Santa Barbara County Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 58 min · 98 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 10, 2026: Santa Barbara County board approves lease renewal for preschool classroom space Play 38:01
Newest meeting we have: Sep 10, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Nadra Ehrman, Board President · Katya Armistead, Board Member · Marybeth Carty, Board Member · Vedamarie Alvarez Flores, Board Vice President · Sarah Anne Read, Board Member · Guy R. Walker, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 41 minThursday, September 10, 2026Santa Barbara County board approves lease renewal for preschool classroom spaceSpeakers: Sarah Anne Read, Guy R. Walker, Judy Frost

Play 38:01

Board meeting · 44 minThursday, August 13, 2026County board approves memorandum of understanding with Olive Grove Charter SchoolSpeakers: Guy R. Walker, Judy Frost

Play 11:14

Board meeting · 59 minThursday, July 9, 2026County Board of Education discusses responses to grand jury reportSpeakers: Guy R. Walker, Judy Frost, Katya Armistead

Play 24:48

Board meeting · 57 minThursday, June 18, 2026Reading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Guy R. Walker, Judy Frost

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Dec 12, 2025 – Sep 10, 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

Nadra EhrmanBoard President · Trustee Area 2 · 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

Marybeth CartyBoard Member · Trustee Area 1 · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.9min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Sarah Anne ReadBoard Member · Trustee Area 3 · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Guy R. WalkerBoard Member · Trustee Area 4 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 84.9min, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Judy FrostBoard Member · Trustee Area 5 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.1min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Katya ArmisteadBoard Member · Trustee Area 6 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Vedamarie Alvarez FloresBoard Vice President · Trustee Area 7 · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.2min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions 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 10 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance5%1%–11%

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–7%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

Public comment0%0%–23%

The two readers didn’t agree on 25% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 9; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 6 of the 10 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 10	Aug 13	Jul 9	Jun 18	Apr 9	Dec 12
Guy R. Walker	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not shown	Present
Nadra Ehrman	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Judy Frost	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not shown	Present
Marybeth Carty	Present	Not shown	Present	Present	Present	Present
Sarah Anne Read	Present	Present	Present	Not shown	Present	Present
Katya Armistead	Present	Not shown	Present	Present	Not shown	Present
Vedamarie Alvarez Flores	Present	Not shown	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0691034 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district