Northside ISD Board of Trustees

12 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 50 min · 101,095 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 29, 2026: Northside board authorizes agreement with TASB for superintendent search Play 1:43:31
Newest meeting we have: Sep 29, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Sonia Jasso, President · Karla Duran, Secretary · Karen Freeman, Trustee · Carol Harle, Trustee · Robert Blount, Jr., Trustee · David Salcido, 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 45 minTuesday, September 29, 2026Northside board authorizes agreement with TASB for superintendent searchSpeakers: David Salcido, Karla Duran, Robert Blount, Jr., Laura Zapata and 2 more

Play 1:43:31

Board meeting · 2 h 09 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Northside ISD board adopts 2026-2027 budgets and 1.0349 tax rateSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: David Salcido, Karla Duran, Robert Blount, Jr., Laura Zapata and 1 more

Play 1:19:11

Board meeting · 3 h 45 minTuesday, July 28, 2026Northside ISD board approves Holmes High School construction amendmentBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: David Salcido, Karla Duran, Robert Blount, Jr., Laura Zapata and 2 more

Play 1:24:15

Board meeting · 2 h 12 minTuesday, July 21, 2026Northside ISD board discusses District Management Group instructional coachingEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Robert Blount, Jr., Laura Zapata, Carol Harle

Play 1:21:33

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, May 26, 2026 – Sep 29, 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

Sonia JassoPresident · District 2 · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted

Karla DuranSecretary · District 3 · runs the meeting, not ranked3.5min, at least5 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart6.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

David SalcidoTrustee · District 1 · We could name only 13% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least5 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Robert Blount, Jr.Trustee · District 43.1min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Laura ZapataVice President · District 51.9min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Carol HarleTrustee · District 65.0min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Karen FreemanTrustee · District 74.0min, at least6 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.9questions 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 12 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance17%11%–25%

Ceremony and recognition3%0%–7%

Public comment1%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 14% 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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 7 had at least one.

3 speakers2 speakers1 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 4833120 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district