CC/E board to address busing issue

Transportation policy once again took center stage Nov. 22 during the Clay Central/Everly school board's regular meeting.

For the second time in six months, board members were approached about granting a variance to the district's transportation policy. Trevor and Courtney Engeltjes and Bill Follon, parents of elementary-age students in the northern part of the CC/E district, open-enroll their children to Okoboji. An Okoboji bus had been picking them up and dropping them off at their rural residences, but that is not allowed.

The arrangement has since been halted and the families have to take...