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Orange Grove ISD board records insufficient funds to meet state school bus seat-belt requirement
Summary
Trustees voted 7-0 to approve a finding that the district does not have sufficient funds in the current budget to comply with Texas Transportation Code § 547.701(f) concerning school bus passenger seat belts.
After Trustee Erika Hesseltine arrived at 7:14 a.m., Trustee Nicole Raska moved and Trustee Scott Hinze seconded a motion for the district to record that it does not have sufficient funds in the current budget to comply with Texas Transportation Code § 547.701(f) relating to school bus passenger seat belts. The board approved the statement with a 7-0 recorded vote.
The minutes state the board "approve[d] that the District does not have sufficient funds in the current budget to comply with the requirements of Texas Transportation Code § 547.701 (f) relating to school bus passenger seat belts." The record does not provide a dollar amount or a plan for how the district will address the statutory requirement going forward.
