Thornapple Kellogg School District board

11 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 9 with unconfirmed dates · 3,148 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Jul 14, 2026: Thornapple Kellogg board approves annual School Loan Revolving Fund resolution Play 1:27:03
Newest meeting we have: Jul 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Derrick Brock, Board President · Jim Flikkema, Board Trustee · Brenda Hess, Board Secretary · Keara Hilton, Board Trustee · Mark Price, Board Treasurer · Katie Stanton, Board Trustee · Tyler Wenger, Board Vice-President

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 31 minTuesday, July 14, 2026Thornapple Kellogg board approves annual School Loan Revolving Fund resolutionSpeakers: Derrick Brock, Jim Flikkema, Brenda Hess, Keara Hilton and 2 more

Play 1:27:03

Board meeting · 2 h 03 minMonday, May 11, 2026Thornapple Kellogg board reviews $430,000 bus loop option for McFall pickup trafficEnrollmentPhones in school

Play 1:21:58

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingDerrick BrockBoard President · shown, not ranked1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting

Members · listed by nameJim FlikkemaBoard Trustee1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Brenda HessBoard Secretary1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Keara HiltonBoard Trustee1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Mark PriceBoard Treasurer1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Katie StantonBoard Trustee—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Tyler WengerBoard Vice-President1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting

Meetings on our record

All 11 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

May 11, 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.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Watch at 1:02:13 on the district’s site ↗

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment8%5%–12%

Budget and finance6%1%–14%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 21% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 5 had at least one.

Attendance

The roll call at 2 of the 11 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Jul 14	May 11
Derrick Brock	Present	Not recorded
Jim Flikkema	Present	Not recorded
Brenda Hess	Present	Not recorded
Keara Hilton	Present	Present
Mark Price	Present	Present
Katie Stanton	Not recorded	Present
Tyler Wenger	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2633810 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district