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Washington Community Schools Board of School Trustees

10 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 50 min · 2,589 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 22, 2026
Washington Community Schools board approves teacher contract updates and staff pay changesPlay 38:07
Newest meeting we have
Oct 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Sarah Browning, Secretary · Kyle Cornelius, Member · Tim Hedrick, Vice-President · Garrett Miller, Member · Jason Omer, 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 · 51 minThursday, October 22, 2026Washington Community Schools board approves teacher contract updates and staff pay changesSpeakers: Sarah Browning
Play 38:07
Board meeting · 57 minThursday, August 20, 2026Washington board approves $569,035 baseball and softball field turf proposalSpeakers: Sarah Browning, Garrett Miller
Play 3:49
Board meeting · 49 minThursday, July 16, 2026Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Tim Hedrick
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Board meeting · 29 minThursday, May 21, 2026
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Nov 20, 2025 – Oct 22, 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
Scott ArthurPresident · 2nd · 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
Sarah BrowningSecretary · 1st · We could name only 1% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.0min, at least3 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Tim HedrickVice-President · 1st · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.0min, at least1 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Jason OmerMember · 3rd · 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
Garrett MillerMember · 4th · We could name only 7% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.2min, at least1 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Kyle CorneliusMember · 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
Rob McCormickMember · At-Large · We could name only 25% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.9min, at least2 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions 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
Clips

What board members said

What they've come to realize is by having the dollar rule, schools are holding on and being less efficient than they should be at times because they don't want to lose that building to a charter school, which You know, there's, there's always a negative impact to everything. So there can be some good things and bad things.Scott ArthurPresident · Washington Community Schools Board of School Trustees · Feb 19, 2026Watch the full meeting from 46:32
I think I would say I sympathize with the, uh, the idea that we all want to have our property taxes go down and budgets need to be tightened and, you know, do more with less and this and that. But I, I don't feel like Washington Community Schools has been doing anything very extravagant with our operations.Scott ArthurPresident · Washington Community Schools Board of School Trustees · Jan 15, 2026Watch the full meeting from 20:49
On the map · Phones in school

February 19, 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 finance1%0%–4%
Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%
Safety and discipline0%0%–1%
Public comment0%0%–21%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 29% 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 10; 0 had at least one.

    1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 8 of the 10 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberOct 22Aug 20Jul 16May 21Apr 16Mar 19Feb 19Jan 15Nov 20
    Scott ArthurPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Rob McCormickPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Tim HedrickPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Sarah BrowningPresentPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Kyle CorneliusPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Jason OmerPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Garrett MillerPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 1812450 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district