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Board to consider districtwide tiered bus schedule after staff projects recovered state funding
Summary
Transportation staff proposed a tiered bus schedule that could raise the district’s state efficiency rating and recover hundreds of thousands in state funding; the board asked staff to place the item on the March 16 agenda and to return with bell‑time scenarios and outreach plans.
The Randolph County School System board heard a detailed presentation on a proposed districtwide tiered bus schedule and instructed staff to place the proposal on the March 16 meeting agenda for action.
Wendy Anderson and Jamie Smith, transportation staff, walked the board through operational and financial tradeoffs of a tiered schedule. Currently the district runs about 140 bus routes with a state efficiency rating at 87.9%, which transportation staff said leaves roughly $740,000 in potential state funding unclaimed. Anderson said running a two‑zone tier…
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