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LSC hopes to save on gasoline and diesel fuel costs

Updated: Monday, 14 Jan 2013, 11:45 PM EST
Published : Monday, 14 Jan 2013, 11:45 PM EST

Dan Klein

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Lafayette school officials are hopeful the corporation will be able to spend less money on gasoline and diesel fuel in the coming year.

The school board accepted three bids for the year for fuel Monday night. They also renewed the corporation's participation in the Indiana bond bank program to help stabilize prices for the district.

Chief Financial Officer Eric Rody said the maximum price the corporation could pay for fuel went up about three cents. But current bids from companies are about the same as last year. So he hopes to see savings from their 110 buses in the district, along with special education students county-wide in the GLASS program.

"We travel an awful lot of miles in a given year so this pricing is very important to us in order to help curb, not only our own local transporation budget, but that for GLASS which affects the two other school corporations in the county as well," Rody said.

The trustees also re-elected Kay Walton as Board President for the 2013 calendar year.

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