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Show Thursday November 16 1978 THE HERALD Prow, I tah-Pa- ge 23 Official Cites Serious Utah School Bus Safety Problems - SALT LAKE CITY UPI There are several serious safety problems with Utah's school buses the State legislative auditor general has reported In a performance audit presented to the Legislatures Public Education Committee Mont G Kenney identified several unsafe practices and said the school bus system costs more than it should But State Superintendent of Public Education Walter Talbot said the report had some incorrect information The main points outlined in the audit were: "Some school bus drivers have revoked or suspended licenses and poor driving records In addition one driver in 10 does not have the required chauffeurs license and the other half of the drivers do not have the annual physical examination "Thirty percent of the bus drivers have not taken the required basic school bus drivers course Less than half have received the required training We could not verify that any drivers had received e training Also many students are not being trained in eme.gt-ncbus evacuation and other aspects of bus and traffic safetv "The state and the school districts could save 1300.000 annually b com bined statewide purchasing of school :u This could still allow for neces sarv district options such as bus size engine size and type ot transmission Districts could also save an ad ditional of their bus tire expenditures by merely using the state contract for tire purchases Pupil counts used in distributing state transportation iunds to districts are inaccurate So also are salary fuel and parts accounts As a result th? state s cost is higher than it should be "The state is paying the districts an unnecessarv $63 000 annuallv for one-thir- d depreciation on spare buses beyond those alio uiidei the State Board of Education guidelines The districts could save on their bus physical damage by these losses Further insurance costs could be reduced by not insuring unused school buses during the summer " The report also outlined numerous recommendations for correcting the safety problems and excess costs J one-ha- A lf response from Talboi was included in the report Our disappointment with the report is that for the most part it fails to recoginize the great amount of progress which has been made and work that has been done bv ihe staff u trengthen the school transportation Talbot said vstem He said The re;ort has some serious errors in the use of statistics and some false assumptions drawn from inconclusive findings The errors and assumption were pointed out to members of the auditor general s staff while they were preparing the report Taibot said, but thev apparently didn t think the errors were important enough to amend the report Many of the problems identified in the audit are the responsibility ol local school boards not the state school board he said The report implies that the state board should administer the state transportation he said This would take a change in philosophy as well as a change in the law because the statute specifics!' prohibits the school board from interfering in the administration of local districts Talbot said Conclusions in the audit were based on persona! visits bv the auditor 'i taf? to eight school districts The state of Idaho on Julv 3. 1880 ZCMI bring home the turkey sale lH Hl jBfc'yK 8 mm HK Hi!k Scout around our entire Budget Menswear department for savings on suits, sportcoats, slacks, shirts, ties, socks, jeans, sweaters - whatever your current apparel needs are. 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