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Steve Tyminski
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/08/2002 : 09:30:59 AM
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Hi. I work for the City of Sierra Vista Arizona. Our School district is requesting a proposal for City provided fleet maintenance of district buses, cars and equipment.
Does anyone do this?
Is anyone aware of Intergovernmental agreements between Citys and Districts for this service? You input is greatly appreciated!
Steve
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cowlitzcoach
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2002 : 06:39:20 AM
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Most of the large districts in WA continue to do their own thing. It is the small districts that have formed co-ops to receive some economy of scale in their maintenance.
If the fleet has only 8-10 vehicles or less, finding someone to do the required PM and repairs properly for the number of hours and $$$ is difficult. Going into partnership with three or more other districts with 8-10 vehicles with a couple of fire districts thrown in for good measure the cost for PM and repairs can go down.
WA does not reimburse for any facilities that are not used by kids. If a district wants to build a new bus garage the $$$ have to come from local levies. It is difficult to "sell" a community on the need for a new bus garage. It is a lot easier to "sell" the plan if the cost can be spread around to a larger tax base.
Again, the co-ops do work and for the most part they do work well. If the quality of work goes down it isn't due to the co-op as much to poor supervision.
Mark O.
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Brad Barker
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2002 : 11:13:58 AM
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Steve, I'm sure its been done or being done now somewhere. I personally ran into a situation a few years back when we needed a new maintenance facility and a proposal was suggested that the local city transit and my school district combine shops. It ended up being a maintenance nightmare of what-if thoughts. Which entity gets priority. You have school bus schedules to meet and city transit schedules to meet. If city vehicles are broken down and school buses too, which ones get fixed first. Plus the paper work separation from city government to state run school district was another problem because transportation is funded by the WPU formula. Fortunately for me the proposal was thrown out. That guy who proposed it caused me a lot of grief though in the mean time.
Brad
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rockpik98
Active Member
USA
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Posted - 03/09/2002 : 3:35:51 PM
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At present time, I manage the fueling for the City of Rialto and the School District of Rialto, Calif. We use a system designed by E. J. Ward of Texas. It's a fine system. The School District buys all the gasoline and diesel that the City uses and the School District charges an administrative fee for the use. A written inventory is provided at the end of the month for both accounting departments.
If thats any help.
mikey
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cowlitzcoach
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 03/10/2002 : 06:07:18 AM
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Several districts in WA have gone to combined maintenance ops with different goverenment entities. In one of the smaller counties, where there is only one school district, all municipal and county equipment are maintained with the school district equipment. When I mean all, it includes all of the school buses, police and fire equipment, and county road crew and vehicles. By combining operations, the school was able to afford to build a state of the art maintenance facility.
In Lewis County, WA, many of the schools in the area combined to form a transportation co-op so as to centralize the vehicle maintenance and repair. Since forming the co-op they have started maintaining and repairing much of the county fire equipment as well.
It seems to be working rather well here in WA to have more than just school buses in the bus garages. I am sure some sort of agreement was entered into as to who has priority of service before contracts were signed. I am sure some sort of fee schedule was developed as well.
With the increased number of vehicles the garage is able to afford to staff the garage many more hours than most bus garages do. In this way, rarely is a bus out on the road without having someone at the garage in case a bus needs to be rescued.
I believe combined ops are possible but a clear understanding of priority of service and fee schedule has to agreed to before the arrangement can be implemented.
Mark O.
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BusBoy
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 03/11/2002 : 09:02:15 AM
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I've seen this done in smaller disticts, but what I've seen the buses are in worst shape then when they were being maintained by the districts own mechanic!
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Bus maintenance by local City government
