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Show TVT -- T w iMeedror More Buses Stressed, But Granite Board Delays Approval GRANITE PARK. I understand your reluctance, but its mandatory that we move ahead with this (purchase) now, Bob Halliday told members of the Granite Board of Education Tuesday night. We have 38 buses which are almost 13 years old and if we dont start now, it will be impossible to roll them over in a year or two - or even five or six, the districts director of transportation added. Hallidays comments concerned a question posed by board member J. Dale Christensen over the purchase of buses for the districts transportation fleet - an expense which the board postponed for at least a month due to tight budget concerns. The seven transit-typ- e school buses carry a price tag of a purchase nearly $450,000 which start of school?" Christensen asked. We could use the old ones until the new ones arrived, but with the way the (student) population is growing, we may have to keep the old ones anyway, Halliday pointed out. In spite of his pleas, the board unanimously agreed to postpone consideration of the bus order until Jan. 20 in order to get a feeling from legislators concerning funding for the coming year. I feel wed be acting irresponsibly if we didn't wait at least a month, Christensen noted. He also attempted to postpone a $37,063 outlay for the purchase of three police vehicles for the Granite Police Dept., but his motion died for lack of a second. In addition to the police vehicles, the board approved spending: $7,860 for a direct access storage disk drive for data processing; $13,744 for 16 computer monitor projection systems for use in the districts eight high schools; $7,329 for a used portable video camera and recorder system for the Kearns high television training studio; $67,150 for 42 color computer systems for the outcome-base- d education program; $6,620 for a new forced draft gas burner for Wasatch junior high; $5,367 for a free exercise and wrestling mat for Kearns high; for Xerox paper for $17,820 warehouse stock; - Christensen felt the district might be wise to postpone until the State Legislature convenes in January. The bus order represents nearly of the more than $636,000 in purchases proposed Tuesday. Im not disagreeing with the need, just the timing, Christensen said. He told Halliday his concern over spending the money stemmed from board action earlier this month which trimmed $3.6 million from the district's current operating budget -a move mandated by the legislature during its special session in November to help meet a shortfall in state funds. I dont know if we should be spending this kind of money right now. Couldnt the buses we have run one more year without jeopardizing our transportation program? he asked. In light of the demand that we haul more students longer distances, its critical that we move ahead with this now, Halliday explained. Three of the buses being replaced are 1974 Gilligs with well over 200,000 miles each on the odometers, while the other four buses - two Internationals and two Blue Birds -are pushing the 200,000 mile mark. Were creating a real problem trying to milk more miles out of buses at that kind of mileage, he said. With some of the rough roads we have to travel, those old bodies are getting pretty loose. I know these buses cant run financially-strappe- d two-thir- -- $7,750 for Granite district transportation director Bob Halliday tells board members of the condition of seven buses which need to be replaced due to age. The board, however, postponed purchasing the buses until the state legislature meets in January. NEED IS CRITICAL . . . board member Miriam Farnsworth observed, but I can see the wisdom in postponing the expense for a few weeks. Halliday pointed out that buses ordered in January would not be delivered until August - barely in forever, -- TV Tools; time for the beginning of the next school year. Handicapped buses, which require special lifts and fittings to accommodate wheel chairs, may take even longer to deliver, he noted. Would that pose a problem at the purchase 5 THE GREEN SHEET LEA President In this series of columns I have discussed positive steps toward achieving better discipline in your home, including behavior affects other people. 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