A bill to create a separate Gillette College community college district will go before the Wyoming Senate Education Committee for consideration Wednesday.
Sponsored by Campbell County’s Senator Jeff Wasserburger, Senate File 83 would separate Gillette College from the Northern Wyoming Community College District under which the college was formed in 1969.
In a meeting of Northern Wyoming college district trustees last week, Dr. Walt Tribley, who’s president of the college district, said he had a concern with the measure as currently written.
In a letter sent to several legislators late last week, Dr. Tribley asked that Sheridan College be given $3 million a year in state funds if a new Gillette community college district is established. He said that’s how much Sheridan College will lose if a separate Gillette College district is created, and urged lawmakers to make the allocation part of the bill now being considered.