ROARING SPRING — The Spring Cove School District is planning to purchase a police car from Martinsburg Borough when the borough replaces one of its older vehicles.
“Our police just go back and forth between the schools, they’re not like driving all around, so an old police car works well for us,” Superintendent Betsy Baker said during Monday’s school board meeting.
The district currently has two full-time police officers monitoring the schools but only one police car. The officers work separate shifts that overlap slightly, leaving one without transportation for a short period of time, Baker said.
The agreement to be voted on next week at the board’s regular meeting states that the Martinsburg Police Department is to turn over the old police car by April.
The board also discussed the authorization of a contract for electrical supply usage that would allow Spring Cove to go together with other school districts and get better pricing, Business Manager Steven Foor said.
“As with everything, energy costs are obviously up and what they’re doing as a consortium is to give a bunch of school districts to go together to get better prices,” Foor said. “They’re trying to get ahead of the curve here where they think it’s going to be even worse so they asked us to go out a little early to look at bidding.”
The final pricing recommendation is supposed to come Nov. 8, with the contract having to be signed on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10, Baker said.
The termination of a wrestling co-op agreement between Spring Cove and Williamsburg school districts will also be voted on during next week’s meeting.
“They said when we did the last agreement that they were going to pursue other opportunities in the future,” Baker said.
She cited the high cost of having a co-op agreement with Spring Cove as the reason Williamsburg decided to look for another district to pair up with for wrestling.
In other matters, the district’s transportation situation has improved over the last month, Baker said, with Maxwell Transportation finding two bus drivers and Leidy Transportation having a bus driver “come back on.”
“We’re making progress,” she said. “It’s better than it was a couple weeks ago.”
Mirror Staff Writer Rachel Foor is at 814-946-7458.