Visalia Unified Board of Education

11 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 10 min · 28,893 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 8, 2026: Visalia Unified board approves unaudited actuals and classroom salary spending waiver Play 1:50:12
Next · Tuesday, November 17, 2026: 4:30 PM · VUSD District Office Boardroom · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Sep 8, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Todd Oto, BOARD PRESIDENT · Jacqueline A. Gaebe, BOARD MEMBER · Joy M. Naylor, BOARD MEMBER · Randy Villegas, BOARD 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 meetingTuesday, September 8, 2026Visalia Unified board approves unaudited actuals and classroom salary spending waiverEnrollmentSpeakers: Walta S. Gamoian, Paul Belt, Jacqueline A. Gaebe, Joy M. Naylor and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 59 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Visalia Unified board approves $93,000 organizational review contract on 5-1 voteSpeakers: Walta S. Gamoian, Paul Belt, Kenneth Dejonge, Joy M. Naylor and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 29 minThursday, July 23, 2026Speakers: Walta S. Gamoian, Paul Belt, Joy M. Naylor, Randy Villegas

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Board meeting · 3 h 24 minTuesday, May 12, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Paul Belt, Kenneth Dejonge, Jacqueline A. Gaebe, Joy M. Naylor and 1 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Nov 19, 2025 – Sep 8, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 50% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 50% of members’ speaking time named (37%–59%)

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

Todd OtoBOARD PRESIDENT · Trustee Area 4 · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Walta S. GamoianBOARD CLERK · Trustee Area 1 · runs the meeting, not ranked2.6min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Paul BeltBOARD MEMBER · Trustee Area 28.1min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Joy M. NaylorBOARD MEMBER · Trustee Area 33.3min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Kenneth DejongeBOARD MEMBER · Trustee Area 55.6min, at least6 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Randy VillegasBOARD MEMBER · Trustee Area 62.5min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Jacqueline A. GaebeBOARD MEMBER · Trustee Area 7 · We could name only 20% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.4min, at least6 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions 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

Next meetingTuesday, November 17, 20264:30 PM · VUSD District Office BoardroomRegular Meeting - Nov 17 2026The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 11 meetings on our record

Clips

What Randy Villegas said on Aug 18, 2026

I, in looking at this, I also want to make sure that there is, uh, specific attention to detail in regards to something that we brought up at a A few board meetings ago, which is the minimum amount spent on salaries and how we— on classroom salaries in particular, and how we have continuously sought waivers for that.Randy VillegasBOARD MEMBER · Visalia Unified Board of Education · Aug 18, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:09:20

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition11%4%–18%

Public comment9%6%–13%

Budget and finance4%2%–8%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 19% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 10 had at least one. The busiest, on May 12, 2026, heard from 16.

16 on May 12, 202616 speakers8 speakers6.6 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 11 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 8	Aug 18	Jul 23	May 12	Apr 14	Feb 10	Jan 13	Dec 9	Nov 19
Paul Belt	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Walta S. Gamoian	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Joy M. Naylor	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 0641160 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district