Common use of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants Clause in Contracts

Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants. A. Bus drivers and /or attendants will be notified as soon as the District is aware of any student passenger who suffers such serious illness or epilepsy, heart condition, or diabetes. Attempts will be made by the administration to arrange for alternate transportation to the home of students who shall become ill during the school day. B. A bus driver is responsible for supervising students on the bus. Attendants are responsible for supervision of assigned students. Drivers may request discipline of a student through the Transportation Director or designee, immediately upon returning to the bus garage after the incident. Bus drivers will be required to provide documentation of the reason(s) for the student discipline. The Principal or designee will issue the initial discipline and/or suspension of the student in a timely manner and notify the Transportation Director or designee of the discipline and/or suspension including the reasons. The Principal or designee, working with the Transportation Director, will determine the duration of the suspension and will notify the parents and the driver of the terms of the suspension. C. Bus drivers are responsible for the daily cleaning of their buses. Cleaning of the buses shall be considered to be a part of the driver’s daily responsibilities. D. A driver with scheduled down time between a secondary run and an additional run (i.e., skill center, building trades, etc.) shall be paid a minimum of twenty-five (25) minutes paid down time per day. Safety check time will be built into the annual bus schedule. E. The following provisions will apply to field trips: 1. Bus drivers will be paid their regular hourly rate of pay (Saturday trips at time and a half if over forty (40) hours for the week) for all field trips, spectator buses, etc., plus fifteen (15) minutes cleaning time at the regular rate. A driver is required to report fifteen (15) minutes prior to field trip departure time to perform safety check, to prepare their bus for the trip and arrive at the school, and will be paid at the regular hourly rate. Any trip with duration of three (3) hours or less will be paid a regular hourly wage with no wait fee. For trips over three (3) hours, a wait fee of Step 1 in the driver’s pay schedule of the Master Agreement and will be paid to the driver from the time the bus is shut off at the trip’s destination until the bus is turned on at the trip site to deliver students to another location or to return back to the bus garage on the trip. 2. A driver on a field trip that interferes with their regular runs shall receive no less than their regular day’s pay. 3. Whenever possible, the Transportation Supervisor shall assist the assigned driver in preparing a map or a set of detailed instructions for future references to the same destination. 4. Field trip work is voluntary. All bus drivers in the classification will be eligible for voluntary field trip assignments including those drivers who work in additional job classifications defined in the Master Agreement. Assignments of field trips shall be made according to seniority regardless of other assigned job classification duty conflicts and rotated according to the amount of hours of each driver. Drivers who are eligible for a field trip and refuse to drive said trip will be charged the same number of hours as the driver who drove the trip unless said trip is scheduled during the driver’s pre-approved vacation or sick leave. To be eligible for this waiver vacation time must be approved in writing by the Transportation Supervisor prior to the posting of the special trip. If a bargaining unit member volunteers to do field trip work and duties in another classification of a bargaining unit member interfere with the field trip hours, a substitute will be offered/provided by the District for the bargaining unit member in the conflicting job classification and the member will forfeit their wages for the missed hours of work, and instead receive the field trip wages earned. 5. Drivers taking field trips once the school year has begun will be charged a number of hours equal to the highest driver already on the list. This same condition shall apply to a driver who has been off the eligibility list for more than twenty (20) work days due to sickness or a leave of absence, etc. 6. The Transportation Supervisor will have field trip assignments posted on the work day prior to the date of the scheduled field trip, if known. 7. In the event that an assigned field trip is canceled, the driver of that trip shall be eligible for the next posted field trip, except for trips already posted and assigned for that same date. If an assigned driver shows at the bus garage without having been previously notified that the field trip has been canceled, he/she shall be paid two (2) hours at his/her regular hourly rate of pay. 8. A driver who is assigned to a field trip of two hundred fifty (250) miles round trip for a bus with a sixty (60) gallon tank or one hundred fifty miles (150) with a thirty

Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants. A. Bus drivers and /or attendants will be notified as soon as the District is aware of any student passenger who suffers such serious illness or epilepsy, heart condition, or diabetes. Attempts will be made by the administration to arrange for alternate transportation to the home of students who shall become ill during the school day. B. A bus driver is responsible for supervising students on the bus. Attendants are responsible for supervision of assigned students. Drivers may request discipline of a student through the Transportation Director or designee, immediately upon returning suspend bus riding privileges subject to the bus garage after the incident. provisions in Administrative Regulation #5131.1 Bus drivers will be required requested to provide documentation of the reason(s) input for the student disciplineany proposed changes to Administrative Regulation #5131. 1. The Principal or designee Drivers will issue the initial discipline and/or suspension of the student in a timely manner and notify the Transportation Director or designee transportation director of the discipline and/or suspension suspension, including the reasonsreason for the suspension. The Principal or designeetransportation director, working with the Transportation Directorappropriate building principal, will determine the duration of the suspension and will notify the parents and the driver of the terms of the suspension. C. Bus drivers are responsible for the daily cleaning of their buses. Cleaning of the buses shall be considered to be a part of the driver’s daily responsibilities. D. A driver with scheduled down time between a secondary run and an additional run (i.e., skill center, building trades, etc.) shall be paid a minimum of twenty-five (25) minutes paid down time per day. Safety check time will be built into the annual bus schedule. E. The following provisions will apply to field trips: 1. Bus drivers will be paid their regular hourly rate of pay (Saturday trips at time and a half if over forty (40) hours for the week) for all field trips, spectator buses, etc., plus fifteen (15) minutes cleaning time at the regular rate. A driver is required to report fifteen (15) minutes prior to field trip departure time to perform safety check, to prepare their bus for the trip and arrive at the school, and will be paid at the regular hourly rate. Any trip with duration of three (3) hours or less will be paid a regular hourly wage with no wait fee. For trips over three (3) hours, a A wait fee of Step 1 in the driver’s pay schedule of the Master Agreement and $11.00 per hour will be paid to the driver from the time the bus is shut off at the trip’s destination until the bus is turned on at the trip site to deliver move students to another location or to return back to the bus garage on the trip. 2. A driver on a field trip that interferes with their regular runs shall receive no less than their regular day’s pay. 3. Whenever possible, the Transportation Supervisor shall assist the assigned driver in preparing a map or a set of detailed instructions for future references to the same destination. 4. Field trip work is voluntary. All bus drivers in the classification will be eligible for voluntary field trip assignments including those drivers who work in additional job classifications defined in the Master Agreement. Assignments of field trips shall be made according to seniority regardless of other assigned job classification duty conflicts and rotated according to the amount of hours of each driver. Drivers who are eligible for a field trip and refuse to drive said trip will be charged the same number of hours as the driver who drove the trip unless said trip is scheduled during the driver’s pre-approved paid vacation or sick leavetime. To be eligible for this waiver vacation time must be approved in writing by the Transportation Supervisor prior to the posting of the special trip. If a bargaining unit member volunteers to do field trip work and duties in another classification of a bargaining unit member interfere with the field trip hours, a substitute will be offered/provided by the District for the bargaining unit member in the conflicting job classification and the member will forfeit their wages for the missed hours of work, and instead receive the field trip wages earned. 5. Drivers taking field trips once the school year has begun will be charged a number of hours equal to the highest driver already on the list. This same condition shall apply to a driver who has been off the eligibility list for more than twenty (20) work days due to sickness or a leave of absence, etc. 6. The Transportation Supervisor will have field trip assignments posted on the work day prior to the date of the scheduled field trip, if known. 7. In the event that an assigned field trip is canceled, the driver of that trip shall be eligible for the next posted field trip, except for trips already posted and assigned for that same date. If an assigned driver shows at the bus garage without having been previously notified that the field trip has been canceled, he/she shall be paid two (2) hours at his/her regular hourly rate of pay. 8. A driver who is assigned to a field trip of two hundred fifty (250) miles round trip for a bus with a sixty (60) gallon tank or one hundred fifty miles (150) with a thirtythirty (30) gallon tank, shall be provided with cash monies, before departure, which shall be subject to itemization by the employee, in order that the driver shall have such money as needed to purchase gasoline for the trip. 9. Chaperons will be provided for all field trips and spectator buses. