SEQUIM — Come September, Sequim’s public schools will adopt a unified schedule.
School start and end times and bus pickup times will change at the beginning of the 2006-07 school year.
It had to be done to save money, said Sequim School District Superintendent Garn Christensen.
With gas approaching $3 a gallon plus the costs of tire replacement and bus maintenance, the district was facing a $100,000 revenue shortfall.
The new schedule, to take effect in September, will have Helen Haller Elementary, Sequim Middle School and Sequim High School starting at 8:15 a.m. and letting out at 2:45 p.m.
Helen Haller’s kindergartens will go from 8:15 a.m. to 10:56 a.m. and from 12:13 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Greywolf Elementary will start the day at 8:15 a.m. and finish at 3:05 p.m., with kindergartens from 8:35 a.m. to 11:16 a.m. and from 12:33 p.m. to 3:05 p.m.
Those are slight adjustments from the current school year’s schedule, but they will help save an estimated 40 percent in busing costs, Christensen said.
Bus routes and morning pickup schedules won’t be finalized until July, he added.