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School Committee accepts EPA electric-bus grant contingent on three-bus pilot; approves warrant article for bus leases
Summary
The Hingham School Committee voted to add a warrant article for bus leases at Town Meeting and to accept an EPA grant of $2,935,000 contingent on a successful three-bus pilot; committee discussed implementation, vendor escrow, and a possible later expansion to additional electric buses.
The Hingham School Committee voted unanimously to: (1) place a warrant article on the town warrant to authorize school bus leases at Town Meeting, and (2) accept an EPA grant for electric buses conditioned on a successful initial pilot.
Administrators briefed the committee on rapidly evolving federal grant information. The district has authority to request lease-authorization language on the town warrant so the School Committee could approve bus leases outside of the annual town meeting if authorized; because of the possibility the warrant could fail, staff drafted two warrant articles: one to authorize the FY26 leases for buses needed this year and another to grant the committee ongoing lease-approval authority going forward.
On the electric-bus grant, administrators said they were initially awarded federal funding for up to 10 electric buses (district earlier referenced a…
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