Orinda Union School District

Orinda Union School District Board of Trustees

7 meetings on video, Apr 2026 to Oct 2026. The typical one ran 2 h 27 min in session. We also have parts of 11 older meetings.

Recent meetings

What the body took up lately

Regular meeting · 2 h 27 minMonday, October 19, 2026The board heard presentations on the district demographic study, an actuarial study on other post-employment benefits, and 2026-2027 assessment results.Speakers: Katie Shogan, Hillary Weiner
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Regular meeting · 3 h 03 minMonday, September 14, 2026The board approved the 2025-26 unaudited actual financial report and received an annual technology update on artificial intelligence guidelines and instructional technology practices.Speakers: Katie Shogan
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Regular meeting · 1 h 28 minMonday, August 17, 2026The board approved resolutions on authorized district representatives and alternative certification, and heard reports on the 2026 summer program, summer construction and facilities, start-of-year enrollment, and the 2026-27 enacted state budget.Speakers: Katie Shogan
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Regular meeting · 38 minMonday, June 8, 2026The board approved the 2026-27 Local Control Accountability Plan and adopted the 2026-2027 proposed budget, then took up several other year-end financial items.Speakers: Hillary Weiner, Vinita Anantavat
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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

Plays on the city’s video site ↗
I would say I think I'm supportive of this particular initiative. My personal preference would be to combine the asking for more funding, because I do think it is actually incredibly important that we can recruit the best teachers and other staff to our school district.Eve PhillipsBoard Member · Orinda Union School District Board of Trustees · Apr 13, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:07:30
  • Plays on the city’s video site ↗
    I was just curious to know, not that there are necessarily more resources out there, but if there was more capacity, like, what are the things— maybe there's one answer for elementary, one at middle school— like you would do if there were more hours in the day or more people or more budget or whatever?Eve PhillipsBoard Member · Orinda Union School District Board of Trustees · Apr 13, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:06:25
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 facilities and construction took 15% of this body's meeting time.

Out of 27 hours, older partial meetings included. The two AI readers disagreed on 13% of it; that time stays in the total.

  1. School facilities and construction15% · 4.0 h
  2. School budgets, deficits and cuts9% · 2.4 h
  3. Local tax and bond items (schools and city)2% · 0.4 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

At least 11% of members' remarks raised a concern, of 46 remarks.

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

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 Orinda Union School District Board of Trustees

Minutes speaking per meeting · 7 meetings with names, Apr 13, 2026 – Oct 19, 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
Vinita AnantavatBoard Member · Sat in 6 meetings. We rank members after 8Share0.1+min per meeting, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Edda Collins ColemanBoard Member · Sat in 7 meetings. We rank members after 8Share0.0+min per meeting, at least0 of 7meetings heard, of those seated and not running it—no question counted
Eve PhillipsBoard Member · Sat in 3 meetings. We rank members after 8Share1.6+min per meeting, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those seated and not running it3.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Katie ShoganPresident · ran 7 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 it0.5questions asked per meeting where we named them
Hillary WeinerVice President · Sat in 6 meetings. We rank members after 8Share0.1+min per meeting, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.0questions 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: Katie Shogan 7. A member's minutes leave out the meetings they ran. More on how we count

Public comment

5 of the 7 meetings we counted had a public commenter. The busiest, on Oct 19, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on Oct 19, 20260.9 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