Marion Community Schools Board of School Trustees

22 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 10 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 34 min · 3,672 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Marion school board approves lease amendment and appropriation resolutions Play 25:58
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Alan Beck, President · Shanna Bento, 2nd Vice President · Dana Gault, Board member · Chuck Griffin, 1st Vice President · Richard Hart, Board member · Serafina Salamo, 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 · 39 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Marion school board approves lease amendment and appropriation resolutionsSpeakers: Chuck Griffin, Gabe Delgado, Richard Hart, Serafina Salamo

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Board meeting · 17 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Speakers: Alan Beck, Chuck Griffin, Richard Hart, Serafina Salamo

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Board meeting · 1 h 19 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Speakers: Alan Beck, Shanna Bento, Gabe Delgado

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Board meeting · 21 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Speakers: Alan Beck

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, Nov 25, 2025 – Sep 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 57% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 57% of members’ speaking time named (38%–76%)

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

Alan BeckPresident · District I · runs the meeting, not ranked3.1min, at least6 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Dana GaultBoard member · District I · 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

Richard HartBoard member · District I1.4min, at least6 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Shanna Bento2nd Vice President · District II · We could name only 16% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least3 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Serafina SalamoBoard member · District III · We could name only 10% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least4 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Gabe DelgadoSecretary · District IV (at-large) · We could name only 14% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least3 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Chuck Griffin1st Vice President · District IV at-large1.2min, at least6 of 12meetings 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

All 22 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

April 14, 2026

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 finance18%6%–29%

Ceremony and recognition5%0%–13%

Safety and discipline0%0%–3%

Public comment0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 28% 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 22 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 15; 3 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 1806390 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district