So, they go out there and they bring in the crowd every year. That's their goal to fill the house and they do and they are a great group of kids to teach and they too work really hard. They keep me on my toes and it's great. So, good job parents. I do not want this. I'm going to give you [Applause] Now we are ready to move on to Williamsfield percussion ensemble. Congratulations [Applause] These students had a great season. They placed first in every competition they entered. The group had a strong performance and defended their WGAZ state championship title. So now, Mr. Edgar, how many times are you coming back here? She got it. It was good. [Applause] Thank you guys. Always appreciate it. Thank you. Have a good one. Thank you very much. All right. Recently, Higgley High School brought home another state championship. Mr.
Okay, thank you Alex for that. I'll leave the other three up for Dr. Kogese to bring to the table. But right at this point, I'm going to need two people for the discipline committee. I'm going to need one for speed and one for the IA IA SB position. So, is there anyone interested in either those? Jamie, do you want to remain on? Yes. Okay, I did ask our new freshman board member, Mrs. Venegas, if she would like to be on the discipline committee and she accepted. But is there anyone else would like to be on a discipline committee? Okay. And there's no vote for this. So, I'm giving everybody an opportunity to be on these committees. And I guess at the end of the day for these three committees that I mentioned that I will decide which board member be on it but mostly with your input.
So, I move approval of the calendar change. Second. All in favor? I. Okay, moving along. The next item is consider selection of food service management companies. Andrew, you have Yes. So, we have our bid opening for our food service management company contract on May 1st. Uh here in the building, we did have five total bids that came in. Organic life, Genuine, OPA, Airmark, and Chartwells. Uh selection committee then has met over the last two weeks to review the bids that we received. After this review, the selection committee led by Amber Reed does recommend that the board approve Charwells as a renewal for our food service management company for the schools. All right.
Uh, there's also the scoreboard, uh, which needs serious attention. Funding for the current scoreboard was from the class of 1985. Many teams use this item, and it's embarrassing that the visitors cannot see their score. Why hasn't this been fixed with the athletic budget? We all pay to play. Where's all that money going? We also do not have adequate practice equipment for track. Um, on a personal note, I have a daughter that was extremely excited about running in a steeple chase. Canton, however, does not have any obstacles for kids to practice jumping over the steeple chase. Um, so she went into a meet this a really big week this past weekend um, blind. She had no really idea of what jumping over these obstacles would be all all about. and her only opportunity to practice was right before the knee. Um, so she practiced the best she could which led to falling, scraping her elbow, knee, shin, you know, tripping over the thing.
Now, as many of you know, I did the announcements with Claire every Blue Day for the past three years. So, to end my speech in Rampart fashion, now for a joke of the day. What did the hat say to the tassel? You hang around, I'll go on ahead. Think about that one, Rams, and have a great future. Once again, Mrs. Sanders Please let me begin by thanking the Air Force Academy for providing us this beautiful beautiful facility. Furthermore, please let me extend gratitude to all those who bravely serve or have served in all branches of our military, especially those who are currently deployed. If I could please ask our staff members who have served in any branch of the military or any member of the audience currently serving or who are veterans to please stand and be recognized. Thank you for your service. It is my honor now to introduce the distinguished group who joined me on stage tonight.
We made it to testing week, the first the first year we finally didn't have to test. Then, of course, the countdown to our miles the countdown milestone events. Skip day, the incredible prom, senior prank, and then before we knew it, we were waiting for the sun to set on our last day. Then of course we waited for this, our own graduation. The moment we had been imagining since we first walked through those doors. My hope is that we didn't spend so much time waiting for the future that we forgot to live in the moment. That we remembered to cherish the late nights with friends when we should have been studying. The Dutch runs and Taco Bell stops that turned into parking lot therapy sessions. the inside jokes and the times we managed to actually enjoy school, not just survive it. These are the kinds of memories we'll tell stories about for years to come.
