Tioga ISD asks for time on bus seatbelts

The possible price of retrofi tting old buses with three-point seatbelts had the Tioga ISD trustees a bit wide-eyed at the school board meeting Monday evening.

In light of Texas Senate Bill 546, the trustees opted to tell the state they have insuffi cient funds in the budget to add seatbelts to its existing fleet of buses.

“That’s a very expensive process, as you can imagine, particularly when you start messing with … the standards that were in buses from say, three or four years ago or even 10 years ago,” Superintendent Josh Ballinger said.