Common use of Rights of Bus Drivers Clause in Contracts

Rights of Bus Drivers. a. No bus driver shall be discharged or subjected to reprisal on the part of the administration or supervisory personnel by reason of initiation or participation in a grievance procedure. b. In the event a grievance situation needs immediate attention and the grievant proves to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources or designee that a misunderstanding, misinterpretation or violation of policy has occurred at the Informal Level and that an immediate solution is necessary, the bus driver shall have the right to redress by appealing immediately to Level II for a decision. c. All written and printed matter dealing with the processing of a grievance will be filed separately from the Office of Human Resources personnel files of the participants. Revised: April 29, 2016 Adopted: August 8, 2016 Effective: July 1, 2016 NAME OF AGGRIEVED PERSON DATE GRIEVANCE OCCURRED POSITION OF AGGRIEVED PERSON DIRECT SUPERVISOR BRIEF STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCE, INCLUDING SPECIFIC POLICY/IES VIOLATED: RELIEF REQUESTED: I have read the above: Date (Signature of Aggrieved) MANAGER/DIRECTOR’S DECISION: Date (Manager/Director Signature) Revised: June 11, 2010 Adopted: September 13, 2010 Effective: July 1, 2010 Accident Review Committee, Policy 4538 The Accident Review Committee determines only preventability; it does not function in a disciplinary capacity. Objective is to promote awareness, improve driving skills, identify areas of continuing training, reduce preventable accidents, while maintaining a positive learning experience. Preventability or the action “to prevent” is commonly defined as, “to keep from occurring, avert, hinder.” The Committee’s duty is to determine if a driver took an appropriate action to prevent the accident. CCSD Transportation leadership and CCTEA will work together to ensure proper procedures and fairness to all drivers. 1. Safety and Training will make the determination of incident or accident. a. Incident is defined as “any damage occurring to a vehicle or other property that is not caused by a collision” b. Accident is defined as “any occurrence involving a Cherry Creek Schools vehicle which results in contact with any other vehicle, person, animal, or object” If determined to be an accident, the driver and CCTEA will be notified. The accident review committee will meet with the driver within five (5) working days c. Any extension of time required to hold a meeting will be communicated to the driver and all committee members for rescheduling. 2. All accidents shall be reviewed by an Accident Review Committee which will be composed of a minimum of (3) committee members, and a maximum of five (5) committee members: (1) Safety and Training Manager or Safety and Training Specialist or their designee (Committee Chairperson) b. (1-2) CCTEA Representative c. (1-2) CCSD Bus Driver 3. Decisions of preventability or non-preventability are to be determined by the Accident Review Committee. The Committee’s decision is to be either unanimous or majority. The Committee’s decision shall be made known to the Director of Transportation upon determination throughout the school year. 4. Drivers may appeal the decision of the Accident Review Committee to the Director of Transportation in writing within five (5) days. a. The Director of Transportation’s decision is to be made within ten (10) working days after the receipt of the driver’s appeal. b. Should an extension of time be required to fully investigate and render the decision, the Director of Transportation will communicate this to the driver with an expected date of final decision. Adopted: September 9, 2019 Effective: July 1, 2019 Negotiations, Policy 4561 1. Upon written request by the Cherry Creek Transportation Employees’ Association (“CCTEA”) to the Board of Education (“Board”), or the Board to the CCTEA, after November 1 and no later than February 1, the Board and the CCTEA will arrange for negotiations as provided herein. 2. A written response will be made by the party in receipt of the request within eight (8) working days of the receipt of such request. Within fifteen (15) days of the written response, the parties, or their representatives, shall meet to mutually agree to a timeline for the negotiations process to take place including dates, times, locations and ground rules. 