Transportation Director
Poway Unified School District
Murrieta, CA, United States
Timothy W. Purvis (Tim) is the director of transportation for the Poway Unified School District in San Diego County. He has been with PUSD for over 28 years first serving as the assistant director of transportation from 1989-1992, and Director since 1992. Poway is a large suburban K-12 district with 38 schools and a student population of approximately 35,000. Tim directs the district comprehensive transportation program providing both home-to-school transportation to over 3,500 students and their special needs transportation support service to over 850 students daily. The district supports the extracurricular transportation needs of over 3,300 field trips annually and successfully manages one of the state's most successful parent participation transportation fee programs contributing over $1.1 million annually to offset their program expenses.
Tim began his career in student transportation services as a school bus driver in 1984 while working on his undergraduate degree in American Studies and U.S. History. He has both participated in and instructed numerous student transportation-related programs for the California Association of School Business Officials, CASBO, and the California Association of School Transportation Officials, CASTO. He is currently an online instructor with the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Tim has served in several capacities of association leadership with CASTO at both the local and state level including president of the California Association of School Transportation Officials Chapter Three San Diego/Imperial section.
Tim has consulted for the Fiscal Crisis Management and Assistance Team, FCMAT, since 1994 having performed dozens of assistance projects for school districts, county offices of education, and special education local planning areas (SELPA’s) throughout the state. In addition, Tim consults for both School Services of California and has performed numerous independent study reviews.
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Friday, March 21, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM East Coast USA Time