The Carson City School trustees are, from left, Matt Clapham, Mike Walker, Michelle Pedersen, Rebecca Roberts, Lupe Ramirez, Richard Varner and Molly Walt.
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Carson City School District
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Carson City School Board was joined by recently elected Trustees Rebecca Roberts and Michelle Pedersen on Jan. 14.
Additionally, the board elected new officers to serve in leadership roles.
Trustee Lupe Ramirez was named president. Trustees Mike Walker and Molly Walt were named vice president and clerk, respectively.
Each will serve one-year terms.
The 2025 School Board members are:
- District 1, Lupe Ramirez, president
- District 2, Rebecca Roberts, member
- District 3, Matt Clapham, member
- District 4, Richard Varner, member
- District 5, Mike Walker, vice president
- District 6, Molly Walt, clerk
- District 7, Michelle Pedersen, member
Also Tuesday, trustees were appointed to serve on committees and associations including:
- Director on the Nevada Association of School Boards – Varner
- Alternate Director on the Nevada Association of School Boards – Ramirez
- Member, Carson City Parks & Recreation Committee – Walt
- Debt Management Commission – Walt
- Partnership Carson City – Varner
- Legislative Liaison – Walker, Ramirez and Walt
- Representative(s) to Superintendent’s School Naming Committee – Pedersen and Roberts
- Representative to Superintendent’s Joint Advisory Committee – Varner
- Representative to Carson City School’s Foundation – Ramirez
- Representative(s) to Student Attendance Review Board (SARB) – Ramirez and Walt
- Representative to the Emergency Operations Development Committee – Clapham
- Representative on the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) District Leadership Team – Varner and Pedersen
Trustees also serve as individual liaisons to district schools. Those assignments include:
- Carson High School – Pedersen
- Pioneer Academy – Ramirez
- Carson Middle School – Clapham
- Eagle Valley Middle School – Clapham
- Bordewich Bray Elementary School – Varner
- Empire Elementary School – Walt
- Fremont Elementary School – Roberts
- Fritsch Elementary School – Varner
- Mark Twain Elementary School – Pedersen
- Seeliger Elementary School – Walker