Q&A
Discussion on need for increased capacity and updated bus contracts
1:08:59
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Council members and DOE officials discuss the need to increase capacity and update bus contracts to meet current student needs. They emphasize the importance of reimagining the contract system.
- Glenn Risbrook highlights the need for more capacity, competition, and vendors
- Council Member Rita Joseph stresses the need to update the 45-year-old contract system
- Discussion touches on the $2-3 billion industry and its importance for student access to education
Rita Joseph
1:08:59
So with the needs increasing, are you looking at increasing the capacity to meet the needs of the students as well?
Glenn Risbrook
1:09:05
Yes.
1:09:05
We are, and that's why this bus contract, we we need to get EPP, so we can have a new contract.
1:09:11
We need more capacity.
1:09:13
We need more competition.
1:09:14
We need to infuse more vendors.
1:09:18
It's harder for us to do that.
1:09:19
We need more capacity so we can meet the needs of the of the of today's student, not the students that we develop these contracts for 45 years ago.
Rita Joseph
1:09:28
So we gotta really reimagine this contract to meet the moment, not just a a contract that's, what, seventy five years old?
Glenn Risbrook
1:09:35
Forty five.
Rita Joseph
1:09:36
Forty five years old.
Glenn Risbrook
1:09:37
It could be something.
Rita Joseph
1:09:38
We we we live through a global pandemic, so I think it's time.
1:09:41
This is a $2,000,000,000 industry.
1:09:43
We gotta get it right for our kids.
1:09:44
After kids who this is the only opportunity they get to go into schools.
Glenn Risbrook
1:09:48
3.
Tomas Fret
1:09:48
And it also
Julie Won
1:09:49
seems like we'll have to work together to make sure that more District 75 schools are open and the zones that have either none or too little for the seeps like One
Rita Joseph
1:09:57
of the things I've been pushing and Mister Hamlet could agree to that, I'm I'm pushing for more Ames.
