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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of them.  Based off of private conversations with her probably Coffee is the worst for schools because she doesn’t believe in trying to reign in development or have infrastructure investment (schools, roads, etc) keep pace with new development.  [/quote]

Agree with "none of them."

None of them mention schools except for Roy who pushes more community and county partnerships with schools. She is also focused on transit - although in speaking with her one-on-one, she didn't seem to grasp how the County can collaborate with schools with the bus routes and times. She said that students already have the iRide program and just looked at me blankly when I tried to explain that the bus routes need to be efficient and timed to school needs for more students to actually use ART/Metro buses to go to school. She didn't seem to understand that the bus would take my kids 2 transfers and 45 minutes to an hour one way v. taking the existing school bus (10-15 minutes) or driving themselves (7 minutes)....let alone that the timing of the ART/Metro routes do not correspond with when school starts or dismisses, or extra curricular activities begin/end.  She would be my first choice for schools except for her focus on getting developers to contribute more to the county's affordable housing fund - which in turn goes to AHC and APAH so they can keep adding 200+unit affordable housing buildings in the same neighborhoods and developments they already have 100% committed affordable housing....merely continuing to add to the already 65%+high FRL schools.

Droomdogle, or whatever his name is, at least mentions encouraging developers to include 10% affordable units in their housing developments which is at least a departure from all the AH advocates/CB who just want to keep building more where it already is and preserving it all forever where it currently is. This at least would "spread the wealth" of opportunity and resources a little bit by giving more low-income kids and families access to schools not already disproportionately burdened by very high FRL and high ELL needs, etc.  (It won't happen; but at least he mentions it, even though it's not in any context of schools).

Cunningham has at least been involved in some new school planning processes and has been positively viewed on her performance in that context. She also isn't pushing the increased density goals current CB has. That, in turn, helps schools when APS and the County can't/won't plan effectively long-term for school needs.

The rest of them are just for maximum density with no thought to schools or infrastructure.

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I can't vote for Roy. Seems like a nice person. Completely out of touch when it comes to young kids and schools. Coffey might be fine, but we've seen how easily led young people without kids like her are on the county board and school board. Maybe Cunningham first and not sure who for 2nd. [/quote]

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