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Board approves revised hazardous transportation plan; staff to submit map and minutes to DPI
Summary
After a presentation from Mark Ward, the board voted to approve an updated hazardous transportation plan intended to modernize mapping for state aid reporting; the presenter said the plan will allow the district to count certain students living less than two miles for aid and noted an interim aid payment of about $48,000.
The New London School District board approved a revised hazardous transportation plan after a presentation from a transportation representative, who described changes to the district’s hazardous‑route map and clarified how the plan affects state transportation aid reporting.
Mark Ward described the update as a modernization of the plan previously submitted to the Department of Public Instruction, saying the map “highlights that hazardous transportation area” and that the plan determines whether students who live less than two miles from a school can be counted for state aid. He told the board the district’s packet listed 301 students in the hazardous area and that the district recently received an interim transportation aid payment of roughly $48,000 — about $15,000 less than the prior year. Ward also noted that the state provides $15 per pupil for students counted in the hazardous transportation area (as cited in the packet).
A board member moved to approve the revised plan and another member seconded. The board voted in favor and the motion carried. Ward said the district will obtain a required letter from the sheriff and then submit the meeting minutes and the updated plan to DPI.
The vote took place during regular business; board members asked clarifying questions about which high‑traffic areas and sidewalks factored into designations, and staff responded that counts are tied to registered bus riders and that students must be registered and ride at least once to be included on the transportation report.
