Minutes from a June 2005 Orleans Parish school board meeting show that the city and school district have been wrangling over a plan to use school buses for hurricane evacuations for some time. The minutes have been archived here.
http://home.comcast.net/~ashley_tate/bmin060905.htmhttp://home.comcast.net/~ashley_tate/bmin060905.htm Thanks to Bilges Blogspot. http://bilges.blogspot.com/2005/09/painfully-right-on-buses.html The buses may sit waterlogged instead of having been used to ferry people from the city because no one knew who's budget would be billed for driver time or fuel costs; or there weren't any licensed bus drivers available; or someone was worried about insurance liability or security for the drivers or some other simple consideration that wasn't detailed finely enough in the evacuation plan.
They are here. http://home.comcast.net/~ashley_tate/bmin060905.htm