3. The parties’ preferred method of negotiations shall be through a collaborative process unless another process is mutually agreed upon. 4. The parties will negotiate in good faith for the entirety of the negotiations process. If, after doing so, the parties reach an impasse as to one of more issues as declared by one or both parties, they will leave the negotiations process and proceed to a separate process, mediation. If the parties are using a negotiations facilitator, the facilitator may be used as a mediator in an effort to reach a settlement. If no progress had been made in four hours of this initial attempt at mediation, unless a longer time is mutually agreed upon, the parties will mutually agree on and hire a mediator for the purpose of attempting to induce the negotiating teams to enter into a tentative agreement(s). Unless both sides agree otherwise, the negotiating teams shall, within five (5) days of the declaration of impasse, submit a list of five (5) mediators to each other. The mediator shall be selected by the negotiating teams five (5) business days after receipt of the names of mediators. The procedure shall be (unless mutually agreed otherwise) for each party to alternately strike names from the list until only one (1) name remains. This person shall then be asked to mediate the dispute. The party striking first shall be determined by coin toss. If the mediator declines to accept, a coin toss will allow one party to select the mediator from the last two names stricken from the list. The form, dates and times of meetings shall be arranged by the mediator. Unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties, this second attempt at mediation will last no more than ten

Rights of Bus Drivers. a. No bus driver shall be discharged or subjected to reprisal on the part of the administration or supervisory personnel by reason of initiation or participation in a grievance procedure. b. In the event a grievance situation needs immediate attention and the grievant proves to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources or designee that a misunderstanding, misinterpretation or violation of policy has occurred at the Informal Level and that an immediate solution is necessary, the bus driver shall have the right to redress by appealing immediately to Level II for a decision. c. All written and printed matter dealing with the processing of a grievance will be filed separately from the Office of Human Resources personnel files of the participants. Revised: April 296, 2016 2022 Adopted: August 8June 13, 2016 2022 Effective: July 1, 2016 2022 NAME OF AGGRIEVED PERSON TERMINAL LOCATION OF AGGREIVED PERSON DIRECT SUPERVISOR DATE GRIEVANCE OCCURRED POSITION OF AGGRIEVED PERSON DIRECT SUPERVISOR BRIEF STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCE, INCLUDING SPECIFIC POLICY/IES VIOLATED: RELIEF REQUESTED: I have read verified and submitted the aboveabove information: Date (Signature of Aggrieved) MANAGERAggrieved Date Assistant Director/DIRECTOR’S DECISION: Date (Manager/Director Signature) Director’s Signature Revised: June 11February 10, 2010 2021 Adopted: September 13June 23, 2010 2021 Effective: July 1, 2010 2021 Memorandum of Understanding, Accident Review Committee, Policy 4538 4538‌ The Accident Review Committee determines only preventability; it does not function in a disciplinary capacity. Objective is to promote awareness, improve driving skills, identify areas of continuing training, reduce preventable accidents, while maintaining a positive learning experience. Preventability or the action “to prevent” is commonly defined as, “to keep from occurring, avert, hinder.” The Committee’s duty is to determine if a driver took an appropriate action to prevent the accident. CCSD Transportation leadership and CCTEA will work together to ensure proper procedures and fairness to all drivers. 1. Safety and Training will make the determination of incident or accident. a. Incident is defined as “any damage occurring to a vehicle or other property that is not caused by a collision” b. Accident is defined as “any occurrence involving a Cherry Creek Schools vehicle which results in contact with any other vehicle, person, animal, or object” If determined to be an accident, the driver and CCTEA will be notified. The accident review committee will meet with the driver within five (5) working days c. Any extension of time required to hold a meeting will be communicated to the driver and all committee members for rescheduling. 2. All accidents shall be reviewed by an the Accident Review Committee which will be composed of a minimum of (3) committee members, and a maximum of five (5) committee members: (1) Safety and Training Manager or Safety and Training Specialist or their designee (Committee Chairperson) b. (1-2) CCTEA Representative Representative(s) c. (1-2) CCSD Bus Driver 3. Decisions of preventability or non-preventability are to be determined by the Accident Review Committee. The Committee’s decision is to be either unanimous or majority. The Committee’s decision shall be made known to the Director of Transportation upon determination throughout the school year. 4. Drivers may appeal the decision of the Accident Review Committee to the Director of Transportation in writing within five (5) days. a. The Director of Transportation’s decision is to be made within ten (10) working days after the receipt of the driver’s appeal. b. Should an extension of time be required to fully investigate and render the decision, the Director of Transportation will communicate this to the driver with an expected date of final decision. Adopted: September 9, 2019 Effective: July 1, 2019 Negotiations, Policy 4561 1. Upon written request by the Cherry Creek Transportation Employees’ Association (“CCTEA”) to the Board of Education (“Board”Driver(s), or the Board to the CCTEA, after November 1 and no later than February 1, the Board and the CCTEA will arrange for negotiations as provided herein. 