Beacon City School District Board

19 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 6 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 47 min · 2,635 students · 8 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 19, 2026: Beacon school board approves consent agenda; public comment raises Glenham building concerns Play 27:26
Newest meeting we have: Oct 19, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Flora Stadler, President · Catherine Buscemi, Board Member · Semra Ercin, Board Member · Meredith Heuer, Vice-President of the Board · Christopher Lewine, Board Member · Eric Schetter, Board Member · Kaitlyn Secor, Board Member · Jermaine Wright, 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 48 minMonday, October 19, 2026Beacon school board approves consent agenda; public comment raises Glenham building concernsAI in schoolsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Meredith Heuer, Catherine Buscemi, Christopher Lewine, Eric Schetter and 1 more

Play 27:26

Board meeting · 2 h 00 minMonday, October 5, 2026Beacon board to review senior tax exemption after school tax concerns at public commentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Meredith Heuer, Semra Ercin, Catherine Buscemi, Christopher Lewine and 2 more

Play 7:01

Board meeting · 1 h 07 minMonday, August 24, 2026Beacon school board approves 2026-2027 tax warrant 8-0Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Christopher Lewine, Kaitlyn Secor

Play 1:05:35

Board meeting · 1 h 16 minThursday, July 30, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Jermaine Wright

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, Nov 17, 2025 – Oct 19, 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

Flora StadlerPresident · 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

Members · listed by seat

Catherine BuscemiBoard Member · We could name only 22% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Semra ErcinBoard Member · We could name only 23% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least5 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Meredith HeuerVice-President of the Board0.8min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Christopher LewineBoard Member0.8min, at least9 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Eric SchetterBoard Member · We could name only 22% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.4min, at least8 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Kaitlyn SecorBoard Member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.6min, at least4 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jermaine WrightBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

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

On the map · Phones in school

November 17, 2025

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read. 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%6%–30%

Safety and discipline6%0%–15%

Public comment2%0%–5%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–3%

The two readers didn’t agree on 28% 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 12; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on Oct 19, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Oct 19, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.4 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 3 of the 19 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 19	Oct 5	Aug 24	Jul 30	Jun 22	Jun 8	Apr 13	Mar 23	Feb 19	Feb 9	Dec 15	Nov 17
Eric Schetter	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Christopher Lewine	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Flora Stadler	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Meredith Heuer	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Semra Ercin	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Catherine Buscemi	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Jermaine Wright	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Kaitlyn Secor	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3604140 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district