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ will be provided with a list of duties and will be responsible for student discipline. 10. The Board shall provide in advance of any special assignments, trips or schooling, an appropriate amount of money to cover lodging, meals, gas, and any other reasonable expenses that might be incurred. Advance draws and expenses will be accounted for in accordance with Board Policy. Any special assignment (field trip, sports trip, etc.) anticipated to have a duration of more than four (4) hours (6:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.) Or three and a half hours (4:30 p.m. on) would be allowed up to $10.00 for a meal allowance. Any trip lasting more than nine (9) hours would be allowed a second meal allowance. Any trip having more than thirteen hours would be allowed a third meal allowance. For allowances to be paid by the District they must accompanied by a receipt from the establishment when the meal was purchased. The receipt must contain the establishment’s name, date, amount, server’s signature and the driver’s signature. The shuttling of students from one building to another within the District will not be considered a special assignment. 11. Bus drivers preparing for field trips who feel their bus exterior needs washing may request cleaning time from the Transportation Supervisor who shall decide each request on a case-by-case basis. 12. Two (2) drivers shall be assigned to field/sport trips that exceed two hundred (200) miles one way where the miles are driven in one day. 13. If circumstances or instructions are changed after the assignment is made, the trip will be re-offered by rotation. 14. Bi-weekly, all hours worked beyond regularly scheduled hours will be posted. F. Bus runs will be chosen by seniority. No driver may switch runs during the school year except in the case of an open position (a vacancy, new position, transfer of a driver or increasing or decreasing a run by thirty (30) minutes or more per day, for an expected minimum of six (6) weeks or more). The district will hold a meeting with all drivers as soon as possible after the posting requirements are met, but no later than fifteen (15) working days from close of posting period. All drivers shall be notified of this meeting in writing. To be eligible for an open position attendance at the job selection meeting shall be mandatory. Drivers will not receive any additional pay for attending this meeting after the start of the school year.

Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants. A. Bus drivers and /or attendants will be notified as soon as the District is aware of any student passenger who suffers such serious illness or epilepsy, heart condition, or diabetes. Attempts will be made by the administration to arrange for alternate transportation to the home of students who shall become ill during the school day. B. A bus driver is responsible for supervising students on the bus. Attendants are responsible for supervision of assigned students. Drivers may request discipline of a student through the Transportation Director or designee, immediately upon returning suspend bus riding privileges subject to the bus garage after the incident. provisions in Administrative Regulation #5131.1 Bus drivers will be required requested to provide documentation of the reason(s) input for the student disciplineany proposed changes to Administrative Regulation #5131. 1. The Principal or designee Drivers will issue the initial discipline and/or suspension of the student in a timely manner and notify the Transportation Director or designee transportation director of the discipline and/or suspension suspension, including the reasonsreason for the suspension. The Principal or designeetransportation director, working with the Transportation Directorappropriate building principal, will determine the duration of the suspension and will notify the parents and the driver of the terms of the suspension. C. Bus drivers are responsible for the daily cleaning of their buses. Cleaning of the buses shall be considered to be a part of the driver’s daily responsibilities. D. A driver with scheduled down time between a secondary run and an additional run (i.e., skill center, building trades, etc.) shall be paid a minimum of twenty-five (25) minutes paid down time per day. Safety check time will be built into the annual bus schedule. E. The following provisions will apply to field trips: 1. Bus drivers will be paid their regular hourly rate of pay (Saturday trips at time and a half if over forty (40) hours for the week) for all field trips, spectator buses, etc., from the time they start their buses until they arrive back at the bus garage, plus fifteen (15) minutes cleaning time at the regular rate. A driver is required to report fifteen (15) minutes prior to field trip departure time to perform safety check, to prepare their bus for the trip and arrive at the school, and will be paid at the regular hourly rate. Any trip with duration of three (3) hours or less will be paid a regular hourly wage with no wait fee. For trips over three (3) hours, a wait fee of Step 1 in the driver’s pay schedule of the Master Agreement and will be paid to the driver from the time the bus is shut off at the trip’s destination until the bus is turned on at the trip site to deliver students to another location or to return back to the bus garage on the trip. 2. A driver on a field trip that interferes with their regular runs shall receive no less than their regular day’s pay. 3. Whenever possible, the Transportation Supervisor shall assist the assigned driver in preparing a map or a set of detailed instructions for future references to the same destination. 