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Board hears risks to non-public school bus budget as fuel prices, contractor rates rise
Summary
County finance and public-works staff told commissioners that raising non-public school bus rates to match the Board of Education would add about $1.7 million to the county budget and that volatile fuel prices are a major cost-driver.
Commissioners heard a detailed explanation March 7 of how the county budgets for non-public school bus service, a contract-driven program in which private contractors own and operate the buses and the county reimburses operating costs.
George Erickson, speaking for the Department of Public Works and Transportation, said matching the Board of Education's driver rates, operation-and-maintenance factors and fuel assumptions would increase the county's non-public bus budget by about $1,700,733 in the FY12 request. Staff explained the county calculates rates using a two-tier driver rate (less than 10 years'…
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