{"id":100780,"date":"2016-05-16T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100780"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:29:51","slug":"school-board-discusses-busing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100780","title":{"rendered":"School board discusses busing options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95091\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SchoolBoard2015filephoto-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"SchoolBoard2015filephoto\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board Monday, discussed new route-based school bus contract that will emphasize efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The plan may require private schools to pay a portion of the costs for their students now riding free with the Jamestown Public School District.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Gail Martin said tax-paying families will not want to be charged additional funds for the busing but the schools should share that burden as does JPS.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Public School Board, Vice President, Heidi Larson and board member Robert Toso said an agreement nearing for a six-year bus contract with Dietrich &amp; Sons Inc., the Valley City-based bus company that will complete its six-year JPS contract in June.<\/p>\n<p>Toso said the contract amount currently being negotiated is around $525,000 per year, which is $125,000 more than the current $450,000 per year. The initial contract offer from Dietrich was around $625,000.<\/p>\n<p>School Board President Roger Haut said that the contract negotiations should focus for now on keeping the same routes and negotiating the best price.<\/p>\n<p>Toso said Dietrich is operating at a loss this year and the board should be aware of this as it considers the counter proposals at a special meeting in June. The bus contract task force committee would make its recommendation following the meeting with Dietrich.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL with showings starting later Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board Monday, discussed new route-based school bus contract that will emphasize efficiency. The plan may require private schools to pay a portion of the costs for their students now riding free with the Jamestown Public School District. Board member Gail Martin said tax-paying families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100781,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100780\/revisions\/100781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}