Ravenswood City Elementary School District Board of Trustees

19 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 16 with unconfirmed dates · 1,416 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 24, 2026: Ravenswood board hears Aspire East Palo Alto charter renewal presentation; no vote taken Play 35:18
Newest meeting we have: Sep 24, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Tamara Sobomehin, Board President · Jenny Varghese Bloom, Board Clerk · Mele K. Latu, Board Vice President · Samuel Tavera, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 3 h 51 minThursday, September 24, 2026Ravenswood board hears Aspire East Palo Alto charter renewal presentation; no vote takenSpeakers: Jenny Varghese Bloom, Samuel Tavera

Play 35:18

Board meeting · 1 h 30 minThursday, September 10, 2026Ravenswood board approves unaudited actuals after report of about $30 million in reservesSpeakers: Mele K. Latu, Samuel Tavera

Play 27:50

Board meeting · 3 h 03 minThursday, March 12, 2026Speakers: Jenny Varghese Bloom, Laura Nunez

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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 meetingTamara SobomehinBoard President · 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 nameJenny Varghese BloomBoard Clerk5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Mele K. LatuBoard Vice President3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Laura NunezBoard Member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Samuel TaveraBoard Member4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 19 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition13%2%–28%

Budget and finance7%1%–18%

Public comment0%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 15% 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 19 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 24, 2026, heard from 17.

17 on Sep 24, 202617 speakers9 speakers4.9 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 3 of the 19 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 24	Sep 10	Mar 12
Laura Nunez	Present	Present	Present
Tamara Sobomehin	Present	Present	Present
Mele K. Latu	Present	Present	Not shown
Jenny Varghese Bloom	Present	Present	Present
Samuel Tavera	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0631860 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district