Lack of Transparency with Costs Associated with School Start Times

At the March 12th School Board meeting on the topic of School Start time changes we discussed the survey that was being created, I said that I wanted all costs to be included in the survey in order for the public to make and educated decision. The Superintendent said that he would include the costs.

The survey was put out and costs for buses were not included. When I questioned the Superintendent he said that they are not yet certain of costs so they didn't want to put out the information.

This is a lack of transparency. If costs are not yet known then they should not have put out the survey.

Cost is a very important factor in this decision (at least it is for me).

According to the workshop presentation, Options A and B will have transportation costs of $3,240,000. Option C will be $1,560,000. Option D will not have any additional transportation costs.
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These costs do not include field lighting costs that were published in the survey.