Wayne-Westland Community School District Board of Education

16 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 13 with unconfirmed dates · 9,613 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 21, 2026: Board approves maintenance vehicle and district kiosk replacement purchases Play 23:22
Newest meeting we have: Sep 21, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Melandie Hines, Board President · LeWanna Abney-Mitchell, Board Trustee · Andrew Ambrus, Board Treasurer · David Cox, Board Secretary · Kimberly R. May, Board Trustee · Shannon Rochon, Board Trustee · Frederick Weaver, Board Vice President

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 02 minMonday, September 21, 2026Board approves maintenance vehicle and district kiosk replacement purchasesSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Melandie Hines, LeWanna Abney-Mitchell, Frederick Weaver, David Cox and 1 more

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Board meeting · 58 minMonday, August 17, 2026Wayne-Westland board approves purchases, tables board participation procedurePhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Melandie Hines, Shannon Rochon, Frederick Weaver, David Cox and 2 more

Play 26:21

Board meeting · 25 minMonday, July 20, 2026

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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 3 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingMelandie HinesBoard President · shown, not ranked3meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 3 meetings · 1 clip

Members · listed by nameLeWanna Abney-MitchellBoard Trustee2meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 2 meetings Andrew AmbrusBoard Treasurer3meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 3 meetings · 1 clip David CoxBoard Secretary3meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 3 meetings Kimberly R. MayBoard Trustee2meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 2 meetings Shannon RochonBoard Trustee3meetings where we identified their voice2clipsnamed at 3 meetings · 2 clips Frederick WeaverBoard Vice President4meetings where we identified their voice2clipsnamed at 4 meetings · 2 clips

Meetings on our record

All 16 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

I think that there's— because each school kind of have their own digital and cell phone policy, I want to make sure that we give our principals and our schools the autonomy to enforce those policies before we add a district policy. So that's my, my statement concerning this policy.Shannon RochonBoard Trustee · Wayne-Westland Community School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 59:58

When we talk about state and federal regulations or laws, what would the law say about a parent who will not send their kids to school?Frederick WeaverBoard Vice President · Wayne-Westland Community School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 43:08
Our enrollment is decreasing like really, really bad. So we need to bring more students to the district. …Melandie HinesBoard President · Wayne-Westland Community School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 19:53
Just for the board's information, we will not be getting any state aid this month. …Andrew AmbrusBoard Treasurer · Wayne-Westland Community School District Board of Education · Sep 21, 2026Watch the full meeting from 22:15
You mentioned that 86% of our monies are going to pay staff. In your experience, how would that percentage line up with other districts in the state?Frederick WeaverBoard Vice President · Wayne-Westland Community School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 22:03

On the map · Phones in school

August 17, 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

Public comment11%8%–16%

Budget and finance10%1%–19%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 22% 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 16 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 5 had at least one.

3 speakers2 speakers2.5 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 3 of the 16 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 21	Aug 17	Jul 20
Frederick Weaver	Present	Present	Present
David Cox	Present	Present	Present
Andrew Ambrus	Present	Present	Present
Kimberly R. May	Not recorded	Present	Not shown
Melandie Hines	Present	Present	Present
LeWanna Abney-Mitchell	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Shannon Rochon	Not recorded	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2600015 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district