South Lyon Community Schools Board of Education

6 meetings on our record, all from the past year · typical meeting 47 min · 8,412 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 15, 2026: Board hears $2,259,281 bid recommendation for South Lyon East pool and scoreboard Play 15:13
Newest meeting we have: Sep 15, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Jennifer Urtel, President · Michele Lake, T rustee · Teresa M. Laszlo, Vice-President · Patrick Maguire, Trustee · Ann Rimanelli, Secretary · Daniel Schwegler, Trustee

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 40 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Board hears $2,259,281 bid recommendation for South Lyon East pool and scoreboardSpeakers: Teresa M. Laszlo, Ann Rimanelli, Martin D. Leftwich, Michele Lake and 1 more

Play 15:13

Board meeting · 53 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Board approves $75,125 literacy materials purchase and emergency plan updateSpeakers: Teresa M. Laszlo, Ann Rimanelli, Martin D. Leftwich, Michele Lake and 2 more

Play 1:23

Board meeting · 41 minTuesday, July 21, 2026South Lyon board approves $542,708 pool equipment pre-purchase, roofing consultant contractSpeakers: Ann Rimanelli, Martin D. Leftwich, Michele Lake, Patrick Maguire

Play 6:42

Board meeting · 31 minTuesday, June 16, 2026Speakers: Ann Rimanelli, Martin D. Leftwich, Patrick Maguire, Daniel Schwegler

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Nov 11, 2025 – Sep 15, 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

Jennifer UrtelPresident · at-large · 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

Members · listed by seat

Michele LakeT rustee · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.7min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Teresa M. LaszloVice-President · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.6min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Martin D. LeftwichTreasurer · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.7min, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Patrick MaguireTrustee · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.3min, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Ann RimanelliSecretary · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.7min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Daniel SchweglerTrustee · at-large · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.8min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions 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 6 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

May 19, 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

Ceremony and recognition14%3%–22%

Budget and finance6%0%–15%

Public comment5%0%–10%

Safety and discipline3%0%–9%

The two readers didn’t agree on 16% 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 6 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on May 19, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on May 19, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.7 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 5 of the 6 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 15	Aug 18	Jul 21	Jun 16	May 19	Nov 11
Martin D. Leftwich	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Patrick Maguire	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present
Teresa M. Laszlo	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Jennifer Urtel	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Ann Rimanelli	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Michele Lake	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not shown	Present	Not recorded
Daniel Schwegler	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not shown	Present	Present	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2632250 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district