From there, we then had a discussion about the um we had a detailed discussion about the town meeting, the full town meeting warrant. There's about 181 19 articles and that's happening on May 7th. We also discussed some um a slight change for a finance committee posting. If you're interested in being on finance committee, make sure you fill out a talent bank form and reach out to Adam Schustster, our moderator. From there, we had an update on 40B projects. There's two currently that are in front of the ZBA. The one is the 10 to 50 Main Street project and the other is the project across from the Ashlin High School. Whereas we appreciate members of the public coming to the select board to tell us your dissatisfaction or not wanting to see those products projects go through, we do recommend you watch the ZBA meetings and contact them and give them your feedback.
Okay. All right. Then we will go on to the next agenda item. And we have decided to take 401, sorry, 501 first. Great. Perfect. I tried to text you, but I was not quite in time. Excellent. Okay. No, no worries. Okay. Um Okay. So, then we will go on to public hearings. Oh, no. We're not going to go out to public hearings. We're going to skip public hearings for the moment, and we're going to go down to item five on our agenda, which is a request for a minor modification um to the 501 Pond Street project. Um and the decision was dated December 8th, 2025. them. Anna Tesminiski on our board has recused herself because she is in a butter to that property. So, um I will turn I will turn the podium over to you. I do not know your name. Chris. Nice to meet you.
Ball two. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Slider inside. Ball three. Shows bunt. This one gets by the catcher. That was for ball four, but the runner goes home and scores. This one runner's going to second. He throws it and the runner goes to Helm. Two-run score on a wild pitch. The score is now 10-2 on a 10 run inning and there's still only one out. Colin Maruka reach out on a fielder's choice. His last time up. He's trying to check on the runner at first. Slides back in safe. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] That's fast balls by his head. Throw to first and the runners barely gets back in safe. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Fast ball. That one's high. Ball two. [Music] [Applause] Fast ball in there. Strike one. The runner goes down to second and he is safe. Let's go. That was ripped out to right field. The right fielder tried to get under it and that one gets down in fair territory.
Here we go. Sliders way high out inside. Two and two. Rodrig's had to duck a little bit just to avoid getting hit. Two two foul back. [Music] Two two again. Fast ball again. Fouled. Popped it up and out of play. Two two again. Slider. This one goes behind Rodriguez. Ball three. Full count. Fouled back. This is popped it up actually to foul side. Third baseman's trying to get under it and he makes a scoop. A little snow cone catch for out number two. First pitch is up. Ball one. The one slider just high. Sam Persal is up to bat wearing number one SL fast ball outside 3 and 0 [Music] And there strike one. Run on first and second. Two outs. 3-1 count. The offering is outside for ball four. Now off the bat is Paul Deal. We're at number 20. He takes low ball one.
In addition to applying himself academically, Ethan is a gifted musician and is part of the jazz band. Moreover, he is also a talented runner who was able to earn the most improved runner award by shaving off almost a minute and a half from his running score. That's impressive. Equally as impressive, as a hardworking member of the BCS robotics team, his and the rest of the team's efforts earned them a spot at the World Championship in Texas next month. Clearly, when Ethan sets his mind to something, he follows his commitments and is able to achieve remarkable feats. We cannot wait to see what the future holds for such a talented young man. Congratulations. And we'll get your certificate to you as well. Okay. The next one goes to Bolton High School, Aninsley Haran. Okay. Aninsley is an intelligent, highly motivated and altruistic student with unlimited potential.
those three items to go in that order after item 1.3. Okay. All in favor raise your hands. Okay. So pass this. Uh we will take 3.1 um and then 5.2 and then 5.3. Okay. Can I proceed mad person? Thank you. Exist. Max. Thank you very much, Mr. Okay, so um moving on to uh two public members who wish to we're going to take the recognition first. Yes. Okay. So, we're going to move on to 3.1 and Mr. sort of can you uh call? Call. I'm going to turn it over to our coordinator or RAPA coordinator, Emily Mcchristian, who will um talk about this um item. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, members of the board. Um I'm here to recognize the winners for our Copita tournament that we had at the end of March. Um it was very exciting. We had 42 teams playing. Um tonight we're going to be recognizing the winners of the elementary co-ed bracket and the middle school girls team and the middle school boys team.
So, hopefully we have our devices and and we're ready to go. But if not, we can head to the back and and our folks are there to help. All right. Okay. We're going to start off with some who's who in the room. So, first and foremost, we want to acknowledge some of our our dignitaries. Um we have some folks in the house we'd like to say hello to. So, and thank them for being here. We're going to start with uh one of our very own board members, Mr. Ron Hosshi. Okay. And and if I miss anyone, please let me know. We're trying to uh see who was walking in as we're um as we're all funneling in. We also have um Lauren Clasker, who's a board member for Fton Joint Union High School District. Lauren, there you are, Lauren. All right. Okay. We have some of our our union presidents.
