Education
BY BRITTANY ANDERSON & SIERRA MARTIN
Fatal school bus crash prompts seat belt reform Hays CISD parents have requested the board of trustees take action on adding three-point seatbelts to all school buses in response to a fatal bus accident that occurred on March 22. Two-minute impact A Hays CISD bus carrying 44 Tom Green Elemen- tary preschool students and 11 adults collided with a concrete truck in Bastrop while returning from a field trip to a zoo. Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, 5, was killed in the crash, along with an adult driver behind the bus. Fifty-one others were injured. There are two GoFundMe fundraisers in place for Ulises’ funeral expenses and for unexpected expenses for the students and staff involved in the crash. Looking ahead District officials stated in a news release the
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The following actions have been requested by Hays CISD parents to the board of trustees:
Adopt policies that require any bus used to transport students for school activities—other than on routes to and from school—be equipped with three-point seatbelts. Agree to identify funding sources and the best course of action to ensure that every bus used for travel is equipped with three-point seatbelts. Establish a standing agenda item for every board of trustees meeting until every bus used by the district is equipped with three-point seatbelts.
The San Marcos CISD board of trustees voted unanimously to cancel the May 4 election due to only two people applying for the open at-large positions. The details Incumbent board President Anne Halsey and Juan Miguel Arredondo were unop- posed for the at-large positions. “We’re canceling [the election] and sav- ing the attending taxpayer dollars,” Halsey said during a regular meeting March 18. Halsey and Arredondo’s three-year terms for the at-large trustee positions will begin in May. Mari Salmi, a current at-large trustee, will be leaving the board at the end of her term in May.
SOURCE: MEGAN OWEN, HAYS CISD PARENT/COMMUNITY IMPACT
bus involved was a 2011 model and one of the 15 buses of the district’s 109 not equipped with seat- belts. HCISD began buying buses with seatbelts in 2017. Officials stated in the release that purchasing buses with seatbelts will be discussed with the Facilities and Bond Oversight Committee “in con- sideration of potentially accelerating the normal Hays CISD bus replacement cycle.”
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