Jeanette Wolfberg is reporting for The Columbia Paper the Hudson Board of Education at its December 1 meeting agreed to amend a transportation contract to ensure that school buses will resume service as soon as school resumes following a closure. Once both the district and the transportation company sign the addendum, it will be submitted to the state for approval, district Business Administrator Jesse Boehme said following the meeting. The amendment was necessary because one of the major bus companies the district works with told him it might need 30 days notice to resume service after a shutdown. For one thing, the company would have to line up drivers. The addendum specifies that if the district schools are closed or relying on remote learning, the transportation company agrees to “take all measures” necessary to resume full service “immediately upon any reopening.” In return, the district agrees that if the schools are closed or revert to remote learning "the district will pay the transportation company 100 percent of the daily run cost for the first 10 school days of closure, 60 percent per school day on days 11 through 20, and 40 percent on days “21 forward.” The district wrote the addendum in consultation with other districts and lawyers, Boehme said. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.