An application for individual transportation is available to those that meet all of the following criteria:
Contracts for in-district students who live over the three miles from the school or bus stop will receive a state/county reimbursement rate calculated with the same formula used for all other students.
The contract must be completed in its entirety, signed by the parent, legal guardian or emancipated minor. The deadline of June 1st for budgeting purposes will be waived due to no available bus drivers.
A completed Individual Contract are due to the business office and approved by the Board of Trustees before payment can be issued.
After the end of the 2nd Quarter
After the end of the 4th Quarter
When making an individual transportation contract with the district, the parent, legal guardian or emancipated minor must sign an affidavit attesting to the place of residence of the student. No person other than the student’s parent, legal guardian or an emancipated minor may enter into an individual contract for transportation or receive the transportation reimbursement.
Administrative Rule 10.7.116 Isolation allowed to increase the Individual Transportation Rate (1) When the board of trustees of a school district establishes a program of “isolated transportation payments” – that is, increase in the individual transportation rates due to isolation – individual families entering into the transportation contracts with the board of trustees may apply for an “isolated” or increased individual rate of pay. The following factors should be considered:
The student lives at least seven miles from school and no school bus is provided, or lives at least seven miles from the bus stop; and roads are not graded for at least one half of the distance from home to the school or bus stop, and roads present considerable difficulty in bad weather, and special equipment ordinarily is required; and the county transportation committee determines that hardship (physical and/or financial) exists.
Individual and Isolated Daily Rate Daily Rate =
[(one-way mileage-3miles) X
number of trips per day] X .35
Isolation factor is the daily rate X 1.5
Reimbursement is made only for the portion of the trip that a student is in the car. This will be verified by Attendance Reports from Infinite Campus.
If the District is able to obtain more bus drivers, the contract will not be valid for the days the bus is operating on your route.
Please contact Britney Allen in the Central Office to start the application process. 406-748-4699 ext 3403 or britney.allen@colstrip.k12.mt.us