JAY – School Committee members will consider consolidating transportation services Thursday to have a single bus run to accommodate students from kindergarten to grade 12 beginning next school year.

There are two runs now, one for middle and high school students and another for elementary students.

Superintendent Robert Wall presented the proposal to the board in February. He wants the board to vote on the plan at 6 p.m. March 5 at the middle school library.

The committee rejected the idea in 2005, and withdrew it from cost savings measures in a proposed 2007 budget package.

The plan would reduce runs, save fuel, provide a uniform start and end for the school day at all levels and allow for restructuring of staff, Wall said in February.

Seven buses do a combined 28 regular runs per day now. There is also one bus each on vocational and special education runs.

If the system went to a single-run, there would be nine buses on 18 regular runs per day, Wall has said, and two small buses for vocational and special education runs.

Sixty-six percent of students rode buses in 2004-05, and 85 percent are riding this year, he said.

If a one-bus run system was implemented, Wall said, savings are estimated conservatively at $25,000.