Mason Public Schools (Ingham) Board of Education

11 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 53 min · 3,322 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 10, 2026: Mason school board hears data center financial impact presentation, approves field trips Play 17:34
Newest meeting we have: Sep 10, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Liz Evans, President · Matt Bennett, Trustee · Bryan Droscha, Trustee · Steve Duane, Vice President · Matt Hall, Trustee · Amy Lark, Secretary · Christopher Mumby, Treasurer

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 50 minThursday, September 10, 2026Mason school board hears data center financial impact presentation, approves field tripsAI in schoolsReading and test scores

Play 17:34

Board meeting · 30 minThursday, August 13, 2026Mason Board of Education fills vacated trustee seat, approves 2026 winter tax leviesSpeakers: Steve Duane, Amy Lark, Christopher Mumby, Matt Bennett and 2 more

Play 10:50

Board meeting · 1 h 00 minThursday, May 14, 2026AI in schoolsSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Christopher Mumby

Watch

Board meeting · 45 minThursday, February 12, 2026Phones in schoolSpeakers: Steve Duane

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Nov 13, 2025 – Sep 10, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 41% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 41% of members’ speaking time named (30%–65%)

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

Liz EvansPresident · runs the meeting, not ranked4.1min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Matt BennettTrustee · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Bryan DroschaTrustee · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Steve DuaneVice President · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.4min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Matt HallTrustee · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Amy LarkSecretary · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Christopher MumbyTreasurer · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.1min, at least4 of 6meetings 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 11 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

February 12, 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

Public comment8%1%–19%

Ceremony and recognition7%1%–16%

Budget and finance4%1%–9%

Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 44% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 10, 2026, heard from 8.

8 on Sep 10, 20268 speakers4 speakers1.9 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 11 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 10	Aug 13	May 14	Feb 12	Jan 8	Nov 13
Amy Lark	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2623070 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district