Gallatin County Board of Education

8 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 50 min · 1,482 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 9, 2026: School board adopts 64.9-cent general fund tax levy for 2026-2027 Play 11:31
Newest meeting we have: Sep 9, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Hargis Davis, School Board Chairman · Rebecca Burgett, Board Member · Amanda Dunavent, School Board Vice-Chairman · Jon Jones, Board Member · Ashley McCord, 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

Special meeting · 37 minWednesday, September 9, 2026School board adopts 64.9-cent general fund tax levy for 2026-2027

Play 11:31

Board meeting · 1 h 07 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Gallatin County school board votes 4-1 to keep tax rate flatSpeakers: Ashley McCord, Rebecca Burgett, Jon Jones

Play 1:03:47

Board meeting · 31 minTuesday, July 21, 2026Speakers: Rebecca Burgett, Jon Jones

Watch

Special meeting · 1 h 01 minWednesday, June 24, 2026Speakers: Rebecca Burgett

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Apr 21, 2026 – Sep 9, 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

Hargis DavisSchool Board Chairman · 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

Rebecca BurgettBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.5min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Amanda DunaventSchool Board Vice-Chairman · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least0 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jon JonesBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.8min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Ashley McCordBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions 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 8 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance24%7%–39%

Safety and discipline3%0%–9%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–26%

Public comment0%0%–26%

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 8 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 5 of the 8 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 9	Aug 18	Jul 21	Jun 24	May 5	Apr 21
Jon Jones	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Rebecca Burgett	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Hargis Davis	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Amanda Dunavent	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not shown
Ashley McCord	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2102130 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district