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Votes at a glance: Laramie City Council actions — April 1, 2025
Summary
A quick summary of council motions, votes and outcomes from the April 1 Laramie City Council meeting, including emergency Third Street funding, a hazardous-device grant, Safran financing applications, contract awards and ordinance actions.
At its April 1 meeting the Laramie City Council recorded the following formal actions (roll-call results shown where provided):
• Resolution 2025-32 — Authorize emergency work to avoid delays on the Third Street project; amend FY2025–26 appropriations; authorize mayor and city clerk to sign and city manager to initiate construction. Motion by Vice Mayor Richardson; second O'Doherty. Vote: 9–0 (Bolling, Reid, Lockhart, Newman, O'Doherty, Shumway, Beakhill, Richardson, Comby).
• Resolution 2025-31 — Accept grant award from the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security in the amount of $155,830.63 for the Laramie Police Department regional emergency response team (RERT) for hazardous device and explosive response equipment; authorize police chief and city clerk to sign and amend FY2025 budget. Motion by Lockhart; second Richardson. Vote: 9–0 (names recorded by roll call).
• Resolution 2025-27 — Authorize submission of a $10,000,000 grant application to the Wyoming Business Council for the Safran Passenger Innovations expansion project. Motion by Newman; second Richardson. Vote: 9–0.
• Resolution 2025-28 — Authorize submission of a $5,000,000 loan application to the Wyoming Business Council for the Safran Passenger Innovations expansion project. Motion by Newman; second Vigil. Vote: 9–0.
• Contract award — Approve standard AIA contract documents and engage Sampson Construction Company, Inc. as construction manager at risk for the City Hall campus renovation; authorize mayor and city clerk to sign. Motion by Vice Mayor Richardson; second Vigil. Vote: 9–0.
• Resolution 2025-29 — Amend city council rules to create a fifth-Tuesday open-house format. Councilor Newman moved to postpone the resolution to April 15; motion to postpone passed 8–1 (Richardson opposed).
• Ordinance 2103 — Amend Laramie Municipal Code 10.36 regarding limited parking zone restrictions and snow emergency routes (second reading and adoption). Motion by Bolling; second O'Doherty. Vote: 9–0.
• Ordinance 2104 — Amend Title 2.32 to update Environmental Advisory Committee code language (first reading and introduction) and Resolution 2025-30 — adopt bylaws for the Environmental Advisory Committee. Ordinance 2104 passed first reading; staff recommended postponement of Resolution 2025-30 to the May 6 regular meeting to align bylaws with final ordinance language. Motion to postpone resolution passed 9–0.
These items were recorded in the public meeting transcript. Where the transcript provided roll-call results, those tallies were used above.
