Board approves agenda, consent agenda including donations to LHS athletics and personnel items
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Summary
The board approved its meeting agenda and the consent agenda, which included multiple donations to Laramie High School athletics, personnel recommendations and several routine consent items. Trustees asked clarifying questions about two separate donations from the same donors.
The Albany County School District #1 Board of Trustees approved the meeting agenda and the consent agenda, which contained minutes, personnel recommendations, early‑graduation and isolation reimbursement requests, and multiple donations to Laramie High School athletics programs.
During discussion before the vote, Trustee Janice Marshall asked for clarification about two separate donations listed from Tracy Richardson and Amber Fazio — one for $5,000 and a second for $10,000 — and how those donations were solicited and earmarked. Trustee Steve Gosar and another staff speaker explained those donations were intended to fund two shooting guns (shooting machines) used for basketball player development: one unit for the boys program and one for the girls program. The first $5,000 donation was designated for a shooting gun and the larger $10,000 donation was to support the boys basketball program more broadly; additional smaller donations and in‑kind items were also listed on the consent agenda, including a separate $1,000 donation from Brown and Gold and golf clubs valued at $1,200 from Brett Moniz for golf.
Trustee Marshall also noted a late addition to personnel recommendations involving an administrator appointment; staff acknowledged the item should have been included earlier and said the omission was due to administrative oversight.
The board approved the agenda and consent items by voice vote.
Ending Staff committed to clarify donation designations in consent‑agenda documentation going forward.