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Board asks for clearer route times after staff explains long posted runs include deadhead returns
Summary
Trustees asked transportation staff to provide per‑route overall durations after staff clarified posted run times include the bus’s return to the elementary school for a second run, which makes some routes appear longer even when secondary students are already dropped off.
Trustees pressed district transportation staff for clearer metrics on how long students spend on buses after seeing route times that in some cases span more than an hour and a half. Transportation assistant (presenting) told the board that the times in the posted schedule include the bus’s deadhead trip back to the elementary school to begin a second‑tier run; "some of those times seem longer, but there are not kids on the bus because it does include their dead…
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