Harrison County Board of Education

23 meetings on our record, 17 of them from the past year and 6 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 16 min · 9,724 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 6, 2026: Harrison County board approves bus driver training fee payments and university agreements Play 1:00:20
Newest meeting we have: Oct 6, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Frank Devono, Jr., Board President · Douglas Hogue, Board member · Jenny Santilli, Board member · Mary Frances Smith, Vice President · William "Tom" Tucker, 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 · 1 h 08 minTuesday, October 6, 2026Harrison County board approves bus driver training fee payments and university agreementsBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Douglas Hogue, William "Tom" Tucker, Jenny Santilli

Play 1:00:20

Board meeting · 1 h 03 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Harrison County board approves $58,444.07 change order for Robert C. Byrd High renovationSpeakers: Douglas Hogue, William "Tom" Tucker, Jenny Santilli

Play 56:00

Board meeting · 47 minTuesday, September 1, 2026Harrison County board approves personnel agenda, mental health service agreementsEnrollmentSpeakers: Mary Frances Smith, William "Tom" Tucker, Jenny Santilli

Play 40:17

Board meeting · 54 minTuesday, August 4, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Mary Frances Smith, William "Tom" Tucker, Jenny Santilli

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 17 board meetings, Nov 18, 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

Frank Devono, Jr.Board President · runs the meeting, not ranked1.9min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Douglas HogueBoard member1.9min, at least12 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Jenny SantilliBoard member1.9min, at least12 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Mary Frances SmithVice President1.0min, at least6 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions asked per meeting, at least

William "Tom" TuckerBoard member1.1min, at least16 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions 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 23 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition15%10%–22%

Budget and finance14%7%–22%

Public comment5%2%–8%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 19% 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 23 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 20; 11 had at least one. The busiest, on May 19, 2026, heard from 4.

4 on May 19, 20264 speakers2 speakers1.1 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 23 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 6	Sep 15	Sep 1	Aug 4	Jul 6	Jun 16	Jun 2	May 19	Apr 21	Apr 7	Mar 17	Mar 3	Jan 20	Jan 6	Dec 16	Dec 2	Nov 18
Douglas Hogue	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5400510 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district