The Greene County and Paton-Churdan School districts will not share a transportation director for next school year.

Last month, the Paton-Churdan School Board requested a shared transportation director with the Greene County School District.  Greene County Superintendent Tim Christensen says the Iowa Department of Education would give additional funding to each district if there was a shared transportation director.  Each district would get five additional students to count for their enrollment, at $6,200 per pupil, for a total of about $45,000 that would go into the general fund.  The two districts already share a media specialist and the Safe Schools Grant Coordinator position.

Christensen states that the Greene County School Board made a counteroffer, which P-C’s School Board didn’t want to consider.

“Our Board had kind of made a counteroffer with wanting to talk about the possibility of opening the borders a little bit and having school buses being able to go two miles into each district to transport open-enrolled students.  Paton-Churdan’s Board was not willing to talk about that.”

Greene County School District has a two-mile transportation agreement with Ogden and Glidden.  This school year, Greene County had 38 open enrolled students coming into the district and 26 that open-enrolled out of the district.

At their meeting earlier this month, the Greene County School Board voted 6-1 to deny sharing a transportation director with P-C.