The RCS Board of Education is expected to approve on Monday a proposition that would seek voter approval of a bus purchase and radio system replacement. 

The board is also expected to finalize a $41.8 million budget proposal during the 6 p.m. meeting on Monday in the high school. Both would go before voters on May 20.

The bus and radio proposition - Proposition 1 on the ballot - would authorize the district to spend no more than $477,027 to purchase four new buses and the district-wide radio system for the district's fleet of 55 buses, as well as maintenance and other vehicles.

Proposition 1 on the ballot would authorize the district to spend no more than $477,027 to purchase four new buses and the district-wide radio system for the district's fleet of 55 buses, as well as maintenance and other vehicles.

Transportation Director Janice Prior said the bus purchase would allow the retirement of four older, less fuel efficient buses.

The radio system replacement, she said, is needed because BOCES is no longer providing radio transmission service and the district must now  contract with a private provider to allow bus-to-bus and bus-to-transportation building radio coverage.

The funding would cover the cost of that contract, as well as the necessary equipment purchases and radio programming to allow for the transition, Technology Director Jeff Clemens said.