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Gloucester County schools cut bus fleet and routes; transportation director seeks funds for replacement buses and higher driver pay
Summary
Gloucester County Public Schools has shrunk its bus fleet from 118 to 76 vehicles and optimized routes to 68, the division’s transportation director told the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors while requesting roughly $1.3 million to buy about eight replacement buses and urging higher starting pay for bus drivers.
Gloucester County Public Schools has reduced its bus fleet and routes since 2019 and is seeking county support to replace aging vehicles and retain drivers, the school division’s transportation director told the Board of Supervisors.
Tanya Decker, the division’s director of transportation, said when she took the job in 2019 the district operated 118 buses on about 110 daily routes with 126 employees. She said the fleet now totals 76 buses, routes have been optimized to about 68 and staff have fallen to 98 employees — a reduction Decker attributed to vehicle consolidation, a two‑tier bell schedule and process changes.
Decker told supervisors grants and funding of “a little over $3,900,000” have been used since 2019 to…
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