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Washougal School District Board of Education

22 meetings on our record, 16 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 16 min · 2,825 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 24, 2026
Washougal board approves 2026-27 board and superintendent operating principlesPlay 15:59
Newest meeting we have
Sep 24, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Sadie McKenzie, Board President · Jane Long, Board member · Ida Royer, Board Legislative Representative

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 · 56 minThursday, September 24, 2026Washougal board approves 2026-27 board and superintendent operating principlesSpeakers: Greg Retchless, Ida Royer
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Work session · 1 h 13 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Speakers: Greg Retchless, Ida Royer
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Board meeting · 25 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Speakers: Paul Hooper
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Board meeting · 1 h 13 minTuesday, May 26, 2026Speakers: Paul Hooper
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 16 board meetings, Nov 10, 2025 – Sep 24, 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
Sadie McKenzieBoard President · District 3 · runs the meeting, not rankedShare1.5min, at least3 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.3questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Greg RetchlessBoard member · District 1Share1.3min, at least8 of 16meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.1questions asked per meeting, at least
Jane LongBoard member · District 2Share1.2min, at least9 of 14meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Ida RoyerBoard Legislative Representative · District 4 · We could name only 27% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.5min, at least9 of 16meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Paul HooperBoard member · District 5 · We could name only 27% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.5min, at least8 of 16meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions 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 22 meetings on our record
Clips

What Paul Hooper said on Nov 10, 2025

Like, do a review of the mandates that are out there that may have not been funded. And like, if it doesn't have demonstrable student benefit, like, why are we focusing on it?Paul HooperBoard member · Washougal School District Board of Education · Nov 10, 2025Watch the full meeting from 3:19:31
On the map · Phones in school

November 10, 2025

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 3 of its meetings. 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 finance8%4%–14%
Public comment2%0%–5%
Ceremony and recognition2%0%–5%
Safety and discipline0%0%–13%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 14% 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 22 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 18; 4 had at least one. The busiest, on Dec 9, 2025, heard from 3.

    3 on Dec 9, 20253 speakers2 speakers0.5 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 1 of the 22 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 24Sep 8Aug 25May 26May 12Apr 28Apr 14Mar 24Mar 10Feb 24Feb 10Jan 27Jan 16Dec 9Nov 25Nov 10

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 5309540 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district