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Board approves agenda, financial report, personnel actions and policies; accepts AED grant
Summary
At its Oct. 13 meeting the Laramie County School District #2 Board of Trustees approved routine business including the consent agenda, a financial report, personnel hires and resignations, accepted a Firehouse Subs grant for AEDs and adopted two policies on medicine administration and concealed firearms.
Laramie County School District #2 trustees on Oct. 13 approved the agenda and multiple routine and substantive items including acceptance of a nearly $19,137.50 grant from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation for automated external defibrillators, adoption of two board policies and several personnel actions.
The board voted to accept the consent agenda, approve the district financial report, accept an AED grant award, approve a board member resignation, appoint an interim treasurer and adopt policies JLCD (administering medicine to students) and CKA (concealed firearms) on second and final reading.
Key recorded motions and outcomes from the meeting are summarized below. Where the transcript records only a voice vote, the board announced the motion carried after the ayes and noes and no roll-call tallies were provided in the public record.
Votes at a glance
- Motion: Approve agenda as presented. Mover: Michael. Second: Billy. Outcome: Approved (voice vote; board announced motion carried).
- Motion: Approve consent agenda (minutes, executive session minutes, warrants). Mover: Billy. Second: Kendra. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
- Motion: Approve financial report and enrollment summary as presented. Mover: Julienne. Second: Jared. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). Financial details presented: district enrollment 1,011 as of Oct. 1 compared with 1,000 the prior Oct.; 16.6% of budgeted revenues received (adjusted to 19.8% after a county treasurer opinion not yet reflected in the written report); expenditures at 165.7% of the budgeted amount by the speaker's accounting (transcript).
- Motion: Accept grant award of $19,137.50 from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation for purchase of Tandem/Zoll devices and accessories. Mover: Michael. Second: Kendra. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
- Motion: Accept resignation of Cody Nussbaum as at-large trustee effective Oct. 17, 2025. Mover: Billy. Second: Olson. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). The board discussed the legal requirement to fill the vacancy within 30 days under Wyoming statute 21-3-108 and opted to solicit applications.
- Motion: Nominate and appoint Billy Wilson as replacement treasurer to finish the current term vacated by the resigning trustee. Nominations closed; vote: aye. Outcome: Appointed (voice vote).
- Motion: Approve policy JLCD (administering medicine to students) on second and final reading. Mover: Kendra. Second: Julienne. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
- Motion: Approve policy CKA (concealed firearms) on second and final reading. Mover: Michael. Second: Billy. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
- Motion: Enter executive session for personnel and legal matters. Mover: Billy. Second: Julienne. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). The board later voted to exit executive session.
- Motion: Approve listed personnel actions (new hires and assignment changes) pending certification and background checks. Mover: Julianne. Second: Kendra. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). New hires included Caitlin Buckholtz (substitute nurse), Jim Archer (substitute bus driver), Jillian Chris (substitute bus driver), Kayla Kreiko (substitute bus driver); a coaching appointment for Chris Cooper (assistant numbers coach for junior high boys wrestling and high school wrestling); and Heather Becerra’s change from substitute to full-time bus driver. Resignations/retirements acknowledged: Jody Sockerson (bus driver); Chris Lemaster (speech-language paraprofessional, retirement); Lisa Horst (technology coordinator, retirement at end of school year).
Notes: The transcript records voice votes and procedural seconds but does not include roll-call tallies for each vote. The board announced outcomes after the voice votes. The district also placed several routine items on the consent agenda that were approved together.
