I love this great We'll get you later. Do you have a book for you to sign? Yes. Okay. Like a yearbook doesn't sense. Yes. So, thank you for your service. All right. Alexander is either five something or like six foot. No in between there. Okay. Well, unless anybody objects, if you'd like to grab a quick photo with your student's art and then leave, you're more than welcome to do that. But you're also welcome to stay on your way out. More cookies. [Music] I love you. So pretty. This robot's so pretty. I wish I made one. When we go home, um, can you teach me how to make a robot just like yours? [Music] All the time. I won't. Yeah, you can't. Yeah. [Music] Messages. [Music] Yeah. [Music] All right, let's move on. The next item is approved meeting minutes, construction accounts payable, various other things and surplus items.
So three minutes we ask you to be courteous in your comments and we ask you that you will give your name and your address. So we'll start with the audience. Is there anyone in the audience for public comment tonight? Hi. Sure. You want to come up? Thank you. Sure. That's great. Just name and address. Good evening, members of the Canon Board of Education. My name is Brenda Wilby and I live at 10 Bristol Drive here in Canton. My husband and I have proudly called Canton our home since 2005. We have three children currently attending Canton High School, a freshman, a junior, and a senior. Our children have had a wonderful experience in the school district, and being a part of Canton High School athletics has played a big role in their growth and success. I'm speaking tonight not only as a parent, but also as a member of the Canton Athletic Booster Club.
We can't expect every person to be remembered or a random nice encounter that smiled to us in the hall. But there will forever be lasting memories and nostalgia to our time in high school. There are certain things simply ingrained into my mind when I think of Rampart, like always using Times New Roman 12point font. In fact, I wrote this specific speech with it. I will always remember with a smile my first lip dub and now my last. The last four years have been a big turning point for all of us with happy, sad, or embarrassing moments for everyone else here, too. Through these moments, it's really important for us to reflect on how much we've grown as people. I, just like all of you, will remember my most embarrassing moments, no matter how hard we try to forget them. My point is that memories fade, but if we don't remember, then our time here will fade.
Liberty staff members, please stand and be recognized. [Applause] And finally, it is with great pleasure that I introduce our student speakers from the class of 2025. These individuals represent the caliber of this graduating class and the commitment to achievement both inside and outside the classroom. They represent numerous programs on campus including student council, national honors society, athletics, performing arts, and knowledge bowl just to name a few. These fantastic students are models for academic achievement and they all have very bright futures ahead of them. Our valadictorian, Weston Mson, our saludiatoran, Rebecca Boswell, our commencement speaker, Anna Finkelstein, our student body president, Adeline Owen, from the class of 2025 as well, Mia Garcia. and also from the class of 2025, Alexandra [Applause] Graham. Now, it is my pleasure to give a few more details about our first student speaker. This young lady has put her heart and soul into Liberty High School for the past four years.
students. I know you share in my admiration and gratitude of them and I ask you to take a moment with me now to recognize them and say thank you. Staff of the village, will you please stand and be recognized? Now I should be Stinkers, you guys get us every time. I would now like to introduce our board of education and members of central administration as honored guests joining us today. Please hold your applause until I intro introduce all members of the board and our district representatives. First, our board of education, Amy Shandi, board president, Nicole Kh, vice president. Aaron Salt, director and village high school liaison. Derek Wilburn, treasurer. Lauren Yanz, director and village high school parent. And from central administration, superintendent Ginger Habberer, Deputy Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Becky Allen, Assistant Superintendent for Learning Services, Dr. Susan Field and Crystal Crystal Rasmmanson, executive director for learning services.
Uh and I will also mention that this is the final session of this round of comments. This is one out of three feedback um sessions that we have. And so is that correct? Planner Bennett, this is the last meeting for the first round of edits of this draft. There will still be two more drafts that we will be going through publicly that you can attend then as well, but the plan is not scheduled to go um to the city council until November of 2025. Perfect. Thank you for that. With that, is there anyone present who would like to speak at this time? All right. Hello, my name is Willie. I live at 528 North State and I'd like to talk about the transition district. And specifically, I think there's some language in the plan right now that asks for a single transition district. And I think that's really good language to keep in the plan.
