Westfield-Washington Schools Board of School Trustees

8 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 1 h 19 min · 9,701 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Westfield Washington board holds hearing on proposed $216,029,399 budget for 2027 Play 1:17:12
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Bill Anderson, Vice President · Carrie Larrison, Board member · Mike Steele, Board member · Amber N. Willis, 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 meeting · 1 h 19 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Westfield Washington board holds hearing on proposed $216,029,399 budget for 2027Speakers: Rebecca Ogle

Play 1:17:12

Board meeting · 1 h 48 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Westfield Washington board approves lease resolutions for Destination Westfield Phase 2 projectsSpeakers: Rebecca Ogle

Play 1:17:06

Work session · 1 h 16 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsSafety, weapons and police

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Board meeting · 1 h 13 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Rebecca Ogle

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 7 board meetings, May 12, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 57% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 57% of members’ speaking time named (35%–76%)

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

Rebecca OgleBoard President · runs the meeting, not ranked8.6min, at least6 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Bill AndersonVice President · 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

Carrie LarrisonBoard member · 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

Mike SteeleBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked9.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Amber N. WillisBoard member · 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

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 8 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

May 12, 2026

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 finance17%2%–37%

Ceremony and recognition14%3%–24%

Safety and discipline0%0%–3%

Public comment0%0%–2%

The two readers didn’t agree on 15% 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 8 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 8, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Sep 8, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.4 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 1813080 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district