Ogden Community School District Board of Education

9 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 6 with unconfirmed dates · 771 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026: Ogden board member moves to limit nonresident busing to 2-mile extension at residence Play 42:07
Newest meeting we have: Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Kelly Merritt, President · Lauren Britton, Board member · Matt Van Sickle, Vice President · Earl Taylor, Board member · Pete Thomsen, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 19 minMonday, September 14, 2026Ogden board member moves to limit nonresident busing to 2-mile extension at residenceSpeakers: Matt Van Sickle, Lauren Britton, Earl Taylor, Pete Thomsen

Play 42:07

Board meeting · 53 minMonday, August 10, 2026Ogden board weighs senior parking painting and $9,800 sidewalk change orderSpeakers: Matt Van Sickle, Earl Taylor, Pete Thomsen

Play 12:38

Special meeting · 12 minMonday, July 27, 2026Ogden board takes up motion to award elementary renovation contract at $2,390,000Speakers: Matt Van Sickle

Play 3:26

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 3 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingKelly MerrittPresident · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameLauren BrittonBoard member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Matt Van SickleVice President3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Earl TaylorBoard member4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Pete ThomsenBoard member5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 9 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance7%3%–13%

Ceremony and recognition3%1%–6%

Public comment1%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–21%

The two readers didn’t agree on 21% 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 9 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 9; 2 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0.3 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 9 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 14	Aug 10	Jul 27
Earl Taylor	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Matt Van Sickle	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Pete Thomsen	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Kelly Merritt	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1921660 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district