2016 STN Leadersip Award


Shannon Evans (in business suit) meets with Clark County School District bus drivers outside a local high school to discuss bell times and if any updates are necessary to the routing system. Evans says the district is continually evaluating bell times to ensure students get to school in plenty of time not only for class but also for free breakfast.


she led the development of transportation IEP representatives to attend annual student IEP and Section 504 Plan meetings to determine the related service. If that was not enough, by 2010, she had helped to save the district $10 million via a bell-time evaluation and balance. Ten it came time to move Clark County to a new routing software, at the time called Compass, now a solution of Seon. She said the district is now in its final stage of the transition with the goal of further reducing human error. On the horizon is a new field trip module, but first Evans said she wants to ensure the district is using all possible data elements already available from GPS. “My buses produce GPS data points, so I know how fast a bus


can go during rush hour,” she added. “So I want to be able to utilize realistic times, put into our routing software and to be able to then make sure parents get good route timing so we don’t have two things happening: Either the bus is early at the school and I


have kids sitting on bus until the school opens, or I have students so late that they are missing breakfast. Tat is all contingent how strong and how mature and how accurate our road network is and our timing.” Despite being named the executive director of transportation


in 2014, she continues to be as hands-on as possible with the district’s technology, especially routing. “One of my biggest passions is making sure routing is done


right,” she said. “Over the summer, I do a lot of my own routing because I’m so adamant we do it right. I want it as close to perfect as possible. Anything that is new I personally do it, first. I’m completely 100-percent vested in making sure it’s successful for kids and that drivers are set up for success.” Another challenge facing transportation is addressing a dis-


trict breakup by a legislative mandate that creates new precincts because the district is so big. Additionally, six new schools are


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