Zum Services, Inc.
Lobbying client
Zum Services is a tech-enabled student transportation company, founded around 2015 and based in Redwood City, California, that provides school districts with contracted bus operations and a route-planning and tracking platform, serving thousands of schools nationwide as an alternative to traditional yellow-bus contractors. It has filed 12 lobbying disclosures since 2025, lobbying 14 council members through three firms, Arete Public Affairs, Kasirer, and The Parkside Group, on a Department of Education transportation-management-system procurement and broader transportation procurement matters.
- Council members lobbied
- 14
- Filings (since 2024)
- 12
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $312,000
Lobbied these council members
- Eric Dinowitz Council Member, District 11 (Bronx)
- Pierina Ana Sanchez Council Member, District 14 (Bronx)
- Althea V. Stevens Council Member, District 16 (Bronx)
- Amanda C. Farías Council Member, District 18 (Bronx)
- Linda Lee Council Member, District 23 (Queens)
- James F. Gennaro Council Member, District 24 (Queens)
- Shekar Krishnan Council Member, District 25 (Queens)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Chris Banks Council Member, District 42 (Brooklyn)
- Farah N. Louis Council Member, District 45 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
- Gale A. Brewer Council Member, District 6 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Arete Public Affairs, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Kasirer LLC Lobbyist firm
- The Parkside Group, LLC Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - Relationship Building
- Determination of Board or Commission - relationship building
- Procurement - DOE transportation management system including procurement status
- Procurement - Transportation procurement