The Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board is considering a
$10,000 study whether to privatize the district’s transportation service.
Director of Transportation Gail Wolfel said during a board
work session that she’s drafting a request to find a party to perform the
study. Finding an independent, external source is needed to avoid any conflict
of interest.
The idea for the study is to find ways of saving money,
either by making the current bus fleet more efficient or by finding an outside
carrier that can do the job with less cost. Should the busing be outsourced,
the current fleet could be sold off.
The district currently spends $4 million on busing.
Director of Business and Operations Bob Cochran said the
administration is looking for an organization that does not necessarily do
contracting at this time. Rather, he said, they’re looking for “an independent
consulting organization to come in and take a look at our transportation
services, the method with we are providing them, the efficiencies or
inefficiencies that are included in that and to make recommendations on how to
improve our current system, keeping it in-house, contract out to improve the
system or some hybrid of the two…We don’t have an end result in mind.”
Wolfel added that she’s looking for any way to reduce redundancy
and increase efficiency.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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