Is any Okay, come on down. Hello everybody. My name is Noel Kol and I was uh the Renaissance at Matson boys soccer coach. We do have five of our fellas. fellas, Jaden, Aiden, Samuel, Alejandra, and Kevin, if you guys want to come up here, give a round of applause. Um, but I just wanted to take a moment to express how proud I am of uh not only these gentlemen, but of our entire team. Uh, our season was a bit of a roller coaster. We were the underdogs of the season, but I was happy that during Copita weekend, we were able to come out on top and end off Copita weekend with with a win. Um, but I just wanted to express how proud I am of these gentlemen and I can I hope that we continue to thrive moving forward. Um, yeah, that's it. Thank you guys.
Um, so again, uh, thanks to to Dr. Sadu and her lead and all the support from our ed division. Um, anyone from HR? Anyone from HR, please stand up. Human resources, come on, HR, where are you? Don't hide. All right. I know they're here somewhere, but we're there. We want to thank them as well for their support. How about our IT department, Eric Greenwood and your team. Thank you. Appreciate you all all the support, the work um with with the setup. We also want to make sure at the same time we acknowledge John Batista over here off to my left for helping with the streaming. Um I know we have we have our student support services uh department and our special youth services and our superintendent's office. Please stand up all three of you. Yes. Thank you. Okay. There's a lot of work that be that goes on behind the scenes and uh I know I wanted to acknowledge Dr.
uh you have looks like the hard work of many people here to get something thoughtful. I do hope that something is included uh this is included in the comprehensive land use plan. I'm very concerned about page 60 which is related to parkland that says that underutilized spaces should be considered for uh um reassignment possibly. I'm not using the words correctly but I'm speaking away from my screen. Uh parks generally have natural features on there. They're there for a reason and uh we should be very vigilant about any sort of reassignment. I think what you have in front of you is a good start in uh uh retaining uh um the character of our city and protecting our important natural features. I just want to applaud your hard work and I look forward to commenting more fully next month. But again, in closing, uh you have I think nearly a perfect document here.
It's not giving them help. We were supposed to have a anti-bullying thing, zero tolerance for bullying. These kids aren't getting this. They're not getting the help, you know, and everybody wants to point fingers at the teachers or the parents or the grandparents or whoever is at home with them, but if they can't get the counselors to work with them, then why would they think that anybody else is going to help them? And as and and when you when this first came about, the girls that was being bullied the most, which was one of mine, who has trania, so she has no hair and she gets made fun of because she doesn't have the hair. And you know, the boys are pointing at her and pushing her teeth away from her. And you know, they did go in and deal with it the whole class because they had some girls that were harassing them too.
So we are uh reflective of the company communities we work in and we care about the places that we do business within. Uh and beyond that um we are also a major player here in Massachusetts on policy around housing and helping uh forge that government and uh private sector partnership that makes housing and affordable housing for all incomes possible. Uh Chris, I don't know is there another slide with my me? Wind. Yes. So wind management I mentioned earlier we we are um one of the largest affordable housing management companies in the country. Uh and uh right now under management approximately 120,000 apartment homes and we work side by side with government. So from all the things that need to happen course of affordable housing compliance reporting uh making sure that all the necessary eyes are dotted and teased are crossed in a very specialized world of affordable housing where uh preeminent uh in that field.
[Music] Bases are loaded. One down. Ball low. The catcher will go to the pitcher, talk things over [Music] 33. Fast ball low. Paul two not in the strike zone again. Ball three. [Music] Three 0 and ball four. That will score a run. It is now 12. to five. [Applause] I swing I missed strike one. This be Gavin Murray's 80th pitch. [Applause] And that one's not in the strike zone. Ball one. [Music] [Applause] Fast ball. This one's ripped out to right field. Right fielder is under it. Out number two thrown home. Runner's not going, but it gets past behind the catcher. It goes all the way to the back stop. The runner will score. Two runs will score and the runner goes to third. A brutal error. Now Paul Deal up to bat. 127 game. Two down. Runner on third. That one's in there. Strike one.
Strike one. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Fast ball. Swag. I missed. Strike two. [Music] [Applause] The one two count. Fast ball outside. Ball two. [Applause] Slider fooled him way out in front for strike three for the first out of the inning. Now to bet Gavin Shur [Music] [Applause] [Music] with one down. Slider this on the ground to third. Hops it up for the third baseman. Throws on over for the out. now batting Ollie Cla number 11. [Music] First pitch of the bat. This one's hand on the ground to third again. Third baseman corrals it, throws on over to first and for the third out. SP go quick one, two, three. And here in the second still one Thanks. [Music] And we are back. Top the third. Bryce Barlo back off the bat. He reached on an air his last time up. This one's outside. Ball one. Schmur's 10.