So, we do need that change to the tonight's resolution. Um, but I'm happy to see that the U revised comprehensive or the revised resolution does mention flood planes in passing, but it doesn't emphasize its importance enough. Um, but the the resolution tonight, the goal, as I understand it, is to ensure that Ann Arbor's future planning includes and integrates naturebased actions as essential to supporting our ecosystem, our biodiversity, and our our human quality of life. Um I I'm happy to see that you all are would like to see more collaboration actually between the city's comprehensive plan and uh working with city council, the planning commission and the environmental commission to do these following things. It would be great if if you all could work together to incorporate the existing natural features master plan into the comprehensive plan. It would be great to improve the natural features master plan so that it's applied to all types of future land use, not just developments that require site plans.
I said, "I'm begging you." I called mom. And they all it all worked out. So she is went from today she had science learn today, which is one of the toughest tests. It's a rough one today. Had musical uh after musical rehearsal after school today. Then went to volleyball and for volleyball to come here to sing for you tonight. So, thank you for doing that. So, we're going to show you show her off a little bit tonight and show you a little bit give you a little taste of the musical. I'll let Mr. Sona though talk about the musical just a second. It's going to be next weekend. We're going to talk about Mr. Son. He loves talking to people. Uh yeah, like Mr. Artwell said, um, instead of purchasing a story that is that you may be familiar with, uh, I wrote the story this year, um, it's a jukebox musical, so I didn't write any of the music.
At this point, the select board is out of the discussion. We are watching it and paying attention, but the full decisions will most likely come down to the ZBA and how they work with the developers. We then discussed, hold on, I got to put a little closer. We thanked our public safety building committee. The public safety building has been open now for about a year and we wanted to thank all those members of that committee, specifically Jen Ball, our assistant town manager, who really ran with that project and made sure to go through. Um, let's see. We then had our consent agenda and we had some updates and reminders and then we had a update from our town manager. He talked about some priority projects. Pawn Street, the focus there is that we have received commitment from the state that it will be done in 2025.
Thank you. Yeah. So, I guess I can just give a quick intro. Yes, please. Chris reached out to the planning office. Um there was a little of uh downtime that the email went to Peters and then he finally came back to me just to let me know that they will would like to be on the agenda because they are trying to purchase the project that it was permitted on 501 Pon Street and they're looking to do a minor modification. So that being said you uh so yeah my name is Chris Grant with Wind Development and I'm joined by Michael O'Brien from wind development as well. Uh so we wanted to take the opportunity to uh introduce ourselves and provide a quick update on 501 Bond Street and request two modifications. Um so we can uh jump into Yeah. Oh, sorry. Is that the uh Yep.
The runner is going home. The throw home is not in time on an RBI triple. [Music] And this inning continues. Let's go. [Applause] First off of the at bat is popped up. Foul territory. First try to get under it and he cannot make the play. Sean Croll, he walked his last app out in this inning. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] That slider is sent on the ground to short. Barlo picks it up, throws to first for the out. But another run scores. It is 12-2 Spartans. [Applause] Jacob Mahar up to bat. He walked his first time up. [Music] [Applause] Still going to miss strike one. [Applause] Slider swung on and missed. Hugh is trying to go for the dowsed on that swing. Two strikes. [Applause] Grazo fouled away. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] And that slider said there strike three. There's three outs, but not before the Spartans score 12 runs.
[Music] Base is loaded. Two outs. One count to Paul Deal. Schmur is offering fast ball. This was ripped out to right field and it drops. It drops. One run scores. Play at the plate and he is out. Nice throw from the right fielder, but this Falcons score one. It's one- nothing. Falcons go bottom one. And we are back for the bottom of the first inning. Falcons have a one- nothing lead over the Spartans. Bad first for the Spartans is Maxwell Carlin. [Music] And the first pitch in there. Strike one. [Music] The 01 fast ball in there. Strike two. [Applause] the O2 fouled away. [Music] [Applause] O2 again. Slider inside. The one two fast ball way to the back stop. [Music] And here comes the two- two slider foul tipped. Staying alive is Maxwell Carlin. Looks like he hit that off his foot. Even in nice temperatures, you never ever want that happening.