2. A written response will be made by the party in receipt of the request within eight (8) working days of the receipt of such request. Within fifteen (15) days of the written response, the parties, or their representatives, shall meet to mutually agree to a timeline for the negotiations process to take place including dates, times, locations and ground rules. 3. The parties’ preferred method of negotiations shall be through a collaborative process unless another process is mutually agreed upon. 4. The parties will negotiate in good faith for the entirety of the negotiations process. If, after doing so, the parties reach an impasse as to one of more issues as declared by one or both parties, they will leave the negotiations process and proceed to a separate process, mediation. If the parties are using a negotiations facilitator, the facilitator may be used as a mediator in an effort to reach a settlement. If no progress had been made in four hours of this initial attempt at mediation, unless a longer time is mutually agreed upon, the parties will mutually agree on and hire a mediator for the purpose of attempting to induce the negotiating teams to enter into a tentative agreement(s). Unless both sides agree otherwise, the negotiating teams shall, within five (5) days of the declaration of impasse, submit a list of five (5) mediators to each other. The mediator shall be selected by the negotiating teams five (5) business days after receipt of the names of mediators. The procedure shall be (unless mutually agreed otherwise) for each party to alternately strike names from the list until only one (1) name remains. This person shall then be asked to mediate the dispute. The party striking first shall be determined by coin toss. If the mediator declines to accept, a coin toss will allow one party to select the mediator from the last two names stricken from the list. The form, dates and times of meetings shall be arranged by the mediator. Unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties, this second attempt at mediation will last no more than ten

Rights of Bus Drivers. a. No bus driver shall be discharged or subjected to reprisal on the part of the administration or supervisory personnel by reason of initiation or participation in a grievance procedure. b. In the event a grievance situation needs immediate attention and the grievant proves to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources or designee that a misunderstanding, misinterpretation or violation of policy has occurred at the Informal Level and that an immediate solution is necessary, the bus driver shall have the right to redress by appealing immediately to Level II for a decision. c. All written and printed matter dealing with the processing of a grievance will be filed separately from the Office of Human Resources personnel files of the participants. Revised: April 29, 2016 Adopted: August 8, 2016 Effective: July 1, 2016 NAME OF AGGRIEVED PERSON Informal Level I Level II, Administrative Procedure 4536.1 DATE GRIEVANCE OCCURRED POSITION OF AGGRIEVED PERSON DIRECT SUPERVISOR BRIEF STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCE, INCLUDING SPECIFIC POLICY/IES VIOLATED: RELIEF REQUESTED: I have read the above: Date (Signature of Aggrieved) MANAGER/DIRECTOR’S DECISION: Date (Manager/Director Signature) Revised: June 11, 2010 Adopted: September 13, 2010 Effective: July 1, 2010 Accident Review Committee, Policy 4538 The Accident Review Committee determines only preventability; it does not function in a disciplinary capacity. Objective is to promote awareness, improve driving skills, identify areas of continuing training, reduce preventable accidents, while maintaining a positive learning experience. Preventability or the action “to prevent” is commonly defined as, “to keep from occurring, avert, hinder.” The Committee’s duty is to determine if a driver took an appropriate action to prevent the accident. CCSD Transportation leadership and CCTEA will work together to ensure proper procedures and fairness to all drivers. 1. Safety and Training will make the determination of incident or accident. a. Incident is defined as “any damage occurring to a vehicle or other property that is not caused by a collision” b. Accident is defined as “any occurrence involving a Cherry Creek Schools vehicle which results in contact with any other vehicle, person, animal, or object” If determined to be an accident, the driver and CCTEA will be notified. The accident review committee will meet with the driver within five (5) working days c. Any extension of time required to hold a meeting will be communicated to the driver and all committee members for rescheduling. 