Lake Central School Corporation Board of School Trustees

12 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 20 min · 9,204 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 21, 2026: Lake Central board reviews policy updates, holds hearing on 2027 budget Play 11:45
Newest meeting we have: Sep 21, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Cindy Sues, President · Nicole Kelly, Secretary · Howard Marshall, Member · Louise Tallent, 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 54 minMonday, September 21, 2026Lake Central board reviews policy updates, holds hearing on 2027 budgetChronic absenteeismAI in schoolsReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Janice Malchow, Louise Tallent

Play 11:45

Board meeting · 1 h 20 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Lake Central board approves advertising budget, capital projects and bus plansReading and test scoresSpeakers: Janice Malchow, Nicole Kelly, Howard Marshall, Louise Tallent

Play 1:11:17

Board meeting · 52 minMonday, August 24, 2026Lake Central board approves pay for classified staff during emergency storm closuresReading and test scoresSpeakers: Janice Malchow, Nicole Kelly, Howard Marshall, Louise Tallent

Play 12:13

Board meeting · 1 h 43 minMonday, August 3, 2026Chronic absenteeismAI in schoolsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Janice Malchow, Nicole Kelly, Howard Marshall, Louise Tallent

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Mar 16, 2026 – Sep 21, 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

Cindy SuesPresident · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Janice MalchowVice President · runs the meeting, not ranked1.8min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Nicole KellySecretary0.5min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Howard MarshallMember0.4min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Louise TallentMember0.6min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions 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 12 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

March 16, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 3 of its meetings. 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

Ceremony and recognition30%16%–47%

Budget and finance10%2%–21%

Public comment1%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–19%

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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 2 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 1805450 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district