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Stockdale ISD board approves financial-inability resolution for SB 546 seat-belt requirement
Summary
The Stockdale ISD Board unanimously approved a Financial Inability Resolution for SB 546, saying retrofitting district buses with three-point seat belts would be prohibitively expensive; vote was 6–0 with one absence.
At its April 13 meeting, the Stockdale ISD Board of Trustees voted to adopt a Financial Inability Resolution related to SB 546, the recent legislative measure requiring three-point seat belts on school buses.
Superintendent Mr. Deaver told trustees that implementing the three-point seat-belt requirement across the district’s fleet would carry substantial cost implications, and he recommended the board adopt the financial-inability finding. Trustee Sherry Lambeck moved to approve the resolution; Trustee Tanner Voelkel seconded. The motion passed with six yeas, zero nays and one absence (Blaine Akin).
The resolution means the district concluded it cannot feasibly meet the SB 546 retrofit requirement given current resources; the board did not adopt a specific funding plan to comply. The item was raised as part of the transportation/legislative-update agenda and was described to trustees as a district-level financial determination rather than an operational purchase approval.
The board’s recorded vote: Teri Dugi — Yea; Reuben Johnson — Yea; Sherry Lambeck — Yea; Mauro Monita — Yea; CJ Urrabazo — Yea; Tanner Voelkel — Yea; Blaine Akin — Absent.
