Worland School District to Discuss New Budget Tonight Slightly Down from the $4,075,037 Appro- Der the Proposal

109th Year, No. 140 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 50 Cents Drama team returns — 3 Jr. Bath Ruth quali es for state — 6 Ag news — 8 Worland school district to discuss new budget tonight slightly down from the $4,075,037 appro- der the proposal. The 2014 – 2015 amount Most line item appropriations similar to last year’s budget priation for the 2014 – 2015 school year. was $2.45 million. Middle school instruction will receive Instructional support, a category which By Zach Spadt to last year’s budget in total expenditures, in addition to state and federal funding. $2,062,496 if the budget passed. The dis- includes guidance services, health ser- Staff Writer with $41,692,155 appropriated. The total If passed, WSCD No. 1 will spend $14.7 trict budgeted $2,076,800 for the 2014 vices, speech services among others is WORLAND — Washakie County appropriation for the 2014 – 2015 school million on total instruction, slightly up – 2015 school year for middle school in- budgeted a total of $2.12 million, slightly School District No. 1 trustees are set to year was $41,458,990. from the 2014 – 2015 school year budget- struction. down from last year’s amount of $2.14 approve the 2015 – 2016 school year bud- WCSD No. 1 business manager, Jack ed amount of $14.6 million. The district is budgeting $2.42 million million. get tonight. Stott, said the budget fluctuates with the The proposed budget amount for el- in secondary education (high school) un- The proposed budget is nearly identical amount of grant money programs receive ementary instruction is $4,062,325 — See ‘School board,’ page 2 Banner Health, Garage Fire Budget, land nurse file acquisition response in highlight Ten district court Sleep’s school Allegations in wrongful board meeting By Ryan Mitchel Collins death suit denied Staff writer By Zach Spadt TEN SLEEP— The Ten Sleep school Staff Writer board will be discussing its annual bud- WORLAND — The attorney for Don- get and land acquisition for the new na Clothier and Banner Health filed a school in their monthly meeting. response in the Wyoming Fifth Judicial There was a special meeting Tuesday District Court Tuesday. evening to discuss the land acquisition Clothier and Banner Health are subject, a prelude to the closed session named as defendants, along with Dr. that will be taking place tonight. In the Edward Zimmerman, in connection with closed session the board will have the the death of Kevin Anderson of Worland possibility of selecting a location for the in July 2013. Denver-based attorney new school, but there is not a large prob- Michael T. McConnell is representing ability that will happen according to Su- Clothier and Banner. perintendent Jimmy Phelps. The plaintiff’s lawsuit alleges that Wyoming School Facilities Depart- Banner Health and Clothier are respon- ment Public Information Officer An- sible for the death of Anderson on July thony Hughes said in a recent inter- 20, 2013. view, “Geotechnical studies are being Anderson died at his home July 20 conducted on several sites. It would be after being treated by Zimmerman and premature to discuss specific locations Clothier, a registered nurse, at Washakie before the studies have been completed. Medical Center the night of July 19 and Soil samples are part of the geotechnical early morning of July 20. study that is used to help determine the The lawsuit states that Banner most appropriate site for a new school. Health is responsible for Anderson’s DAILY NEWS/Zach Spadt Generally, it obtains information on the death because Zimmerman was acting as A Worland firefighter battles a blaze that occurred near the Worland Sale Barn near the start of South Flat Road. physical properties of the soil and rock the attending emergency room physician A residential garage caught fire and was a total loss. By the time firefighters arrived on the scene, the building around certain sites.” at Washakie Medical Center (a Banner was completely collapsed. As of Tuesday evening, a cause has not been determined. See tomorrow’s edition of After the closed session, the board will Health facility) and therefore under the the Northern Wyoming Daily News for more on the fire. have a discussion/adoption of the annual auspices of Banner Health when Ander- budget. son went to the ER. The budget hearing is set for 8 p.m. According to the lawsuit, Zimmer- Other agenda items include the ap- man administered hydromorphone, a 3 people facing trial in decapitated body case proval of the second reading of policies V pain management medication, to Ander- of the student policies, VI extracurricu- son after diagnosing him with a kidney POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Three people enter a plea to