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Walled Lake Consolidated Schools Board of Education

13 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year · typical meeting 1 h 42 min · 11,957 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 1, 2026
Board approves two-year secretaries contract and Northern stadium audio purchasePlay 1:19:31
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Oct 1, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Michael Smith, Trustee · Lisa West, Trustee

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
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Board meeting · 1 h 36 minThursday, October 1, 2026Board approves two-year secretaries contract and Northern stadium audio purchaseReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Stephanie Kaplan, Susie Crafton, Ronald Lippitt, Andrea Zellner and 2 more
Play 1:19:31
Board meeting · 1 h 57 minThursday, September 10, 2026Walled Lake board votes 5-2 to accept Section 31AA safety and security fundingSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Stephanie Kaplan, Susie Crafton, Ronald Lippitt, Andrea Zellner and 2 more
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Board meeting · 2 h 48 minThursday, June 4, 2026Walled Lake school board approves 2026-27 budgets and millage ratesBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Susie Crafton, Andrea Zellner, Marc Siegler, Michael Smith and 1 more
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Board meeting · 1 h 48 minThursday, May 7, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Stephanie Kaplan, Susie Crafton, Ronald Lippitt, Andrea Zellner and 2 more
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Who does the talking

No one member stands apart on the Walled Lake Consolidated Schools board: 5 of the 6 members we rank could rank first

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Nov 6, 2025 – Oct 1, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEarly readLess of this board's speech is named so far, so its ranks are wider. Each rank is a 90% range across 10 resampled meetings, so "2nd–4th" means the data can't place them more exactly. The ranges may widen as we name more of the speech.
Coverage: about 71% of members’ speaking time named (55%–90%)

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
—Stephanie KaplanPresident · at-large · runs the meeting, not rankedShare6.4min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · ranked by minutes per meeting
1st–5thMichael SmithTrustee · at-largeShare5.5min, at least10 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated21%of the members’ talking · 9%–40%3.8questions asked per meeting, at least
1st–6thMarc SieglerTrustee · at-largeShare5.4min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated21%of the members’ talking · 12%–32%0.8questions asked per meeting, at least
1st–6thRonald LippittSecretary · at-largeShare4.5min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated17%of the members’ talking · 10%–28%2.0questions asked per meeting, at least
1st–6thAndrea ZellnerTreasurer · at-largeShare3.6min, at least10 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated14%of the members’ talking · 8%–25%0.8questions asked per meeting, at least
1st–6thLisa WestTrustee · at-largeShare3.4min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated13%of the members’ talking · 7%–25%2.4questions asked per meeting, at least
2nd–6thSusie CraftonVice President · at-largeShare3.2min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated12%of the members’ talking · 7%–24%0.6questions 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 · line = our margin: members whose lines overlap may sit in either order · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record
All 13 meetings on our record
Clips

What Ronald Lippitt said on Sep 10, 2026

Can you characterize for the board the districts that have chosen not to accept this money in the past and, to your sight, are not going to accept this future 31AA money. Can you characterize for us what has been, from your experience, their number one concern?Ronald LippittSecretary · Walled Lake Consolidated Schools Board of Education · Sep 10, 2026Watch the full meeting from 46:12
On the map · Phones in school

March 5, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition15%8%–25%
Public comment10%6%–15%
Budget and finance6%2%–10%
Safety and discipline5%0%–11%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 14% 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 13 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 9 had at least one. The busiest, on Dec 18, 2025, heard from 12.

    12 on Dec 18, 202512 speakers6 speakers4.9 a meeting on average

    Federal district ID 2635160 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district