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By June Woods - The Madera Tribune

Madera Unified School District board of trustees approved the district's involvement in an effort to seek $3.25 million to acquire clean-burning buses.

The district will join Clovis Unified, Fresno Unified, Kings Canyon Unified, Visalia Unified and Southwest Transportation in seeking the grant from California Air Resource Board, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, PG&E SoCal Gas and other entities.

As a group, these would become the first fleet operators to deploy the CNG Plug-In Hybrid School Bus. If funded, each district would get two of the Blue Bird buses.

The board approved $10,000 of yearly funding for staff time and resources for testing, training, vehicle maintenance support and data collection for the duration of the project.

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