Laurel Elem School District Board of Trustees

6 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · 1,204 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026: Laurel board approves boys soccer co-op with Reed Point High School for 2027-28 Play 15:20
Newest meeting we have: Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Christopher Lorash, Board Chair · Kayla Gray, Trustee · Nowell Hoff, Trustee · Jennifer Jones, Board Vice-Chairman · Vanessa Lawrence-Long, Trustee · Donnie McVee, Trustee · Raelynn Meissner, Trustee

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 25 minMonday, September 14, 2026Laurel board approves boys soccer co-op with Reed Point High School for 2027-28Phones in schoolSpeakers: Jennifer Jones, Raelynn Meissner, Vanessa Lawrence-Long, Kayla Gray and 1 more

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Board meeting · 3 h 13 minMonday, June 22, 2026Speakers: Jennifer Jones, Raelynn Meissner, Vanessa Lawrence-Long, Kayla Gray and 2 more

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Board meeting · 2 h 08 minMonday, June 8, 2026Speakers: Jennifer Jones, Vanessa Lawrence-Long, Nowell Hoff, Donnie McVee

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The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 3 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingChristopher LorashBoard Chair · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameKayla GrayTrustee3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Nowell HoffTrustee4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Jennifer JonesBoard Vice-Chairman5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Vanessa Lawrence-LongTrustee4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Donnie McVeeTrustee5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Raelynn MeissnerTrustee4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 6 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

September 14, 2026

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 finance12%5%–19%

Safety and discipline8%0%–19%

Public comment1%0%–4%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 35% 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 6 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 5 had at least one. The busiest, on Jun 22, 2026, heard from 6.

6 on Jun 22, 20266 speakers3 speakers2.8 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3016200 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district