The Bolton Center school community has benefited from her consistent involvement in the student council, helping out with spirit weeks, middle school dances, and food drives. They're also very busy. The town of Bolton has benefited from her active involvement in Girl Scouts, participating in food drives, and trail cleanup efforts. She has maintained a strong academic record through her time, receiving honors through middle school, the band award, as well as the ELA award. We are so proud of Maline and congratulate her on this honor. Award goes to Michaela Maynard. Michaela is a model student at Bolton High School, demonstrating respect. Is Michaela here or is she in Florida, too? I don't know if she I don't think she's in Florida. We're not sure. Okay, so I'll start. She's a model student at Bowen High School, demonstrating respect, responsibility, and bringing an overall positive energy to all that she encounters.
Let's give a round of applause to Kevin, to Jaden, to Samuel, to Aiden, and last but not least, Alejandro. photo and I'm asking [Music] Can the adults do one step forward? Everyone ready? One, two, three. Come up to the middle. [Applause] Okay, moving on to 5. Madam President, can I say a few words? Madam President, I mean 5.2 5.2. Sorry. Thank you. And then I'll take you. Go ahead. Oh, yes. Thank you. So, is it on this item? I want to speak on this item. So, since he brought it, let me have him speak on it and then you I think he wants to go on to the next item. He's going to do 5.2 and I want to speak on Copita. Oh. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah. Sorry about that. Thank you so much. Um I just want to thank all the students who gave their heart out.
Freed who's our assistant. Oh, there you are. Our assistant soup of uh of educational services who um is always supportive of all the work that is going on from from our teams and so so thank you Dr. Freed for always being there supporting us and also providing guidance as well. Now behind the scenes we have a lot going on too. So, we want to start first and foremost with let's acknowledge all of our ladies in the back who are part of the logistical planning setting these things up from. Thank you to all please raise your hands because a lot of you are standing up. So, Violet, Teresa, where are you guys? Um Tanya, um Teresa, everyone. So, so when you please when you see them, they're the ones in the white tops and the black in the black coats. please give them a big thank you for for all the support that they provide.
Maybe possible strong language regarding flood plane. Um, I look forward to the final uh uh document next month and uh thank you for your time and thank you for your due diligence as always. Appreciate your work. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. All right. Uh I believe our next caller is a number ending in 534. Again, that's number ending in 534. You should now be allowed to speak. Uh please press star six to unmute. Good evening. This is Tom Stalberg calling from 1202 Traver Street here in Ann Arbor. Um calling to support your resolution. Uh a lot has already been sent that I agree with from other callers, so I'll try to be brief. Uh this is a major revision of our comprehensive plan. Anything that doesn't make it into this comprehensive plan at this point is not going to happen. So this is vital that this gets included.
They went in and they brought him into the office and they talked to him with her. The boy, you know, they didn't talk with with boys, but the principal and the vice principal, they did get it taken care of and that but this has been going on for months and I didn't know about this. It went on last year and I didn't know about this because she had already gone to the counselor and nothing was done. So, in her eyes, that was the highest up person who was to help because they were inside the school and I loved a counselor as a person but she wasn't doing her job as the counselor for these kids in the fifth, sixth and fourth, fifth and sixth grade and that's not right. This is why we are supposed to have more participation because the kids need it from teachers, the parents, grandparents, you know, whomever is in the care of them and the counselor because the counselor is the one at school that is supposed to help them, is supposed to be the one to get these kids and have a talk with them, the principal, whomever, the higher ups.
Um and uh we do work very hard to make sure that we include in our hirings uh on projects particularly uh across the board in wind development and also when residential is including a minority and women business enterprises. um and you know something $240 million to date uh investments in that world in order to make sure that in our success we're working side by side with those in the community that can use those opportunities to raise their prospects and and futures. Um we also have a connected communities which we embed into our real estate. Uh and that connected communities is a dedicated team of folks that work to make sure that our residents have access to the resources of the community, have access to programs and other factors that give them the services and the leg up that they need uh to improve their lives and and certainly add value to the community as a whole.
