Betsy Shaughnessy: public-record dossier (v1, link-verified)
Compiled 2026-10-13 (ET). Coverage: Lakewood City School District Board of Education meetings from Oct 12, 2025 to Oct 12, 2026 as published on BoardDocs (agenda items with their "Motion & Voting" blocks), the district's Board of Education page, and certified 2025 election results. Only the public record is used. BoardDocs records who moved, who seconded, and each member's Yea/Nay/Abstain by name, so the vote record below is per member. No positions are inferred from votes.
How to check a claim: each BoardDocs link opens the agenda item; scroll to "Motion & Voting" to see the mover, seconder and each member's vote. Where an item link couldn't be matched, the link opens the meeting agenda instead (marked meeting link). Rules: dossiers/RULES.md.
1. Identity and office
- SH-01 Member of the Lakewood City School District Board of Education, listed on the district's Board of Education page (district page).
- SH-02 Role as shown on the district page: "President Betsy Shaughnessy" (district page).
- SH-03 Term, as stated on the district page: "Term expires: Dec. 2030" (district page).
- SH-04 Nov 4, 2025 race "Lakewood Board of Ed Mem (Vote for 2)": Betsy Bergen Shaughnessy: 4,939 votes (25.80%), elected (second of four for two seats), per the Cuyahoga County BOE certified "Official Results by Contest" dated 2025-11-19 (Cuyahoga BOE certified results PDF p. 32).
2. Attendance (BoardDocs vote records)
Counted from the per-member vote blocks: a member counts as present at a meeting if BoardDocs records a vote (Yea, Nay or Abstain) by them on at least one item. Meetings with no recorded votes aren't counted. Per BoardDocs, this window has 31 meetings with recorded votes.
- SH-05 Recorded as voting at 30 of 31 meetings. Meetings where every vote lists them as not present: Jul 29, 2026 Special Meeting. Meetings voted at: 10/20/25, 11/3/25, 11/24/25, 12/1/25, 1/5/26, 1/5/26, 1/22/26, 2/2/26, 2/2/26, 2/17/26, 3/2/26, 3/19/26, 4/13/26, 4/20/26, 5/4/26, 5/12/26, 5/18/26, 6/1/26, 6/15/26, 6/29/26, 7/6/26, 7/6/26, 7/20/26, 8/4/26, 8/10/26, 8/24/26, 9/8/26, 9/14/26, 9/28/26, 10/12/26.
3. Votes
- SH-06 Across all recorded votes in the window, BoardDocs lists Betsy Shaughnessy as Yea 372, Nay 0, Abstain 0. Every vote is linked from the tables below or from the meeting agendas in section 2 (example: Oct 12, 2026 agenda).
No Nay or Abstain votes by this member are recorded in the window.
Split votes where this member voted Yea
| ID |
Date |
Item |
Others not voting Yea |
Evidence |
| SH-07 |
Oct 20, 2025 |
Resolution Adopting the October 6, 2025 Elementary Facility Recommendation of the Superintendent - Second… |
Nay: Colleen Clark-Sutton |
BoardDocs |
| SH-08 |
Apr 20, 2026 |
Community Recreation & Education |
Abstain: Michael Callahan |
BoardDocs |
| SH-09 |
May 18, 2026 |
Community Recreation & Education (ROLL CALL VOTE) |
Abstain: Michael Callahan |
BoardDocs |
| SH-10 |
Sep 28, 2026 |
Resolution Approving the Superintendent's September 28, 2026 Recommended Attendance Boundaries and… |
Abstain: Colleen Clark-Sutton |
BoardDocs |
4. Motions made and seconded (BoardDocs)
Window total: 47 motions made, 35 seconded. Each item link shows "Motion by … second by …".
