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Board approves $364,295 purchase of new transportation trailer; additional hookups estimated at $150,000

2956965 · April 11, 2025
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Summary

Mehlville R-IX authorized purchase of a new transportation operations trailer to replace a decades-old unit; the board approved $364,295 to buy the trailer and expects additional electric, plumbing and IT hookups totaling about $150,000.

The Mehlville R-IX Board of Education voted April 10 to purchase a replacement transportation operations trailer to replace a unit in use since the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Transportation Director Dan Gilman told the board the existing trailer lacks bathrooms and running water and is physically deteriorating; seven full-time transportation staff work from the unit and currently must walk to another building to…

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