Common use of Route Assignment Clause in Contracts

Route Assignment. After drivers and assistants have been assigned to a compound in accordance with paragraph 1 above, the bus routes assigned to each compound, along with the bus assigned to each route and the estimated number of hours for the route, shall be posted at a central location or in an accessible electronic form no later than six (6) weeks prior to the beginning of the school year. Drivers and assistants shall have no less than one week to review such postings. Drivers and assistants shall then be given the opportunity to indicate in writing or electronically their desire to retain their route from the previous school year or to choose a new route from those available. A newly-appointed driver/assistant who selects a route for the first time may choose to retain the selected route for one additional year; experienced drivers/assistants may choose to retain the selected route for three (3) additional years. A date will be determined that drivers and assistants can indicate to the appropriate Transportation Department administrator their route choice from among those assigned to their compound and available after drivers and assistants have expressed their retention option. A driver’s or assistant’s route choice shall be granted on the basis of seniority unless the Director determines that one or more of the criteria in paragraph 3.11C below justifies a different route assignment. If the route selected by a driver is reassigned to another compound after a driver has chosen such route, the driver will have the following options: - Retain the route and move to the compound where the route has been reassigned; - Remain at the current compound and choose a route from the remaining unassigned routes (every reasonable effort will be made to provide the driver with a route that is at least equal in length/time to that originally chosen); or - If there are no appropriate unassigned routes at the driver’s current compound, transfer to a compound that has an appropriate open route When a permanent change is made in a bus assignment for a route, a driver may request the written reason(s) for such change.

Route Assignment. After drivers and assistants have been assigned to a compound in accordance with paragraph 1 above, the bus routes assigned to each compound, along with the bus assigned to each route and the estimated number of hours for the route, shall be posted at a central location or in an accessible electronic form no later than six (6) weeks prior to the beginning of the school year. Drivers and assistants shall have no less than one week to review such postings. Drivers and assistants shall then be given the opportunity to indicate in writing or electronically their desire to retain their route from the previous school year or to choose a new route from those available. A newly-appointed driver/assistant who selects a route for the first time may choose to retain the selected route for one additional year; experienced drivers/assistants may choose to retain the selected route for three (3) additional years. A date will be determined that drivers and assistants can indicate to the appropriate Transportation Department administrator their route choice from among those assigned to their compound and available after drivers and assistants have expressed their retention option. A driver’s or assistant’s route choice shall be granted on the basis of seniority unless the Director determines that one or more of the criteria in paragraph 3.11C below justifies a different route assignment. If the route selected by a driver is reassigned to another compound after a driver has chosen such route, the driver will have the following options: - Retain the route and move to the compound where the route has been reassigned; - Remain at the current compound and choose a route from the remaining unassigned routes (every reasonable effort will be made to provide the driver with a route that is at least equal in length/time to that originally chosen); or - If there are no appropriate unassigned routes at the driver’s current compound, transfer to a compound that has an appropriate open route route. When a permanent change is made in a bus assignment for a route, a driver may request the written reason(s) for such change.