RTS Contract Proposal

Secondary Student Transportation

Board of Education Finance

Committee
December 10, 2015

Summary of RTS Contract Proposal

Secondary Student Transportation

Four year proposal beginning in 2016-17

Does not include summer school service
Changes in service would require adjustment through renegotiation (locations, times, and number of students
served)
$10.8 million in 2016-17

Savings of $0.6 million / 5 percent from current year

Additional savings of $0.6 million from current year due to fewer
yellow buses

2.5 percent annual increase assumed in contract would

provide stability for planning and budgeting
Most service will use Express routes
Proposal is based on current enrollment and school
configurations, as well as school schedules

School Schedules
RTS would provide transportation via express routes for the
following schools for a 7-hour school day, given start and end
times proposed by RCSD
Proposed
maintaining these schedules
7:30 am pricing
2:30 contingent
pm SchoolonSchedule
Early College International HS (at Wilson Foundation)
Edison Career and Technology HS
Monroe HS (at Marshall Campus)
Northeast College Prep HS (at Douglass Campus)
Northwest College Prep HS (at Douglass Campus)
Wilson Commencement
8:30 am 3:30 pm School Schedule
East High School
Integrated Arts and Technology (at Franklin Campus)
Leadership Academy for Young Men (at Charlotte)
School #58 (World of Inquiry)
School of the Arts
Vanguard Collegiate HS (at Franklin Campus)
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Bus Passes
NO
DOWNTOW
N

- 6,208 service passes will not permit use of Transit Center for most RCSD
students
- Valid for Express routes on regular school days only
- 619 passes will provide service via regular routes for some RCSD

1 HOUR
CONNECTION

FLEX
PASS

TWO
PLUS
TWO

students, urban/suburban students and private and parochial

school students
- 5:30 am 9:30 pm at any stop, except the Transit Center
- 10:30 am 5:00 pm at the stop closest to school only
- Connection pass must be requested upon boarding to use the
Transit Center
- 502 Flex Passes will provide service via regular RTS routes for
some RCSD students
- 5:30 am 7:00 pm at any stop
- Connection pass must be requested upon boarding to use the
Transit Center

- Two Plus Two activity passes will be provided each week for students
use during that week generally for sports and other school-related
activities that occur outside the school day
- Allows two rides within two hours
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RTS Contract Proposal 4-Year Projection

Projecte
d
Year-toNumber
Projected
Fiscal
Percent
Amount
Year
of
Cost per
Year
Change
Change
Student
Student
s
Served*
CURRENT YEAR SERVICE (EXCLUDING SUMMER SCHOOL)
2015- $11,424,35
7,375
$1,549
16
0
CONTRACT PROPOSAL
2016- $10,849,00
($575,350)
(5.0%)
8,332
$1,302
17
0
2017- $11,120,22
$271,225
2.5%
8,332
$1,335
18
5
2018- $11,398,23
$278,005
2.5%
8,332
$1,368
19
0
2019- $11,683,18
$284,955
2.5%
$1,402
*2016-17 students served includes
Wilson Commencement
and 8,332
All City High School
20
5
(currently at Martin Street). Future year projections assume the same level of ridership, as
assumed in the contract proposal.

RTS Service Cost Trend

Annual Cost of RTS Service Excluding Summer School and Bus
Passes
(Dollars in Millions)
$14,000,000
$12,000,000

Curre
nt
Year

Projection based on RTS

Proposal busing nearly
1,000 more$11,683,187.0
students

$11,451,550.0
$11,424,350.0
$11,398,231.0
$11,120,225.0
$10,926,772.0$10,967,843.0
$10,866,878.0
$10,819,083.0$10,849,000.0
$10,232,291.0
$10,000,000
$8,000,000
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$0

Opportunities for Future Yellow Bus Efficiencies

2015-16 School Schedules
Yellow bus service (First Student,
Monroe, Durham) reduce costs
by maximizing double routes
(buses that serve two or more
schools) and minimizing single
routes (buses that service only
one school)
$85/day or $15,300/year
difference in cost between single
route and double route
Requires school schedules to be
tiered approximately same
number of schools with early
schedules as late schedules
Current expanded learning
schools can look to other
opportunities to meet the
required time without dismissing
at 5 pm

Early Schools

Late Schools

Expand
ed
Learnin
g

7:30 am 3:30
pm
9 schools
135 bus routes

9:00 am 5:00
pm
4 schools
54 bus routes

Other
Schools

7:45 am 2:00
pm
12 schools
172 bus routes

9:15 am 3:30
pm
13 schools
189 bus routes

Total

21 schools

17 schools

Expand
ed
Learnin
g

7:30 am 3:30
pm
6 schools
93 bus routes

9:00 am 5:00
pm
7 schools
99 bus routes

Other
Schools

7:45 am 2:00
pm
13 schools
188 bus routes

9:15 am 3:30
pm
12 schools
180 bus routes

Total

19 schools
281 bus

19 schools
279 bus

Proposed
2016-17
School
307 bus
243 bus
Schedules
Early
Schools Late
Schools
routes
routes