Grisham reviews maintenance schedules with Fleet Manager Charles Smith while technicians inspect one of the district’s new gasoline school buses. Grisham said the district will soon add propane school buses to the fleet.
required him to obtain and maintain a CDL. He left classroom teaching in 1986 to become the director of ten- nis at a local country club for three years, a position that segued into a contact with the USTA. He served as the organization’s schools program director for the Midwest, traveling extensively to run tennis tournaments and to consult with schools on how to implement tennis training into their curriculum. “Life is equal parts learning, doing and improving,” said
Grisham. “You’ve got to be on your A-game, and then get everyone else to do that.” His adherence to this principle soon landed him a position working with the top-rated tennis players in Texas as that state’s director of competitive tennis. In 1994, Grisham received a phone call from a friend who was a principal at one of the Broken Arrow schools. Te district need- ed a transportation director, someone cooperative who “could build a team and work with the community.” Grisham got the job and started doing just that. Te next four years provided a taste of the responsibilities he would later shoulder for Cobb County. “I guess we got kind of a reputation for doing a lot of good things—building a team, bring- ing the team together and making a real positive turnaround with the staff and families,” he said modestly. In addition to overseeing over 300 employees who at the time transported 13,000 students a day, Grisham kept the district’s bud-
34 School Transportation News • NOVEMBER 2017
CCSD Transportation at-a-glance Number of schools: ..................................112 Total number of students: .............112,831 School bus eligible students: .......98,000 Students transported: ...................80,000 School buses: .............................................891 Special needs school buses: ...............279 Routes operated each day: .................883 Bus stops: (twice a day) ................ 42,000 Miles travelled per day: ................. 70,000 School bus drivers: .................................875 Bus monitors: .............................................139 Mechanics: ................................................... 54 Additional staff: ......................................... 45
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