Coffeyville Community College gifts a charter bus to the Caney School District.

 

CCC has been updating its transportation fleet and identified the bus as being no longer needed. Instead of selling the vehicle, CCC has given the bus to USD 436. Caney is the only school district within the CCC taxing district that operates its own transportation department, instead of contracting those services to a third party. The donation also comes at a time when the school district was facing the need to replace its current activity bus.

“We are incredibly grateful to the Coffeyville Community College Board of Trustees and Leadership for thinking creatively about how to put this resource to work for another public institution,” said USD 436 Superintendent Blake Vargas. "Caney was already facing the need to upgrade one of our activity buses, but a vehicle of this size and capability is something we simply would not have considered adding to our fleet through a traditional purchase. The college's decision has given our students an opportunity that would not otherwise have been on the table.”

 

The gift also represents the long-standing partnership between CCC and Caney schools.