Richland County CUSD 1 Board of Education

7 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · 2,182 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 5, 2026: Board weighs process for hiring counsel to investigate 2026-27 master schedule Play 9:44
Newest meeting we have: Oct 5, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Scott Snyder, Board President · Jake Anderson, Board member · Dennis Anderson, Board member · Cindy Bailey, Board member · Dusty Kocher, Board member · Cindy Lockley, Board member · Jeff Wilson, Vice President

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Special meeting · 50 minMonday, October 5, 2026Board weighs process for hiring counsel to investigate 2026-27 master schedule

Play 9:44

Board meeting · 3 h 00 minThursday, September 24, 2026Richland County board moves to seek independent counsel to review 2026-27 master scheduleSpeakers: Jeff Wilson, Cindy Lockley, Jake Anderson, Dusty Kocher

Play 2:43:45

Board meeting · 3 h 18 minThursday, August 20, 2026Speakers: Jeff Wilson, Cindy Lockley, Jake Anderson, Cindy Bailey and 1 more

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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 meetingScott SnyderBoard President · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameJake AndersonBoard member3meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 3 meetings Dennis AndersonBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Cindy BaileyBoard member1meeting where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 1 meeting Dusty KocherBoard member4meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 4 meetings · 1 clip Cindy LockleyBoard member3meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 3 meetings Jeff WilsonVice President3meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 3 meetings · 1 clip

Meetings on our record

All 7 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

If you take out all the noise of the, of the capital projects we've got going on What would that budget have looked like from the standpoint of a surplus or deficit?Jeff WilsonVice President · Richland County CUSD 1 Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 1:33:00

I, I think my thing is, it is, you know, I, I don't mind talking about a levy and doing, doing the funding, but I think at some point in time we got to start talking about spending.Dusty KocherBoard member · Richland County CUSD 1 Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 2:08:40

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance18%8%–29%

Public comment6%2%–11%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 18% 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 7; 7 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 20, 2026, heard from 7.

7 on Aug 20, 20267 speakers4 speakers2.4 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 3 of the 7 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 5	Sep 24	Aug 20
Cindy Bailey	Not recorded	Present	Present
Jake Anderson	Present	Present	Present
Dusty Kocher	Present	Present	Present
Scott Snyder	Present	Present	Not shown
Jeff Wilson	Present	Present	Present
Cindy Lockley	Present	Present	Present
Dennis Anderson	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1713290 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district