Trustees reviewed a facilities plan to move district offices into Vital Elementary and heard preliminary cost estimates that range from targeted fixes to a full renovation. Presenters said roughly $3.44 million is the project baseline in the materials, with $353,000 in contingency and $92,000 in conditional-use permit items. Trustees asked for tier

The Rawlins City Council on Nov. 10 approved a $7,903,100 construction contract with Kilgore Companies LLC d/b/a Lewis and Lewis Inc for the Edinburgh Street project, adding a scriveners-error correction to reconcile paragraph numbering and a liquidated-damages figure; the motion passed by voice vote (5 yays).

District finance staff told trustees four proposed recalibration changes — including eliminating the three-year averaging and raising student-teacher ratios — could reduce funded student counts and raise the district's needed FY27 savings to about $15 million.

Trustees voted to recommend affirming a WSBA resolution urging monthly special-education placement reimbursements; the board debated two other resolutions about hearing timeframes and pay during charged-but-not-convicted cases and ultimately took no recommendation on the third.

Trustees approved addition of the 2027‑28 year to the superintendent's contract, one‑time early resignation incentives, hiring incentives (up to $15,000), a PowerSchool renewal ($72,653.75), and selected ST+B for engineering services on a Lingle High rooftop unit replacement.