The Carson City School District Board of Trustees met on May 12, 2026, to discuss and act on various agenda items, including recognitions of student achievements, a presentation on city growth and its impact on schools, updates on library services, budget, and policy changes. The meeting featured student recognitions from athletics, HOSA, speech and debate, and theater, as well as public comment on parent engagement.
May 12th. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. First item on the agenda is adoption of the agenda. And this is for possible action. Do I have a motion? So moved by Trustee Ramirez. Second, second. And that was seconded by Trustee Roberts. Okay. And do we have public comment? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Motion passes unanimously moving on to the agenda item number two. This is a flag salute. We'll be um started with Trustee Ramirez. Great, thank you. Move on to agenda item number three, which is our superintendent's report. This is for information only. Thank you, President Wall. Good evening, trustees and guests. Tonight to start things off, we have a um an old friend of the school district who once again is being very generous to us and here specifically to our foundation. So if I could have uh Carson City Schools Foundation representatives uh coming up, and Stacey Woodbury, if you could come on over. And uh, we got a big old check there. Are there enough zeros on there? Uh good evening. My name is Stacey Woodbury. I'm with Southwest Gas Corporation. And uh this is our 60th year of the Southwest Gas Foundation, and we're really happy uh to be here tonight to um to partner again with the school district and the schools foundation and make a presentation for five thousand dollars to the school's foundation to be used for uh STEM microgrants in the classroom. Not everybody back there ready for the first one, and thank you for letting me come tonight. Well, thank you. You can always come. If you something like that, hey, you're more than welcome. More than welcome. Um, and again, though, I would like to thank the foundation for the work that they do for our schools as well. Hi, my name is John Hager. I'm the president of the Carson City Schools Foundation. Uh, we have a budget of about $60, $65,000 a year that we give to teachers to students to various um programs, so uh about $20,000 for AP exams, uh $20,000 for mini grants for student for teachers and departments, um, another about 10,000 for uh books for jump start and a number of other causes. So if you are interested in giving to the foundation, happy to take your money. Um, if you are interested in finding a way to help support us, you are welcome to be on our board. Just uh ask one of these guys here and they'll they'll put us in touch. We would love to have additional help. And we are working on uh an additional fundraiser this year to hopefully raise some more money and be able to increase those um expenditures for the for the kids and for the teachers. So thank you very much to uh Stacy Woodbury and Southwest Gas for the generous donation. We really appreciate it, and thank you for all the support from the school board. Okay, moving on um this evening. So last year uh the school board for the first time um uh we do lots of recognitions for students in various ways. Um but what one of the uh real highlights for what happens during the school year had had never really been recognized here before the board. So we have a number of student athletes that have um played their way and learned their way, because you can't do this with straight F's onto greater pastors at the collegiate level to be participating in sports. So if I could have any of you who are such athlete, uh come on up here. Yeah, Mr.