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Pawnee City School Board approves purchase of two buses

By John Nixon

07/11/2024

(KLZA)-- The Pawnee City Board of Education approved the purchase of a new school bus and a 14-passenger minibus when they met Monday evening.

A 40-passenger Bluebird Vision activity bus will be purchased at a cost of $148,273. The Pawnee City School has been approved for a Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality Diesel Emissions Reduction Act grant which will reimburse the school $24 thousand toward the purchase of the new bus. The new bus will be delivered in 6-8 months.

The new bus will replace a 2004 bus that as part of the grant program, must be destroyed which Smith Auto has agreed to do for the school.

The Board also approved the purchase of a 2025, Ford E350 Microbird Type-A non-CDL 14-passenger minibus at a cost of $105,928 which will be delivered in 8 - 10 months.

The unit will replace a 2013 E-350 van rated for 12 passengers. Under new federal regulations any van rated at 15 or 12 passengers, is no longer acceptable for student transportation.

Superintendent Brian Rottinghaus has been authorized to sell the districts 2012 Ford E-350 conversion van that can no longer be used to transport students.

The Board approved increasing substitute teacher pay from $145 per day to $160 per day and increasing the school bus driver payment rate from $65 per route to $70 per route for the 2024-25 school year.

Membership renewal in the Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association for the next school year at a cost of $850 was also approved.

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