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Platte County SD #1 board approves superintendent raise, bus lease and multiple policies
Summary
At its Aug. 8 meeting, the Platte County School District #1 Board approved a 2% retroactive raise and seven flex days for the superintendent; authorized a 4.2% lease-purchase for two Bluebird buses; and adopted multiple handbooks and policies including an AI-usage matrix for students and staff.
The Platte County School District #1 Board of Trustees on Aug. 8 approved a series of routine and substantive items, including a contract addendum for the superintendent, financing for two passenger buses and a slate of policy and handbook updates.
The board voted to amend the superintendent's contract to provide a 2% raise retroactive to July 1 and to grant seven flexible days usable at any time during the year. Board members voiced appreciation for the superintendent's work prior to the voice vote approving the addendum.
Board members approved a lease-purchase financing bid with Rolling Hills Bank & Trust at 4.2% interest, facilitated by Kaiser Wealth Management, for the lease of two Bluebird passenger buses. District staff said the buses are in Casper and that decal application will be handled locally. In the budget discussion, staff noted the district expects to be reimbursed by the state for most lease costs on a five-year rotation but that approximately $10,000 per bus may not be reimbursed; staff said they would verify whether that figure is per bus.
A number of policies and handbooks were approved on second or final reading or by board motion: policy IHBG (homeschooling); policy EJ (designated facilities); WHSAA membership and contract; the staff handbook (largely editorial changes, including an updated cell-phone rule); special-education paraprofessional handbook; coaches/sponsors handbook; and a consolidated student handbook. Board members discussed whether staff, students or parents should sign acknowledgements of receipt; the board did not adopt a uniform mandatory signature process at this meeting.
Administrative and personnel items cleared on voice votes: the consent agenda, personnel hiring/resignations/terminations (with Julie Balzan removed from the hiring list after she withdrew acceptance), approval of the organizational chart (with principals to supervise custodians), approval of a Fuel Bid to Frenchman Valley Farmers Co-op Inc. at $3.09/gallon plus 40'/gal for dyed #1 when required, and approval of a special-education contract with ACES. The board also approved out-of-district enrollment requests after staff described the transcript and discipline-review process used to evaluate applications.
The board entered and exited an executive session pursuant to Wyoming statute 16-4-405(a)(x) earlier in the meeting; no actions taken in executive session were reported publicly. The board set a tentative work session for Sept. 15 at 5 p.m. and a regular meeting for Sept. 15 at 6 p.m., during which it expects to hold a public hearing on a firearm policy.
Votes were recorded verbally during the meeting and were uniformly announced as "aye" for the motions listed; the public record in the transcript does not show a roll-call tally of individual yes/no votes for each motion.
