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Board revises five-year capital plan to spread bus purchases; members debate funding and priorities
Summary
The Washington County Board of Education voted to approve revisions to its five-year capital plan, spreading a planned seven-bus purchase across multiple fiscal years to reduce a single-year cost spike and adjusting other facility projects.
The Washington County Board of Education voted to approve revisions to the district's five-year capital plan after discussing ways to reduce a single-year spike in expenditures tied to planned bus purchases.
Staff presented a revised schedule that breaks a planned purchase of seven buses into multiple fiscal years to spread cost and better manage the capital fund balance. The staff presentation said the seven-bus purchase on the original schedule was shown as $1,120,000 for the current fiscal-year slot and that an earlier approved plan had placed several buses and related costs in a single year at $3,500,000. Staff…
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