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Dallas Center-Grimes transportation director previews bus-eligibility changes, warns of possible service losses as development grows
Summary
Transportation Director Jeff Wolf told the school board a proposed district-wide change would shift walk/pay/free zones and could move about 150 Oak View students and roughly 190 high-school students out of free bus service as local development reaches school areas; no vote was requested tonight.
Transportation Director Jeff Wolf previewed recommended changes to the district's student transportation policy at the Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District board meeting, saying the proposal will be brought for formal consideration next year but could change which students qualify for free bus service as nearby development progresses.
Wolf said the district currently uses street (not straight-line) distances to determine eligibility and described existing zones as: K–4 walk zone of 1 mile, grades 5–8 walk zone of 2 miles and high school walk zone of 3 miles, with intermediate "pay" zones for some elementary students. "As I go through this, keep in mind that when I talk about distances, we use the road distances and street distances and not line of sight…
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