| ID |
Meeting |
Moved |
Seconded |
| SH-11 |
Oct 20, 2025 Regular Meeting |
Adoption of the Agenda; Consent Agenda (ROLL CALL VOTE); Investments Purchased and Matured for the Month of August 2025; Financial Information for the Month of August 2025; Resolution to Approve the Agreement between the Lakewood Board of…; Resolution Authorizing a Program Agreement between the Lakewood Board…; Resolution to Approve Out of State Field Trips; Resolution to Approve Student Clubs; Resolution to Adopt Memorandum of Understanding Between the Lakewood…; Interdistrict Service Area Contract for 2025-2026 School Year between…; Gifts to Lakewood Schools for the Month of October 2025; Certified; Classified; Classified Non-Employee Coaches/Advisors (ECES); Community Recreation & Education; Classified -Request Approval on One Reading (ROLL CALL VOTE)…; Resolution Adopting the October 6, 2025 Elementary Facility…; Adjournment |
Approval of Minutes of the Regular Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Regular Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Special Board of Education Meeting Held on… |
| SH-12 |
Nov 3, 2025 Regular Meeting |
Executive Session - For Consideration of the appointment, employment,…; Adoption of the Agenda; Certified -Request Approval on One Reading (ROLL CALL VOTE)…; Classified -Request Approval on One Reading (ROLL CALL VOTE)…; Adjournment |
— |
| SH-13 |
Nov 24, 2025 Regular Meeting |
Adoption of the Agenda; Certified; Certified Non-Employee Coaches/Advisors (ECES); Classified; Classified Non-Employee Coaches/Advisors (ECES); Resolution to Abolish Position; Certified -Request Approval on One Reading (ROLL CALL VOTE)…; Classified -Request Approval on One Reading (ROLL CALL VOTE)…; Resolution to Hire a Treasurer of the District - Request Approval on… |
Executive Session - For Consideration of the appointment, employment,…; Approval of Minutes of the Regular Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Regular Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Special Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Regular Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Special Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Special Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Approval of Minutes of the Special Board of Education Meeting Held on…; Consent Agenda (ROLL CALL VOTE); Investments Purchased and Matured for the Month of September 2025; Financial Information for September 2025; Resolution to Approve Out of State Field Trip; Resolution to Approve Student Clubs; Agreement Between the Lakewood Board of Education and Thrive Early…; Resolution to Adopt Special Education Model Policies and Procedures; Adjournment |
| SH-14 |
Dec 1, 2025 Regular Meeting |
Certified; Certified Non-Employee Coaches/Advisors (ECES); Classified; Classified Non-Employee Coaches/Advisors (ECES); Community Recreation & Education; Memorandum of Understanding Between the Lakewood City School District… |
Adoption of the Agenda; Consent Agenda (ROLL CALL VOTE); Investments Purchased and Matured - for the Month of October 2025; Financial Information - For the Month of October 2025; Budget Hearing and Adoption of the FY 2027 Tax Budget; Resolution to Approve Forty-Two-Month Agreement between Ohio Business…; Resolution to Approve Student Clubs; Waiving of Tuition Non-Resident Senior; Resolution to Adopt Courses of Study; Resolution to Approve the Lakewood High School 2026-2027 Program of…; Resolution to Approve Agreement between BrainPOP and Lakewood City…; Agreement Between the Lakewood Board of Education and Purple…; Gifts to Lakewood Schools for the Month of December 2025; Resolution to Revise and Adopt Policies of the Lakewood City Schools…; Adjournment |
| SH-15 |
Jan 5, 2026 Organizational Meeting |
Fixing Time and Place of Regular Board of Education Meetings (ROLL…; Resolution to Provide for the Expeditious Transaction of the Business…; Adjournment |
— |
| SH-16 |
Mar 19, 2026 Special Meeting |
Appoint Treasurer Pro Tempore (ROLL CALL VOTE) |
— |
| SH-17 |
May 12, 2026 Special Meeting |
— |
Adjournment |
| SH-18 |
Jun 15, 2026 Regular Meeting |
Resolution to Approve Cybersecurity Governance and Disaster Recovery… |
— |
| SH-19 |
Aug 4, 2026 Special Meeting |
A Resolution to Approve the Settlement Agreement for Case No. 25CV… |
— |
| SH-20 |
Aug 24, 2026 Regular Meeting |
Appointment of Delegate and Alternate to the Annual Business Meeting… |
— |
| SH-21 |
Sep 8, 2026 Special Meeting |
Resolution Approving the Superintendent's September 8, 2026… |
— |
| SH-22 |
Sep 28, 2026 Regular Meeting |
Resolution Approving the Superintendent's September 28, 2026… |
— |
5. Unverified / pending public source
Nothing in this section is stated as fact.
- U-1 Statements at meetings. Board meeting videos are on YouTube with auto-captions that carry no speaker labels, and the captions checked so far don't name this member right before a substantive remark, so no remarks are attributed here. Pending: approved board minutes text with speaker paraphrases, or captions that name the speaker on the spot.
- U-2 Committee and liaison assignments (for example consent-agenda report assignments) for the window. Pending: the 2026 Organizational Meeting items on BoardDocs.
- U-3 Term dates are taken from the district page; the certified Cuyahoga BOE results for the members not on the Nov 2025 ballot haven't been pulled. Pending: Nov 2023 certified results.
- U-4 Not yet pulled: campaign finance reports and the Ohio Ethics Commission financial disclosure (public-records request needed; not sent).