Decorah School District is buying two new buses

The Decorah School District will have two new buses starting next fall.

The Decorah School Board Monday night approved the purchase of an 84-passenger bus and a 77-passenger bus. 

The 84-passenger bus, which will cost just under $106,000, will be used primarily to take students to sporting events.  The bus will come from Bluebird buses. 

The 77-passenger bus will be purchased from Hogland for just under $87,000.  In recent years the school district has been buying 77-passenger buses for morning and afternoon routes instead of 65-passenger buses because around a dozen of the routes have high student passenger counts.