在2020年1月，董事会指示CBE管理层仅使用省级资金和用户费用来平衡运输成本。他们还要求收集支持制定2020-21运输预算的反馈意见。 因此，CBE在2020年3月进行了一项在线调查。我们很高兴能够在此调查中获得非常高的参与度，收到了10,000份回复。通过该调查收集到的所有反馈意见都经过仔细审查和考虑，用于决策2020-21年的运输预算和服务。 下表总结了关于2020-21年运输预算和服务的决策，以及这些决策如何回应在线调查中学生、家长、员工和社区成员提供的反馈意见。调查反馈要求CBE通过费用增加和减少非法定服务来平衡运输预算，而CBE采取了这种方法。 2020-21年运输费用和服务 理由 住在离指定社区学校超过2.4公里处以及能使用一般交通工具的专业项目学生（法定要求提供）的费用：每年465加元。 保持法定服务的费用尽可能低。 住在距离学校1.6至2.4公里之间或参加另类项目的学生（非法定要求提供）的费用：每年800加元。 另类项目包括：法语沉浸、双语课程、蒙台梭利、TLC、科学、原住民焦点、全男子、全女子和艺术中心学习。 调查显示，常规项目初中学生从学校1.6-2.4公里处的交通是调查中家庭对非法定服务的最重要需求。交通服务对另类项目学生来说是家庭黄色校车交通服务中的第二重要非法定服务，总体上排名第三。这两项服务虽然非强制要求，但对家庭来说很重要。因此，这些服务得以保留，但费用高于法定服务。 需要专门交通工具的专业项目学生将不需要支付费用。 按照政府给出的方向维持。 半天上学的幼儿园学生将只提供单程交通服务。这意味着上午上学的学生将有交通工具接送到学校，下午上学的学生将在放学时间有交通工具接送回家。将不提供中途交通服务。 调查反馈显示，更希望通过增加费用和减少非法定服务来平衡运输预算。双程幼儿园交通是一项非法定服务。一些学校可能正在征集有关在2020-21年为幼儿园学生提供每隔一天全天上课而不是半天上课的反馈意见，这将为幼儿园学生提供双程交通服务。 半天和每隔一天上课的幼儿园学生的费用将是非法定费用的50%。800加元 x 50% = 400加元。 费用反映了半天或每隔一天上课的幼儿园学生交通服务水平的降低。 现在乘坐黄色校车的某些六年级或以上学生可能会改乘卡尔加里公共交通。将向受影响学校的家庭发送信件。 继续在可能的领域提高效率；这是从2016-17年开始的持续工作的一部分。 2020-21年，CBE约有20所学校调整了上课时间。将向受影响学校的家庭发送信件。 调整上课时间是为了提供更高效的交通服务。 将与专业项目学生的家庭分享有关2020-21年交通服务调整的更多信息。 这是与部分而非全部学校和家庭相关的信息。 完整的调查结果、2019-20年运输预算和服务事实以及有关2020年运输参与的更多信息可在cbe.ab.ca/dialogue上找到。 有关CBE运输服务的更详细信息可在cbe.ab.ca/transportation上找到。为了包含在9月的黄色校车路线规划中，家庭需要在2020年6月14日星期日之前使用My CBE / PowerSchool通过sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/home.html进行注册。您可以从2020年5月19日开始注册。 我们正在为2020-21学年初制定这些计划，然而学校的重新开放基于政府的建议。重新入学计划尚未最终确定。 这些是艰难的决定和经济上具有挑战性的时期。我们知道这些变化将对某些家庭产生重大影响，但这些变化是为了确保CBE拥有平衡的运输预算，避免将资金从教室重新分配以补贴交通费用。 符合条件的家庭将继续提供豁免权。由于豁免申请流程目前正在审核中，更多信息将在本春季后期公布。 我们要感谢所有抽出时间与我们分享他们的想法和观点的人们。我们已经尽力回应您提供的反馈意见。

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In January 2020, the Board of Trustees directed CBE administration to balance transportation costs using only provincial funding and user fees. They also asked that feedback be gathered in support of the development of a balanced 2020-21 transportation budget.

