Oak Park - River Forest School District 200 Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 4 h 06 min · 3,256 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 8, 2026: Board approves property tax appeal intervention resolution 6 to 1 Play 3:40:14
Newest meeting we have: Oct 8, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Audrey Williams-Lee, President · Tim Brandhorst, Board member · Graham Brisben, Member · Joshua Gertz, Member · Jonathan Livingston, Secretary · Kathleen Odell, 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

Special meeting · 3 h 42 minThursday, October 8, 2026Board approves property tax appeal intervention resolution 6 to 1Speakers: Jonathan Livingston, Fred Arkin, Tim Brandhorst, Graham Brisben and 1 more

Play 3:40:14

Board meeting · 3 h 47 minThursday, September 24, 2026Board keeps meeting procedures policy as is after discussing agenda meeting attendanceSpeakers: Kathleen Odell, Jonathan Livingston, Tim Brandhorst, Graham Brisben and 1 more

Play 2:21:54

Special meeting · 4 h 06 minThursday, September 10, 2026Speakers: Kathleen Odell, Jonathan Livingston, Fred Arkin, Tim Brandhorst and 2 more

Watch

Board meeting · 2 h 31 minThursday, August 20, 2026Speakers: Kathleen Odell, Fred Arkin

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Jun 11, 2026 – Oct 8, 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

Audrey Williams-LeePresident · at-large · 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

Members · listed by seat

Fred ArkinMember · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 83.9min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Tim BrandhorstBoard member · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.1min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Graham BrisbenMember · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 83.0min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Joshua GertzMember · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 86.9min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked6.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Jonathan LivingstonSecretary · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 84.2min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Kathleen OdellVice president · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.9min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions 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 10 meetings on our record

Public comment

Of the 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 5 had at least one. The busiest, on Jun 25, 2026, heard from 16.

16 on Jun 25, 202616 speakers8 speakers3.5 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 7 of the 10 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 8	Sep 24	Sep 10	Aug 20	Jul 16	Jun 25	Jun 11
Fred Arkin	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded
Kathleen Odell	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Joshua Gertz	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Audrey Williams-Lee	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present
Jonathan Livingston	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Tim Brandhorst	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present
Graham Brisben	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1729280 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district