OCR Text |
Show egislation oixld Mean vings For chool Busing IflNUED FROM FRONTPAGE ;o c don't get pon;iliil? W o ovei -filled for a . he recalled, noting many ineligibles were ,j Up 10 fully utilize the bus -- but that brought reimbursement from the state. - indicated about 1 ,600 students are being trans- J on buses partly filled with eligibles while nor 1 .41X1 being bused are entirely ineligible. (ding will change that unless we decide" to " -gc the policy, he added. iE KQl'lVAl.KNT of :2 busloads are being iported with ineligible students and each bus i about $15,000 a year whether it's filled or not, idriu-r compensation and other costs are consi-,j. consi-,j. Or. Hntler explained. "If we can eliminate buses we can save $45,000." The reason we're transporting some (students) lower rating (hazard) is because the parents t so much noise. Since we never had an objec-way objec-way to (determine) transportation in the past, - eho k'T1 4u'ct didn't get hauled." IEST10NS WILL have to be decided atTecting ituJents living across the highway from Bounti-Adelaide Bounti-Adelaide Elementary School, for example, and students liv ing across from the Camelot Subdi-m Subdi-m in Layton where parents were successful in ng their kids bused to Lincoln Elementary. - A'e're transporting some students with a lower -.. igthan others are." Dr. Butlercontinued, adding (parents had claimed that was true although it ; impossible previously to precisely determine out a point system in place. WE'LL TRY to come to a reasonable" conclu- and provide adequate information to the board future action, adding "it's a lot easier to keep ": ing than not" when considering possibly drop-some drop-some students already being bused. . ' We are trying to systemize so we have some kind . lalvsis, so we can determine which area is more - irdous than another," Supt. Lawrence Welling , "to eliminate the cry from parents asking 'why r--: aren't being transported'." -THERE ISN'T A non-hazardous area or route- -w ill give some way of judging that in terms of ; ing at what we can provide w ith the resources have." But, speaking of financing busing he ' id. "I think w e can not tolerate using a lot of -" ral fund (monies) to finance it." jestioned about busing private students. Dr. k .7. er said four-five students were bused to Bounti-; Bounti-; . -nabus that must travel there empty each day to sport students back north and another afternoon cr returns the students. "We're just reporting t trip) as dead miles-they don't care" he said - ning to the state. He emphasized carrying those "' ems involves no traveling out of the way be- e the students come to the bus. E ADDED that a bus formerly picked up some St. . 's (Catholic School) students in Maple Hills area 'last Bountiful and took them to that Bountiful I Tl but that had been discontinued. y j We are not required to transport students from ate schools," Supt. Welling emphasized. He Ml that cities have been cooperating as much as ey will stretch to build sidewalks near some -' wis. |