So we've maximized uh parent pickup length as much as possible on the site. The benefit of going two stories there were a lot of different schemes considered. Some of them were multiple building schemes but we were as efficient and compact with the footprint simply recognizing the fact Mr. Rowan that you're raising it is a tight site. Uh but we believe and we've done schools larger than this and smaller sites. Um uh but from from the perspective of traffic control, we've provided roughly around 2100 lineal feet of queuing on this, which is a fair amount that's going to pull a lot of that traffic off of Sarrento on site. Uh and with the buses being separate, it's going to provide good separation. You'll notice that they're both in the opposite ends of the site. So uh so the flow through dynamics are being studied right now by a traffic engineer.
if they're hearing anything, we want to be able to um do something about it before it becomes a big issue or it may not be, but if we're hearing it, yes, then we want to and it would be something that we'd be very sensitive to, but you want to get it and course correcting early and frontloading what those expectations are would be important. Okay, thank you. So, Mr. Jan, could you just a minute? Did you know it? Could you hold just one minute? Okay. Uh, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Cooper. Um, quick question for you, Cara, about this in thinking about sort of the logistics here. Um, with the 10th through 12th graders, once once the 10th graders have chosen their nth graders have chosen their academy. So when you give this information to the bus companies, you have to divide it by whatever academy a student is being selected into.
They may share something like when I was in Apache Junction, the land that the pool was built on was the school districts and they they gave it to the town, but the town actually ran the pool, not the district because it's it's cost prohibitive. So, I just tell you as we look at some of those projects and when you look into those, you'll see uh busing 100,000 miles. Well, I got a car with 100,000 miles, but if we're not going to sell put a sale out for five or six years, that 100,000 is going to be 100,000 miles in five or six years. you're back up to 150 200,000 miles. So, so we gave you that number, but but we're also trying to project into the future um with that. And uh before we get any other questions, if there are any, I do want to say when you see most of this detail uh and most of the ROM and most everything else, it's it's directly related to Bob Anderson.
So, as we get through into the final phases of it, we should be able to validate that with more data. Gotcha. Gotcha. Um, so the one uh another thing here that I'm kind of seeing is you're you're bringing in a lot of the same architectural themes that you designed in Desert Sunrise. Correct. Um, and it looks it's a completely different look for from any of our other other schools. uh with a just it's a it looks more like uh like Desert Sunrise or or um um Desert Wind. Um is that kind of typical for for an elementary, you know, because typically I've seen elementaryaries where they're, you know, a little bit smaller, you know, that kind of thing. Can you can you kind of speak to that? Yeah. Yeah. The K8 experience is unique. uh because KA aids tend to have a very strong opportunity for academic focus.
Not not only address but the academy. Correct. Right. So so once we know who's going to be on which campus, those addresses will be what the bus company's interested in to then plan out the runs in conjunction with the students who are who are going to a bus site. So they want to look to see how those how those runs would juxtapose one another and then how many more buses they would need to handle the rest of the students going to Dbury High School for the other fourmmies that are there. It's complicated. There's there is everything that we're doing now between the schedule busing there's a lot of complexity in it. Can I ask one one quick followup to that please? Um the the other thing I just want to ask about is if you had a student who's switching, will we have enough flexibility in our class situation to accommodate a switch of campus?
Uh Bob will be uh going in for uh last day tomorrow for some surgery and then he'll be retiring in June. And I would be very very remiss if if I didn't take a moment to to thank him for the amount of work that he has done, the depth of the work that he has done, the quality of the work that he has done. When you put this out to uh five contractors and five architects and they all come back and tell you that the numbers are spot-on and the numbers are reflective of inflation and the numbers are exactly what they would come up with, then you know you have somebody that's providing information that is is outstanding. And so as you look through this flash drive, I'm handing it to you, but Bob's the one that did all the work. So please understand that I don't want to take any credit for it.
Um and also the experience in a school of this magnitude is pretty local. So thinking about the littles uh from where they access it and how they engage the schools in different aspects of the schools and maintaining that scale uh where they are provides uh for that scaled experience for the littles. At the same time you have junior high kids. So the the spaces in the second level, for example, are designed to be a little larger and almost always the junior high kids are on the second level. So they have to feel like they're being promoted to junior high. So So we've considered those types of experiences. Uh obviously with the materiality of it, uh the level of engagement that you provide to the street, those are a factor of the types of materials that provides you with the long-term durability of it. So it's always the challenge to find that balance and calibrate it just enough.
