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Port Washington Union Free School District Board of Education

12 meetings on our record, all from the past year · typical meeting 3 h 16 min · 5,384 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 17, 2026
Port Washington board adopts student personal electronic devices policy on 7-0 votePlay 3:15:33
Newest meeting we have
Sep 17, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Deborah Brooks, Board member · Rachel Gilliar, Board member · Nanette Melkonian, Board member · Jessica Melwani, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 3 h 50 minThursday, September 17, 2026Port Washington board adopts student personal electronic devices policy on 7-0 voteChronic absenteeismAI in schoolsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Julie Epstein, Sandra Alvarez, Deborah Brooks, Rachel Gilliar and 2 more
Play 3:15:33
Board meeting · 12 minThursday, September 10, 2026Port Washington board approves consent agenda, hears policy committee's list for the yearSpeakers: Julie Epstein, Rachel Gilliar
Play 1:34
Board meeting · 3 h 31 minThursday, August 6, 2026Port Washington board adopts revised code of conduct, rescinds two policiesAI in schoolsEnrollmentPhones in schoolSpeakers: Adam Smith, Julie Epstein, Sandra Alvarez, Deborah Brooks and 2 more
Play 3:27:01
Board meeting · 3 h 16 minThursday, July 16, 2026EnrollmentPhones in schoolSpeakers: Deborah Brooks, Rachel Gilliar, Jessica Melwani
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, Dec 16, 2025 – Sep 17, 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
Adam SmithPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare5.8min, at least3 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.3questions asked per meeting, at least
Julie EpsteinVice President · runs the meeting, not rankedShare4.3min, at least10 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.1questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Sandra AlvarezBoard memberShare4.8min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.4questions asked per meeting, at least
Deborah BrooksBoard memberShare5.8min, at least11 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.4questions asked per meeting, at least
Rachel GilliarBoard memberShare6.2min, at least9 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.3questions asked per meeting, at least
Nanette MelkonianBoard member · We could name only 12% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.4min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Jessica MelwaniBoard memberShare1.3min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.1questions 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
On the map · Phones in school

July 16, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 3 of its meetings.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance16%6%–26%
Public comment6%3%–9%
Safety and discipline4%0%–14%
Ceremony and recognition2%0%–7%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 34% 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; 11 had at least one. The busiest, on May 5, 2026, heard from 7.

    7 on May 5, 20267 speakers4 speakers3.2 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 12 of the 12 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 17Sep 10Aug 6Jul 16May 5Apr 28Apr 14Mar 24Feb 10Jan 20Jan 6Dec 16
    Adam SmithPresentNot recordedNot recordedPresentPresentNot shownPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Rachel GilliarPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentNot shownPresentNot shownNot recordedNot recordedNot shownPresent
    Sandra AlvarezPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Julie EpsteinPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Deborah BrooksPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot shownPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Nanette MelkonianPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Jessica MelwaniPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 3623580 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district