And you can't improve staff development without impacting the budget. Everything is interrelated. People who do not serve on boards find this difficult to understand. Every issue is special , even when it's not special to you. When people address the school district through employees or members of the school board, they are expressing some thing of special interest to them.
Board members are simply citizens until there's a quorum and the meeting is called to order .
Unless it's an official board meeting, everything an individual board member does is unofficial. The school district is not well served by school board members who play the Lone Ranger or Rambo. When things are going well these things aren't important. Lack of attention to these things can derail a board, and when things start going downhill these are the things that get really important. Deal with them now.