Lately, we’ve seen a very welcome decline in the price of gasoline. Nearly ten years ago, however, transportation costs were high and government, education and other industries needed to change the way their fleets operated in order to deal with the rising fuel costs. The City of Lemoore and four school districts in the area – Lemoore Union High School District, Lemoore Union Elementary School District, Central Union School District, and Island Union Elementary School District – were no strangers to these hardships. Funding for their transportation departments and divisions were cut and they needed to find a way to continue operation as close to normal as possible.