DPSCD Teams: please use these forms to request your buses each week. Typically, bus requests will be due by end-of-day the Wednesday before the week of the bus trips, and forms will be available one week in advance. If you need a bus but are unable to get a request in before the deadline, please reach out immediately. If you need to cancel a bus trip, please contact us immediately. Thank you!
Bus request form – week of February 24th
Bus request form – week of March 3rd
Bus request form – week of March 10th
Bus Request Guidelines
– The bus system is administered by Cameron and Makenzie. Please include both of us on any irregularities other than urgent phone calls, so we can ensure coverage.
– Please do not submit bus requests to any other MEZ staff member unless specifically requested.
– Please submit bus request forms before Wednesday of the preceding week.
– The forms are posted here 1-2 weeks in advance.
– We may send a link to the form in a reminder email but please do not count on that; please get in the habit of using the website.
– We do not accept schedules several weeks in advance because they lead to cancellations/missed buses. An easy system is to fill out your request for next week first thing on the first day you come to the MEZ each week.
– Makenzie or Cameron will send a confirmation email, usually on Friday, with a readout of buses for the week. If you don’t get a confirmation email or do not see your bus on the list, you do not have a bus. If this seems wrong, please reach out immediately; this is why we send the confirmation.
– Buses typically show up at your school around 4:30 on weekdays and 10:45 on Saturdays.
– If a bus is not present within 7-10 minutes after the scheduled pickup time, please either call your regular bus driver, or Cameron, immediately. If you wait 30+ minutes, it will be too late to resolve the situation and still get your team to the MEZ that night.
– We request cancellations be submitted at least 24 hours in advance. Obviously, more is better. Any less and DPSCD will be charged for the bus regardless. Please work with your team to ensure that your team is ready and able to attend the MEZ and ride the bus on any given day, before you schedule the bus.
– If you need to change or cancel a bus, please submit that in writing to both the administrators; email is ideal. You can tell us in-person at a meeting, but it still needs to be submitted in writing to ensure that it is confirmed.
– Late additions can sometimes be accommodated so you can ask, but there are no guarantees since this goes through a third party. Please try to avoid this if possible.
– Buses for competitions/field trips/etc will generally be handled separately from the standard form.
– If a day (such as a competition or holiday) has a special form sent for it but also happens to appear on a weekly form, only the response on the special form will be used. We try to avoid this scenario, but it does sometimes happen.