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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, with this school, they won't need for Centreville to have 3000.  There is that.

Use some of the funds for that to make this school workable--and it will not be the $200 million someone suggested.

FACT: this school is needed for the population around it.

[b]NO one has offered a reasonable alternative for Chantilly or Westfield. [/b] This is it.  And, it is adaptable to meet the needs of a traditional school.  It will still be far more economical than building a new school.  It is a bargain.[/quote]

Move Chantilly kids to Westfield and Westfield kids to Herndon.  Would have saved money.

Alternatives are not only "reasonable" when they put your kids within a couple of miles of a HS.  That's your new religion.

You can keep repeating this is a bargain, but it's telling they won't say how many kids this building can handle, or how much additional money they'd have to spend for it to handle even 1600 kids.  [/quote]

Or.. open a new high school to ease overcrowding.

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Yes, another alternative  But not the only reasonable one, nor the least expensive one.  [/quote]

Wait, are you considering your “make the kids spend 1-1.5 hours on a bus and be disconnected from their communities and with unsuitable access to sports and afrerachool clubs” plan reasonable? Or is there actually a reasonable plan you haven’t shared?[/quote]

I'm assuming the point of your completely inane post was just to bump the thread to a new page, because it's all been explained before.

Soon you'll be claiming kids in western Fairfax are on a bus for 3 hours every day.  [/quote]

Hmm. What’s I’ve seen explained is that bus times should be minimized.

Do you honestly think that a bus is making multiple pick ups from within Westfield boundary and making it to Herndon in under a half an hour? Absolutely no way. 30-45 mins each way is a reasonable estimate. [/quote]

And that's fine and was no doubt considered by FCPS before they decided to expand Herndon to 2750 or so seats.  [/quote]

No.  It's not fine.  And, I don't recall that being put to a vote by the community.  You know the kind of vote you seem to think they should have had for KAA.[/quote]

Taxpayers approved the bond to expand Herndon HS.  The only bond approved so far relating to KAA was $25M for future land acquisition.  [/quote]
This is a straight up lie.  The bond we all voted on doesn't list any specific schools, nor did the one to expand Herndon.  Here is the text directly from the ballot:
[quote]Shall Fairfax County, Virginia, contract a debt, borrow money, and issue capital
improvement bonds in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $435,000,000 for the
purposes of providing funds, in addition to funds from school bonds previously authorized,
to finance, including reimbursement to the County for temporary financing for, the costs of
school improvements, including acquiring, building, expanding, and renovating properties,
including new sites, new buildings or additions, renovations and improvements to existing
buildings, and furnishings and equipment, for the Fairfax County public school system?[/quote]

The website has this to say about the current 2025 bond,
"The School Board reserves the right to modify, substitute, or change projects in accordance with the CIP, which is amended from time to time based on shifting needs."[/quote]

You can look at the last CIP from early 2025. It clearly indicates that only $25 million relating to land acquisition for a western HS had been “funded” and that the rest of the anticipated expense was “unfunded.”

So, yes, they can legally reallocate money, but when they spend money on different projects than identified in the documents relating to bond offerings, or more money sooner than they have earmarked, they run the risk of reducing public support for bonds.

It’s also telling that the November 2025 bond referendum is coming up soon and they’ve been unusually cagey about how they expect to spend the proceeds. [/quote]
CIPs change "based on shifting needs."  Earlier CIPs had planned funding to build the whole new Western High School by now.  Needs changed when the land was no longer available so the CIP changed.  The land became available again, so now the CIP is changing again.  That's how it works.  You'll get your details when they publish the next one reflecting the current state of FCPS needs.[/quote]

You’re very cavalier about this. Earlier CIPs may have suggested a western HS would have been built by now, but no prior CIP indicated that the costs of such a school had been fully funded.  And the fact that they just kept kicking the dates out further suggests there was no great urgency about it and they were instead addressing capacity needs through various school additions.

In any event, if we’re to assume they are as nimble as you’re claiming, they should throw the entire existing CIP out and take a fresh look at where the greatest needs in the county exist. [/quote]

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