2. All accidents shall be reviewed by an Accident Review Committee which will be composed of a minimum of (3) committee members, and a maximum of five (5) committee members: a. (1) Safety and Training Manager or Safety and Training Specialist or their designee (Committee Chairperson) b. (1-2) CCTEA Representative c. (1-2) CCSD Bus Driver 3. Decisions of preventability or non-preventability are to be determined by the Accident Review Committee. The Committee’s decision is to be either unanimous or majority. The Committee’s decision shall be made known to the Director of Transportation upon determination throughout the school year. 4. Drivers may appeal the decision of the Accident Review Committee to the Director of Transportation in writing within five (5) days. a. The Director of Transportation’s decision is to be made within ten (10) working days after the receipt of the driver’s appeal. b. Should an extension of time be required to fully investigate and render the decision, the Director of Transportation will communicate this to the driver with an expected date of final decision. Adopted: September 9, 2019 Effective: July 1, 2019 Negotiations, Policy 4561 1. Upon written request by the Cherry Creek Transportation Employees’ Association (“CCTEA”) to the Board of Education (“Board”), or the Board to the CCTEA, after November 1 and no later than February 1, the Board and the CCTEA will arrange for negotiations as provided herein. 2. A written response will be made by the party in receipt of the request within eight (8) working days of the receipt of such request. Within fifteen (15) days of the written response, the parties, or their representatives, shall meet to mutually agree to a timeline for the negotiations process to take place including dates, times, locations and ground rules. 3. The parties’ preferred method of negotiations shall be through a collaborative process unless another process is mutually agreed upon. 4. The parties will negotiate in good faith for the entirety of the negotiations process. If, after doing so, the parties reach an impasse as to one of more issues as declared by one or both parties, they will leave the negotiations process and proceed to a separate process, mediation. If the parties are using a negotiations facilitator, the facilitator may be used as a mediator in an effort to reach a settlement. If no progress had been made in four hours of this initial attempt at mediation, unless a longer time is mutually agreed upon, the parties will mutually agree on and hire a mediator for the purpose of attempting to induce the negotiating teams to enter into a tentative agreement(s). Unless both sides agree otherwise, the negotiating teams shall, within five (5) days of the declaration of impasse, submit a list of five (5) mediators to each other. The mediator shall be selected by the negotiating teams five (5) business days after receipt of the names of mediators. The procedure shall be (unless mutually agreed otherwise) for each party to alternately strike names from the list until only one (1) name remains. This person shall then be asked to mediate the dispute. The party striking first shall be determined by coin toss. If the mediator declines to accept, a coin toss will allow one party to select the mediator from the last two names stricken from the list. The form, dates and times of meetings shall be arranged by the mediator. Unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties, this second attempt at mediation will last no more than ten

Rights of Bus Drivers. a. No bus driver shall be discharged or subjected to reprisal on the part of the administration or supervisory personnel by reason of initiation or participation in a grievance procedure. b. In the event a grievance situation needs immediate attention and the grievant proves to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources or designee that a misunderstanding, misinterpretation or violation of policy has occurred at the Informal Level and that an immediate solution is necessary, the bus driver shall have the right to redress by appealing immediately to Level II for a decision. c. All written and printed matter dealing with the processing of a grievance will be filed separately from the Office of Human Resources personnel files of the participants. Revised: April 29, 2016 Adopted: August 8, 2016 Effective: July 1, 2016 NAME OF AGGRIEVED PERSON TERMINAL LOCATION OF AGGREIVED PERSON DIRECT SUPERVISOR DATE GRIEVANCE OCCURRED POSITION OF AGGRIEVED PERSON DIRECT SUPERVISOR BRIEF STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCE, INCLUDING SPECIFIC POLICY/IES VIOLATED: RELIEF REQUESTED: I have read verified and submitted the aboveabove information: Date (Signature of Aggrieved) MANAGERAggrieved Date Assistant Director/DIRECTOR’S DECISION: Date (Manager/Director