The new fueling facility for Henry County Schools diesel, gasoline and propane school buses. The school district is one of the fastest growing in the state of Georgia.
Approaching the Finish Line Transportation staff at Georgia’s Henry County Schools
will soon be working out of new digs as a construction project that began last fall nears completion. Early in 2025, staff will be setting up operations in a new 32,000-square- foot transportation facility, about double the size of its existing 16,860-square-foot depot that was originally con- structed in 1980. Designed to house 218 buses and serve 150 drivers, the facility will accommodate administrative staff, me- chanics and other shop personnel. It will also provide space for maintenance and other operations, including propane fueling stations and dedicated driver training spaces. “We’re really looking forward to being able to spread back out,” said Cliff Shearouse, executive director of transportation services. “We’re a growing district and over time my department has doubled in size.” Coping with that growth has meant adding several
modular offices, which can now be consolidated within a brick-and-mortar building.
40 School Transportation News • SEPTEMBER 2024 “Growth is always good until you run out of place to
put people, and then all of a sudden it becomes a bur- den,” Shearouse continued. But once the new building is occupied, crowding should
no longer be a concern, with plans for continued use of the current facility to leverage the new space even further. For the foreseeable future, the facility will accommo-
date the district’s combination of diesel, gasoline and propane school buses. While not yet ready to embrace electric school buses, staff have discussed where to place them in the future, identifying parking lot space as the most likely location for chargers.
Looking Forward Construction is also well under way for a new trans-
portation building for Westfield Washington Schools in Westfield, Indiana. The $52.5 million project broke ground in the spring, with completion anticipated by fall 2025. The facility will provide roughly 45,000 square feet of space for maintenance and storage as well as office and training areas. It will include 10 maintenance bays
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