Activity Trips Clause Samples
The 'Activity Trips' clause defines the terms and conditions under which organized trips or excursions related to a specific activity are conducted. Typically, this clause outlines the responsibilities of the parties involved, such as who arranges transportation, covers costs, or provides supervision during the trip. It may also specify requirements for participant consent, safety measures, or insurance coverage. The core function of this clause is to clarify expectations and responsibilities for all parties, thereby reducing the risk of disputes or misunderstandings related to off-site activities.
Activity Trips. All bus drivers shall be compensated for all hours missed from their regular driving time due to activity trips.
Activity Trips. An activity trip is defined as those trips outside of regular home to school routes and school to school runs within the District.
1. If a scheduled activity trip is cancelled and the District is unable to alter the schedule, or to re-assign the driver to other driving duties, the driver will be compensated for two hours pay for trips scheduled for one hundred miles or less, or six hours pay for trips exceeding one hundred miles. This section does not apply to route drivers that have been assigned a trip under section F below.
Activity Trips. A. Activity trips shall be any transportation assignment other than regular home-to- school transportation for which any qualified employee of the transportation department is scheduled to perform. This does not include transporting students for regularly scheduled instructional programs such as math, therapy, etc.
B. All transportation employees scheduled to make activity trips shall receive two (2) hours pay at their hourly rate or overtime rate, if applicable, if the trip is cancelled after the employee reports to work.
C. Week day activity trips will be assigned, in a seniority order, using a list of qualified Transportation Department employee drivers during their contracted calendar year, provided the employee does not have a conflicting work or activity trip assignment as determined by the District, and is qualified to operate the equipment assigned to the trip.
D. Weekend/holiday activity trips will be assigned, in a seniority order, using a list of all qualified transportation employees.
E. Activity trip assignments shall be posted in the Transportation Department Office.
F. All overtime rotation list(s) will carry over from the previous school year into the new school year. The District will make every reasonable effort to assign activity trips at least one week in advance.
G. A transportation employee assigned to an activity trip must give prior notification to the district transportation standby employee and the activity trip supervisor if he/she plans to leave the trip destination address (as indicated by the address on the fieldtrip request form). With prior notification given, the transportation employee may travel one time per trip up to five (5) miles one way (ten miles round trip) from the trip destination for a maximum of two hours for the purpose of using a restroom and/or eating a meal. If additional time or distance is required for the circumstances stated in the previous sentence, or for emergencies defined in Article 11.11.A,, the transportation employee shall call the district transportation standby employee for exceptions to the time and/or distance limitations.
H. If a driver has either 15 or 30 minutes where he/she has no responsibility to perform any required duties, the driver shall take his/her break during the activity trip.
I. Prior to departure on an activity trip, the Director of Transportation or his/her designee, will provide the assigned transportation employee with information to contact the district standby employee....
Activity Trips. 1. Classified bus drivers, in order of seniority with route drivers being first followed by trip drivers, shall have first right-of-refusal for trip or substitute work providing it does not interfere with normal assignments or result in unauthorized overtime. Activity trips are considered part of drivers’ regular weekly hours.
Activity Trips. All regular drivers shall have the opportunity to bid on activity trips. Activity trips will first be offered to regular drivers, then substitute drivers on a rotation basis. Trips will be awarded according to the following process:
1. Regular drivers who are interested in a trip shall sign up on the trip board by 5 p.m. two (2) days prior to the scheduled trip.
2. The trip will be awarded to the senior driver whose regular hours and trip route hours do not exceed 8 hours.
3. If the trip puts a driver into overtime, the trip will be awarded to the senior driver with the least amount of accumulated overtime as per the daily overtime report.
4. If no regular driver signs up for a trip, the trip will be awarded to a substitute driver from the ‘substitute’ list on a rotation.
5. Trips will be posted prior to 10 a.m. on Wednesdays and assigned no later than 10 a.m. the work day prior to the scheduled trip. The dispatcher will relieve drivers of a portion of their regular routes whenever a trip’s scheduled departure time interferes with a regular route’s scheduled time. Layover time on activity trips shall be paid at the regular bus driver’s hourly rate. Overtime for layover hours will be paid at one and one-half (1 ½) times the regular rate. Drivers shall be allowed to use District transportation in order to have their meals at a facility of their choice so long as the facility is within a two-mile (2-mile) radius of the event or the closest facility.
Activity Trips. All regular drivers shall have the opportunity to bid on activity trips. Activity trips will first be offered to regular drivers, then substitute drivers. The plan and intent is to get all regular drivers to eight (8) hours first, then bid the remaining work and distribute as per the CBA, then distribute to substitute drivers on a rotation basis. The dispatcher will relieve drivers of a portion of their regular routes whenever a trip’s scheduled departure time falls within a regular route’s scheduled time. This process is intended to manage overtime. (Refer to Sections 2.1, 15.4, and 15.5.) Layover time on activity trips shall be paid at the regular bus driver’s hourly rate. Overtime for layover hours will be paid at one and one-half (1 ½) times the regular rate. Drivers shall be allowed to use district transportation in order to have their meals at a facility of their choice so long as the facility is within a two-mile (2-mile) radius of the event or the closest facility.
Activity Trips. The District agrees to use Classified bus drivers for the transportation of 15 or more student participants traveling to contests in school-owned school buses or vehicles for the following High School sports:
Activity Trips. 1. A rotation list shall be maintained for the following categories of trips:
a. Lunchtime – during the hours of 10:00am and 12:00pm
b. Daytime – during the hours of 4:00pm and 7:00pm
c. Swing – for trips that return after 7:00pm
d. Weekends – Saturdays and Sundays
e. Unscheduled – during times when no work is regularly scheduled such as winter and spring recess and summer breaks between school sessions.
Activity Trips. All late afternoon activity trips will be paid a minimum of one (1) hour.
Activity Trips. Activity trips shall be compensated at the current rate of $11.60 per hour or the driver’s current salary, whichever is greater. On the first day of school a sign-up roster will be posted for all full-time drivers to indicate an interest in driving activity trips. This roster will remain posted for the school year allowing any driver to add or remove his/her name from the roster at any time. In making activity trip assignments, the approved trip will be posted for twenty-four (24) hours, if possible. Drivers wishing to apply to drive for this trip should sign the trip posting. The Transportation Director/Transportation Supervisor will make every effort to assure all drivers are given equal driving time and equal money earned. Bus Drivers/Monitors will be evaluated annually with a Board approved evaluation instrument. Expenses will be reimbursed on the following basis: Meals will be reimbursed at the Board of Education approved rate of up to $35.00 per day in state and $50.00 per day out of state. Hotel cost if applicable, plus up to three meals per day will be paid for all overnight trips. Down time will be compensated at the rate of $8.50 per hour. (Reimbursements will be made upon documentation by the driver of meals eaten.) Drivers hired for a day activity trip will be compensated at the full rate of $12.75 per hour from beginning of the trip to its conclusion. Any driver required to show up for an activity trip, and then is not required to make the trip shall be paid one hour of wages for show-up time. As approved by the Director of Transportation, coaches and/or teachers who are properly certified may be permitted to drive activity trip or shuttle runs at no pay. A monthly total of driver’s earnings and driving time for extra activity trips will be given to the individual driver upon request.