Increasing Your Buying Power

At last year's EXPO, STN veteran Denny Coughlin and my favorite Muskogee resident Jim Cameron put on a workshop entitled "Cooperative Bus Purchasing for Head Start Programs." The workshop grew out of a Minnesota state-wide cooperative program that Denny had presented on in 2007. The Minnesota School Bus Purchasing Program allows school districts to purchase school buses through the state, which lowers the overall cost. Imagine all the Head Start programs in your state as one unified buying force, or, better yet, a federal bus purchasing program.
In 2007, Denny presented a similar workshop, "Spec’ing Buses Online," and was gracious enough to allow me to post the PowerPoint presentation from it. If you have any problems downloading it, send me an email.