Kuna Joint District Board of Trustees

10 meetings on our record, all from the past year · typical meeting 1 h 24 min · 5,795 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 8, 2026: Kuna board hears enrollment update and bond refunding proposal Play 20:55
Newest meeting we have: Sep 8, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Michael Thornton, Chair · Kyrsti Bruce, Trustee

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 47 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Kuna board hears enrollment update and bond refunding proposalEnrollmentPhones in school

Play 20:55

Board meeting · 1 h 02 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Kuna school board approves supplemental levy resolutionSpeakers: Michael Thornton, Kyrsti Bruce

Play 58:17

Board meeting · 28 minTuesday, July 14, 2026Kuna board weighs city's $10,000-per-day provision in 4th Street gym agreementSpeakers: Michael Thornton

Play 14:23

Board meeting · 47 minTuesday, May 12, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Michael Thornton, JD Grant, Freddy Wheeler

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Dec 9, 2025 – Sep 8, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 42% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 42% of members’ speaking time named (22%–71%)

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

Michael ThorntonChair · Zone 5 · runs the meeting, not ranked1.9min, at least7 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.9questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Hillary LoweTrustee · Zone 13.0min, at least3 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked12.7questions asked per meeting, at least

JD GrantVice Chair · Zone 2 · We could name only 12% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.6min, at least3 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Kyrsti BruceTrustee · Zone 3 · We could name only 4% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least3 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Freddy WheelerTrustee · Zone 4 · We could name only 17% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.0min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.8questions 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 10 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

December 9, 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.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance14%5%–27%

Ceremony and recognition4%1%–11%

Public comment1%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–21%

The two readers didn’t agree on 10% 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 10; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Feb 10, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on Feb 10, 20262 speakers1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 1601770 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district