Dr. Lopeman. Thank you, President Downey. Uh I will start by um reviewing goal four community pride through excellent customer service, sound business practices and open and effective communication and safe and attractive facilities. Uh through that goal, we're going to highlight the strategic action of optimizing resource allocation. And the metric that we're uh also surfacing is re-imagined resources. And there's no more appropriate um metric for tonight's presentation. Uh we have Sarinbala from GHC Orcut Winslow here to introduce the site design of the K8 school located at Sarrento. there. We need some ominous music associated with that. By combining the expertise and forward thinking of our architect and construction partners and the valuable input of our stakeholders, the product you'll see tonight is a dynamic example of how we can offer a space intended to meet the needs of our students and the needs of our community.
So if we have a need for 10 sections of something um what we have been done what we've done in the past is we've offered 10 sections if we have the teaching staff to offer those sections. The same will be true over at the academy um at VHS Academy on the west campus. Um we will not where we're going to run into trouble are things like AP calculus where we typically only have to remember members maybe seven or eight students max. that will be way more difficult to try to accommodate and run a class when there's not the demand and the enrollment. Um so as we transition through this um we're going to find out where the demand is and the enrollment and do our best to accommodate but we're not going to be able to offer every single class at each of the campuses.
That's pretty clear that no one, neither the board nor staff or administration, can use district resources to attempt to influence the outcome of of your election or any election. I'm harping on that quite a bit because it's important. As a matter of fact, there's a bill this session before the legislature that would allow any member of the public to make a complaint about a violation of that nature and then collect a bounty, if you will. Uh the fine is $5,000. So, uh, if the law made it through, it would, uh, that 5,000 would go to the public. So, um, we don't know where that is yet, but it's, uh, just something to keep in mind. We're always careful there. Uh, the resolution has the various election notices, lots of detail there. Keep in mind, um, we have some language in the resolution about possibly possibly being a polling place election.
So keep your eyes and ears open for new terminology, unique features of student centered spaces and the limitless potential for students to grow and learn and um become real life versions of our MUSD portrait of a graduate. With that Sarinon, thank you Dr. Loman. I wish I could make the ominous music. Uh I just did. It's good. All right, perfect. Well, President Downey, members of the governing board, Dr. Lokman, members of the community, thank you so much once again. It's a great honor to be here to uh to be able to have this opportunity to continue to elevate uh the level of learning at Maricopa Unified. We're super honored to be a part of this. So, the last time I was uh up in front of uh you, we were just Orc Winslow and now we're GHC Orchid Winslow. So, we have inland capability. We've merged with a like firm out of Louisiana that's giving us a the ability to service our clients better.
Um that's just not going to be feasible. It'll be based on student demand. Um, for example, I think uh someone brought up the idea that can I take the culinary I still want to do the culinary even though I'm in the business course. So the culinary unfortunately we have one kitchen setup and that's at DHS main campus. So that might not be an elective that a student would be able to take. Um not to say that in the future might we might not be able to figure out how to possibly do an ADB day run where we have classes but that's very complicated at this time and Mr. Donovan and his team are working extraordinarily hard trying to develop a master schedule that straddles two campuses and with with existing staff that need to be in certain places. So it will be challenging. Um the caveat though I will say is that we are bringing on a multitude of other opportunities.
We know with high degree of certainty this will be an allmale ballot election because it's an off-year election. It's the way the county will conduct it. House as all counties in Arizona do on off-year elections, but we like the flexibility in the resolution so we don't have to race back to you if for some reason your county said, "Oops, we decided we're going to have some polling places." So, we want to build in some flexibility. But again, we expect this to be an allmale ballot election. Uh we have to uh the statute tells us that this board has to set a deadline for the members of the public to submit pro or con statements up to 200 words. And so you're just following the statute and uh setting August 8th as the deadline. And that's and that corresponds with the county's uh election calendar. Also keep in mind that unlike your uh prior override elections, this board will not be asked to submit a pro statement.
So, we're super proud of that and we're we're leveraging those assets to benefit our clients. And uh the the first example of that obviously you know here we are uh we're being funded by the state and you're leveraging your your hard-earned community supported bond dollars plus some adjacent waste monies and we're tracking roughly about a $39 million project which in this market is is a little bit challenging but I think we've managed to as a team uh made some decisions that are really helping this project be an amazing asset for you as you think about reimagined learning that's going to really elevate your student outcomes. over decades. So, we're super proud of that. Um, the process, whatever. Uh, so we've been a a a very steering or a community-led process. So, here's sort of what we call our zipper diagram. Uh, so we had a steering committee that uh that was uh led by Dr.
So for example, we've had hundreds of students enrolled in the post university taking advantage of the online courses. So students are earning college credit. Um it was so successful with the number of students that were and they could this is cutting across allmies. All students have access to this um that they were able to um run another um another six or 8week course um after this one that that that will conclude. So it was very popular. So we're going to be able to offer a lot more opportunities on the university side and we'll continue to offer a majority of the AP opportunities. Um, I do think over time and and I think folks will see this down the road, the university credits that will be lining up are going to be far more valuable than an AP course. And I say that because and people like AP courses because it's traditional and that's what everyone knows.