Maybe. Uh more than likely we'd have to work through those challenges, but that just you have students who have to switch buses during the year entry school for one reason other guardianship. So we work through those issues. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Carol, I would love to know what at this point what's the estimated number of additional buses that you plan to pay for the new facility. So, right now it's TA ballpark it be about 14 buses plus or minus a number of minis to accompany that as well. I'm sorry, I didn't get the number. uh about 14 buses was the kind of first run at this uh and that's kind of a wholesale look based on numbers and then once they start to plug in real time um and logistically geographically across the city where these runs are happening um it might we might need to add a bus or two.
It's a tremendous amount of effort that he put in. Um and uh I just want to thank him publicly for that because he's done an amazing job with it. Thank you. Oh yeah, right. [Applause] Well, I think all of you guys, the committee, you guys did a great job. Um this is actually the first time it's ever been like presented to the board like this. So, you guys did a great job. Um, I don't I don't think I have any. You guys did a great job. I think I'm questioned out. Okay. Um, so I guess we can move on to 6.1 to future um requests for future agenda items. You guys have anything that you would like to request? Okay, then I'm going to make a motion to adjurnn at 621. Second. All in favor? I I motion carries five to zero. Sorry about that.
But we believe that there's enough localized experiences on this project that's going to be scaled for different stakeholder groups that is going to resonate pretty well. I like it so far. Nice job. Good. Thank you. Do we know what the capacity will be? Yeah, the state's allocated capacity is a thousand students. Uh but we've carved out spaces within this that include for example maker spaces uh and other breakout areas. So if that growth comes faster, you have the capacity to absorb that growth. I really like it. I mean, I was going to ask a question that basically you've more than answered which was around the innovation that we had in Desert Sunrise and the fact that we have a school that a lot of people come to see. And on that theme, by the way, I encourage parents, community members to take up Dr. are opening on doing a site tour of Desert Sunrise and see what's there because it sounds like it's going to be very much in K8.
We might need to reduce a bus or two. uh we budgeted for uh in the current budget 28 buses which which we anticipated at the time as enough to serve sort of the 1400 but by economizing the runs uh we think we could save quite a bit of money um but then again also avoid all that supervision and disruption across the city supervision issue and disruption across the city. So we we initially I thought the number was about 20 bucks and we're down to about 14 or 15. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, we we budgeted for 28 um 28 buses. I have to go back and I'm looking at Mike Weaver. Is it 28? 28. 28 was what I believe at this point as well. [Music] You know how many buses it 28 buses, Mr. Janelli? We budgeted for 28 buses. We think we'll need at this moment in time around 14, give or take.
So my question was going to be around we're doing our first K8 for the district. Are we going to see that type of innovation in this new thing? And obviously you've answered that question is reflected by member Owens and I love the term of reim reimagining learning because that's what we did at Desert Sunrise and we're continuing that theme with this new KED school. So, thank you very much and let's look forward to it opening on July 1st. Well, more like July 17th or something like that. Later later in July. Yeah. Thank you. Well, thank you for that. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We now move on to item 6B, minor boundary adjustment. Dr. Lman. Thank you, Mr. Downey. Uh Mr. Dr. Harmon's going to assist me a little bit in tonight's presentation. Um, I'll start by um, you know, we want to present the notion of an intriguing endeavor toward the achievement of goal four, which is community pride using the strategic action of optimizing resource allocation.
Okay. All right. Thank you very much. The audio is just tough. Yes, it is tough and we have the door open so that doesn't help on your side of the room. Um, so I have two questions. Um, what are the start times of the middle school and the high school? And then my follow-up question is where do we stand with the transportation coordinator? So, uh, we think that we can, uh, that the high school time can be stay relatively close to what it is now. And we actually initially when we first started thinking about this, we thought that the that the middle school would have to shift to the Danbury High School start time, but um after reworking things more um Kelly Watson has been still been supportive even though she's uh working at another STA location. She's been extraordinarily supportive. Um we believe we would be dropping off at DHS West and then making a stop at at Westside.
