When officials decided to start school three weeks before Labor Day, there were some concerns students riding buses to and from school would be sweating due to a lack of air conditioning.
Some cafeteria workers inside the schools also labor without air conditioning. It’s a problem, after all, as temperatures in mid-August can sweltering.
On Tuesday, the Stafford County School Board voted unanimously to replace five buses in their fleet for a cost of $531,810. The new buses will include air conditioning.
The buses will carry up to 77 passengers and be delivered by Virginia-based Sonny Merriman Corporation in about six months.
The School Board on Tuesday allocated another half-million to retrofit 50 of its older school buses with air conditioning units before the start of the new school year in August.
The school division plans to retrofit 50 more buses at a later time. The overall retrofit will cost about $1 million, and move the total percentage of buses with air conditions in Stafford’s fleet from 11% to 71%.
Also in line to get air conditioner units kitchens at 10 county schools that currently don’t have them. Three schools will receive the units this summer, with more to follow in the coming years.
These new projects were funded with a total of $2.5 million in unused carryover funds, appropriated to it by the Stafford Board of Supervisors.
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To celebrate Air Quality Awareness Week (May 6-10, 2024), Clean Air Partners is working with A Few Cool Hardware Stores to exchange DC, Maryland and Virginia residents’ gas-powered lawnmowers, trimmers, and leaf blowers at select Ace Hardware locations in the region. DMV residents who turn in their gas-powered lawn tools will receive a FREE Ego Power+ replacement including batteries and chargers, while supplies last.
Compared to gas, electric lawn equipment can reduce emissions, noise pollution, health risks and maintenance costs and time. The program aims to remove about a hundred gas-powered polluting tools from yards in the greater Baltimore-Washington region.
The exchanges will take place the weekends of May 17-19, 2024, and May 31-June 2, 2024, at A Few Cool Hardware Stores network of employee-owned Ace Hardware stores in the DC and Baltimore metro areas. To participate and get your free Ego Power+ lawn tool, sign up at https://qrco.de/CAPExchange to reserve your tool and select your trade-in date and location.
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Free Irish Music Concert
Welcoming Spring with music from the Emerald Isle, the New Dominion Choraliers offer a FREE concert on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City.
Joined by Legacy Brass and members of Old
Spring Ceili: An Irish Music Festival
The New Dominion Choraliers of Prince William County and McGrath Morgan Academy of Irish Dance invite you to join them at our Ceili, a grand celebration of Irish music and dance.
A gathering of performance groups throughout Prince William County
