Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools Board of Education

12 meetings on our record, all from the past year · typical meeting 2 h 09 min · 8,777 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 26, 2026: Prior Lake-Savage board approves 2026-2027 goals, reviews 2027-2028 calendar options Play 54:21
Newest meeting we have: Oct 26, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

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

Work session · 3 h 30 minMonday, October 26, 2026Prior Lake-Savage board approves 2026-2027 goals, reviews 2027-2028 calendar optionsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Jessica Olstad, Jessica Mason, Lisa Atkinson, Mary Frantz and 2 more

Play 54:21

Board meeting · 1 h 44 minMonday, October 12, 2026Board approves purchase orders over $25,000 on 4-2 vote, tables board goalsBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Amy Bullyan, Jessica Olstad, Jessica Mason, Mary Frantz and 2 more

Play 1:39:09

Work session · 2 h 10 minMonday, September 28, 2026Prior Lake-Savage board discusses earlier school start, board goals and community education spendingSpeakers: Jessica Mason

Play 1:04

Board meeting · 1 h 40 minMonday, September 14, 2026EnrollmentSpeakers: Amy Bullyan, Jessica Olstad, Jessica Mason, Lisa Atkinson and 2 more

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, May 18, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat12 board meetings are too few to tell these 5 members apart.

Coverage: about 63% of members’ speaking time named (52%–64%)

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

Amy BullyanBoard Chair · runs the meeting, not ranked9.1min, at least4 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Lisa AtkinsonBoard Director5.7min, at least8 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Mary FrantzBoard Director6.1min, at least10 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Charles JohnsonBoard Director · We could name only 28% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.8min, at least9 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Jessica MasonBoard Treasurer4.4min, at least9 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.9questions asked per meeting, at least

Jessica OlstadBoard Vice-Chair/Clerk4.8min, at least10 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Dustin SmithBoard Director3.4min, at least8 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.0questions 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 12 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

October 26, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance16%3%–36%

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–5%

Public comment1%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–18%

The two readers didn’t agree on 15% 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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 5 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 10, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Aug 10, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.6 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 12 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 26	Oct 12	Sep 28	Sep 14	Aug 24	Aug 10	Jul 20	Jun 15	Jun 2	Jun 1	May 26	May 18
Amy Bullyan	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded
Charles Johnson	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Dustin Smith	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Jessica Mason	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Mary Frantz	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Lisa Atkinson	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Jessica Olstad	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2730060 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district