Tentative Budget Approved

•July 17, 2019•
By Ariana Cherry
for the News Progress

Director of Transportation and Maintenance Kevin Landrus presented the annual Transportation Report at the opening of the Sullivan School Board on July 8, 2019.
“Costs are down overall. We have consolidated a route, which eliminated a bus and driver,” he stated.
Laudrus informed the board that regular driven miles went down from 86,000 to 72,000 miles. “We need to start looking at the odometer readings on some of the buses. A few of them are getting a lot of miles,” Landrus said of bus replacement rotation.
He also recommended buying a handicap accessible unit with a wheel chair or leasing a second one. Noting fuel expense was rising he pointed out the cost on average was $2.61 a gallon.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.