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Board approves hazardous‑route designations and asks staff to research safe routes amid $27.6M transportation deficit
Summary
Trustees approved the district's hazardous‑route recommendations for 2026‑27, adding locations proposed by Trustee Horton, and directed staff to research options to ensure every student has a safe route to school; staff said each added bus route costs about $107,000 and the district is operating at a roughly $27.56 million transportation deficit.
Trustee Horton proposed adding Woodlands Parkway at Branch Crossing and Branch Crossing at Kraftwood to the hazardous‑route list and moved to approve the district's recommendations for the 2026‑27 school year. The board discussed what a hazardous designation provides (potential bus service for students in the designated area) and the district's responsibilities under Education Code §48.151 when submitting routes to TEA.
District transportation staff said each additional hazardous route costs approximately $107,000 (covering multiple runs) and acknowledged the district operated last year at a transportation deficit of about $27,560,000 overall, with hazardous routes contributing nearly $2,500,000 of that gap. Trustees voted to accept the district recommendations and added direction to research how to ensure every student has a safe route — whether by bus, crossing guard or other measures. "We need to make sure that every student has a safe route to school," a trustee said; the motion to accept the plan, with the research directive, carried 7–0.
