3541.5

Business and Non-Instructional Operations

Safety Complaints/Records and Reports

The Superintendent or designee shall:

A.  develop procedures for reporting all complaints relative to school transportation safety, including complaints about bus drivers; 

B.  shall maintain a written record of all such complaints;

C.  within thirty days of the close of school each year, submit a report containing all complaints received within the previous twelve month period to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles;

D.  within ten days of its occurrence, the Superintendent make a written report to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, on the form prescribed by the Commissioner, of the circumstances involving a motor vehicle and any student pedestrian at, or in the immediate vicinity of, a school bus stop.

E.  on a regular basis, and upon occurrence as appropriate, review with the Board of Education any complaints received and any accidents reported between motor vehicles and district students.

Legal Reference:   Connecticut General Statutes

10-221c Development of policy for reporting complaints re school transportation safety.  Reporting of accidents at school bus stops.

Policy adopted:  6/12/06