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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that another poster suggested Kadera's estimate was off by a few $K and the additional money Reed required would "only" be about $370K, and that PP's total speculation that that amount included all the frictional costs for extra buses all over the county due to another school.  I don't understand where PP would pull that assumption from and find it to be wrong (at a minimum, the new Innovation Elementary school (new neighborhood school at Fleet) is going live around the same time as Reed, so what is happening to its busing costs?  PP seems to be saying all frictional costs would be absorbed wholly by Reed and that's where that entire discrepancy comes from -- the $374K plus the additional busing overbudget from McKinley.  But there's no real basis to believe this, it's just PP's theory, and moreover it doesn't make sense when there's another elementary school coming online at the same time that would also be a source for those frictional costs.[/quote]

Fleet opened in fall 2019.[/quote]

And in anticipation, APS budgeted that year for six additional drivers and attendants at a cost of $270k for the additional bus routes that would be necessary due to the redrawing of boundaries for Fleet and surrounding schools.[/quote]

I was talking about the Innovation School, which is the new elementary at Key, and not the elementary at Patrick Henry from 2019.  Innovation School is also opening up in Fall 2021:  [url]https://www.apsva.us/post/school-board-approves-name-for-new-elementary-school-at-key-site/[/url]

But you make a good point:  If redrawing boundaries around Fleet caused an additional $270K total, budgeted to Fleet, why would redrawing boundaries that would be split across at least two new opening elementary schools cost one school (Reed) twice that amount ($370 new in the budget PLUS the excess leftover from McKinley's old bus overage costs at Reed, if what APS told McKinley about 60/28% was true)?[/quote]

You are not reading the budget properly.  While the budget document put this expense under the “opening Reed” line item, it’s not saying that Reed is getting all these additional drivers and buses beyond what McKinley had.  The only actual new school opening is Reed; immersion left Key and it’s getting a neighborhood boundary, but it’s not a new school so APS hasn’t labeled it that way in the summary.  Opening Reed was the trigger for making all of these other school moves and redrawing boundaries, so the budget summary labels it all as associated with opening Reed.  But that doesn’t mean all of these additional resources are going directly to Reed itself.

The other problem with your analysis is that you don’t know what you’re comparing these numbers to, but are seemingly assuming the alternative would have been no additional drivers/attendants needed.  If opening Reed as a neighborhood school but not moving any programs would result in a net increase of 12 new drivers/attendants, and moving immersion to ATS but moving ATS to Reed instead of McKinley would have required 10 new drivers/attendants, then only needing 6 new drivers/attendants with the adopted plan would be a bargain.[/quote]

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