The students at Big Sandy High School in front of the new Big Sandy Cruiser.
I sat down with superintendent Moore and talked about the new cruiser bus filling the bus barn and this is what he had to say. As we all know school funding is complex. There are numerous funds that can only be used for certain things. The general fund is the main fund of a school and that pays for staff salaries, benefits, monthly bills and curricular needs.
There are separate funds to deal with cost of busing students, technology costs, retirement, and bus depreciation. The bus depreciation fund is a permissive levy fund that allows a district to depreciate buses and collect money to replace...