Okay, let me uh How's that? Better. Okay. My name is Jeff Serenan. Serenian Edwards Boozak and Nolan law firm across the uh the bridge in Point Pleasant Beach. I'm an affordable housing attorney. My firm specializes in representing municipalities in affordable housing. I think we're at 99 municipalities. We're all over the state. So, we do this uh everywhere. Um the the my my role tonight is to kind of set the stage for where we are in the process in view of legislation and then turn it over to Kendra Ley who's our planner who prepared the plan. What's important to understand is that the rules changed in a very radical way last March. March 20th, 2024, uh, Governor Murphy signs a amendment to of the Fair Housing Act into law. It made radical changes to the to the act and uh, uh, left all municipalities with uh, even uh, more ownorous obligations than they had before before the act.
It's got water. It's a beautiful scenery. Um, so we always tend to go at almost sunset, so it looks really pretty. Then we headed to Gorge Theater um for a play and we actually got to see his sister act. You guys enjoy the play? This is something new we added to the itinerary this year. I know it had been done in the past several years ago, but this is the first time in recent years that we've added to it. And luckily, it was a play that the kids actually really enjoyed. Had fun music. The acting looked good. Um it was a late night and then we went day three. We woke up early and traveled two hours to Gettysburg. Um there we didn't get to see the reenactments on this time but we got to see a lot of the fields where battles took place.
Skills USA is focused on preparing um students to be prepared for jobs on day one. And this is an opportunity to set a foundation for them to bridge to the high school visual arts programs and prepare to have real world skills that are embedded with the essential elements what they call them. They worked with CEOs as well as did some research to say these are the critical skills students should have and we embedded that into projects that they did using not only classroom skills but the essential elements. So that's where you are recognized for models of excellence. Congratulations [Applause] Your principal should be up here. What's he doing? Mr. Cantrell, this is exciting for you guys. You pick. [Applause] All All right. Next. Congratulations to WGAZ State Champions. This is your Purple Percussion Ensemble. The students have grown significantly throughout the year. The group performed at three competitions throughout the season to qualify for the state championship.
Okay. Really good reading. And I'm not one to read a lot of books other than technical books in the Bible. Okay. So, this is really good. Really good. Just let us know if you would like if you want. If you want, I'll leave it here. You can glance through it and see and get back to Dr. Coglin. Okay. Good. That's all I have and I'm gonna turn it over to Dr. Cogley. Item. Oh, okay. I do. We do have an item A. Item A is the point committee members slashdelegate. So, the board has three committees that we have oversight with as as well as three committees by the district. Dr. Kenise have oversight. The three that the board have oversight with is the IASB member who represent the board for that that group and also is a delegate for the board for that group. That's a pretty involved position.
Looks we have looks like we have some history books that are history. [Music] Any additions or corrections? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve. I move approval. Second. All in favor. U. Under old business, we have uh second reading for policy 4420, law enforcement relations. Yeah. So this is a second uh reading here. So um no changes from the first reading. Um this is an essential policy and again mainly outlines um the relationship with with law enforcement but also um making sure we are within uh federal and and state constitution laws um and also working with uh with parents um through these kinds of situations as well.
Recently, the booster club has received numerous requests for repairs and improvements to athletic equipment. Requests that quite frankly should be addressed through town funding. Right now, the high school track and fields teams is one of the largest it's ever been with around 60 student athletes. On top of that, the same track and equipment are used by the grown cat Middle School track team. This sheer use puts even more strain on already outdated equipment. One major concern is the timing system. Canton still uses hand timers for races, while other schools have upgraded to fully automatic timing systems known as FAT, which use laser technology to ensure accurate and consistent results. At a recent homonyy, the event lasted six hours, three hours longer than it should have because of the outdated timing system and the high number of participants. Another issue is the condition of the pole vault map.
