Minutes from the February 27, 2018 Meeting

Scripps Ranch Bus Committee

Meeting Minutes

27 FEB 2018

I. Call to order - Dane Fetherling called to order the regular meeting of the Scripps Ranch Bus Committee (SRBC) at 7:05 p.m. on February 27, 2017 at the Scripps Ranch Library.

II. Roll call : Officers - Chair -Todd Philips (planned non-attendance), Vice Chair - Dane Fetherling, Secretary – Dan Chilton

Members at Large: Claudia Villela, Joseph Spahn, Cecily Wallbridge, Gail Faber

III. Modifications to Agenda - None

IV. Discussion Items/ Presentation

    A. A public attendee petitioned the board for parents with disabilities to seat reservation priority over other families. After some discussion, Dane motioned to move this issue for the action agenda for the next SRBC meeting in April. Motion Seconded by Joe Spahn. at 7:15 p.m

   B. Discussion was held regarding the newly created wait list and seat assignment. Dane stated in order to ensure that the availability of seats on any given bus, the bus committee board members must continue to try and verify their rider list through calling points of contact. He also mentioned some of the challenges involved when trying accomplish that task and that until the rider lists are verified, we have no way of knowing the actual number of open seats, if any.

   C. The question was asked why we cannot get additional buses. Dane explained that we will not know if the Transportation Department has additional buses until next year’s budget is passed. Additionally, it was mentioned that we must show demand for another bus and the best way to do that was through our upcoming registration process for 2018-2019 school year.

   D. Timeline for 2018-19 School Year was discussed and outlined.

        1. Informational Meeting – Week of April 9th-13th
        2.  Registration Window – Starts the week of April 16 (last 2 weeks)
        3. Lottery Date – Day after the registration window closes.
        4. (7:45p.m) the timeline, explained above, was voted and unanimously approved by the SRBC.

   E. SRBC Board Elections were explained and it was noted by Dan Chilton that the elections will be held during the May meeting. It was also asked if any of the board members knew now that they would not be running to fill their board seat for next year. Dan Chilton noted that he will not be running to continue as Secretary of the SRBC.

   F.  Claudia wants to the committee to capture parents’ concerns and issues with child safety at drop off.

V. Action Items

   A.  Gail is going to continue working with other elementary school parent organizations to inquire about getting future SRBC announcements and SRBC blogspot link on their webpages.

   B. Dane is going to inquire with Todd about getting cooperation from Michelle Irwin to do the same on MMS webpage and confirm April parent information night date for SRBC presentation to incoming families who desire bus service.

   C. All SRBC members are to think about items that could contribute to an FAQ section on the SRBC blogspot and continue verification of their portions of the rider list.

VI. Approval of minutes from last meeting

   A. Gail made a motion at 7:51p.m. to approve the January 23, 2018 minutes. Unanimously approved.

VII. Adjournment

Future Meeting Dates (Based on venue availability):
21 Mar 2018
24 Apr 2018

Dane Fetherling adjourned the meeting at 8:26 p.m.

Minutes submitted by: Dan Chilton