Niagara Falls City School District Board of Education

20 meetings on our record, 11 of them from the past year and 9 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 05 min · 7,029 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 24, 2026: Niagara Falls school board approves short-term contracts, hears New York Inspires presentation Play 3:32
Newest meeting we have: Sep 24, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Anthony Paretto, President · Earl F. Bass, Board member · Robert Bilson, Vice President · Vincent "Jimmy" Cancemi, Board member · Russell Petrozzi, Board member · Nicholas Vilardo, 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 · 2 h 03 minThursday, September 24, 2026Niagara Falls school board approves short-term contracts, hears New York Inspires presentationSpeakers: Robert Bilson, Earl F. Bass, Vincent "Jimmy" Cancemi, Kristen M. Grandinetti and 2 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 44 minThursday, September 10, 2026Niagara Falls board adopts policy on safeguarding rights of immigrant studentsAI in schoolsReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Vincent "Jimmy" Cancemi, Clara Dunn, Kristen M. Grandinetti, Nicholas Vilardo

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Board meeting · 2 h 12 minThursday, August 27, 2026Chronic absenteeismAI in schoolsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Robert Bilson, Vincent "Jimmy" Cancemi, Clara Dunn, Kristen M. Grandinetti and 2 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 32 minThursday, July 2, 2026Speakers: Robert Bilson, Earl F. Bass, Vincent "Jimmy" Cancemi, Clara Dunn and 2 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Nov 20, 2025 – Sep 24, 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

Anthony ParettoPresident · at-large · runs the meeting, not ranked0.7min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Earl F. BassBoard member · at-large0.8min, at least4 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Robert BilsonVice President · at-large1.5min, at least6 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Vincent "Jimmy" CancemiBoard member · at-large1.1min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Clara DunnBoard member · at-large2.0min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Kristen M. GrandinettiBoard member · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.5min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Russell PetrozziBoard member · at-large · We could name only 13% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Nicholas VilardoBoard member · at-large · We could name only 26% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.6min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Jason ZonaBoard member · at-large · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.5min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.3questions 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 20 meetings on our record

Clips

What Kristen M. Grandinetti said on Sep 10, 2026

On the map · Phones in school

August 27, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance12%7%–19%

Public comment3%1%–7%

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–5%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 43% 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 20 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Jun 18, 2026, heard from 6.

6 on Jun 18, 20266 speakers3 speakers1.4 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 9 of the 20 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 24	Sep 10	Aug 27	Jul 2	Jun 18	Apr 23	Mar 26	Mar 12	Feb 12	Jan 22	Nov 20
Clara Dunn	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Kristen M. Grandinetti	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Russell Petrozzi	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Anthony Paretto	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Earl F. Bass	Present	Present	Not shown	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Jason Zona	Present	Not shown	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Robert Bilson	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Vincent "Jimmy" Cancemi	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Nicholas Vilardo	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3620820 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district