Once there, the ensemble had a great performance to bring home a WGAZ state championship. We're so very proud of your [Applause] accomplishments. Mr. Edgar, is this a yearly tradition? because I feel like it is as much as we can make that happen. Yes, we like that very much. Congratulations. Thank you very much. This this group is comprised mostly of seventh grade students. We have just just one eighth grader in the group and super proud of their accomplishment this year. So, Purple Percussion Ensemble. All right. [Music] two. Thank you guys. Yep. All right. Next. Congratulations to the Williamsville Ron. What happened? They're just on the same page. Oh, I'm so sorry. It's all good. It is confusing. Now I just need to go backwards. No, I just need to stay. One more guard. I'm trying [Applause] there. Mr. Gregor, too many groups for me to wrap my head around.
A lot of a lot of things that you need to obtain, bring back to the board. what's going on in Springfield as regards to the school districts and so on and so forth. Have to go to the triple I meeting to participate in a as a delegate to vote. And the second one for the board is the discipline committee. The discipline committee, I know I used to be on that years ago and it was it was good. It was good. I think Jamie is on that right now. Okay. And if you want to tell a little bit about it, what you do or how much would have you participated in or Yeah, I'll be honest. They're really great about sending out minutes because it happens between 3 to 4 on one Wednesday a month. They're they're really great folks. I mean, I don't You talk about issues that are happening and best ways to potentially resolve them and work within what is best for both the students, the educators, the community, like it's a it's a time to discuss.
So, uh, take any questions, but otherwise, I would recommend approval of policy 4420. Any discussion? Is there a motion? I move to approve policy 4420, Mr. Grant. Second. All in favor? I. Right. Moving on to new business. The first item is consider the 2526 school calendar revision.
At the start of the season, it's often filled with mice and droppings, and as spring arrives, bees begin to nest underneath it. This is not only unsanitary, but also unsafe for our athletes. As parents, we pay $120 $125 per sport per season for our children to participate. The booster cup club supplements this by providing scholarships to graduating seniors, but the responsibility for maintaining and upgrading athletic equipment lies with I respectfully ask the board to consider allocating funds in the upcoming budget to replace and upgrade the track and field equipment at Canton High School. Our student athletes deserve safe, modern, and competitive facilities. Thank you for your time and your consideration. Thank you for your comments. Appreciate it. Hi, I'm Margaret Lynch Drive. Margaret, if you just go a little bit closer to the microphone so they can hear you in the back. Sorry. Supported by member.
This was the year. The one we heard about for the first time in kindergarten when we held up class of 2025 signs, smiling for the pictures and saying, "Wow, that's so far away." Back then, it felt like a lifetime away. And now it's here. Throughout this final stretch of high school, I walk through the halls and every day I would catch myself thinking, "I'm too old to be here." It's honestly funny because freshman year, we felt like we didn't quite belong. And now this year, we kind of felt that same way again, just for different reasons. It began when senioritis started to creep in. But I think that outgrowing high school is a beautiful thing. I think it is something we need to step away from in order to look back in the future and remember the beauty of it all. It means we're ready.
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for being here today to celebrate the class of 2025. My name is Adeline Owen and I have had the privilege of being this year's student body president. I am beyond excited to be standing up here today sharing this moment with you all, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little sad knowing this might be the last time we're all together. Each of us have formed friendships that have carried us through the hard days and made the good days even better. We've spent years waiting for this moment, sometimes wishing it would come faster. In elementary school, we waited for reading logs to be over, for recess, and for the next class party with pizza. Throughout middle school, we waited to see whose locker was next to ours, waited for lunch, and waited for high school to begin.
Please join me in welcoming Miss Habberer with a round of applause. Well, good morning and welcome. Congratulations, class of 2025. Today marks the culmination of your hard work, your resilience, and dedication. You faced late nights, challenging exams, moments of doubt, but you never gave up. This is your moment to ac to realize and reflect on all you've accomplished and take pride in your journey. Our D20 vision for you is that you have the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to be successful beyond graduation. But none of this would be possible without the help from your family, your friends, your teachers, your coaches, and other mentors. They've been with you every step of the way, and today they share in your success. So, let's take a moment and thank them for their unwavering belief in you. Personally, I'm reminded of the legacy of my own parents, Carl and Jane Johnston.
