6/24/14 - A report on capital improvements for the next five years was delivered to the Howell School Board at its regular meeting last night. Assistant Superintendent of Finance Rick Terres says the district has been doing positive things to help save costs, such as adopting a performance contract and retrofitting buildings with energy-saving improvements. Now, he hopes to turn the boardâs attention to other needs, including parking lots, roofs, vehicle replacements, and computer upgrades. He provided the board with a plan to take care of their needs in the next five years, with $2.5 to 3 million needed to make it happen. He says he would like to see improvements to the bus fleet and computer replacements in the relatively short term, but important infrastructure items like roofs and parking lots will not likely need attention for at least a couple of years. He told the board he would recommend putting the proceeds from the eventual sale of the Latson Road property, valued at between $4.5 and $6.5 million, into the capital improvement fund for future projects. He also says he plans to increase the percentage of the districtâs bus fleet that runs on propane rather than diesel fuel, an upgrade which he says has been cutting fuel costs in half for the two buses with that feature in the districtâs fleet. (TD)
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