Gates-Chili Central School District Board of Education

19 meetings on our record, 13 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 51 min · 3,775 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 6, 2026: Board meeting, 49 min
Newest meeting we have: Oct 6, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Michelle Jennings, Board Member · Austin Lanceri-Federico, Board Member · Robert Long, Board Member · Andrea Minchella, Board member · Adam Reinhardt, Board Member · Christine Brown Richards, Board Member · Tanya Srbinovski, Board Vice President · Angela Stout, 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 · 49 minTuesday, October 6, 2026Speakers: Kathryn Davis, Michelle Jennings

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Board meeting · 38 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Gates-Chili board swears in new member, approves motor vehicle policy and Latin agreementSpeakers: Austin Lanceri-Federico, Kathryn Davis

Play 0:47

Board meeting · 21 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Kathryn Davis

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Public hearing · 30 minWednesday, July 1, 2026Gates-Chili board holds hearings on safety plan and code of conduct changesSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Kathryn Davis

Play 10:13

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 13 board meetings, Dec 2, 2025 – Oct 6, 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

Kathryn DavisBoard President · runs the meeting, not ranked3.5min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Michelle JenningsBoard Member · We could name only 3% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least2 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Austin Lanceri-FedericoBoard Member · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Robert LongBoard Member · 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

Andrea MinchellaBoard member0.4min, at least4 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Adam ReinhardtBoard Member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Christine Brown RichardsBoard Member1.6min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Tanya SrbinovskiBoard Vice President · 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

Angela StoutBoard Member · 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

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 19 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

December 2, 2025

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Watch at 9:56 on the district’s site ↗

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%4%–20%

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–5%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

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 19 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 16; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on Jul 1, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on Jul 1, 20262 speakers1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3611880 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district