Transportation Route Bidding Procedures After School Starts. The following procedures will be in effect for permanent routes that become available after the start of the school year up through April 1. Positions available after April 1 of any year will be assigned by the administration for the remainder of the school year. Permanent positions will include positions available due to retirements, resignations, terminations, or newly created routes. These procedures will apply to both driver and aide routes.
1. When a route becomes available, it will be posted in the same manner as mid-day runs.
2. Interested drivers or aides will have until the posted deadline to bid on the available opening.
3. The route will be offered to the most senior driver or aide who bids on the position. If that person declines the offer, the next most senior person will be offered the position, until the position is filled.
4. Once the driver or aide is assigned the new route, it is the responsibility of the driver or aide to learn the route on his/her own time without additional compensation.
5. A spare driver or aide will assume the route vacated by the selected driver or aide until the new driver or aide is employed. The new employee will assume the route vacated by the driver or aide who successfully bid on the posted route.
6. A driver or aide may change assignments only once during the year before April 1 of the school year at the employee’s request.
7. Drivers will not be permitted to change routes if such a change creates a conflict with that driver’s other work assignments (for example late run).
8. A driver or aide will not be permitted to change if the new assignment is deemed not to be in the best interest of the District as determined by the Supervisor of Transportation.
9. All existing policies are recognized as part of this procedure.
Transportation Route Bidding Procedures After School Starts. The following procedures will be in effect for permanent routes that become available after the start of the school year up through April 1. Positions available after April 1 of any year will be assigned by the administration for the remainder of the school year. Permanent positions will include positions available due to retirements, resignations, terminations, or newly created routes. These procedures will apply to both driver and aide routes.
