{"id":552,"date":"2008-05-13T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-05-13T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:11:05","slug":"cheese-wagons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Cheese Wagons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bids are in, the evaluation is finished, and the School Board&#8217;s extensive study and deliberation is completed.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve had multiple opportunities for citizen input, and we&#8217;ve made a decision: we will change to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firststudentinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">contracted bus service<\/a> beginning next year.&nbsp; The cheese wagons will continue to roll.<\/p>\n<p>We will provide bus service to all students, and it will cost less than what it currently costs for us to bus only those outside a mile radius of the schools.&nbsp; The current bus drivers will have the first offer of employment, and they&#8217;ll get a raise.&nbsp;&nbsp; They&#8217;ll also get additional driving opportunities that we can&#8217;t currently provide, so those who wish to work more hours (thus earning more) can.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be the only ones to get a raise, from the looks of the State budget cuts preliminarily outlined in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennesseeanytime.org\/govfiles\/051208-Address-Budget-Update.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Governor&#8217;s address<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that part is over; now, we just have to re-balance the budget.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bids are in, the evaluation is finished, and the School Board&#8217;s extensive study and deliberation is completed.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve had multiple opportunities for citizen input, and we&#8217;ve made a decision: we will change to contracted bus service beginning next year.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-local-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}