Hudson City School District board

18 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 16 with unconfirmed dates · 1,602 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 25, 2026: Facilities committee chair reports progress on pool, boilers and roof work Play 8:47
Newest meeting we have: Aug 25, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Mark DePace, President · Amanda Grubler, Member · Kjirsten Gustavson, Member · Diana Howard, Member · Matthew Mackerer, Vice-President · Lou Zapp, Member · Michael Zibella, Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 46 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Facilities committee chair reports progress on pool, boilers and roof workChronic absenteeismBudget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Lou Zapp

Play 8:47

Board meeting · 48 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Hudson board sets September 11th deadline for letters of interest to fill vacant seat

Play 41:49

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingMark DePacePresident · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameAmanda GrublerMember—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Kjirsten GustavsonMember—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Diana HowardMember—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Matthew MackererVice-President—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Lou ZappMember1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Michael ZibellaMember—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Meetings on our record

All 18 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance29%8%–56%

Ceremony and recognition3%0%–9%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 26% 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 18 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 2 had at least one.

Attendance

The roll call at 2 of the 18 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Aug 25	Aug 11
Mark DePace	Present	Present
Matthew Mackerer	Present	Present
Amanda Grubler	Present	Present
Diana Howard	Present	Not recorded
Lou Zapp	Present	Not recorded
Michael Zibella	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3614940 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district