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[quote=Anonymous]Ultimately, moving around all of these schools actually resulted in very substantial increased rather than reduced bus costs (again, all of the differential in bus costs that McKinley was supposedly eating by having so many non-walkers PLUS the additional $370K which is more than Fleet's cost in frictional costs).  In fact, it seems like when you move 4 different schools around at once, the extra bus costs are substantial (my estimate from these numbers is that they are somewhere upwards of $600K).

So to me it seems like these additional costs are something that APS should have considered and included in the discussion upfront when discussing the idea of playing musical chairs with four schools instead of just adding one to the system.  Those costs were not considered when deciding the move let alone raised with the community.  What McKinley heard was 60 vs. 28% walkability, and not "all of this money saved from walkability -- and more! -- will later be eaten by the rest of our plan to move everything around!"

Your point that this may have been the cheapest possible alternative of all of them may be correct.  It is possible.  At the same time, these additional costs weren't noted at the time and don't seem to have been considered when making the decision that moving 4 schools at once would be the most cost effective solution (and which still leaves Reed, Ashlawn, and Glebe (and Tuckahoe, too?) oversubscribed and made negative progress in solving that area's overenrollment problem that Reed was originally supposed to assist with).

Finally, to circle back to the beginning, I think Kadera had a point in raising the bus cost issue, and was at least grappling with understanding the ins and outs of the complex APS school budget in a way that Miranda clearly is not.  And I still think her main point was correct:  These costs are a surprise that we weren't told about when everyone was saying that in fact the achievable net bus savings we'd create were the reason we should move in the first place.  [/quote]

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