Ellensburg School District Board of Directors

9 meetings on our record, 5 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · 3,339 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 26, 2026: Ellensburg School Board adopts 2026-27 budget; public comment focuses on girls basketball Play 3:12
Newest meeting we have: Aug 26, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Cindy Coe, Board President · Madeline Demaintenon, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 29 minWednesday, August 26, 2026Ellensburg School Board adopts 2026-27 budget; public comment focuses on girls basketballPhones in schoolSpeakers: Mike Rowley, Madeline Demaintenon, Jeff Dermond

Play 3:12

Board meeting · 2 h 29 minWednesday, July 22, 2026Ellensburg School Board approves new meal prices for 2026-27Phones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Jeff Dermond, Cathie Day

Play 1:36:12

Board meeting · 1 h 10 minWednesday, June 24, 2026EnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Mike Rowley, Madeline Demaintenon, Cathie Day

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 27 minWednesday, February 25, 2026Chronic absenteeismReading and test scores

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 5 board meetings, Nov 19, 2025 – Aug 26, 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 CoeBoard President · 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

Mike RowleyBoard Vice President · runs the meeting, not ranked3.3min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Cathie DayBoard Member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.9min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Madeline DemaintenonBoard Member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jeff DermondBoard Member · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 83.0min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.0questions 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

On the map · Phones in school

July 22, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance7%5%–11%

Public comment6%0%–16%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 33% 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 6; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 26, 2026, heard from 9.

9 on Aug 26, 20269 speakers5 speakers2.3 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	Aug 26	Jul 22	Jun 24	Feb 25	Nov 19
Jeff Dermond	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Mike Rowley	Present	Not shown	Present	Not recorded	Present
Cindy Coe	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Cathie Day	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Madeline Demaintenon	Present	Not shown	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5302460 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district