Common use of OPERATIONAL PRACTICES Clause in Contracts

OPERATIONAL PRACTICES. i. Drivers shall operate buses in accordance with State Law, school bus driver training manual, and established local policy. ii. The driver shall keep in the bus an up-to-date route map and a time schedule for each trip. iii. Each driver must attend at least two (2) safety meetings per year. iv. The Supervisor of Transportation must provide a roster of the students assigned to each bus and a schedule for the entire school year, showing days school is in session and days-off periods for each school. Each driver shall receive such schedule within thirty (30) days from the beginning of the school year, and one (1) schedule will be posted in the drivers’ room at all times. v. All buses shall be housed on Austintown Board of Education property unless other satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Supervisor of Transportation. Buses will not be taken home and parked on the streets, driveways, empty lots, etc. Drivers shall have the right to bid on garage location according to seniority. vi. The use of buses for reasons other than those authorized by Board policy is illegal. vii. The driver must make daily inspection for gasoline, oil, tire pressure, all lights and safety equipment. He/she shall also be responsible to keep the windshield and rear windows cleaned daily, or more often if necessary. viii. The driver shall keep the inside of the bus clean and swept daily. The Board shall provide for the exterior cleanliness of buses. All cleaning supplies will be provided by the Board. ix. Each driver shall immediately notify the bus maintenance department, in writing, of information as to any need for repairs on the forms provided in the drivers’ room. For their protection drivers are urged to make out such forms, in duplicate, and retain a copy with the signature of the Supervisor of Transportation or of the fleet ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, on the copy for any serious defects. Drivers are to keep out of the garage except to use the restroom or explain complications of their bus to the chief mechanic. x. Each driver is responsible for maintaining discipline on his/her bus. Student violators shall be reported to their respective principals or to the Supervisor of Transportation with a violation slip. xi. Any driver involved in a chargeable/cited accident, whether in a school bus or another vehicle including the driver’s personal vehicle and regardless of how minor, must immediately report the accident to his/her supervisor. The driver must also report the accident to State or local police along with completing a report. Any chargeable traffic violation by a school bus driver at any time (including privately owned vehicles) must be reported to the Supervisor of Transportation. Discipline for bus accidents resulting in property damage shall be determined by the Supervisor of Transportation on an individual basis. Discipline (i.e. suspensions) resulting in loss of earnings shall be administered only after the following factors are considered.

OPERATIONAL PRACTICES. i. Drivers shall operate buses in accordance with State Law, school bus driver training manual, and established local policylocalpolicy. ii. The driver shall keep in the bus an up-to-date route map and mapand a time schedule for each trip. iii. Each driver must attend at least two (2) safety meetings per yearperyear. iv. The Supervisor of Transportation must provide a roster of the students assigned to each bus and a schedule for the entire school year, showing days school is in session and days-off periods for each school. Each driver shall receive such schedule within thirty (30) days from the beginning of the ofthe school year, and one (1) schedule will be posted in the drivers’ room at all times. v. All buses shall be housed on Austintown Board of Education property unless other satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Supervisor of Transportation. Buses will not be taken home and parked on the streets, driveways, empty lots, etc. Drivers shall have the right to bid on garage location according to seniority. vi. The use of buses for reasons other than those authorized by Board policy is illegal. vii. The driver must make daily inspection for gasoline, oil, tire pressuretirepressure, all lights and safety equipment. He/she shall also be responsible to keep the windshield and rear windows cleaned daily, or more often if necessary. viii. The driver shall keep the inside of the bus clean and swept daily. The Board shall provide for the exterior cleanliness of buses. All cleaning supplies will be provided by the Board. ix. Each driver shall immediately notify the bus maintenance department, in writing, of information as to any need for repairs on the forms provided in the drivers’ room. For their Fortheir protection drivers are urged to make out such forms, ,in duplicate, and retain a copy with the signature of the Supervisor of Transportation or of the fleet ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, on the copy for any serious defects. Drivers are to keep out of the garage except to use the restroom or explain complications of their bus to the chief mechanic. x. Each driver is responsible for maintaining discipline on his/her bus. Student violators shall be reported to their respective principals or to the Supervisor of Transportation with a violation slip. xi. Any driver involved in a chargeable/cited accident, whether in whetherin a school bus or another vehicle including the driver’s personal vehicle and regardless of how minor, must immediately report the accident to his/her supervisor. The driver must also report the accident to State or local police along with completing a report. Any chargeable traffic violation by a school bus driver at any time (including privately owned vehicles) must be reported to the Supervisor of Transportation. Discipline for bus accidents resulting in property damage shall be determined by the Supervisor of Transportation on an individual basis. Discipline (i.e. suspensions) resulting in loss of earnings shall be administered only after the following thefollowing factors are considered.