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Onalaska School District Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 8 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 59 min · 2,970 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026
Onalaska school board adopts 2026-27 preliminary budgetPlay 17:49
Newest meeting we have
Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Mark Cassellius, Board of Education Member, Treasurer · Ann Garrity, Board of Education Member, Vice President · Brian Haefs, Board of Education Member, Clerk · Tracy Laufenberg, Board of Education Member, Director · Tesia Marshik, Board of Education Member, Director · Bridget Thomas, Board of Education Member, Director

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 · 27 minMonday, September 28, 2026Onalaska school board adopts 2026-27 preliminary budgetEnrollmentSpeakers: Mark Cassellius, Tracy Laufenberg, Bridget Thomas
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Board meeting · 1 h 16 minMonday, September 14, 2026Speakers: Ann Garrity, Brian Haefs, Mark Cassellius
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Board meeting · 1 h 09 minMonday, August 24, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Ann Garrity, Brian Haefs, Tracy Laufenberg, Tesia Marshik and 1 more
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Board meeting · 44 minMonday, July 13, 2026AI in schoolsSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Ann Garrity, Brian Haefs, Tesia Marshik
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 8 board meetings, May 11, 2026 – 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
Aaron McDonaldBoard of Education Member, President · runs the meeting, not rankedShare0.0min, at least0 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Mark CasselliusBoard of Education Member, TreasurerShare0.5min, at least4 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Ann GarrityBoard of Education Member, Vice PresidentShare0.7min, at least5 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Brian HaefsBoard of Education Member, Clerk · Seated for 7 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.5min, at least4 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Tracy LaufenbergBoard of Education Member, Director · We could name only 23% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.2min, at least5 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Tesia MarshikBoard of Education Member, DirectorShare0.5min, at least4 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Bridget ThomasBoard of Education Member, Director · We could name only 19% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.2min, at least4 of 8meetings 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 10 meetings on our record
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. 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 finance15%6%–26%
Ceremony and recognition4%1%–9%
Safety and discipline0%0%–3%
Public comment0%0%–21%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 29% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 0 had at least one.

    1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 7 of the 10 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 28Sep 14Aug 24Jul 13Jun 22Jun 8May 26May 11
    Aaron McDonaldPresentNot recordedPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresent
    Ann GarrityPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Tesia MarshikPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Mark CasselliusPresentNot recordedPresentNot shownPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Brian HaefsPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Tracy LaufenbergPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Bridget ThomasPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 5511010 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district