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Three weeks after the province-wide lockdown was lifted and Kingston entered the green zone, some AMS services are set to reopen.
According to AMS Vice-President (Operations) Alexandra Samoyloff’s report to AMS Assembly on Feb. 25, some services’ reopening dates were delayed because staff needed to be in the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) region for 14 days prior to returning to their positions on campus.
“We are following a 14-day isolation rule if staff leave the KFL&A area. Therefore, with reading week and folks potentially going home, we did not have enough staff to safely open as the lockdown was lifted, Samoyloff wrote in a statement to
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Thanks to COVID-19, the traditional AMS Bus-It Program has been scrapped for another year.
After consultations with the City of Kingston, the AMS decided not to reinstate the Bus-It Program for the 2021-22 academic year. Instead, Kingston Transit’s temporary student pass $119 per semester will be available again. Students can purchase the pass online.
The AMS/Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) Bus Pass Subsidy program, which aims to help students pay for the student pass, will continue to run for the Summer 2021, Fall 2021, and Winter 2022 semesters. 263 students applied for the subsidy this semester, and they all received the amount they requested.