During the regular Washoe County School District Board of Trustees meeting, they elected new leadership for 2026.
The Board of Trustees elected trustee Adam Mayberry to serve as president.
They also elected trustee Alex Woodley to serve as vice president, and trustee Christine Hull was elected to serve as clerk.
All votes for the election were unanimous.
Adam Mayberry, the president of the Washoe County School Board, told us, "It's a real honor to serve in this capacity. I appreciate my colleagues and their confidence in a unanimous vote, and I look forward to working with our newly elected vice president and board clerk and advancing our policies and ensuring our students get a world-class education."
Mayberry also says, "We are absolutely focused and committed to ensuring a world-class experience by improving our performance and the safety and security and the culture of the Washoe County School District across the entire district and at every school."
We had our eye on a few other items.Â
In regard to Echo Loder Elementary School, the board approved the construction contract for a complete reconstruction, which was recommended as a part of the 2023 modernization plan.
Adam Searcy, the Chief Operating Officer for the Washoe County School District, told us, "Loder is one of our oldest and least modern school facilities, and the FMP identified this school for on-site reconstruction, and we're hoping to break ground in a few weeks and have this new school for the 2027-2028 school year."
They will be keeping school in session while construction takes place for the new school on the playground.
Once the school is built, they will renovate a new playground where the old school was. In simple terms, they're flipping the landscape.
They also said that not too far away, Pine Middle School is in its last year of serving our community as a middle school because of declining enrollment at all levels, and it was identified as being marked for closure. It will be closed for two school years and will be completely reconstructed into an elementary school.
There were also budget approvals for Palmer and Libby Booth elementary schools.
For Palmer Elementary, they're looking to modernize the school with a budget of $19 million.
Also included was the design phase funding for the modernization of Libby Booth Elementary School for $2 million, but construction will likely be in the $10 million range in the future.
Searcy tells us, "So similar to Palmer, a modernization—we're not demolishing the existing school. We're adding on to it, and we're modernizing existing space in a way that will give the students in the community at that school spaces that the newest schools have."
Both projects are estimated to be completed by the 2027-2028 school year.
If you would like to find out more information on these projects, you can click the link here.
