Smith Valley Elementary School District School Board

13 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 53 min · 200 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 29, 2026: Smith Valley board takes up Montana DOT offer tied to roundabout construction Play 43:34
Newest meeting we have: Sep 29, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Robert (Bob) Sutton, Board Chair · Lacie Anvik, Trustee · Cody Brown, Trustee · Joe Heidecker, Vice Chair · Josh Hunt, Trustee

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Special meeting · 53 minTuesday, September 29, 2026Smith Valley board takes up Montana DOT offer tied to roundabout constructionSpeakers: Joe Heidecker, Cody Brown, Lacie Anvik

Play 43:34

Board meeting · 56 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Board discusses transportation department contract and guardrails near school

Play 19:01

Board meeting · 39 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Smith Valley board takes up FY27 staff and student-parent handbooks, policy changes

Play 19:40

Board meeting · 1 h 30 minTuesday, June 16, 2026Speakers: Joe Heidecker

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Dec 16, 2025 – Sep 29, 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

Robert (Bob) SuttonBoard Chair · 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

Lacie AnvikTrustee · We could name only 5% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least3 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Cody BrownTrustee · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Joe HeideckerVice Chair · We could name only 15% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.6min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Josh HuntTrustee · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions 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 13 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance4%1%–8%

Safety and discipline0%0%–18%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–18%

Public comment0%0%–18%

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 13 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on May 22, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on May 22, 20262 speakers1 speaker0.3 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3002850 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district