North Syracuse Central School District Board of Education

19 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 7 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 20 min · 7,990 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026: North Syracuse board proclaims Food Service Appreciation Week, hears elementary school goal reports Play 4:29
Newest meeting we have: Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Michael A. Mirizio, President · Robert Crabtree, Board member · Paul Farfaglia, Vice President · Carol Goehner, Board member · Matthew Hermann, Board member · Joshua Ludden, Board member · Cheryl McDonald, Board member · Amanda Sugrue, Board member · Mark Thorne, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 06 minMonday, September 28, 2026North Syracuse board proclaims Food Service Appreciation Week, hears elementary school goal reportsChronic absenteeismReading and test scoresSpeakers: Paul Farfaglia, Robert Crabtree, Joshua Ludden, Mark Thorne

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Board meeting · 1 h 12 minMonday, September 14, 2026AI in schoolsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Robert Crabtree

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Board meeting · 1 h 31 minMonday, August 24, 2026Safety, weapons and police

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Board meeting · 33 minMonday, June 22, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Nov 17, 2025 – Sep 28, 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

Michael A. MirizioPresident · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted

Paul FarfagliaVice President · runs the meeting, not ranked1.3min, at least4 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Robert CrabtreeBoard member4.9min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Carol GoehnerBoard member · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Matthew HermannBoard member · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Joshua LuddenBoard member · We could name only 13% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least4 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Cheryl McDonaldBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.1min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Amanda SugrueBoard member · 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

Mark ThorneBoard member · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.0min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions 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 19 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

November 17, 2025

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 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

Budget and finance9%2%–17%

Ceremony and recognition8%4%–13%

Public comment4%0%–11%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 33% 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 19 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 24, 2026, heard from 10.

10 on Aug 24, 202610 speakers5 speakers1.3 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 3621210 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district