4. Field trip work is voluntary. All bus drivers in the classification will be eligible for voluntary field trip assignments including those drivers who work in additional job classifications defined in the Master Agreement. Assignments of field trips shall be made according to seniority regardless of other assigned job classification duty conflicts and rotated according to the amount of hours of each driver. Drivers who are eligible for a field trip and refuse to drive said trip will be charged the same number of hours as the driver who drove the trip unless said trip is scheduled during the driver’s pre-approved paid vacation or sick leavetime. To be eligible for this waiver vacation time must be approved in writing by the Transportation Supervisor prior to the posting of the special trip. If a bargaining unit member volunteers to do field trip work and duties in another classification of a bargaining unit member interfere with the field trip hours, a substitute will be offered/provided by the District for the bargaining unit member in the conflicting job classification and the member will forfeit their wages for the missed hours of work, and instead receive the field trip wages earned. 5. Drivers taking field trips once the school year has begun will be charged a number of hours equal to the highest driver already on the list. This same condition shall apply to a driver who has been off the eligibility list for more than twenty (20) work days due to sickness or a leave of absence, etc. 6. The Transportation Supervisor will have field trip assignments posted on the work day prior to the date of the scheduled field trip, if known. 7. In the event that an assigned field trip is canceled, the driver of that trip shall be eligible for the next posted field trip, except for trips already posted and assigned for that same date. If an assigned driver shows at the bus garage without having been previously notified that the field trip has been canceled, he/she shall be paid two (2) hours at his/her regular hourly rate of pay. 8. A driver who is assigned to a field trip of two hundred fifty (250) miles round trip for a bus with a sixty (60) gallon tank or one hundred fifty miles (150) with a thirtythirty (30) gallon tank, shall be provided with cash monies, before departure, which shall be subject to itemization by the employee, in order that the driver shall have such money as needed to purchase gasoline for the trip. 9. Chaperons will be provided for all field trips and spectator buses. Chaperons will be provided with a list of duties and will be responsible for student discipline. 10. The Board shall provide in advance of any special assignments, trips or schooling, an appropriate amount of money to cover lodging, meals, gas, and any other reasonable expenses that might be incurred. Advance draws and expenses will be accounted for in accordance with Board Policy. Any special assignment (field trip, sports trip, etc.) anticipated to have a duration of more than four (4) hours (6:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.) Or three and a half hours (4:30 p.m. on) would be allowed up to $10.00 for a meal allowance. Any trip lasting more than nine (9) hours would be allowed a second meal allowance. Any trip having more than thirteen hours would be allowed a third meal allowance. For allowances to be paid by the District they must accompanied by a receipt from the establishment when the meal was purchased. The receipt must contain the establishment’s name, date, amount, server’s signature and the driver’s signature. The shuttling of students from one building to another within the District will not be considered a special assignment. 11. Bus drivers preparing for field trips who feel their bus exterior needs washing may request cleaning time from the Transportation Supervisor who shall decide each request on a case-by-case basis. 12. Two (2) drivers shall be assigned to field/sport trips that exceed two hundred (200) miles one way where the miles are driven in one day. 13. If circumstances or instructions are changed after the assignment is made, the trip will be re-offered by rotation. 14. Bi-weekly, all hours worked beyond regularly scheduled hours will be posted. F. Bus runs will be chosen by seniority. No driver may switch runs during the school year except in the case of an open position (a vacancy, new position, transfer of a driver or increasing or decreasing a run by thirty (30) minutes or more per day, for an expected minimum of six (6) weeks or more). The district will hold a meeting with all drivers as soon as possible after the posting requirements are met, but no later than fifteen (15) working days from close of posting period. All drivers shall be notified of this meeting in writing. To be eligible for an open position attendance at the job selection meeting shall be mandatory. Drivers will not receive any additional pay for attending this meeting after the start of the school year.