Lapeer Community Schools Board of Education

13 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year and 6 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 07 min · 4,282 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 7, 2026: School board awards $90,650 bus garage and chiller fencing contract Play 45:55
Newest meeting we have: Oct 7, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Summer Putnam, Board President · Casey Carpenter, Board member · Tim Lipka, Board member · Lisa Novak, Board member · John Van Wagoner, Board member · Craig Watson, Board Vice President

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 58 minWednesday, October 7, 2026School board awards $90,650 bus garage and chiller fencing contractAI in schoolsBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Craig Watson, Lisa Novak, April LaBar, Casey Carpenter

Play 45:55

Board meeting · 46 minWednesday, August 5, 2026Lapeer board hears athletic update and committee report on $3 million state aid noteSpeakers: Craig Watson, April LaBar

Play 1:20

Board meeting · 1 h 14 minWednesday, March 4, 2026Speakers: Craig Watson, Tim Lipka

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 56 minWednesday, February 4, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Craig Watson, John Van Wagoner

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 7 board meetings, Nov 5, 2025 – Oct 7, 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

Summer PutnamBoard President · runs the meeting, not ranked0.0min, at least0 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Casey CarpenterBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.7min, at least2 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

April LaBarBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.0min, at least4 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Tim LipkaBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Lisa NovakBoard member · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

John Van WagonerBoard member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.4min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Craig WatsonBoard Vice President · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.3min, at least7 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.1questions 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 13 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment7%2%–13%

Budget and finance4%1%–9%

Safety and discipline2%0%–7%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–4%

The two readers didn’t agree on 26% 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 13 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 8 had at least one. The busiest, on Feb 4, 2026, heard from 12.

12 on Feb 4, 202612 speakers6 speakers2.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 2621180 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district