Kingsport City Schools Board of Education

14 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 46 min · 7,653 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 6, 2026: Kingsport board approves budget amendment funding 3% employee bonus, 2027-2028 calendar Play 12:58
Newest meeting we have: Oct 6, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Todd Golden, Kingsport City Schools Board Member · Jamie Jackson, Kingsport City Schools Board Member · Phillip Marshall, Kingsport City Schools 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 · 28 minTuesday, October 6, 2026Kingsport board approves budget amendment funding 3% employee bonus, 2027-2028 calendarSpeakers: Phillip Marshall

Play 12:58

Board meeting · 1 h 04 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Kingsport school board hears state test results showing highest overall proficiency levelsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Melissa Woods

Play 20:50

Board meeting · 50 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Kingsport school board awards $2,780,000 bid for community center demolition and site workSpeakers: Melissa Woods, Jamie Jackson

Play 18:20

Board meeting · 42 minTuesday, June 9, 2026Speakers: Melissa Woods, Todd Golden

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, Nov 11, 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

Brandon FletcherKingsport City Schools Board President · runs the meeting, not ranked1.7min, at least3 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Todd GoldenKingsport City Schools Board Member1.3min, at least6 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Jamie JacksonKingsport City Schools Board Member1.3min, at least3 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Phillip MarshallKingsport City Schools Board Member0.6min, at least5 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Melissa WoodsKingsport City Schools Board Vice President2.3min, at least6 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions 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 14 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance22%4%–39%

Ceremony and recognition11%5%–18%

Public comment0%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

The two readers didn’t agree on 27% 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 14 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 14, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on Apr 14, 20262 speakers1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 4702190 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district