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Sacramento City School District’s new $12 million transportation facility is a far cry from its previous maintenance homes. “I don’t work in the shop, so I’m not the expert,” he


added. “One person couldn’t possibly think of every- thing. But all of those eyes and ears involved in looking at blueprints and considering different options made this building very effective and efficient. Everything was planned, right down to where the ice machine was in the driver’s lounge.”


Bus Town, U.S.A. Elsewhere, Sacramento City Unified School District in


northern California transitioned from a 1942-era former schoolhouse, to a building with all of the bells and whistles. The schoolhouse was converted into a small transportation center in 1963. However, maintaining the 156-bus fleet while working


out of a repurposed cafeteria with only two bays often required the mechanics to work outside under awnings. Even the tire shop was located in a former kindergarten classroom. “It’s been too long since our district had a nice facility


for transportation, and we’re totally excited about it,” said Director of Transportation Ron Hill, who started in the


42 School Transportation News • FEBRUARY 2020


industry over 20 years ago as a school bus driver. He said he owes the new facility to two bond measures


that passed, one for a central kitchen and one for the new transportation facility. The new $12 million transportation complex shares a campus with the district warehouse, which houses the nutrition services inventory. The district originally purchased the property across


the street from the original schoolhouse for the central kitchen. Plans changed, and the new transportation cen- ter was built there instead. Situated on five acres, the new garage has six bays,


which allows each mechanic to carry out the work inside with plenty of elbow room. The facility is two stories, with the shop, dispatch and the driver lounge occupying the lower level. Upstairs offices are for field trip personnel, administrators, payroll, training and technology. Training is accomplished in two classrooms that can


be opened into one larger room, where all 100 drivers can be seated for meetings. To help keep drivers healthy, there is a physical fitness room and a wellness room. “The wellness room is a quiet place to just relax, and lactating mothers also use it,” Hill shared. “Now, we can


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