Members of the Comal ISD board of trustees Dec. 14 heard an update from the district’s transportation department regarding plans to address driver shortages in the coming months.
Bus driver shortages are affecting districts throughout the state, said David Andersen, deputy superintendent of school operations, and CISD staff has had to make adjustments to their routes as a result.
“Transportation this year has done a really good job of providing transportation within the constraints of not being able to recruit and retain the number of bus drivers and bus assistants that we would normally like to have,” Andersen said. “If we were under normal operations and not at all the adjustments we made, we could be running as many as 150 routes on a daily basis. ... Currently there are about 100 routes.”
During the fall of 2021, office staff of the transportation department who have their commercial driver license stepped in to fill vacancies and drivers assisted each other with completing routes, Andersen said.
