Lafayette School District

Lafayette School District Governing Board

7 meetings on video, Apr 2026 to Oct 2026. The typical one ran 2 h 36 min in session. We also have parts of 11 older meetings.

Recent meetings

What the body took up lately

Meeting · 3 h 26 minWednesday, October 21, 2026The board reviewed the Stanley Math Pathway and CAASPP results and approved the instructional calendar, which passed unanimously.Speakers: Rob Sturm, Dave Smith, Alida Smit
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Meeting · 2 h 42 minWednesday, September 16, 2026The board discussed a draft 27-28 instructional calendar and proposed changes to board policies, and approved the 25-26 unaudited actuals.Speakers: Dave Smith, Rob Sturm, Jon Deane, Alida Smit
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Meeting · 1 h 55 minWednesday, August 19, 2026The board approved the creation of accounts with Mechanics Bank and approved an MOU with the City of Lafayette for after-school programs, both unanimously.Speakers: Katy Foreman, Rob Sturm, Dave Smith, Jon Deane
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Meeting · 1 h 50 minWednesday, June 10, 2026The board heard an end-of-year recap, held a first reading of several board policies, and adopted the LCAP budget overview.Speakers: Rob Sturm, Dave Smith
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All 18 meetings
How we know

We count one meeting per body per day. A summary line shows only where a second AI reader checked every sentence against the transcript. More on how we count

Clips

What members said

No clip on this body passed our checks.
How we know

Officials on the body's roster only, never members of the public. Each clip plays here from where the member began speaking, and we checked who is speaking before it went up. More on how we count

Where the time went

School budgets, deficits and cuts took 25% of this body's meeting time.

Out of 47 hours, older partial meetings included. The two AI readers disagreed on 20% of it; that time stays in the total.

  1. School budgets, deficits and cuts25% · 11.8 h
  2. Local tax and bond items (schools and city)11% · 5.3 h
  3. School facilities and construction1% · 0.5 h
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How we know

Two AI readers (Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini) each split every transcript into agenda items and gave each one issue from a fixed list. A stretch counts toward an issue only where both agree (lines on an item's edge are left out); the rest is 'unknown' and stays in the total. An issue's time is shown only when an independent Claude Opus read of randomly drawn moments (longer lines more likely) agrees at a Wilson lower bound of .90 or better. More on how we count

How members spoke, as a body

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Board level only: never one member, never ranked against other bodies. A floor: the strict rule misses many polite concerns.

— one member gave over half the remarks.
How we know

Three AI models read each member remark on these items. A remark counts as raising a concern only when all three agree, so the share is a floor. Never one member, never ranked against other bodies. More on how we count

The members

Who talks on the Lafayette School District Governing Board

Minutes speaking per meeting · 6 meetings with names, Apr 15, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

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Listed by seatMuch of what members say isn't matched to a person yet, so these minutes are floors. The real totals are higher.

Minutes are each member’s own speaking time that we could match to them, so each is a floor. We are measuring how much we miss.

Members · listed by seat
Jon DeaneClerk · Sat in 6 meetings. We rank members after 8Share0.7+min per meeting, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Katy ForemanPresident · ran 6 meetings · Sat in 0 meetings they didn't chair. We rank members after 8—min per meeting0 of 0meetings heard, of those seated and not running it2.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Alida SmitBoard Member · Sat in 6 meetings. We rank members after 8Share0.6+min per meeting, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.2questions asked per meeting where we named them
Dave SmithBoard Member · Sat in 6 meetings. We rank members after 8Share11.5+min per meeting, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those seated and not running it2.2questions asked per meeting where we named them
Rob SturmBoard Member · Sat in 6 meetings. We rank members after 8Share10.2+min per meeting, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those seated and not running it1.1questions asked per meeting where we named them

Minutes speaking per meeting held while seated, leaving out the meetings the member ran; a meeting they missed, or where we couldn’t match their voice, counts as zero, so every number is a floor · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet · How we count

How we know

Two AI readers named each voice and had to agree. A blind reader checked 206 names across this group of bodies, as drawn: 206 were right. Minutes count meetings while the member was seated; a meeting they missed counts as zero. Questions count the times a member put a real question to staff, presenters or colleagues; two AI readers had to agree, and 287 of 290 we checked were real questions. Only speech we could name counts, so they are floors. Meetings each member ran, of those counted here, from the body's dated officer list: Katy Foreman 6. A member's minutes leave out the meetings they ran. More on how we count

Public comment

4 of the 7 meetings we counted had a public commenter.

1.6 a meeting on average
How we know

We count public commenters. They are counted, never named or quoted. Officials, staff and invited presenters aren't counted. We checked the count against a full read of 50 meetings: 50 were within one speaker. More on how we count

Attendance

The roll call

No roll call we could read at these meetings.

Members from the body’s own roster page · Meetings from videos the district posted