[Music] The 01 count and there's strike two. [Music] [Applause] Fast ball. Nice stop by the catcher. Ball one. [Applause] And that one's fouled back. And the one two is popped up into right field. The right field goes under it for out number three. But not before the Falcons score for another five runs. 12-7 game going bottom four. [Applause] And bottom of the fourth here at Esau Middle High School. Derek Hellberg takes ball one. Ball two. [Music] [Applause] Now 200. Hellberg fouls back. [Music] Let's go three. [Applause] [Music] Two-1 inside. Ball three. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 3-1 foul back. Three and two. [Applause] Full count. And that one's high from ball four. actually. That was only ball three. [Applause] Now the full count. And that's ball four. [Music] Now up to bat. Gavin Schmura. There we go. He had RBI single his last time out [Applause] [Music] [Applause] slider high ball [Applause] [Music] That one is fouled over to the right hand side.
This one's hit on the ground and it gets through. Bryce Barlo reaches on a single. Come on. Come on. Let's go. [Music] Better calls time. Fast ball. This one's hit in the air to center field. Center fielders under it for the out. First out of the inning. Now off the bat, Ben Daniels. He walked his first time around and then was thrown out at the plate. Slider high ball one. This one's popped up. Going all the way back and out of play. Schmura has a 1-1 count to Daniels. The offering is outside. Ball two. Catcher looking at the runner around first. Barlo dude likes to run. He's throwing it on over to first. Almost got past the first baseman, but he was able to get it before going back. throwing over to first again. Pro comes back in safe. Two-1 and that one's low. Ball three.
Michaela is an actively engaged member in all classes ranging from AP literature to AP United States government. She has distinguished herself as an exceptional student who doesn't shy away from a rigorous course load. While she thrives academically, Michaela has also consistently participated in several extracurricular activities in and outside of school. to name a few. She's an active student council member, editing chief of the BHS literary literary magazine, yearbook editor, NHS member, volleyball coach, and percussionist. Through these activities, Michaela is able to give back to her community while also fulfilling her own interests. For example, Michaela has written and illustrated, wow, a child's book that she is pursuing getting published. Michaela's strong work ethic and character makes her a deserving recipient of this award. She's in the process of selecting which post-secondary institution to attend in the fall and plans to pursue a double major in creative writing and marketing.
Um everyone involved, right? And then also today recognize the champions, the best of the best here at Alam Rock. Um, and I also want to thank uh, Telmundo NBC uh, for helping sponsor right and uh, our continued partnership um, call out Erica Das who has really taken a lead to ensure that Alamrock um, has copita every year along with, you know, our resources and our staff who put in a lot of hours. I was able to go out there on Saturday morning. I wasn't there to hand out the trophies this year, but I know that you all had a lot of fun. Um, I was able to see you all play and um, thank all the staff that also gave valuable hours during your weekends to make sure that our students had what they need to make sure that uh, they were out there playing on the fields.
Um from some from setting up a lot of the catering and the entertainment to the messaging um and just making sure that that that you know we're we're um we're staying on top of everything that we need to do all of our responsibilities. Um we also have again M where's our M team? The setup here, the setup outside. Thank you for all of your support. And then last but not least, I hope we haven't forgotten anybody, our interpretation services. Thank you. Right. And with that said, we have a couple of groups that we'd like to um just extend an extra um just appreciation and gratitude for um not only being a part of every one of our sessions. They attended each and every one of our sessions. Um but this first group also supported us with um all of our onboarding um for our parents.
Uh our land recognition is only words. If we aren't good stewards of the land, we need this in our comprehensive plan and we need a firmness that expresses the importance of our natural features to the future of the city. I'd also like to add my comments about the flood plane issue. It is federal and local policy not to develop new residential in the flood plane. That needs to be emphasized. I agree with other callers. The uh climate change is bringing to Ann Arbor who's in a river valley more storm water, more frequency of severe events, and more severity in those events. There's not enough we're going to be able to do about it. we're going to behind be behind the eightball on on that. So, that needs to be a focus. It needs to be included as well. I thank you very much. Thank you for your comments.
And that way they can as the parents and say, "Hey, this is why your child's struggling or part of why you're struggling because the parents can't say, you know, parents can't know anything if the kid shuts down because they're not getting the help at school. If they know this is happening at school, then parents and grandparents can help us." I mean, my little one, she didn't say anything to me because she has a lot of lot of mental issues and that Since this has came out in full bloom, her attitude, her mood, it has done a complete 360. And it's because his daughter told him and he called me and I went straight to the school because that's what I did. I wanted as a community, we are supposed to work together to help kids. That's Everybody, it says it takes an army to raise kids.