Uh there's a quirk in the statute in my opinion says that for override elections, the board shall submit a 200word pro statement. For bond elections, you're prohibited from doing so. doesn't mean you as as as uh elected officials or district administration or district staff uh are prohibited. They're free to do that. You're free to do that if you'd like. You're in fact you're free to do a pro statement and and sign your name as a as a member of the governing board. That's all fine as long as if you do so, you do so without using district resources on your own time, on your own email account, things of that nature. I'm not again not encouraging you to do it, but if you do it, it is legal. It just becomes sort of a perception issue, but we see it done quite a quite a bit.
Lopeman, the administrators, community members uh and students. uh and so the idea with this is to try to make sure that the solutions we develop facilitate uh you for you to develop I should say uh is community-led because you understand your community best. So our job is to bring that out as best as possible and also support that with good data research driven solutions that are going to be uh dovetailing neatly into what you're planning for Marop Unified. So this process has been one one of those processes where we've gone through a variety of different uh steps and from an overall schedule perspective we're roughly in the middle of what we would call construction documents and with major construction activities planned to begin this summer and have the school open by next school year. And so that's an amazing uh outcome that we can expect as part of this.
Um, but when you have a a child that can, let's say they take the AP course and they get a two or a three on the exam, I use my own daughter as an example. um she got a lot of fours, but she didn't get any fives. Yukon didn't take any of those AP courses. So, had she taken a college course and completed it, even with a C, she would have gotten university credit for that. So, those college courses are like cash, right? You can go anywhere with those and transfer those in. So, we're going to continue to offer the AP courses, but as we bring on more more dual opportunities, I think you're going to see the interest start to shift over time, which is ultimately we'd love to see that happen. How many credits are most three credits? Three. Three credits. So, are you balancing that public comment?
We see mayors and uh county supervisors submitting pro statements, occasionally con, but generally no. Um so just kind of keep keep that in mind. Uh we've got the uh we've got some kind of technical stuff about tax issues I'm not going to get into. It's just we're just trying to deal with stuff ahead of time if they present themselves. We've got the ballot and this is largely what the ballot will look like like as exhibit A. It just has the various the 10 bullet points pulled right from the statute. This is not an attempt in any way to customize it for this district. It's just drawn directly from uh the statute in terms of what you can do. We customize it a bit more in the pamphlet. In fact, there's a table in the pamphlet proposed capital expenditures and that's where we break it out a little bit more um by dollar amount.
And as I mentioned uh the process has been community-led and so it's it's a lot of interesting information that has been considered by this committee as we think about enhanced teaching and learning. How do you imagine the environment as uh you know as part of the metrics and the assets that you you use to achieve those enhanced learning outcomes. So the level of engagement that we had was amazing simply amazing uh and the the participation that the students uh who are part of the group uh provided amazing input that's been gathered uh through various aspects of our uh steering committee process including creating some highle vision and goals and thinking about creating a series of memorable goals which looks like got scrambled a little bit but it's still valid for us in terms of how that's been leveraged into a design strategy and the community uh also engaged in sharetses and several tours that allowed us to to think about ideas and how they're implemented in other locations because sometimes it's hard to wrap your mind around uh innovation and collaborative learning and learner centric features until you see it in action.
There was the conversation that there were less AP. So, we might offer all of them, but we may not be offering them or available. Right. Right. So, in other words, you're saying that we might be kind of not offering as many AP, but more of the it'll be the college both. Right now, we're trying to bring out the co the university credits. We're trying to grow that side of it, make it more available to everybody. Again, a AP right now is open enrollment and we want our college courses to be open enrollment as well. And what that means is that just like an AP course, it might not be the right fit for everybody, but they get an opportunity to try it um and test it out. You may not be an A student. You don't have to be an A student. If you have a passion for science or environmental science, you're really into it.
what what what you're proposing to the voters. So, you notice on the ballot itself, we only have $1 amount and if you go with 80 million, that'll be that that first number up there. We'll also have a not to exceed interest rate. We'll hear from uh Michael Valley at Stifl Nicholas how he proposes filling that in. We normally see 8 10 or 12% somewhere in that in that range for um the interest rate that cannot be exceeded even if you're issuing bonds in six or seven years. Um, so that's kind of the form of the ballot. Then we've got some election notices that we'll work through and fill in all the blanks assuming you want to go forward. Um, just a couple of other notes, things to consider. I know you've had some success with bond elections in the past and you've had some failures with overrides obviously.
So some of that was facilitated through tours and our community steering committee also engaged in hands-on design exercises to to see how that can be implemented in your own context and that's what's led us to where we are today. So here's here we are at the Sorrento site location. Uh and the project is evolving into a a a building that is going to be uh really providing you opportunities to reinforce uh highly relevant concepts in in today. Uh and and going forward from the from the perspective of career and college readiness and how that really uh translates at the at the kindergarten through 8th grade level. And this is a an important um point of emphasis because when you think about career and college readiness, typically that translates to career and technical education. But how do we prepare our students to be successful? How do you focus on the career literacy standards that the state has and the professional skill standards and how do you find a way to embed that deeply at the K through eight level?