Whitefish Elementary School District Board of Trustees

19 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 7 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 23 min · 1,333 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Special meeting
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Elizabeth Pitman, Chair · Rayne Beach, Board member · Quincy Bennetts, Board member · Jerrie Boksich, Board member · Karin Hilding, Board member · Gloria Nelson, Board member · Darcy Schellinger, Vice Chair

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Special meetingTuesday, September 22, 2026

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 13 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Whitefish board hears high school expansion is on track, heat connection pendingReading and test scores

Play 31:08

Board meeting · 1 h 24 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Whitefish board takes up final '26-'27 budget and credit card vendor changeReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Darcy Schellinger, Quincy Bennetts

Play 43:11

Board meeting · 1 h 36 minTuesday, July 14, 2026Whitefish board hears high school expansion update, reviews preliminary budget and field leaseEnrollmentSpeakers: Darcy Schellinger, Jerrie Boksich, Rayne Beach

Play 3:33

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Nov 11, 2025 – Sep 8, 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

Elizabeth PitmanChair · 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

Darcy SchellingerVice Chair · runs the meeting, not ranked1.2min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Rayne BeachBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Quincy BennettsBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least2 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jerrie BoksichBoard member · We could name only 11% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least6 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Karin HildingBoard member · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Gloria NelsonBoard 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 19 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance14%8%–21%

Public comment3%0%–8%

Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–16%

The two readers didn’t agree on 18% 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 19 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 7 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 14, 2026, heard from 11.

11 on Apr 14, 202611 speakers6 speakers1.6 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3027740 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district