INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS: BRIEFS
GIORDANO STEPS DOWN AS LAS VEGAS SCHOOL DISTRICT EYES SUCCESSOR FOR TRANSPORTATION
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rank Giordano retired May 2 as the trans- portation director for Clark County School District in Las Vegas after more than 30 years with the district. He started in May 1982 as a vehicle mechanic, and after a one-year hiatus teaching diesel technology at a local technical center, he returned to Clark County, quickly rising in the ranks as a diesel mechanics
instructor, vehicle mechanic leader and garage manager. He was named to head the district’s transportation department in 2009 after serving as the director of vehicle maintenance and vehicle maintenance coordinator. He oversees the transportation of 100,000 students on 1,500 school buses daily for the fifth-largest school district in the United States. A Clark County HR spokeswoman said the application pro-
cess for Giordano’s replacement closed April 24, and added that a screening committee would meet to set up interviews. She noted that the new transportation director could be named by mid-May. Giordano, who was last year’s STN EXPO co-chair, completed
his “farewell tour” by visiting six district bus garages. “Each yard is doing a little something for me,” he said. “Tey liked me more than I realized.”
RETIRING TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR WAS NAPT’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT
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ucy Harding is retiring from Valley View (Ill.) School Dis- trict, but the transportation director is not closing the book on her career. She loves the school transportation industry too much and already has plans to restart her school trans-
portation consulting business. “I’ve already got some jobs signed up,” she said in the dis-
trict's announcement. “I’ll continue to share my knowledge.” In 1976 Harding took a bus driver job with Valley View,
and three years later became the department's secretary and dispatcher. She was eventually promoted to manager of trans- portation. In 1994, she was elected the first female president of the National Association for Pupil Transportation and became the first woman to sit on the Board of Directors. “She is one of my heroes and has been since the day I met her in 1995,” said Mike Martin of NAPT. “She is almost always two steps ahead of the crowd without trying to be, and she is fearless, especially when she believes that what she is doing or wants to do will help children.” She also proactively installed three-point seat belts on the
district's school buses prior to the state mandate. “We provide safe transportation with a great safety record,” Harding noted. “Tat’s what I’m proudest of.”
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