As a result, the CBE conducted an online survey in March 2020. We were pleased to have extremely high participation on this survey, with 10,000 responses. All of the feedback gathered through the survey was reviewed and carefully considered in making decisions about the 2020-21 transportation budget and services.

The table below summarizes the decisions made regarding the 2020-21 transportation budget and services and how these decisions respond to feedback provided by students, parents, staff and community members on the online survey. Survey feedback asked that the CBE use a combination of fee increases and reducing non-mandated services to balance the transportation budget, and this approach has been adopted by the CBE.

2020-21 Transportation Fees & Services	Rationale
Fee for students who live further than 2.4 km away from their designated community school and students in specialized programs who can use general transportation (mandated: legislated requirement to provide): $465/year.	Maintain as low a fee as possible for mandated services.
Fee for students who live between 1.6 and 2.4 km from school or who attend alternative programs (non-mandated: not required by legislation to provide): $800/year. Alternative programs include: French Immersion, bilingual language programs, Montessori, TLC, Science, Indigenous Focus, All Boys, All Girls and Arts-Centred Learning.	Transportation for elementary students in the regular program who live 1.6-2.4 km from school was rated as the most important non-mandated service on the survey. Transportation for alternative programs is rated as the second most important non-mandated service by families taking yellow bus transportation and third overall. These two services are not mandated, yet they are important to families. As a result, the services have been maintained but the fee is higher than for mandated services.
Students in specialized programs who require specialized transportation will not pay a fee.	Maintain direction provided by government.
Kindergarten students in half-day programs will be transported one-way only. This means that students in the morning program will have transportation to school and students in the afternoon program will have transportation to their home at the end of the school day. No mid-day transportation service will be offered.	Survey feedback indicates a preference for the transportation budget to be balanced through a combination of increased fees and reduced non-mandated services. Two-way kindergarten transportation is a non-mandated service. Some schools may be gathering feedback on offering kindergarten on alternating days for a full day instead of half-days for 2020-21, which would allow for two-way transportation for kindergarten students.
Fees for half-day and alternating day kindergarten students will be 50 per cent of the non-mandated fee.  $800 x 50% = $400	Fee reflects reduced level of transportation service for kindergarten students in half-day or alternating day programs.
Some students in Grade 6 or above who currently take the yellow bus may be taking Calgary Transit.  Letters will be sent to families at the affected schools.	Continue to gain efficiencies where possible; part of ongoing work that began in 2016-17.
Bell time adjustments are being made at approximately 20 CBE schools in 2020-21.  Letters will be sent to families at the affected schools.	Bell time changes were required to provide more efficient transportation services overall.
For families with students in specialized programs, more information will be shared about adjustments to transportation services for 2020-21.	This is information relevant for some CBE schools not all schools and families.

The full survey results, facts about the 2019-20 transportation budget and services and more information about the 2020 transportation engagement are available at cbe.ab.ca/dialogue.

More detailed information about CBE transportation services is available at cbe.ab.ca/transportation. In order to be included in the yellow school bus route planning for September, families need to register using My CBE / PowerSchool by Sunday, June 14, 2020. You can start to register on May 19, 2020.

We are making these plans for the beginning of the 2020-21 school year, however, the re-opening of schools is based on recommendations of the government. Re-entry plans have not been finalized.

These are difficult decisions and financially challenging times. We know these changes will have a significant impact on some families, but these changes are necessary to ensure the CBE has a balanced transportation budget that does not require funds to be redirected from the classroom to subsidize transportation.

Waivers will continue to be available for eligible families. As the waiver application process is currently under review, more information will be coming later this spring.

We want to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts and perspectives with us. We have done our best to respond to the feedback you provided.