Chats from the Bus Stop: 2024-2025 Webinar Series
October 8, 2024 @ 10:00 am - April 8, 2025 @ 10:00 am
The 2024-2025 Chats from the Bus Stop Webinar series begins in October. Transportation Consultant Pete Japikse and attorney Hollie Reedy will provide timely updates and information to keep your Transportation operations moving forward!
October 8, 2024 (Tuesday) Transportation Funding and Finance
Focus on the data collected in the T1 and T2 reports, what that data is used for at the state level, and how your district is funded for transportation services. We will cover data collection best practices and steps to manage an audit of your program. Explore how data collection can benefit your transportation operation management beyond the state funding associated with it.
January 14, 2025 (Tuesday) Transportation Emergency Management
Are you confident your district’s transportation department is prepared for an accident, equipment failure, student/driver medical emergency, or weather catastrophe? Ohio Administrative Code requires that all transportation departments have an emergency plan in place. An effective emergency plan provides a detailed map to navigate the challenges that we hope never happen. This course will give you the tools to prepare (or update) a customized emergency plan for your transportation operation.
February 11, 2025 (Tuesday) Routing Software: Not Just for Routing?
We buy routing software to route buses, but what else can it do to help the transportation office? The newest software packages in the industry have many other tools and benefits that you may not be familiar with. A guest from a leading school transportation software vendor to help us look at some of the tips and tricks that your software can do to help you manage the transportation operation along with some of our ideas on getting your money’s worth.
February 12 (Wednesday) NEW! Transportation Rules Town Hall (Free of charge)
Did you know there are extensive changes pending to the Ohio Administrative Code Chapter on the operation of school buses, drivers, and equipment requirements, including vans and van drivers?
Ennis Britton Consulting Group’s Pete Japikse and EB attorney Hollie Reedy are hosting a free town hall webinar for public school district staff to review the proposed changes to the rules and assess their potential impact on your program. These rules must go through hearings at DEW and JCARR before being implemented. We will discuss ways to communicate with the DEW and JCARR before the first hearing which is scheduled for February 20, 2025 at DEW. Transportation supervisors, business managers, superintendents, and treasurers are welcome.
March 11, 2025 (Tuesday) Keys to Successful Special Education Transportation
Do you have questions about special education transportation? Or perhaps the better question is: Who doesn’t have questions? In this webinar we will look at some of the special education rules and regulations that impact transportation, and then consider strategies for success. Special Education practice group members Pamela Leist and Hollie Reedy will join us for this session to go over legal requirements for special education transportation.
April 8, 2025 (Tuesday) Hot Topics in Ohio School Transportation
Every year something new becomes a critical attention-getter in school transportation. We have reserved this webinar session to focus on those issues for the current school year. We will talk about the problems no one wants to address, and together discover how we can continue to provide safe school transportation regardless of new challenges.
All programs are scheduled for 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET. The Transportation Rules Town Hall is 10:00 a.m. to noon ET.
Cost for the webinars: $150.00 each. Attend all three of the last remaining sessions for $ 405.00.