comment0%0%–21%

The two readers didn’t agree on 18% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 4701110 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district