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Granbury ISD approves purchase of two vehicles to replenish maintenance and student transport fleet
Summary
Trustees approved the district’s purchase of two replacement vehicles — one for maintenance and one for student transport — after staff described the condition and mileage of existing vehicles and explained capacity needs.
The Granbury ISD Board of Trustees approved the purchase of two vehicles to replace aging units in the maintenance and student‑transport “white fleet.” District maintenance staff told trustees one vehicle will replace a unit lost to accidents in the maintenance fleet; the second will replace an older white‑fleet vehicle used to transport students.
Maintenance staff described the district fleet makeup: nine Suburbans with an average of about 155,000 miles, three vehicles with roughly 40,000 miles, and a Malibu with about 50,000 miles that currently transports one student daily. The proposed replacement for the white fleet was described as a Ford Explorer (or similar) that, including the driver, can transport about five people — sufficient because the students served are distributed across different routes and not concentrated in a single vehicle.
Trustees asked whether the vehicles would meet capacity needs; staff replied the Explorer would accommodate the routes because students are spread across locations. The motion to approve the purchase of two vehicles (consent agenda item 10e) was moved by Trustee McMillan and seconded by Trustee Bolton; discussion closed without further amendment and the board approved the purchase (the meeting record shows the motion passed, though a numerical roll‑call for this item was not read aloud in the available transcript).
