Jim White, long-time Transportation Director for Hamilton Southeastern School, plans to retire this December. (Photo provided by Larry Lannan)
The long-time Transportation Director for Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) Schools just briefed the school board for the last time on preparations for the start of school. Jim White plans to retire in December of this year. (You can listen to the Podcast interview I recorded late last year with Jim White at this link.)
White’s department will start the school year with 303 buses, 362 employees and 299 of them drive school buses. The miles driven by all buses combined during the 2016-2017 school year totaled just under three million miles. The fuel costs to run those buses for the last school year came to $871,726.
There will be 19 new buses on the road as school goes into session in August.
The total transportation budget for 2016-2017 school year was $13.6 million.