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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Peter Hurst <br />TO School Program <br />BVSD Transportation Department <br />6500 Arapahoe Avenue <br />Boulder, Colorado 80303 <br />720-561-6116 <br />peter.hurst@bvsd.org <br /> <br />Proposal Title: Bringing BVSD Trip Tracker to Louisville Schools <br /> <br />Date: April 19, 2013 <br />Presented by: Peter Hurst, BVSD Transportation, TO School Program Manager <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />Trip Tracker is an encouragement and reward program that rewards students for walking, biking, <br />carpooling or riding the bus (either RTD or School Bus) to school. Its purpose is to enhance <br />student safety, fitness, and air quality by reducing car congestion in school zones. <br />The two year old program is currently running in 11 BVSD Schools in Boulder and has over <br />1,000 active student participants. The mechanics of the program are as follows. Parents are <br />asked if they would like to have their kids rewarded for walking, etc. and if so, directed to <br />register them for the program at bvsd.org/tracker. They are sent a calendar each month to help <br />them keep track of trips. On the last day of the month they receive an email with a survey link <br />that collects information about trips for that month. Rewards are computed and usually handed <br />out by parent volunteers in the cafeteria during lunch on one day the following month. <br />Students earn one Trip Tracker Dollar for every four trips and walkers and bikers earn an <br />additional dollar for each mile of active transportation. The average award is eight dollars per <br />month. The dollars can be spent like ‘real money’ at 20 kid-friendly, local businesses (list of <br />businesses and currently participating schools is attached). The dollars are bought back from the <br />businesses at 50 cents on the dollar. Program costs to date were initially funded by a federal <br />grant. When the grant ended, funding was provided through the City of Boulder Climate Action <br />Program and fundraising from parents. <br /> <br />Outcomes to Date: <br /> <br />We project, based on participant surveys, that participation in Trip Tracker has resulted in a <br />reduction of 300,000 miles of school trips this year to these 11 schools in Boulder. This <br />reduction is directly attributed to the program. Families that wouldn’t use the school bus for <br />various reasons are now using it due to Trip Tracker. Kids who use to beg for rides now refuse <br />them due to Trip Tracker Rewards. Students who used to never walk or bike on cold snowy days <br />now insist on it. I have attached a sample of parent comments about the program. <br /> <br />Bringing Trip Tracker to Louisville <br /> <br />I have been asked by both Louisville Elementary and Monarch K-8 to bring Trip Tracker to their <br />schools beginning in August. Schools, parents and students respond very positively to the <br />program and it would be pretty easy to have all of the Louisville schools on board. I think that I <br />can bring Trip Tracker to any number of schools in Louisville but the deciding factor is funding. <br />I am not able to use City of Boulder money to pay for the program at Louisville schools. <br />12