Back-To-School Transportation Hotline Now Open
The Osceola County School Board knows that in the beginning of a new school year, parents and students have plenty of questions. Luckily, the answers are just a phone call or click away!
The district’s Back-To-School Transportation Parent Hotline is now open for calls in English or Spanish. Parents can call 407-483-3673 with any questions, comments, or concerns they have. This hotline will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.
In addition to the Transportation Parent Hotline, parents can select the “Let’s Talk” tab on the school district’s website at www.osceolaschools.net to ask t ransportation or back-to-school questions. Parents are encouraged to submit questions online in English or Spanish, and they will be answered in a timely manner via a return email.
In order to bolster customer service, both the Transportation Parent Hotline and the Let’s Talk online platform will remain active throughout the school year for parents and community members to ask questions, leave comments, share concerns, and/or give praise to the Osceola School District.
Clerk and Comptroller’s Office issues county financial report
The office of Osceola County Clerk of the Court Kelvin Soto — who had the title of County Comptroller added back to his business card in 2021 — has released a comprehensive report, called in its pages, “An overview of the County’s financial well-being.”
The Osceola On The Rise report includes information about Osceola County, such as statistics and demographic information, a directory of parks, recreation facilities, libraries, emergency services, public services and annual events.
“I am committed to fulfilling our constitutional duty of transparency in government and responsible stewardship of our citizen’s finances,” Soto said about the publication.
Osceola On The Rise can be found online here — https://bit.ly/3OPUoFt — as well as on the Clerk’s website, www.osceolaclerk.com.
Among the highlights of the 15-page guide: the roles and responsibilities of the Clerk and Comptroller’s Office, an overview of the office’s services (i.e., in one day you can apply for a marriage license and passport with the photo, and on another get married and pick up the passport, all while taking care of any outstanding traffic tickets or fees), descriptions of the county’s other constitutional offices like the Sheriff and Tax Collector, and a guide to where your taxpayer money comes from and goes to.
Soto’s office said it will be submitting the report for an award from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), which is dependent on the reach of the report and its distribution.
