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Board committee approves up to $200,000 for electric bus charger installation at city maintenance facility
Summary
The finance committee recommended the board appropriate up to $200,000 from the school building maintenance fund to install electric bus charging infrastructure at the city-owned Common Operations Maintenance Facility; the district expects a federal bus grant to cover bus purchases but not the full cost of site infrastructure.
The Concord School District Finance Committee on May 19 recommended the Board of Education raise and appropriate up to $200,000 from the school building maintenance fund to pay for electric bus charging infrastructure at the city-owned Common Operations Maintenance Facility.
The nut graf: District staff said the buses themselves are being purchased with a federal grant but the site infrastructure — conduit, trenching, transformer work and internet/data runs — likely will require local funding. The committee approved forwarding the appropriation and directed administration to coordinate lease changes with the city.
Jack Dunn, school district finance staff, described the work as trenching roughly 400+ feet from the existing…
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