The East Aurora School District 131 Board, impressed with a busing survey conducted by a citizens committee, is moving toward putting a referendum question on a coming ballot.
The Ad-Hoc Committee on Bus Service disclosed its findings to the board Monday.
Chairwoman Lisa Heinz said that of 1,442 registered voters surveyed, 82 percent said they would be in favor of regular school busing. The district never has provided districtwide busing.
Sixty-four percent of those surveyed would vote in favor of a tax increase to provide busing, the committee reported.
A 1999 transportation audit conducted for the district by TransPar Group of Lee’s Summit, Mo., helped district officials determine that the owner of a $100,000 house likely would pay about $65 more per year in taxes for busing, said Board President Larry Malaker. Amy Fischer Roth