It also means walking to work or the doctor's office or your storage locker or the mechanic and where you drop off your car and walk back. So I think we don't need a shopping district or a messy industrial district. What we need is a broad mixeduse district with performance standards and design standards to ensure that nobody harms their neighbor with nuisances. So I think you would have the full spectrum of tools with that single district from special exception uses, performance standards or total prohibition for uses like oil and gas drilling which are currently banned throughout the city. So I think a single mixeduse district with performance standards is the way to go. And if in that process of broadening the district's intent statement a little bit to fit those uses, you find that the TC-1 district is redundant with that, replace the TC1 district. I think that's a totally reasonable thing to do.
The the the standard was does it depart from the legislation and the legislation was a straight jacket. So uh Bel like many municipalities didn't see the wisdom and spending a lot of money challenging the numbers because the formula was embedded in the statute. So uh but the good news is we met the deadline of January 31st to adopt a resolution committing to around four number and the statute requires that you file that resolution and a declaratory judgment action within 48 hours from the adoption of that resolution or you lose immunity and you're subjected to developers bring builder's remedy lawsuits. We know about that. three builders remedy lawsuits that have been brought against against Belle. Okay. So, it was important to meet that deadline and the burrow met that deadline and have filed the declaratory judgment action. The next major deadline in Fair Housing Act 2 is to file a housing element and related documents uh by June 30th, 2025.
They really like Lincoln and just seeing all the different memorials around Washington DC. Day four is when we toured the Capitol building. It was started off um early morning. We got to take pictures in front and then we got to go inside. It's a guided tour. You wear a headset so there's hundreds of people in there but you can only hear your guys. So you know exactly what each picture represents. We'll do a very detailed tour of the inside of it. the kids I think they enjoy that after that it was warm memorial kind of a hot day so by that time the kids were it was hot and humid they were they were done but they visually visited the memorial the Teddy Roosevelt which is a huge it probably goes on for almost a mile there's lots of different watercapes because he loved the outdoors and being in nature so that's what his memorial reflects is the love for that then we got to stop at the White House and went to get a picture in front of that um and Then to end the night on day four, that's when we actually got to tour Ford's theater.
Congratulations, Scott. So, this is our purple group. They are comprised of mostly seventh graders with some eighth graders. Um, a lot of them are at the theater show tonight, so we're missing a bunch of them, but they Pam and I think that they're probably undefeated for the last 12 years. They have about 10 groups of their division and they work really hard and show up really early and we're really really proud of them. So, good job guys. [Applause] All right. Next is Kulie Color Guard Black. [Applause] You want to highlight this group? I totally can. So, this group of young ladies, this group was mostly mostly eighth graders. We had one seventh grader. By the way, my name is Beth Carlson. I'm their coach and I work with Pam Edgar. Um, they their show was title entitled Powerful Women and they were massively powerful. Uh, nobody wants to compete against them.
Okay, cool. And the last one is the speed and I think Alex is a representative for that. You want to say just a little bit what you do on that committee right there on that uh governing board? Yes. Uh we meet approximately once a month. Um there's they do take uh a pretty big for like winter and summer break. Um but the other months they're um pretty well attended. Um you get to hear about everything that our special education kids are are doing, all the wonderful stuff that field trips that they go to, the um advancements that they make um that uh Dr. Dr. Tina Halaman. Her team is like really really good. I I'm really impressed with uh their state of the district uh meetings. Um they do a lot and and you could tell they care. Uh so that's um it's just uh it's just a real uh treat to be uh to be there and and to hear everything that they're doing for our kids.
Good evening everyone. Um, motocross across the nation is coming to town October 2nd through the 5th. Um, the world. Yeah. Yeah. And it' be exciting. Um, we will have great visitors to our community on Friday the 3. They are planning an international parade. um and would significantly affect our bus routes. So we were looking at options and I will say give complete credit to Dr. Bkart who came up with a very simple thing is that on the 10th we were supposed to have a professional development day. So we moved that professional development day to the 3 um and that would at least have our students out. we would not have busing going and our staff that wants to get out to the parade would be able to do so as adults. So, I recommend that the board approved the adjustment um in order for us to adjust to the exciting event coming to our communities and given the fact we can almost see the track good thing.
