Loudoun County Public Schools are feeling the pinch from escalating fuel costs. The county has 740 school busses which run on diesel fuel. The escalating price of fuel exceeds what was budgeted for the current fiscal year and for the next, which begins in less than two months. The school system already has supplemented its current fiscal year fuel budget with $780,000 from other utility accounts.

If prices continue to increase, the schools would need to look at finding additional funding or cutting back certain services. This could mean making sure all buses are filled to capacity, transporting two athletic teams on the same bus or limiting field trips to locations closer to home.

The government of Loudoun County also is keeping an eye on fuel costs. The county doesn’t pay all of the taxes that people do on gasoline purchases, so there remains some breathing room before what the county pays on gasoline purchases matches or surpasses what was budgeted for next year.

Source: Leesburg Today

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