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Germantown committee backs 2025–30 bus contract with Go Rightway, adds survey deadline for elementary start-time decision
Summary
The Ad Hoc Transportation Committee voted to forward a proposed 2025–2030 student transportation contract with Go Rightway to the Board of Education with a positive recommendation and added an amendment requiring parent and staff survey results to be delivered to the board by Jan. 31, 2026 to inform any elementary start-time changes.
The Germantown School District Ad Hoc Transportation Committee voted Aug. 5 to forward a draft 2025–2030 student transportation contract with Go Rightway to the Board of Education with a positive recommendation, adding an amendment that requires parent and staff survey results to be provided to the board no later than Jan. 31, 2026 to inform any decision about elementary start and end times.
Ms. Altendorf, who led contract negotiations for the district, told the committee two vendors responded to the RFP and staff negotiated with incumbent Go Rightway on a draft contract to cover the 2025–26 through 2029–30 school years. She said Go Rightway proposed annual escalation of "CPI plus 1%" and that preliminary modeling of aligning elementary start times produced an estimated $120,000 increase offset in part by savings from converting some routes; Altendorf described a net estimated increase of approximately $75,000.
The committee accepted Altendorf's…
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