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Walking School Buses and Bicycle Trains
Walking together to Badin Elementary School in Badin, North Carolina.
A walking school bus and bicycle train both consist of groups of students accompanied by adults that
walk or bicycle a pre-planned route to school. Routes can originate from a par cular neighborhood or, in
order to include children who live too far to walk or bicycle, begin from a designated parking lot. They
may operate daily, weekly or monthly. O en, they are started in order to address parents' concerns
about traffic and personal safety while providing a chance for parents and children to socialize.
Walking school buses and bicycle trains can be loosely structured or highly organized. For example,
walking buses or bicycle trains can be as simple as neighborhood families deciding to walk or bicycle
together, possibly sharing parental chaperoning on a rota ng basis. More formal, organized walking
school buses and bicycle have a coordinator at the school or district level who recruits volunteers and
par cipants, creates a schedule and designs a walking route. While requiring more effort, more
structured walking school buses and bicycle trains offer the opportunity to involve more children.
Quick steps to a walking school bus or bicycle train Loose/informal structure:
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Invite families who live nearby to walk or
bicycle as a group
Pick a route and take a test walk or ride
Highly organized/formal structure:
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Local Improvement Districts
Walking together to Badin Elementary School in Badin, North Carolina.
Decide how o en the group will travel
together
Start walking or bicycling
Determine the amount of interest in a walking school bus or bicycle train
Contact poten al par cipants and partners and iden fy a coordinator
Iden fy route(s)
Iden fy a sufficient number of adults to supervise walkers or bicyclists; (The Centers for
Disease Control recommends one adult per three children for children ages 4 to 6 and one
adult for six children for older elementary children ages 7 to 9 (2000); for bicyclists, one adult
per three to six children is recommended)
5. Finalize logis cal details including se
par cipa on
6. Promote and host a kick-off event
7. Track par cipa on
8. Make changes to the ac vity as needed
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ng a me schedule, training volunteers and promo ng
A Local Improvement District (Improvement District) is a method of financing capital improvements
constructed by the city that provide a special benefit to the proper es within the boundary of the
Improvement District. The Improvement District forma on process leads to the sale of bonds and the
re rement of those bonds via annual payments paid by the property owners within the district. The
Improvement District assessments become liens on the benefi ed proper es.
Exis ng language for municipal laws. City of Corpus Chris , TX (Ord. No. 027066, § 8, 12-1-2006)
Assessment and improvement districts:
(a) The city shall have the power to establish assessment districts, in the manner hereina er provided,
for the purpose of construc ng public improvements within said districts and to provide that the
cost of making any such improvements shall be paid by the property owners owning property
specially benefited by reason of making the improvements. The city may levy a special assessment
as a lien against any such property and issue cer ficates of obliga on covering the cost of such
improvements bearing interest not to exceed the maximum legal rate. No assessment district shall
be created without first submi ng the ques on to a vote of the qualified voters in the city who own
real estate in the proposed district. If the returns of the elec on show that two-thirds or more of the
qualified voters of the city who own real estate in the proposed assessment district vo ng in the
elec on voted in favor of the proposi on, the city council shall create the assessment district and
establish its boundaries. All ma ers pertaining to any assessment lien for public improvements shall
be made in substan al compliance with the laws pertaining to street improvements.
(b)
The city shall have power to establish improvement districts, in the manner hereina er provided, in
order to assist in the development of commerce, tourism, resort ac vity, and conven on
accommoda on for the promo on of the welfare of the city. Within any such improvement district,
the city council shall have the power to lease, sublease or provide for the installment sale of any cityowned
improved or unimproved land, or any interest therein, for any governmental or private use,
at its fair market value as determined by the city council without the necessity of voter approval. The
term of any such transac on shall not exceed sixty years. An improvement district under this
subsec on shall be established by the council subject to approval by a majority vote of the qualified
voters of the city vo ng at an elec on called for approval of the establishment of the district. The
metes and bounds descrip on of any such district, as approved by elec on, shall be kept on file in
the office of the city secretary as part of the public records of the city, and any improvement district
established by Charter amendment prior to the adop on of this provision shall be maintained in full
force and effect and shall be subject to the provisions of this sec on.
City of Portland, TX
Request by property owners for street improvements study:
The owners of real property abu ng a public street located within the city may request of the city a
preliminary engineering study and report concerning improvement of all or part of such street by
presen ng to the city engineer a le er of request for considera on of a street improvement project. The
request shall be submi ed on forms made available by the office of the city engineer. Such le er of
request must specify the proposed length and loca on of the por on of the street for which the study is
requested, and must be signed by persons cons tu ng at least fi y-one (51) percent of the property
owners and owning at least fi y-one (51) percent of the property frontage involved in the requested
improvement study. Such le er of request shall designate one (1) property owner residing on such
street as the representa ve of the property owners filing the request for communica ons with the city
engineer and city staff.
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