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Since he began, he has been involved with the state association, attending all three district competitions across the state as well as the main state competition. “Larry is very well respected, and at the same token we’re continuing that tradition and making chang- es, but pretty minor ones,” he said. “We’re going to make school transportation as best as we can in Kansas.”
RHODE ISLAND
Since August 2012, Anthony Silva has been the administrator of the Rhode Island Department of Motor Vehicles, overseeing all of its operations and services. He was hired after state Gov. Lin- coln Chafee took a personal interest in improving the department after being elected in 2010. Before Silva, the department had an interim administrator who was part of a resource team to help overhaul the operations. During this time Silva was director of the state police academy for six years, and prior to that was police chief of the town of Cumberland for 10 years. In all, he has a 30-year career in law enforcement. Te transition from his past career to his new one has been an
easy one, he said, as his focus remains on laws and highway safety. He also was an active law enforcement officer within the state and nationally, working with the U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA. “Highway safety is a big part of my career, and as administrator, I’m responsible for enforcing the motor vehicle laws. So that provides a good link for the work we do here at the DMV when it comes to safety on the road…whether it’s an automobile, a school bus or commercial vehicle,” he said. So far Silva’s main initiatives have not involved anything specific
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to school buses, but he noted that he has reviewed the state’s bian- nual school bus inspection process. “Tey have got a great system here in Rhode Island that is very customer friendly because we’re doing tens of thousands of inspections,” he said, estimating that the approximately 1,750 yellow buses in the state are inspected twice a year.
NEW HAMPSHIRE For the past year Christopher Kelby has been the pupil
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transportation supervisor in Troop G of the New Hampshire State Police, the commercial vehicle enforcement unit under the Department of Safety. He oversees four sections under the unit, including the driver licensing task force that handles CDL testing, and enforces laws and rules governing school buses. Other duties include enforcing federal regulations and state laws and super- vising the semiannual state safety inspections of more than 3,500 school buses, according to the state police website. Kelby couldn’t be reached for comment at the time of this
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writing, but Walter Perry, executive director of the New Hamp- shire School Transportation Association, told STN Kelby has been active with NHSTA. Working with the association, he is close to finishing a rewrite of the state’s rules that govern student transpor- tation to reduce ambiguity of the verbiage. He added that Kelby also has worked to streamline the state’s
school bus inspection program. Perry said the state developed a new program to train mechanics, who would replace state police troopers to inspect school buses on a voluntary basis. One of Kel- by’s hallmarks is going out of his way to be as accessible as possible to student transporters, Perry said. “What’s unfortunate is that the person coming into this position
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knows little about school busing. Trooper Kelby had to start from the beginning, but he’s been a quick learner on the rules, he’s got a great personality and has an open-door policy,” he said.
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