She excels academically and has made significant contributions to Bolton High School and the surrounding community. Angley finds success in all that she does, not just because of her intellect, but for her tireless work ethic, meticulous organization, and her endless pursuit of knowledge. Her teachers report that Angley sees every lesson, every discussion, and every assignment as an opportunity to learn and grow. Anley prioritizes her time and service to her school and the surrounding community. She serves as a secretary of the National Honor Society, is an active member on student council, coaches, and is a percussionist. Any competes on the swim team, and shares her talent by teaching swimming lessons to children at the YMCA. These qualities and more make Anley a very deserving recipient of this award. Anley is planning on majoring in biochemistry and is deciding on which school to attend in the fall. Cong congratulations, Anley.
We're going to start with um Casselle who won the co-ed elementary bracket. I'm going to invite their principal up to the mic to introduce their coach and the team. And this is Miss Alicia Kelly. Good evening, board, members of the board, and cabinet. Um, it's my great pleasure to be here today to introduce our coach, Josh Nordon, and all of these amazing kids who are the most beautiful people in the world and who put their hearts together and made it a perfect ending for us. So, congratulations to all of you. Come on up. We're gonna try all the students. I'm all up here in front and have all the adults in the back behind you. So, if you have your certific you over a little bit over this way. Come on. Sorry. All right. Everyone would like to come up to the front to get a photo of their students.
Um, for ASA, we have Jeff Morgensston. I saw him earlier. Where are you at, Jeff? There you are. [Applause] Right. For CSEA, I know I saw Heather. Heather. Heather, where are you? There you are, Heather Hutner. Thank you. Okay. And and I believe somewhere I I know Lacy and Britney um our APGA co-presidents are here as well, but they might have stepped away for a bit so they might be back in a bit. Am I missing anyone else? Dr. Alta. Dr. Sipher Alta. There you are, Dr. Casai. Thank you for being here. Awesome. All right. All right. Um and we also I mean obviously there's a lot of folks that have been a part of um of our journey um this year and as we again we I mentioned earlier this is three months in the making right it's a three-month journey and we'll look at that timeline in a bit but we want to start when we call um the group that you represent please please stand and and be acknowledged for all of your work all of your support um you know so I'm going to start with our from our educational partners all of our all of our directors and district administrators please please um stand up and be acknowledged.
It would be good to modify the A20 carbon neutrality plan to include actions that address natural features and biodiversity for greater sustainability and retain and enforce existing regulations that protect trees, shrubs and other vegetation in our historic district. So, thank you for listening and just a reminder that u a lot of Ann Arborites believe that green space benefits all of us in a wide variety of ways and the space is found along our streets in our city parks as well as residential and commercial areas that have remaining open spaces. Open imperous spaces, whether public or private, provide nature-based services that benefit all of us by slowing and filtering our storm water, filtering our air, providing cooling shade, sequestering carbon, providing habitat, and contributing to our physical and mental wellalth or mental health. So I all of us let's speak up for the trees, the bees, and the human beings and not neglect Ann Arbor's green heritage.
We took 14 well-known Disney songs and then I wrote the story that weaves them all together about a little girl who travels through different lands and meets different famous Disney characters um, on her quest to become a princess. Oakley, as you You may be able to tell by her outfit, you can see plays that little girl's fairy godmother and she is she sings this song from Pete's Dragon uh to our little girl in the show. You ready? Really quick before I the camera is at that end of the room. So maybe we could get up so that she could face the camera. It is live stream so we want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to [Music] I'll be [Music] I know [Music] the [Music] clouds. I'll be your about my soul. [Music] reaching the [Music] next day. to [Music] follow. I'll be your water.
We don't have a final date, but hopefully before the fall. We also had an update on the Upper Charles Trail. They're in the process of writing up an RFP to get 25% design for one end of the trail to the other, which goes from Framingham Town in Ashland all the way through to the Hopkin Town line with certain portions of it already being done, but this would be for the engineering of the full stretch of the road of the trail and that way we could go to the tip to have it built. We also had an update on the Warren Barn that is in the process of moving forward. Fair Framingham State is working with us to get the Henry Warren barn rebuilt. It's the barn up on Chestnut Street. There's been a standalone silo and soon there will be a barn back there um for all of us to enjoy and hopefully use for community events.
Okay. Um so as Alvo mentioned uh we have entered into an agreement with DRA to purchase 501. So we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce ourselves for those of you who don't know aren't familiar with wind development uh provide an update and go through and out of the so we can start with a quick uh quick overview I'm sorry first uh quick overview of the team the project team. So wind development we are the proposed developer. Uh Icon architecture is the architect. Angus construction is the and our attorney uh SMAC um is the land use. So I'll turn it over to Mike for a quick uh update on wind companies. Thank you. Madam Chair, well, members of the committee, uh we're thrilled to be here uh tonight uh talking about 501 Pawn Street as a potential, but we're more pleased to be here in Ashland.