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New Berlin School District Board of Education

17 meetings on our record, 11 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 15 min · 4,253 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 26, 2026
New Berlin school board approves budget for school year ending June 30th, 2027Play 23:27
Newest meeting we have
Oct 26, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Mitchell Helmer, Vice President · Renee Koneck, 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 · 29 minMonday, October 26, 2026New Berlin school board approves budget for school year ending June 30th, 2027Speakers: Janet Schulz, Mitchell Helmer, Matt Arend
Play 23:27
Board meeting · 1 h 07 minMonday, August 24, 2026Speakers: Ron Seidl
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Board meeting · 1 h 49 minMonday, August 10, 2026Board approves 2026-27 student and course fee schedulesSpeakers: Janet Schulz, Ron Seidl, Amanda Peterson
Play 1:47:41
Work session · 1 h 59 minMonday, July 27, 2026New Berlin school board approves paying non-exempt staff for weather-canceled daysChronic absenteeismPhones in schoolSpeakers: Janet Schulz, Ron Seidl, Matt Arend, Matt Zielinski and 1 more
Play 1:45:34
The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Nov 10, 2025 – Oct 26, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat11 board meetings are too few to tell these 4 members apart.
Coverage: about 80% of members’ speaking time named (43%–81%)

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
Janet SchulzPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare7.4min, at least6 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart6.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Matt ArendTreasurerShare2.0min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.8questions asked per meeting, at least
Mitchell HelmerVice PresidentShare1.3min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Renee KoneckMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted
Amanda PetersonMemberShare1.6min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Ron SeidlClerk · We could name only 17% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.7min, at least6 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions asked per meeting, at least
Matt ZielinskiMemberShare1.2min, at least4 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.5questions 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 17 meetings on our record
Clips

What board members said

Do we have any research? On if we were to actually take away these devices? Like, all of our testing is done for the state level on these devices. Like, my concern about like not letting them have them is like, how is that going to affect their test scores from a state level?Amanda PetersonMember · New Berlin School District Board of Education · May 26, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:53:05
What type of filters are there being used to make sure kids are not getting at content that they shouldn't be seeing?Janet SchulzPresident · New Berlin School District Board of Education · May 26, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:32:39
On the map · Phones in school

May 26, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance5%1%–11%
Ceremony and recognition2%0%–4%
Public comment1%0%–5%
Safety and discipline0%0%–18%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 36% 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 17 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 10, 2026, heard from 4.

    4 on Aug 10, 20264 speakers2 speakers0.3 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 11 of the 17 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberOct 26Aug 24Aug 10Jul 27Jun 22Jun 8May 26Apr 13Mar 9Dec 8Nov 10
    Janet SchulzPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Ron SeidlNot shownNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentNot shownPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Matt ArendPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedNot recordedNot recordedNot recordedNot recorded
    Amanda PetersonNot shownNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedNot recordedNot recordedNot recordedNot recorded
    Matt ZielinskiNot shownNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Mitchell HelmerPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Renee KoneckPresentPresentNot recordedNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentNot recorded

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 5510470 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district