Mechanicville City School District Board of Education

11 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 49 min · 1,363 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 1, 2026: School board approves action items, hears parents on fourth grade recess Play 20:30
Newest meeting we have: Oct 1, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: John Taglione, President · Darren Dodge, Member · Scott D’Ambro, Member · Nichole Gorsky, Member · Pat Greenhall, Member · Kelly Pitcheralle, Member · Kathy Young, Vice-President

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 · 45 minThursday, October 1, 2026School board approves action items, hears parents on fourth grade recess

Play 20:30

Board meeting · 54 minWednesday, September 9, 2026Speakers: John Taglione, Kathy Young

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Special meetingMonday, August 17, 2026

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Board meeting · 34 minThursday, August 6, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 8 board meetings, Nov 7, 2025 – Sep 9, 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

John TaglionePresident · runs the meeting, not ranked3.4min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Darren DodgeMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Scott D’AmbroMember · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Nichole GorskyMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Pat GreenhallMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Kelly PitcheralleMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Kathy YoungVice-President · We could name only 2% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.1min, at least3 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions 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 11 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment14%6%–24%

Ceremony and recognition3%0%–8%

Budget and finance2%0%–7%

Safety and discipline0%0%–21%

The two readers didn’t agree on 33% 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 Mar 10, 2026, heard from 6.

6 on Mar 10, 20266 speakers3 speakers2.1 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3618900 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district