Lodi Unified Board of Education

11 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 49 min · 27,172 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 15, 2026: Lodi Unified board approves Prop 28 report and 2025-26 unaudited actuals Play 2:10:23
Next · Tuesday, November 3, 2026: 7:00 PM · James Areida Education Support Center · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Sep 15, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Rommel Bal, Board Member · Victoria Lenderman, Board Clerk · Susan Macfarlane, Board Vice President · Joe Nava, Board Member · Courtney Porter, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 3 h 29 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Lodi Unified board approves Prop 28 report and 2025-26 unaudited actualsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Susan Macfarlane, Victoria Lenderman, Sherry Alexander, Courtney Porter and 1 more

Play 2:10:23

Board meeting · 2 h 21 minTuesday, September 1, 2026Lodi Unified board approves bargaining agreements with employee groups, 6-0Phones in schoolSpeakers: Victoria Lenderman, Sherry Alexander, Courtney Porter, Rommel Bal and 1 more

Play 1:52:45

Board meeting · 1 h 40 minTuesday, July 14, 2026Speakers: Sherry Alexander, Courtney Porter, Jeff Stroh

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 38 minTuesday, June 16, 2026Speakers: Susan Macfarlane, Victoria Lenderman, Sherry Alexander, Courtney Porter and 1 more

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Feb 17, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 49% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 49% of members’ speaking time named (27%–78%)

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

Sherry AlexanderBoard President · Trustee Area 3 · runs the meeting, not ranked9.7min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Susan MacfarlaneBoard Vice President · Trustee Area 1 · We could name only 14% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.0min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Victoria LendermanBoard Clerk · Trustee Area 2 · We could name only 2% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Courtney PorterBoard Member · Trustee Area 43.2min, at least7 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Jeff StrohBoard Member · Trustee Area 5 · We could name only 12% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.8min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Rommel BalBoard Member · Trustee Area 6 · We could name only 7% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.5min, at least3 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Joe NavaBoard Member · Trustee Area 7 · We could name only 4% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least6 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions 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

Next meetingTuesday, November 3, 20267:00 PM · James Areida Education Support CenterBoard of Education MeetingThe district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 11 meetings on our record

Clips

What Sherry Alexander said on Sep 15, 2026

On the map · Phones in school

April 21, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 3 of its meetings.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition16%8%–27%

Public comment10%7%–16%

Budget and finance2%0%–6%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 24% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 10 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 21, 2026, heard from 15.

15 on Apr 21, 202615 speakers8 speakers5.2 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 9 of the 11 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 15	Sep 1	Jul 14	Jun 16	May 5	Apr 21	Apr 7	Mar 10	Feb 17
Sherry Alexander	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Jeff Stroh	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Susan Macfarlane	Present	Not shown	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Victoria Lenderman	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not shown	Present	Present	Present	Present
Courtney Porter	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Rommel Bal	Not shown	Not recorded	Present	Not shown	Not shown	Present	Not shown	Not shown	Present
Joe Nava	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0622230 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district