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Board approves updated supplemental transportation plan, expands formal walk-zone guidance
Summary
The Seaside School Board approved updated resolutions (3 and 4) that formalize hazard-based exceptions to statutory walk distances, document district walk zones and codify transportation practices; staff estimated 121 students could be impacted by the new district-wide walk zone.
Chris Peters presented an update to the district’s supplemental transportation plan and asked the board to approve two resolutions (nos. 3 and 4) formalizing hazard conditions and a districtwide walk zone.
"The transportation supplement plan that we have in place was last approved in 1992," Peters said, explaining the updated plan reflects current school configurations and documented hazard conditions near the schools. He said the plan identifies three reasons to approve transportation within the statutory walk distances: special-education needs, hazardous routes where safe routes do not exist, and to codify longstanding local practice. Peters told the board that adoption would affect an estimated 121 students in the new districtwide walk zone, including roughly 41 elementary and 25 secondary students who live within the statutory mile(s) but would be eligible for district transportation under the updated plan.
A board member moved to approve resolutions 3 and 4; the motion was seconded and adopted by voice vote. Peters said the district will submit the updated plan to the state board for approval after local adoption.
The board did not attach new costs to the plan in the meeting; Peters said current operations already cover the routes and the update primarily documents those practices and hazard analyses.
