Transportation allocation
 53. (1) The transportation allocation is the total of the following amounts: 1. The transportation services amount. 2. The school bus rider safety training amount. 3. The provincial or demonstration school amount. (2) The transportation services amount is determined as follows: 1. Determine the board’s vehicle component amount by taking the total of the amounts specified for the board in Columns 2, 3 and 4 of Table 26. 2. Determine the board’s fuel component amount by taking the total of the amounts specified for the board in Columns 2 and 3 of Table 27. 3. Determine the board’s fuel price adjustment amount as follows: i. For each month in the fiscal year, other than July and August, calculate an amount using the following formula: [A – B] ÷ B in which, “A” is the average diesel price for southern Ontario for the month or, in the case of a northern board, the average diesel price for northern Ontario for the month, as reported on a website of the Government of Ontario, less the amount of any applicable harmonized sales tax payable under Part IX of the Excise Tax Act (Canada), and “B” is $1.50. ii. For each month in which the amount determined under subparagraph i is greater than 0.03, calculate the amount determined using the following formula: (A – 0.03) × B × 0.10 in which, “A” is the amount determined under subparagraph i, and “B” is the amount determined under paragraph 2. iii. For each month in which the amount determined under subparagraph i is less than 0.03, calculate the amount determined using the following formula: (A + 0.03) × B × 0.10 in which, “A” is the amount determined under subparagraph i, and “B” is the amount determined under paragraph 2. iv. Total the amounts, if any, determined under subparagraphs ii and iii. 4. Determine the board’s school bus driver component amount by taking the total of the amounts specified for the board in Columns 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Table 28. 5. Determine the board’s spare capacity component amount as follows: i. Multiply the total of the amounts specified for the board in Columns 3 and 4 of Table 26 by 0.05. ii. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 4 by 0.05. iii. Total the amounts determined under subparagraphs i and ii. 6. Determine the board’s public transit amount by multiplying the amount specified for the board in Column 2 of Table 29 by the amount specified for the board in Column 3 of that Table. 7. Determine the board’s local priorities and operations amount as follows: i. Take $250,000 as a base amount. ii. If the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils is less than or equal to 2,500, multiply the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils by $200. iii. If the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils is greater than 2,500 but less than or equal to 5,000, A. take the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils, B. subtract 2,500, C. multiply the difference by $150, and D. add $500,000. iv. If the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils is greater than 5,000, A. take the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils, B. subtract 5,000, C. multiply the difference by $20, and D. add $875,000. v. Take the amount determined under subparagraph ii, iii or iv, as the case may be. vi. Determine the board’s rural and northern adjustment amount by, A. taking the rural density factor of the board, as specified in Column 3 of Table 15, B. adding the rural density ratio of the board, as specified in Column 4 of Table 15, C. multiplying the sum by the amount taken under subparagraph v, and D. dividing the product by 2. vii. Determine the board’s special transportation needs amount by multiplying the number of special transportation needs students specified for the board in Column 2 of Table 30 by $500. viii. Take the total of the amounts determined under subparagraphs i, v, vi and vii. 8. The transition amount is determined as follows: i. Take the total of the amounts determined under paragraphs 1 and 5 of subsection 54 (1) of the 2022-2023 grant regulation. ii. Determine the board’s adjustment for fuel benchmark rate using the following formula: A × (1 – B/$1.50) in which, “A” is the amount determined under paragraph 2, and “B” is $0.936 or, in the case of a northern board, $0.957. iii. Determine the board’s adjusted base amount by taking the total of the amounts determined under paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and subtracting the amount determined under subparagraph ii. iv. Subtract the amount determined under subparagraph iii from the amount taken under subparagraph i. If the result is less than zero, it is deemed to be zero. 9. Take the total of the amounts determined under paragraphs 1 to 8. (3) The school bus rider safety training amount is determined as follows: 1. Multiply the school bus rider safety training sessions, junior kindergarten to grade 8, specified for the board in Column 2 of Table 31 by $370. 2. Determine the number of on-site school bus rider safety training sessions provided in accordance with the document entitled “Memorandum 2023 B06: Student Transportation Grant – Grants for Student Needs, 2023-24”, dated April 17, 2023, that the board conducted in the current fiscal year for junior kindergarten to grade 8. 3. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 2 by $370. 4. Determine the number of online school bus rider safety training sessions conducted in accordance with the document referred to in paragraph 2 that the board conducted in the current fiscal year for junior kindergarten to grade 8. 5. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 4 by $244. 6. Total the amounts determined under paragraphs 3 and 5. 7. Take the lesser of the amounts determined under paragraphs 1 and 6. (4) The provincial or demonstration schools amount is the board’s expenses in the fiscal year that is approved by the Minister, based on submissions by the board, in respect of transportation to and from a school of the Centre Jules-Léger Consortium, the Ontario School for the Blind, an Ontario School for the Deaf or a demonstration school established by or operated under an agreement with the Minister for pupils with severe communicational exceptionalities. (5) For the purposes of this section, an expense by a board is a transportation expense if it is categorized as a transportation expense in the Ministry’s Uniform Code of Accounts, revised April 2023. (6) For the purposes of this section, the following boards are northern boards: 1. Algoma District School Board. 2. Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales. 3. Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Grandes Rivières. 4. Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario. 5. Conseil scolaire de district catholique Franco-Nord. 6. Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l’Ontario. 7. Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l’Ontario. 8. District School Board Ontario North East. 9. Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board. 10. Keewatin-Patricia District School Board. 11. Kenora Catholic District School Board. 12. Lakehead District School Board. 13. Near North District School Board. 14. Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board. 15. Northeastern Catholic District School Board. 16. Northwest Catholic District School Board. 17. Rainbow District School Board. 18. Rainy River District School Board. 19. Sudbury Catholic District School Board. 20. Superior-Greenstone District School Board. 21. Superior North Catholic District School Board. 22. Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board. Administration and Governance Allocation