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Parent urges board to inspect aging Clover School District buses after lapsed inspection sticker
Summary
A Clover parent told the School Board she found an overdue inspection sticker and described multiple safety and maintenance problems on district activity buses; superintendent said buses will be covered during the May budget discussion.
A Clover parent told the Clover School District Board of Trustees on Monday that she found an overdue inspection sticker and multiple maintenance problems on district activity buses and asked the board to take a field trip to inspect the vehicles.
Laura Wadecki, introduced herself as a parent of four Clover graduates, two of whom were in the special education program, and said she discovered the lapsed inspection while picking up her son in February. “I happened to notice the inspection sticker was over a year late and overdue,” Wadecki said. She said her son rides the activity buses to work and York Technical Center classes.
Wadecki told the board she followed up by emailing district staff and that the immediate problem she reported was resolved. She said her informal checks and conversations with riders and drivers turned up other concerns: broken door hinges that prevented doors from closing, moldy smells and black spots, windows that would not stay shut, nonworking defrosters and some nonfunctional heating and air-conditioning units, ceiling material coming loose, missing emergency equipment and a missing sun visor on one vehicle.
Wadecki asked the board to see buses firsthand and expressed concern about whether the district has enough safe, reliable buses to serve growth in the district.
Superintendent Dr. Quinn said the district will discuss transportation as part of the May budget process. “If you would please join us in May, we're gonna be talking about the budget then and those buses will come up then,” Quinn said.
The board did not take immediate action during the meeting. The superintendent and board members indicated the items Wadecki raised would be included in the coming budget discussion; no timeline beyond the May budget meeting was provided.
Wadecki asked to be kept informed and offered to speak with staff after the meeting.
The public comment occurred during the meeting’s public forum period; the board’s stated public-forum rules limit speakers to three minutes and note the board typically takes no formal action during public forum.
Next steps: Superintendent Quinn said the transportation and related budget requests will be part of the district’s May budget presentations, when the board will consider operating and capital priorities.