Signature) Director’s Signature Revised: June 11February 10, 2010 2021 Adopted: September 13June 23, 2010 2021 Effective: July 1, 2010 Accident Review Committee, Policy 4538 2021 The Accident Review Committee determines only preventability; it does not function in a disciplinary capacity. Objective is to promote awareness, improve driving skills, identify areas of continuing training, reduce preventable accidents, while maintaining a positive learning experience. Preventability or the action “to prevent” is commonly defined as, “to keep from occurring, avert, hinder.” The Committee’s duty is to determine if a driver took an appropriate action to prevent the accident. CCSD Transportation leadership and CCTEA will work together to ensure proper procedures and fairness to all drivers. 1. Safety and Training will make the determination of incident or accident. a. Incident is defined as “any damage occurring to a vehicle or other property that is not caused by a collision” b. Accident is defined as “any occurrence involving a Cherry Creek Schools vehicle which results in contact with any other vehicle, person, animal, or object” If determined to be an accident, the driver and CCTEA will be notified. The accident review committee will meet with the driver within five (5) working days c. Any extension of time required to hold a meeting will be communicated to the driver and all committee members for rescheduling. 2. All accidents shall be reviewed by an the Accident Review Committee which will be composed of a minimum of (3) committee members, and a maximum of five (5) committee members: (1) Safety and Training Manager or Safety and Training Specialist or their designee (Committee Chairperson) b. (1-2) CCTEA Representative Representative(s) c. (1-2) CCSD Bus Driver 3. Decisions of preventability or non-preventability are to be determined by the Accident Review Committee. The Committee’s decision is to be either unanimous or majority. The Committee’s decision shall be made known to the Director of Transportation upon determination throughout the school year. 4. Drivers may appeal the decision of the Accident Review Committee to the Director of Transportation in writing within five (5) days. a. The Director of Transportation’s decision is to be made within ten (10) working days after the receipt of the driver’s appeal. b. Should an extension of time be required to fully investigate and render the decision, the Director of Transportation will communicate this to the driver with an expected date of final decision. Adopted: September 9, 2019 Effective: July 1, 2019 Negotiations, Policy 4561 1. Upon written request by the Cherry Creek Transportation Employees’ Association (“CCTEA”) to the Board of Education (“Board”Driver(s), or the Board to the CCTEA, after November 1 and no later than February 1, the Board and the CCTEA will arrange for negotiations as provided herein. 2. A written response will be made by the party in receipt of the request within eight (8) working days of the receipt of such request. Within fifteen (15) days of the written response, the parties, or their representatives, shall meet to mutually agree to a timeline for the negotiations process to take place including dates, times, locations and ground rules. 3. The parties’ preferred method of negotiations shall be through a collaborative process unless another process is mutually agreed upon. 4. The parties will negotiate in good faith for the entirety of the negotiations process. If, after doing so, the parties reach an impasse as to one of more issues as declared by one or both parties, they will leave the negotiations process and proceed to a separate process, mediation. If the parties are using a negotiations facilitator, the facilitator may be used as a mediator in an effort to reach a settlement. If no progress had been made in four hours of this initial attempt at mediation, unless a longer time is mutually agreed upon, the parties will mutually agree on and hire a mediator for the purpose of attempting to induce the negotiating teams to enter into a tentative agreement(s). Unless both sides agree otherwise, the negotiating teams shall, within five (5) days of the declaration of impasse, submit a list of five (5) mediators to each other. The mediator shall be selected by the negotiating teams five (5) business days after receipt of the names of mediators. The procedure shall be (unless mutually agreed otherwise) for each party to alternately strike names from the list until only one (1) name remains. This person shall then be asked to mediate the dispute. The party striking first shall be determined by coin toss. If the mediator declines to accept, a coin toss will allow one party to select the mediator from the last two names stricken from the list. The form, dates and times of meetings shall be arranged by the mediator. Unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties, this second attempt at mediation will last no more than ten