Archive: Opinions

	School Business Administrator Mary June King has reached out to say that the $200,000 cost per bus reported in the artile about school start times is erroneous.  The cost is about $100,000.

While reading the article about school start times, there was a comment that the school district would have to purchase 4 new busses at $200,000 each. This price seems highly inflated. I am the school business manager at a small school district in Texas about the same size as Lansing. I grew up in Lansing which is why I read your paper. I am currently in the process of buying busses for our school district and I have a quote for a brand new 2015, 77 passenger bus for $94,647. Paying more than twice as much seems odd.

Mike Hodgson
Texas
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