And we're um we're hitting all four metrics. Fully funded strategic plan, physical and financial capacity for growth, an optimal student staff ratios, and re-imagined resources. In our pursuit of goal four and the associated metrics, we regularly consult with a demographer. Keeping close watch over residential and commercial development trends and student enrollment patterns allows us to strategically plan, access, and align resources and create physical and financial capacity for growth. This work study intends to describe this endeavor through three lenses. the possibility of aligning district and city boundaries, benefits to students in the community when they reside in and attend school in MUSD, and third, the legal processes associated with a minor boundary adjustment between Maricopa Unified School District and the Kasa Grande Elementary School District and Kasa Grande Union School District. Housing development and enrollment projections illuminate an area of rapid growth, drawing attention to the difference between city limits and the boundaries of MUSD.
So, they would be starting around the same time, not too disruptive. So, within probably 15 minutes of what they would be used to, what they would normally be doing. Um, but we're still going to keep massaging those runs until we see. So, um, there would be the least amount of disruption with this model. Um, but the only thing I'm going to keep my eye on is how long students would have to stay on the bus in this model. So, that's something that I think we'll know a little bit more as we get closer with the details. and the transportation. We have interviews. We have interviewed. We have a couple people that we like and um we'll try to move it forward. So, will not be the same as Kelly Watson. We miss her terribly. Are there any school district? We do. Uh I believe region 15 was one that we talked about.
The yellow dotted line on our map denotes the boundaries of the city of Maricopa. Where are you pointing your I think Mr. Harmon's going to be highlighting with the laser pointer back there. The yellow dotted line denotes the boundaries of the city of Maricopa. I'll call your attention to the easternmost region of the city. Here's where we've outlined in bright red the district B boundaries, keeping the yellow dotted line as the city boundary. Now, let's add a little more detail to this map. On the eastern edge of the city, you can see Murphy Road. Desert Sunrise High School sits just south of that bright red line on the southwest corner of Murphy and Ferrell Road. Yes, it's in the city of Maricopa, but as indicated by the gold shaded area, Desert Sunrise is actually in the Kasa Grande elementary and high school districts. The other border bordering districts are also indicated as I mentioned in this.
Um Kelly, we talked about is New Town. New Town, Brookfield, they run a little bit separate, but they run at the same time. Um, and I I believe uh it was in Fairfield as well. Some lots of smaller towns are forced to combine. We've never had to do that because of our numbers. Um, but this is a little bit different situation. So, this will be a new challenge. It will be um to particularly to communicate with parents that you know the change and understand the change and um you know, as a parent like myself, I I understand completely why they be concerned. I think uh we have due diligence to ensure that the students that are at the bus understand what the expectations are and that we really do a good job at the beginning of clarifying what those are and um holding everybody accountable for for good behavior.
This visual gives us an added layer of detail. As I mentioned in the in introduction, we work regularly with the demographer. As development accelerated around Desert Sunrise, identified in the blue box in the Cortona neighborhood. We asked the demographer to include these developments in the enrollment projections. In fact, this is the slide that he used in his in his presentation and it names the developments in that area. Here's the enrollment projections associated with the developments named on that map. Next year, we expect 107 students in that area. The year after that, 160 and so on. In 10 years, the enrollment from this area is projected to hit 2,577 students. Those students are currently designated to attend school in the Kasa Grande districts and that doesn't make sense for those students or for our district and it defies our promise to the kids who reside in the city of Maricopa.
K I can just add and certainly as the parent of a middle schooler myself, I understand the concern. I will say in talking with a lot of the districts that are currently doing it, they are reporting that it is very successful. Um and in fact in some cases we have even went as far as reporting that high school students serve as models role models positively to some of our middle schoolers. So certainly will be a transition with some bumps and challenges. Um but I do think um you know overwhelmingly the feedback from surrounding districts was very positive regarding us. So they were able to kind of alleviate some of our concerns and answer questions. It is a concern and you know I graduated a long time ago and we was at the elementary kids sit on the the front of the bus high schools children sit in the back.