I'm not here to inspire you. I think we'll have enough inspiration by the end of today. But my wish is for all of you to remember the good and the bad, the embarrassment and the joy. Everything you remember is important. And I hope you all have something so memorable you will never forget it. I want to say good luck to everyone here and congratulations to the class of 2025. [Applause] Every January, like I think most of us do, I'd start off strong by writing the wrong year at the top of my papers. It became a pattern throughout my elementary, middle, and high school years. I would scribble, erase, then write the correct year. 2022, 2023, 2024. And then this year, per usual, I did it again. I wrote 2024, paused, and corrected it to 2025. And all of a sudden, it felt real. This wasn't just another number to fix.
She's involved in student council, varsity girls golf, and link crew. As a leader, she demonstrates positivity, resilience, integrity, and dedication to all her endeavors. In addition to her involvement at school, she maintains a part-time job outside of school. Next year, she will be attending Utah Valley University and majoring in forensic psychology. Ladies and gentlemen, your student body president for the class of 2025, Miss Adeline Owen. Okay.
Please join me in welcoming members of the board and of central administration. At this time, it is my pleasure to introduce Miss Ginger Haber, superintendent of Academy School District 20. Ms. Habberer, a Colorado native, brings more than 30 years of educational experience and expertise to Academy District 20. She comes from a long family lineage of educators who instilled in her a desire to inspire inspire others to be lifelong learners. After starting her career pathway as a registered nurse, she soon realized that her true passion was being an educator. Ginger has served in many roles from the classroom to administration, including earning national board certification as a science teacher and serving as a middle and high school principal, an assistant superintendent of student achievement, and a superintendent in the state of Washington. Ginger is proud to be back in her home state of Colorado as the superintendent of Academy District 20, where the team one spirit ensures that all students thrive.
And the reason is the partitioned districts that have been floated around I think could be harmful. One of these partition districts would be a sort of messy industrial district that would go on the south side of town on South Industrial or on Plab Road or Varsity Drive. I don't think this district would be beneficial because right now messy industrial uses are not allowed there, but sensitive land uses are like nursing homes, daycarees, schools, and there's residential neighborhoods directly next to these areas. So I don't think a messy industrial district would be equitable or safe. Another floated district, a little subflavor of transition is a sort of shopping district where ground floor commercial is required at least on every arterial street. And unglamorous uses like storage lockers or uh reuse centers would not be permitted. And I don't think we need a shopping district either because walkability in a city doesn't just mean walking to shops.
um the the key things about the act because I could go on for many hours about all that's wrong with it, but what's you know, but it's a hand that's been dealt to us. So, we don't really have a choice. We have to deal with it. And what the act did was it established a process and it said uh you know stage one of the process was uh it created a formula to determine the obligations of municipalities for round four and thereafter and for the so-called present need. I then said, "Dep affairs, issue a report by October 20th, 2024 telling all towns what their number is based on your interpretation of the standards and what I call Fair Housing Act 2." Uh, it then gave municipalities until January 31st to file a resolution committing to a number. And it wasn't like we could commit to whatever number we wanted if we didn't like the number that was generated by the formula.
Some of the old cannons were still there. Um yes, we got to visit Gettysburg which is pretty cool. We haven't done that in a while as Continental and I think that might be something to do to repeat. Um, for those of you that don't know what Gettysburg is, that that's one of the major battles of the Civil War. So, it was really neat to see all the different um fronts and all of the different locations that you hear about. Um, I'm trying to think what is that? The National That is the National Archives. So again, that's that's the place where they keep like the original one of the original decorations of independence and [Music] yeah, we also went to the Lincoln Memorial and Veterans Memorial with kids, you know, really just walking around and reading all the names and just kind of really absorbing the history of it.