At the start of each work day, Jennifer Vobis filters through emails. She was named executive director of transportation for Clark County School District last year.
not really about the pay,” Rideout said, adding that she started at Clark County 17 years ago as a bus driver. “Then there are employees who might be on the latter part of their employment and are getting ready to retire. But when you’re talking about trying to bring in and recruit and retain those folks, everyone’s coming for a different reason. And getting that pay to be more com- petitive—because it wasn’t competitive nationally and now it is—we can bring folks not only from this existing community but from other states.” Rideout added the pay increases have also broadened
CCSD’s opportunity for onboarding and recruitment. “It’s a different scope of work, and I always tried to articulate that when I’m talking to educators in classrooms, [the school bus is] a moving classroom with multiple stu- dents, not necessarily in the same age group,” she said. Additionally, Vobis said that because there was such a
large vacancy to fill, she was able to leverage the addi- tional money for incentives. “The drivers we did have, we wanted them to come to work,” she said. “Taking the vacancy money and being able to leverage it into atten- dance incentives and also new-hire incentives in order
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to help with onboarding has helped.” Plus, the district was able to lean on public transpor-
tation. Vobis said CCSD has historically not leveraged public transportation as an option for students to go to
Did You Know?
Clark County School District transportation operations has its own IT department, training department, vehicle maintenance department, investigations department, routing and scheduling department, and call center. Within the call center, transportation also has operates its own payroll.
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