Resolution for the 2025 – 2026 Hazardous Roadways Plan

WHEREAS, a school district may apply for and, on approval of the commissioner, receive an additional amount of up to 10 percent of its regular transportation allotment to be used for the
transportation of children living within two miles of the campus they attend who would be subject to hazardous traffic conditions if they walked to school; and

WHEREAS, a hazardous traffic condition means an area within two miles of a campus where no walkway is provided and children must walk along, or cross a freeway or expressway, an underpass, an overpass or a bridge, an uncontrolled major traffic artery, an industrial or commercial area, or another comparable condition; and

WHEREAS, the Plano ISD Board of Trustees has considered and approved the Hazardous Roadway Guidelines on September 17, 2024 to include the following:

• Four or Six-lane roadway with a speed limit over 45 mph,
• Four or Six-lane roadway that does not have pedestrian-activated traffic signals,
• U.S. 75 Central Expressway,
• Dallas North Tollway,
• President George Bush Turnpike,
• S.H. 289/Preston Road,
• Active Railroad Track,
• Areas that do not have sidewalks or safe paths. A safe path does not have to be a sidewalk; and

WHEREAS, the district administration has applied these guidelines in creating a description and map by campus attendance boundary of all applicable hazardous roadways; and

WHEREAS, the district has published on our Transportation Department website a listing of all eligible hazardous routes by campus attendance boundary location;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Plano ISD Board of Trustees hereby approves this day, March 25, 2025, the 2025-2026 Hazardous Roadways Plan. This plan includes the following:

• 2025-2026 Hazardous Roadway Guidelines,
• 2025-2026 Hazardous Roadways Description by Campus,
• 2025-2026 Hazardous Roadways Map by Campus.

Adopted this 25th day of March, 2025, by the Board of Trustees of the Plano Independent School District.

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Nancy Humphrey Tarrah Lantz
Board President Board Secretary