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Duval County School Supt. Fryer, Chair Wilkinson and
City Attorney are wasting your tax money!!!!!! Read on....: Arrogant School Board, Arrogant School Administration and Arrogant "Policy" Of City Attorney Have Lead to Lost $1/2 Million in Tax Money for 48 new school buses that have been sitting unused in a westside parking lot for a year. Taxpayers have lost about $1/2 million so far due to the arrogance of the Duval County School Superintendent. Local contractors talked to Supt. Fryer and offered to phase out their local operations over 3 years.....Fryer refused. It appears that Fryer wants to help the Queen of England's bus contractor, First Student-Ryder, by bankrupting local contractors so that they cannot bid when the Queen jacks up her bus rates in a year or two. CALCULATION OF $ 1/2 MILLION IN TAX MONEY LOST: Interest paid by tax money on idle buses: By the time that the next school year starts: 12 months paid by DCSB @ 7.5% interest = $195,000 Depreciation: 1 year past / 10years depreciation period times $2.6 million = $260,000 Say $100,000 in administration cost, vandalism repairs and engine cleaning costs. $555,000 Lost to Taxpayers ............ Posted on: 5/8/01 - 9:00 p.m. (205.188.195.32) From the topic New School Bus Story Times Union Message Boards http://www.jacksonville.com A news story from TV-12's website, one you would have never seen in the T-U because it may ruffle the feathers of some of the DCSB staff, and the T-U wont do that. ............................ Fate Of Unused Buses Remains Uncertain Local Companies Opting Not To Buy Vehicles In Midst Of Contract Debate WJXT CH 12 JACKSONVILLE FL 5:36 p.m. EDT May 8, 2001 -- http://www.firstcoastnews.com School system officials say that the fate of nearly 50 new buses remains in limbo now that contracts have been awarded to three out of state companies and only one local contractor. .....the 48 new buses have sat in a parking lot all year long. Instead of busing students to school, they sit idle. We got about $2.6 (million) sitting out there now, $2.6 million," associate superintendent George Latimer says. Latimer says that the school district purchased the buses for the local contractors. But when the debate began over who would be busing students next year, many local contractors refused to buy the buses. "We were kind of handicapped," Latimer says. "We had no way to release the buses and they didn't want to buy them." The buses have now sat for more than seven months. During that time, several have been vandalized. The school system hopes that by next year the buses will hit the road. But officials say that they can't blame local contractors for their position concerning the vehicles. "Obviously, we'd like to have our kids on those buses, but we certainly understand the reluctance of the locals to buy those," Latimer says. The new buses are just one more frustration that the school board must juggle in the ongoing debate over who will win next year's contracts. But Latimer insists that most of the new contractors have agreed to buy the buses and he expects that no money will be lost. "They're brand new buses, ready to roll, so we feel it's a good deal for them and a good deal for the school board, too," Latimer says. But until that can officially happen, Latimer must still wait for word that the bus contract debate has ended. The school board says that local contractor F.L. Gelaro has already agreed to purchase 16 of the buses for next year, with the rest going to the other national contractors. ------------------------------------------------- Taxpayers; Busses must be ordered approx. 1 year in advance, the case with these busses is that they are already depreciating. A bus can only be used for approx. 10 years on a regular route, (according to the type, etc.) So now you have about 50 "old-new" busses that have depreciated, ........I wonder what the loss will be for the DCS system for this, ......also the spokesman said they were ready to roll,......Well they also said some had been vandalized, are they ready to roll? I doubt it. Also these busses are diesel, They better hope the fuel tanks, lines injectors, etc., were drained and purged before they were allowed to sit this long, diesel fuel "jells" when it sets for a period of time, I wonder what damage this has done? Just what will this cost the taxpayers? I am sure if the busses are sold, they will not be able to sell them at the price of a new one which the DCSB paid for them what about the interest the DCSB has most likely been paying on these busses while they have been sitting? Was part of the awarding of the contracts based on who would buy these busses, and get the DCSB out from under them? |
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