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Walk to Learn
Kindergarten students John Sandrini and Coen Tavegie work on flash cards in the morn-
ing before school• Students work in smaller groups during Newcastle Elementary School's
Walk to Learn program so teachers can focus more on their individual needs.
tameras
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Denice Pisciotti/NLJ
Transportation director Mark Peterson told school board
members that the new camera systems provide him with anoth-
er tool to protect students and bus drivers alike•
given to the Newcastle Police
Department when infractions
are reported.
The ability of the cameras
to capture moments in time has
been tested inadvertently.
"Since we have had them,
we have hit two deer and we
have got to see the deer coming
up. That works out pretty
good," Peterson smiled.
' ' The global tracking system
in the digiXal-video ,recorder
also allows each bus to be
tracked when and where they
stop. This enables Peterson to
know if a bus was on time
at each location down to the
second.
Peterson said he reviews a
video from a bus on the average
of once a week.
The video is recorded and
stored on a hard drive on each
bus, and the drivers have the
ability to mark an area on the
"They are really good too
vhen you have kids crossing
the road. You can see for quite
a while what they are doing and
Where they are going," Peterson
added.
In the fall of 2014, most of
the buses were equipped with
(hree cameras on the outside
md three cameras inside. The
smaller buses and the spare bus
lave two Ot he inside, anti,two
On the.outside-, : ,: .......
The stop arm cameras on
the side of the bus work well
. to identify license plates, which
Peterson hopes will deter
drivers from not stopping when
the stop sign on the bus is out
and displayed to approaching
traffic.
A print up of a picture of
the vehicle, with license plate,
possible driver identifica-
tion and Google map location
of the vehicles at the time is
hard drive by using a button
on the unit to find a particular
incident they would like the
director to see.
Peterson said that his intent
is not to spy or eavesdrop on
student conversations while
reviewing the recordings taken
by the cameras on the buses.
He looks for a specific issue
that has been brought to his
attention.
"We are looking for where
they have damaged something,
physical contact between kids
or just plain horsing around.
I wait for an incident to come
up," he said.
Currently the recordings are
not viewable while they are
in use. The equipment does
have that capability, but the
cell phone plan required to be
able to transfer the data to real
time video in the transportation
office has not been purchased
yet. Peterson acknowledged at
some point that may be war-
ranted, but it has not seemed a
necessity yet.
When Peterson became the
transportation director over five
years ago, 70,'petcent of the:
buses had one,, oa, mera inside
already installed on them. He
admitted they did alright, but
he appreciates that the new
system allows more coverage
because the truth is more dis-
cernible when it is seen on
video. District officials are not
forced to rely on the word of
the driver or the student when
incidents occur.
"The cameras are just
another tool that help us,"
Peterson reasoned.
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plished during this session, but he felt a lot of :::: : ..... ::
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those things were behind the scenes, and would Contact your Legislator
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Senate President Phil Nicholas indicated that
he felt the impact of legislation passed this year
ould be noticeable however.
"The legislature worked incredibly hard this
session, and we accomplished a great deal. We
have worked on bills that will increase jobs,
itnprove infrastructure, and enhance our education
System," he claimed.
Hunt disagreed in particular with leadership's
assessment of legislation dealing with education.
He told the News Letter Journal that he was per-
sonally disappointed in the failure of House Bill
103, which he sponsored, because of the potential
the bill had to boost the economy in Wyoming
ind "start something great for the state." The
bill sought to establish a task force to look into
scholarships for vocational and technical career
courses of study.
" Hunt, who is a member of the House Education
Committee, also expressed disdain for the
Ogden Driskill
: Senate District 1: Crook/Campbell/Weston counties
Capitol Email Ogden.Driskill@wyoleg.gov
District Email senatedriskill@rtconnect.net ....
Box 155 Devils Tower WY 82714
Cell - (307) 680-5555
Rep. Tyler Lindholm
House District 1: Crook/Weston counties
Tyler.Lindholm@wyoleg.gov
P.O. Box 691 Sundance WY 82729
Home- (307) 283-1891
Cell - (307) 282-0968
Rep. Hans Hunt
House District 2: Niobrara/Weston/Goshen counties
hans.hunt@wyoleg.gov
1347 Old Hwy 85 Newcastle WY 82701
Home - (307) 746-4063
Cell - (307) 746-8899
Senator Curt Meier
statewide education accountability system and Senate District3: Goshen/Niobrara/Weston counties
indicated frustration over passage of a bill that Curt.Meier@wyoleg.gov
4799 CR 18 LaGrange WY 82221
continued the legislature's effort to hold school Work-(307)834-2344
districts accountable from Cheyenne.
"On a larger scale, the accountability bill went iiiiii:iapitol Website http://legisweb.state./.us
through," Hunt lamented, calling this another
rsonal failure during this year's session. He
explained that while the bill was heavily amended"
By the time it went to the governor, he believes
it will still further the state's control over local
chool districts.
House Speaker Kermit Brown, however,
,choed Stubson's sentiments that the legislator
Lonored its "commitment to providing Wyoming
tudents with a world class education."
"We need to ensure that Wyoming students
re prepared to compete for jobs in the global
conomy when they graduate," Brown stated.
They should have a holistic education and be
ble to find a stable, well-paying job here in
Vyoming."
Representative Tyler Lindholm, who repre-
ents northern Weston County, reported that the
,iggest failure for him personally involved the
',enate's vote to not overturn the Governor's
eto of the Asset Forfeiture bill that would have
equired conviction for a crime before forfeiture
ok place.
The county's two voices in the House of
Representatives did enjoy some trumps during
the session, however, and Hunt admitted that he
was happy that his bill to allow larger shipments
of wine, or House Bill 47, was passed, while
Lindholm was ecstatic over the approval of the
Wyoming Food Freedom Act- the rookie law-
maker's signature piece of legislation.
Regardless of how individual legislators
viewed the recently concluded session, it is the
last that will be held in the Capitol Building for the
next few years, as the building will be undergoing
a massive renovation during next year's budget
session. Stubson said that he was proud of the
manner in which the group conducted itself.
"The legislators completed this last session in
the current Capitol with dignity, decorum, civility,
and efficiency. This session wasn't flashy. It was
a long, hard worked in the trenches session where
legislators roiled up their sleeves, and continued to
move Wyoming forward," he asserted.
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