Oakes Public School District 41 board

7 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year · typical meeting 53 min · 482 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 18, 2026: Oakes school board hears deferred maintenance options, takes no action Play 7:30
Newest meeting we have: Aug 18, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Monica Heimbuch, Board President · Patti Jo Carlson, Board member · Drew Courtney, Board member · Patti Jo Kelly, Board member · Sheila Nagel, Vice President · Ryan Rosendahl, Vice President · Brian Seyer, 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 · 1 h 04 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Oakes school board hears deferred maintenance options, takes no actionReading and test scoresSpeakers: Drew Courtney

Play 7:30

Board meeting · 1 h 16 minTuesday, May 19, 2026Oakes school board approves health insurance plan changes, reviews draft preliminary budgetReading and test scoresSpeakers: Sheila Nagel

Play 34:37

Board meeting · 58 minTuesday, April 21, 2026Oakes school board approves consent agenda 5-0, accepts Choice Ready progress report

Play 57:26

Special meeting · 32 minTuesday, March 10, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Dec 16, 2025 – Aug 18, 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

Monica HeimbuchBoard President · Rural East of Highway 1 · 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

Patti Jo KellyBoard member · City Limits · 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

Ryan RosendahlVice President · City Limits · 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

Drew CourtneyBoard member · Rural West of Highway 1 · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.1min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Brian SeyerBoard member · Rural at Large · 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

Patti Jo CarlsonBoard member · 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

Sheila NagelVice President · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least1 of 4meetings 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 7 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance15%1%–33%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–5%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

Public comment0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 13% 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 7 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3814500 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district