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Beaverton SD proposes to simplify transportation bidding rules, change spare-driver postings
Summary
District and bargaining team discussed proposed contract edits to Article 9 that remove detailed bidding mechanics and adjust how spare driver positions are posted, including changing minimum-hour guarantees.
Beaverton School District 48J bargaining representatives proposed removing highly prescriptive language from Article 9 of the classified contract and replacing it with shorter, more flexible language on how transportation bidding and spare-driver positions are handled.
The changes were presented by Joel, a transportation department representative, who said the intent is to “consolidate the language, to not functionally change the way we do bidding, but just to ... remove some of those details that seem to be a little bit too granular to be in there.” The district’s proposal removes a provision that bidding must be broken into one‑hour segments and language that each route “will be announced to the waiting…
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