No disciplinary action will be made against a Huskie bus driver who left the bus she was driving Dec. 19 to call her supervisor after some students boarding the bus refused to show their IDs, the Student Association Mass Transit Board decided Monday.

Huskie Busline general manager Charlie Battista said, “Drivers are innocent until proven guilty.” He said the driver was following company procedure when she called her supervisor.

The driver made the DuSable stop and asked boarders to show their IDs. When some students refused, she proceeded to the Holmes Student Center turnaround, Battista said. She asked the students to show their IDs again at the HSC but when they refused, she got out of the bus and went into the HSC to call her supervisor.

An unidentified passenger drove the bus onto Lucinda Avenue but left the scene on foot before University Police arrived.

Battista said he is looking into the possibility of pressing charges against the unidentified person.

Board Chairman Phil Kessler said there may be possible fault in the Huskie Bus policy.

In other business, board members Dave Pack and Mike Cassman discussed the possibility of implementing a late-night ride service. The board has not made any decisions.

Pack said the service would operate from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. Pack and Cassman will draft proposals for next Monday’s meeting and decide whether the service should run three or seven days a week.

Pack said UP Capt. James Webster agreed to hire students and train them as drivers for the service through the UP department. He said drivers would be dispatched by the UPs and would drive cars from the motor pool.

Pack said the UP would pay drivers as long as they were subsidized.

One semester of operation on a seven-day schedule would cost $3,426, which includes a $500 two-way system radio from the cars to the UP station, Pack and Cassman estimate. However, the second semester cost of operation on a seven-day schedule would cost $2,900 because the radio system already would be paid for.

Pack and Cassman said first semester costs for a three-day schedule would be $2,122, and second semester costs would be $1,552.

The board also discussed the expansion of a Huskie Bus route to include a stop in downtown Sycamore. But, because of lack of feedback by the student body, the board decided to wait before making any decisions.

Battista said he would do a route survey to see if the expansion would be feasible.