first-degree charges of mur- kill her boyfriend because Guerra-Torres lar policy, and the VII activity policy. stone. are facing trial in the death of a man der and conspiracy to commit murder in owed drug money to people who were The regular meeting will begin The suit alleges Zimmerman acted whose decapitated body was found along a the death of Juan Antonio Guerra-Torres. threatening his family. promptly at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at negligently in not monitoring Anderson remote dirt road northwest of Powell. Park County Sheriff’s Investigator Joe Torczon said the two enlisted Mar- the Ten Sleep School. after giving him the medication. A circuit court judge last week referred Torczon said in court that 28-year-old Pe- quez’s help. More testing will determine if More information on Tuesday’s spe- the case against 51-year-old John Louis dro Garcia Jr. told authorities his sister, a glove found by the body has DNA that cial meeting will be published in Thurs- See ‘Answer,’ page 2 Marquez up to district court, where he’ll 27-year-old Sandra Garcia, asked him to matches Marquez. day’s issue. Rangeland specialist: Relationships with the public is key to BLM rangeland management By Ryan Mitchel Collins to data.gov. you are a legitimate customer. for these folks to cover. We guide Staff writer “To do that we work hand We go through that application them on where to go and how to WORLAND— Working with and hand with our permittees, process to approve you as an ap- do it, but they put forth the effort,” the public is an absolute must we work with various different plicant and then we transfer the Elliott said. “It always amazes me for John Elliott, the supervisory groups like the Western Water- grazing permit.” that they do such a good job and rangeland management specialist shed, the Natural Resources Con- According to Elliott, if there such a solid job, quietly done.” for the Bureau of Land Manage- servation Service (NRCS), the are no changes to the permit, they Grazing permits have been ment Worland Field Office State of Wyoming, US Fish and can hand it over to an applicant, around for a hundred years, El- “That’s key, we have to have Wildlife Service, Wyoming Game which they are allowed to do by liott said. But according to him, those working relationships with and Fish. Lots of different people congressional act. If you prefer one of the biggest problems they our public in order to satisfy ev- are always invited to come to the to makes changes to the grazing encounter is invasive species or erybody,” said Elliott. field with us and help do our field permit, then the applicant goes weeds. Elliott said he supervises seven work and review what we do so through the National Environ- “We have encroachment by range specialists working at the that we are all on the same page,” mental Policy Act process, an en- non natives that will take over Worland Field Office. The BLM said Elliott. vironmental analysis. perfectly healthy rangelands no grazing department at the Wor- Working with other agencies The analysis will have input matter how they are being used. land Field Office primarily does in order to accomplish a goal that from archeologists’, hydrologists, It’s not just a desolate dried up work in four counties in the Big deals with public land is not un- soils, US fish and wildlife, and piece of land they are taking Horn Basin — Park, Hot Springs, common, but how does an individ- game and fish among others. The over. They will take over perfectly Washakie and Big Horn. ual land owner go about acquiring idea being lots of organizations healthy rangelands,” said Elliott. “Every year we get around 10- a grazing permit? get a chance to look at the impact “What we do is we truly put the 15 different allotments we get “Our grazing permits are as- a purposed permit may have on a effort forward to insure that our completed,” said Elliott. sociated with a piece of property. given area on public land. public range lands are staying as “An allotment is an area of land Typically it’s a historic piece of “I think what people miss often healthy as we can keep them. And designated and managed for graz- property that has always been COURTESY/BLM is the amount of work the range that multiple activities still occur ing of livestock. It may include with that permit. So when that BLM range management specialists John Elliot and Len Can- specialists put into their jobs. on public land. That’s a big deal. private, state, and public lands ranch sells and that holds base nella work on data collection for analysis in the Standards for There’s 2.2 million acres that we People often look at the badlands under the jurisdiction of the Bu- property, you can apply for a graz- Rangeland Health Process in the Owl Creek Mountain Range.

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