Coquitlam considers school bus user fees
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | 9:29 AM PT
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The Coquitlam School Board is considering having parents pay for school bus rides for their children.
Melissa Hyndes, the chair of School District 43, which covers Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, Belcarra and Anmore, said the school trustees have ordered a report on the proposal.
Hyndes said trustees want to know how much the district could save by implementing a user-pay system. The district currently spends about $1.5 million on school buses.
Similar proposals have been considered in the past, but have never been implemented because of opposition by parents and trustees. Any new user pay system would not go into effect September 2010, but could be a possibility for 2011.
Some parents say the free service is unfair to those who pay for their own children's transit passes.
Both the Mission and Langley School District recently began charging a user fees for school buses.
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