Westfield Board of Education

3 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · 5,979 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 15, 2026: Board meeting, 1 h 51 min
Newest meeting we have: Sep 15, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Robert Benacchio, Board President · Kent Diamond, Board member · Patrick Duffy, Board member · Leila Morrelli, Board member · Sonal Patel, Board member · Kristen Sonnek-Schmelz, Board Vice President · Julie Steinberg, Board member · Anthony Tessitore, Board member · Mary Wickens, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 51 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Speakers: Kristen Sonnek-Schmelz, Kent Diamond, Sonal Patel, Anthony Tessitore and 1 more

Board meeting · 50 minTuesday, August 25, 2026AI in schoolsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Kent Diamond, Sonal Patel, Julie Steinberg, Mary Wickens

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingRobert BenacchioBoard President · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameKent DiamondBoard member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Patrick DuffyBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Leila MorrelliBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Sonal PatelBoard member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Kristen Sonnek-SchmelzBoard Vice President1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Julie SteinbergBoard member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Anthony TessitoreBoard member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Mary WickensBoard member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 3 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

August 25, 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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Federal district ID 3417760 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district