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Waunakee policy committee pauses final transport changes pending Lamers routing analysis and 4K applications
Summary
The committee paused final votes on multiple transportation policy options — including a one-mile-all-grades policy, elimination of cross-school shuttles, and mid-day routes to 4K community sites — pending Lamers' routing analysis and the Feb. 1 deadline for Get Kids Ready 4K applications.
The Waunakee Community School District policy committee paused action on substantive transportation-policy changes on Jan. 16 and asked staff to return with vendor routing data and state 4K-application results before making final decisions.
Staff told the committee an outside hazardous-transportation review connected to construction of Heritage Elementary has materially changed eligibility scenarios; those changes are slated to take effect Sept. 1, 2026. "At that time ... many students will no longer be eligible for transportation effective September 1," staff said, explaining the decision to delay action until the district can present the full picture.
Lamers, the district's transportation vendor, will run a data "sandbox" at corporate headquarters to…
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