Um, I'm speaking tonight as a member of the Ken Athletic Roosters Club and a parent who has two high school age daughters who are currently participating in the spring track season. The Brewster Club raises most of its funds by recycling at the transfer station, donated bottles and cans throughout the year. According to our mission, those fundraising dollars are mostly meant to provide recognition to athletes throughout the season, special gifts when the teams win championships, and most importantly to provide scholarships to graduating students. Unfortunately, we are getting requests to fix or buy things, items that the athletic director has known about for really a long time that are just not in our budget or our mission. Brenda spoke about some of the ongoing problems with the antiquated timing mechanisms. Um, but there was also a start gun that was very faulty and finally had to have a parent buy a new one for the team.
It means we've grown enough to finally leave the comfortable school routine we've been in for over a decade. Although I was living in a different state before high school, it still feels like we've grown up together. We didn't know each other as kids, but at the same time, we did. We were kids when we first stepped foot into Rampart, mainly concerned about where our classes were. And then within a few years, we grew up as we started to talk about life after graduation. I really believe that the years between 14 and 18 have shaped us so much more than any of the others. It really is the difference between being a kid and starting adulthood. It's been incredible to watch all of us grow, not just older, but into ourselves as we slowly outgrew high school together. I hope that all of you carry that same sense of growth and self-discovery into whatever comes next.
Once we got to high school, we waited for dances, PLC late starts, and of course, our own senior year, for our own events, and for our own stories to tell. We started the year waiting for the sun to rise on our first day. Later that same week, we had the long awaited paint fight before the back to school dance, except we did powder for the very first time. We went to our Gotham City homecoming week, winning powderpuff, winning the spirit stick at the pep rally, and overall having an incredible start to senior year. We waited for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. We watched football games, soccer games, basketball games, and the amazing plays and musicals. Second semester flew by, which was probably the first time that happened for a lot of us. Senioritis hit us all, especially after spring break. Most of us justifying even more reasons to procrastinate.
My mother was a kindergarten teacher and my father, a high school English and journalism teacher. And together, they taught me the importance of creativity, curiosity, and being a lifelong learner. And even though they are no longer with me, their influence continues to shape my journey. And I encourage you to listen to the wisdom that is shared with you by others. Again, graduates, listen to that wisdom. A poem that best captures the very essence of values like humility, grace, and living life well is Ruddard Kipling's If. Kipling was a prolific writer who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. He had one son, John Kipling, and we can infer that this poem was written for him before John left to be a soldier in World War I. And Although this poem was written for his son and somewhat reflects the culture of his time, there are ageless truths embedded within.
So mixed use with performance standards at a single district and transition. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hi. Good evening. My name is Susette Wanoff. I live at 225 Murray Avenue. I'm a homeowner and I also live carfree. I bike and bus commute year round. Um, I'm here to ask you to not limit height or housing types and transition zones. We don't know what the future holds. Tastes change, technology changes, climate pressures change where people live and how they get around. If we preemptively cap what can be built, we're locking ourselves into an expensive and inflexible future. Highrises may not be the right choice everywhere, but banning them outright is a mistake. Let the future meet its own demand. Let the market of the moment decide what type of housing makes sense. And remember, renters are much more likely to use alternative transportation, biking, walking, busing.
So, we're in that stage right now. We know what our number is under the formula in the statute, and we're striving to file a plan by that date. If we file a plan by that date, we will be insulated from anyone else that might try to sue us seeking a builder's remedy. Uh, and we'll have a measure of protection. Uh and so uh what the bureau has wanted to do for a while now as has the planning board is let's just you let's get a plan together and let's adopt that plan and let's comply. And so that's what we're doing. Kendra Lelly's put together the plan. Uh if the board is satisfied with the plan after uh Miss Ley's presentation, after hearing from the public and they adopt it, I'm required under the statute to file that plan within 48 hours or again lose, you know, lose immunity, be exposed to developers uh filing builder's remedy lawsuits.
Instead of just sitting there watching the play, we got to go inside it. And then we got to go into the house where he ran across the street to and later passed away the next morning after being shot. Um the house is a lot in original fashion. The pillow that his head was on, he passed away still there. The bed is in New York for Chicago for some reason, but they have a but to see where he was. And that pillar is all books like four stories high. Every book that's ever been written about Abraham Lincoln is stacked up. Do you guys want to continue with how the night ended? What' you like about probably, you know, hanging out with each other. probably the only time I'll be able to do this. Yeah, the kids had a blast. There's another There was another school from another out of state that was there on boat with us and they all got along really well.