Annapolis Mayor Pledges To Assist Schools With Bus Driver Shortage

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley connected Thursday said his bureau is moving to find solutions to the autobus operator shortage aft parents began calling metropolis hall.

The city’s proscription section is readying to enactment retired a petition for radical with the due licensing to enactment arsenic impermanent drivers aft passing a inheritance check.

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City Manager David Jarrell is besides looking for different ways to assistance the schoolhouse system, Buckley’s bureau said.

“I person seen the City of Annapolis unit measurement up erstwhile determination is simply a need, including passim past week’s tornado,” Buckley said successful a statement. “I got connection yesterday that Annapolis Police are giving rides to students connected a voluntary basis. This is the precise meaning of service. We endeavor to capable a request wherever possible.”

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Buckley’s bureau started receiving calls astir schoolhouse autobus issues connected Wednesday.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. George Arlotto told the politician “a fig of drivers” didn’t amusement up for enactment astatine the autarkic contractor the region uses to thrust schoolhouse buses, Buckley’s bureau said.

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School systems nationwide are struggling to prosecute schoolhouse autobus drivers amid COVID-19 concerns.

CBS Baltimore Staff