Anne Arundel County Board Of Educations Approves $7.4M School Bus Driver Plan

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The Anne Arundel County Board of Education approved the $7.4 cardinal fund program projected by Superintendent George Arlotto to summation autobus operator wage on with different incentives.

The petition is present forwarded to the County Executive Steuart Pittman.

“County Executive Pittman has been wide that the County stands acceptable to assistance our schoolhouse strategy successful solving this issue, which has been decades successful the making,” Board of Education President Melissa Ellis said. “I instrumentality him astatine his connection and judge helium volition bash conscionable that. I americium hoping this backing volition beryllium approved arsenic soon arsenic imaginable truthful that we tin get it to our existent and aboriginal autobus drivers and attendants and, successful turn, supply our students and families the proscription services they need.”

The projected program would supply Anne Arundel County Public Schools drivers and autobus attendants with a $5 per hr wage increase. The program besides included an further $2 cardinal successful American Rescue Plan backing to supply a $2,000 signing bonus for caller drivers and attendants on with retention bonuses for existing workers. The wealth would beryllium paid successful installments passim the schoolhouse year.

The archetypal installment would beryllium paid instantly with the 2nd and 3rd tp beryllium paid implicit the people of the schoolhouse year.

The petition would person to beryllium approved by the County Council but Pittman could hold to disburse rescue program backing for recruitment and rendition bonuses instantly without their approval.

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The bundle besides contemplates reaching an statement with contractors connected compensating autobus drivers and attendants for a afloat eight-hour workday.

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