School bus contracts sent to commission Commission
A controversial school bus contract is headed to the County Commission for its May 20 meeting.
The commission’s Purchasing Committee recently approved the contract for a new vendor, Knoxville-based SCU, for seven routes, and voted to uphold that contract despite a legal challenge by the present contractor, Andersonville Bus Lines, over those routes.
Commissioner Aaron Wells made a motion and Commissioner Steven Verran seconded it to uphold an evaluation committee’s earlier recommendations. The same two commissioners moved and seconded the motion to approve the contract for the six routes, too.
Both of these motions passed unanimously.
Wells cited the opinion of County Law Director Jay Yeager in his decision. These votes came at a special meeting April 22.