KINGSTREE — School buses throughout the Williamsburg County School District were running as normal this morning according to administrators at each distinct school.
Drivers are meeting with district officials at 9a.m. this morning to discuss concerns before a strike or any other action was taken. Thte meeting is closed to the public. Officials with the district could not be reached for comment before the meeting began.
Seventeen drivers did not make their scheduled pick-ups at three district schools Friday, leaving 185 students stranded for several hours. A district official said at the time that the missed pick-ups could be the start of a bus drivers strike in response to what drivers claimed was a cut in pay following the district’s board of trustees making changes to the overtime policy. Apparent abuses of the old policy cost the district $500,000 last year according to a report given board members in October.
The board subsequently put the district’s transportation director, Willie McKnight, on administrative leave as a result of the report.
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