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Bryan ISD School Board Approves Purchasing Online Monitoring Of School Buses & Expresses No Opposition To A Proposed Bus Replacement Schedule

Bryan ISD school board members approve the purchase of online monitoring of buses and express no opposition to the administration’s plan to schedule the replacement of buses. The cost of a pilot program to track buses, more than $261,000 dollars, will be paid from surplus money in BISD’s 2020 bond issue. BISD’s transportation director Brian Washington says this will benefit students, their parents, and bus drivers who will no longer have to read paper bus routes while they are driving. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials about the online bus monitoring pilot program that were shown at the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Washington’s proposed bus replacement program is to ensure BISD buses are driven for no more than 15 years. Washington’s proposed use of new buses from year one to year five will be for out of district trips. Year six through ten, the bus will move to in-district routes. And after ten years buses will be used on a substitute basis. Washington also said BISD currently has 40 buses that do not have seat belts, which is a state requirement that starts in 2019. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials about the proposed bus replacement schedule that was presented at the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Click below to hear comments from the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Listen to “Bryan ISD school board members address two school bus proposals” on Spreaker.

College Station City Council Not Interested In Requiring Landlords To Tell Their Tenants About City Ordinances

The College Station city council agrees with the city manager to not require owners of student rental housing and short term rentals to notify renters about city ordinances. City manager Bryan Woods promoted at the last council meeting (June 11), the city doing more to inspire owners to voluntarily tell their tenants about complying with city codes. College Station’s education efforts includes collaborating with Texas A&M to tell students about how to avoid common violations. Additional ideas during the council discussion included using the city of College Station’s “see-click-fix” app and placing a large Q-R code on city structures to direct people to city information. Click HERE to be directed to the city of College Station’s “see-click-fix” webpage. No presentation materials were shown during the council discussion. Click below to hear comments from the June 11, 2026 College Station city council meeting. Listen to “College Station city council is not interested in requiring landlords to tell their tenants about city ordinances” on Spreaker.

College Station ISD School Board And CSISD’s Education Foundation Formalizes Their Relationship

The College Station ISD school board formalizes its relationship with the district’s education foundation. Without public comment, the board unanimously approved a three year agreement at the June regular meeting. The contract states the foundation, which was created in 1999, serves ten educational public purposes. That includes CSISD acknowledging a continued commitment to the foundation to provide money to the district which achieves a concurrent psychological and philosophical investment in the district. The agreement calls for the foundation to pay 100 percent of the cost of their office manager’s base salary and the district to pay 55 percent of the base salary of the director and a multimedia specialist. CSISD will continue to provide office and meeting space at no charge. The agreement follows the recent retirement of longtime foundation director Teresa Benden, who composed the agreement’s cover letter. Click HERE to read and download the memo and the agreement that were approved at the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting.