Don Bosco high school and the Toronto Catholic District School Board have received about 100 angry phone calls in the past few days over the TTC bus controversy.

Suggestions from taxpayers include having the board reimburse the TTC for costs in the affair.

John Yan, a TCDSB spokesperson, said the board “would consider reimbursing the TTC if it were a formal request. But we have not received a request from anyone.”

After a coach with the Father Henry Carr Crusaders got into a heated exchange with the referee during last Thursday’s semi-final football game against the Don Bosco Eagles, the coach was booted from the field and the game suspended.

Police, taking into account concerns for public safety and the fact it was raining, ordered a TTC bus for the Don Bosco team, coached by Mayor Rob Ford, because the regular school bus would not be there quickly enough.

TTC chair Karen Stintz said the TTC wouldn’t make a formal request for reimbursement, but if the school board offered to pay, the TTC probably wouldn’t refuse.

“I wouldn’t want to set up a precedent where an organization would think they could call and request a TTC bus and offer to pay for it,” she said.

It was the police, not the school board, who requested the bus, added Stintz. Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad thing to cost out shelter buses so police are aware, she said.

TTC spokesman Brad Ross reiterated that it would be difficult to break down those costs, which are absorbed into the TTC’s operating budget.

“It’s a service we provide through police, fire and EMS to the people of Toronto. We have no real way of calculating the costs. With respect to Nov. 1, there are no hard costs to calculate,” he said.

The buses sent to Father Henry Carr Secondary School were already in service, and the diversion resulted in a busload of Finch West passengers being forced off the bus to await the next one.

He suggested the board could pursue the matter through Ford’s office.

After reviewing its shelter bus protocols following Thursday’s incident, the TTC said it wouldn’t alter its procedure, which is to provide a bus at police request.

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At least one caller to the school suggested Ford should stop coaching the team, Yan confirmed.

But he said the decision rests with the school principal. Principal Ugo Rossi couldn’t be reached for comment.

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