BUSD to replace school buses with new purchase

The Bonsall Unified School District will be purchasing a new bus and is seeking buyers for five buses which no longer meet clean air standards.

One 5-0 board vote Sept. 15 approved the declaration of five inactive buses as surplus; another 5-0 vote Sept. 15 approved the purchase of a new school bus from A2Z Bus Sales, Inc., and a 5-0 vote Oct. 13 approved the purchase of the new bus using a "piggyback" clause with the Waterford Unified School District in Stanislaus County.

The value of all five of the surplus buses was declared to be less than $1,000 apiece. One of those buses, a 1989 Bluebird...