The White County Board of Education broke ground for new transportation center on March 29.
This ESPLOST-funded project is being developed by Charles Black Construction, after the board selected them for several school facility projects in January last year.
Assistant School Superintendent Scott Justus spoke about the need for a better facility at a previous meeting.
“One of the biggest needs we have is to provide transportation to our kids and do it in a safe bus,” he said. “Our board has put in 20 new buses just in the last four years.”
The facility will be located on a 5-and-half-acre plot of land next to Tesnatee Gap Elementary School. If the weather cooperates, Justus hopes the new transportation facility will be operating by start of the new school year in August 2022. At the same meeting, County Commissioner Terry Goodger talked about the commission’s decision to extend Claude Sims road from its intersection with Shepard Drive.
“That will be able to tie in T-Gap with Jack P. Nix [Elementary School] and the middle school, on a back road, not having to be on Highway 129,” said Goodger.
This aim would be to allow traffic to flow better for buses, teachers and parents at the end of the school day.