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Solon City School District board

17 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 7 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 34 min · 4,591 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026
Solon school board hears first reading of policy updates, including AI recording rulesPlay 12:53
Newest meeting we have
Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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On the board: Julie Glavin, President · Stephanie Abramowitz, Board member · Michele Barksdale, Board member · John Heckman, Vice President · Kevin Patton, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 51 minMonday, September 28, 2026Solon school board hears first reading of policy updates, including AI recording rulesAI in schoolsReading and test scores
Play 12:53
Board meeting · 23 minMonday, September 14, 2026Solon board considers $1,038,118.32 in bills, including replacement busesSpeakers: Stephanie Abramowitz
Play 3:21
Board meeting · 28 minMonday, August 3, 2026Speakers: John Heckman
Watch
Board meeting · 17 minMonday, July 13, 2026Speakers: John Heckman
Watch
The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Nov 10, 2025 – Sep 28, 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
Julie GlavinPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare0.0min, at least0 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted
Members · listed by seat
Stephanie AbramowitzBoard member · We could name only 12% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.2min, at least2 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Michele BarksdaleBoard member · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.1min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
John HeckmanVice PresidentShare1.1min, at least5 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Kevin PattonBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.0min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions 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 17 meetings on our record
On the map · Phones in school

January 26, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance14%10%–20%
Public comment3%0%–10%
Ceremony and recognition1%0%–4%
Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 33% 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 17 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on Nov 10, 2025, heard from 4.

    4 on Nov 10, 20254 speakers2 speakers0.6 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 10 of the 17 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 28Sep 14Aug 3Jul 13May 11Apr 13Mar 16Jan 26Jan 12Nov 10
    Stephanie AbramowitzPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recorded
    Michele BarksdalePresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Julie GlavinPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentNot recorded
    John HeckmanPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Kevin PattonPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 3904660 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district