Stillwater Central School District Board of Education

17 meetings on our record, 14 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 43 min · 1,033 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 26, 2026: Stillwater school board adopts safety plan, will trial monthly meetings Play 6:28
Newest meeting we have: Aug 26, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Melissa DeCota, President · Tara Gutman, Vice President · Darrell Hazen, Member · Valerie Masterson, Member · Robert McCoy, Member · Jon Mueller, Member · Carrie Lilac Sabourin, Member · Aimee Salecker, Member · Melissa Zdonick, Member

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

Board meeting · 16 minWednesday, August 26, 2026Stillwater school board adopts safety plan, will trial monthly meetingsSafety, weapons and police

Play 6:28

Board meeting · 57 minWednesday, August 12, 2026Stillwater board adopts 2026-2027 tax rates as speakers address elementary library staffingBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Darrell Hazen

Play 14:18

Board meeting · 52 minThursday, June 25, 2026Reading and test scores

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Board meeting · 39 minWednesday, June 10, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Dec 17, 2025 – Aug 12, 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

Melissa DeCotaPresident · at-large · 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

Tara GutmanVice President · at-large · We could name only 29% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least2 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Darrell HazenMember · at-large1.2min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Valerie MastersonMember · at-large · We could name only 7% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.1min, at least1 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Robert McCoyMember · at-large · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jon MuellerMember · at-large · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Carrie Lilac SabourinMember · at-large · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Aimee SaleckerMember · at-large · We could name only 11% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.1min, at least2 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Melissa ZdonickMember · at-large0.5min, at least1 of 8meetings 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

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment7%4%–11%

Budget and finance4%0%–11%

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–7%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 38% 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 15; 10 had at least one. The busiest, on Jan 7, 2026, heard from 7.

7 on Jan 7, 20267 speakers4 speakers1.5 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3628110 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district