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Committee tightens rules on leased buses: short-term leases require notice, long-term leases need board approval
Summary
The committee approved edits to require written lease agreements for short-term leases under 30 days (with a 30-day extension possible by transportation) and to require board approval and a written lease for any arrangement to run a route for more than 30 days; members cited leased buses as a major source of prior insurance lapses.
The Rutherford County Board of Education policy committee on April 14 approved new lease and rental rules for buses that aim to reduce insurance and operational gaps.
Under the revised language, contractors who lease or rent buses for less than 30 days for repairs must provide a written lease agreement to the transportation department; transportation may grant a single 30-day extension when necessary. For leases that run more than 30 days the committee adopted language…
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