Henderson County School District Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year · typical meeting 48 min · 6,833 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 21, 2026: Henderson County school board approves 2026-27 working budget with 14.49% general fund contingency Play 54:02
Newest meeting we have: Sep 21, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Thomas Alves, Board member · Joe McGarrh, Board member · Wesley Smith, Board member · Tracey Williams, Board Vice-Chairperson

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 07 minMonday, September 21, 2026Henderson County school board approves 2026-27 working budget with 14.49% general fund contingencySpeakers: Tracey Williams, Thomas Alves

Play 54:02

Board meeting · 36 minMonday, September 14, 2026Henderson County school board approves 68.3-cent property tax rate

Play 34:48

Board meeting · 48 minMonday, August 17, 2026Henderson County school board approves change orders for South Middle and East Heights projectsSafety, weapons and police

Play 31:52

Board meeting · 23 minMonday, July 20, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 7 board meetings, Dec 15, 2025 – Sep 21, 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

Mike WallerBoard Chairperson · District #4 · 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

Tracey WilliamsBoard Vice-Chairperson · District #1 · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Joe McGarrhBoard member · District #2 · 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

Thomas AlvesBoard member · District #3 · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Wesley SmithBoard member · District #5 · 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 10 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition30%19%–39%

Budget and finance10%4%–18%

Public comment2%0%–6%

Safety and discipline0%0%–26%

The two readers didn’t agree on 34% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 14, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Sep 14, 20263 speakers2 speakers1 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 2102710 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district