And I encourage you to listen for what resonates most with you. If by Roger Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting, too. If you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to hating. And yet, don't look too good nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think and not make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by naves to make a trap for fools. Or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools.
If you want a sustainable car-like city, you need to make room for them. This means more homes, not more restrictions. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Good evening. Uh, I'm Shannon. I live at 2870 Oakdale Drive and I'm here to share my overall content with the skeleton of the comprehensive plan and three land use categories that we have today. Um, I'd like to suggest a few additional details. Um, as I mentioned before, uh, I I don't think the partitions within each of the districts is particularly helpful, and I want to suggest creating zoning districts that are onetoone with each of the land use categories. Um, overall this just keeps things simple and flexible and helps streamline resoning down the line and also prevents us from making complex custom zones catering to each neighborhood. Instead, as suggested by Will, we can use performance standards um and tailor form to each neighborhood by applying things like stepbacks and permitting heights relative to districts around it.
So uh but but the next step after that is uh it's also important that it goes to the burrow and the governing body endorses that plan. There's some confusion in the way the law is written but you know the sounder policy is to have the municipality adopt a resolution endorsing it. So in the event that the planning board adopts tonight, the plan would go to the burrow and the bureau would would have to consider a resolution to endorse it. If we do all that with then and we file all that with the program which is this new entity created by Fair Housing Act 2, we achieve some measure of protection while moving forward. we still have to deal with these developers that that suit us. But uh but that is the process that's taking place in a parallel universe. Um and as if that was not confusing enough, the Department of Community Affairs has proposed regulations that will not be adopted until after the plan must be submitted.
They were dancing together, having a good night. Um, so that was a day five, which is our last day, we ended with a tour of Arlington National Cemetery. I don't have a picture of it, but one of the students that was with us has a grandfather that is buried there. So Mr. Leen and I took him completely opposite direction, ran I think about a mile to get to this to find his grandfather and for him to take a picture in front of the great um and that was that was really nice to be able to do that for him. That was his first time ever his grandfather was his first time ever visiting his grandfather. That was really special. Another thing that I'll always remember is when we were leaving Arlington National Cemetery, our school and maybe two or three others were lining the walkway while dozens of veterans were being escorted in to go into the race changing ceremony and everybody just clapped non-stop for probably upwards of 10 minutes thanking them, shaking their hands.
Hall, Mr. Cook in their criminal justice students, please come forward. They beat an impressive field to win the crime scene investigation state championship. Please join us in congratulating them on this outstanding accomplishment. So if you went to our business partner breakfast, you saw how they lifted fingerprints, right? So they took it even further. So congratulations everybody in this room. You have been fingerprinted. [Applause] All right. Oops. Williamsfield. Williamsfield High School wins gold. Recently, 11 Williamsfield High School students from the criminal justice program brought home gold medals from the state championship in a variety of leadership and skills events. These 11 students will be representing Arizona in the national competition in June. Do I have individuals from Williamsfield in the audience? We learned about this this one late. So, congratulations to these students in the program. [Applause] Now, everybody in this room has on the same shirt, right?
So congratulations. You are awarded your first comm. Your first committee, right? Okay. But she didn't tell you the rest of the story. You meet once a week. Okay. Not a month. I'm just kidding. Just kidding. How many have I missed? And she did. You know what? She passed the test. She she accepted that with a smile. Whatever you need. That's good. So, duly noted. So, Jamie and and Elizabeth is for our discipline committee. Uh, next up, speed. We have Alex for that current position. Anybody else would like to take a shot at that position? Alex, do you want to continue? I would love to continue. Okay. Hear none. Alex, you and there's only one person that for that position and you have done a good job and that leaves just one more tob position. Uh right now I think Dr. Hall Yeah, I was going to say did you want to talk to Dr.
Is there any discussion? Yeah, they did. Fantastic job. My vote was influenced. Yes. All right. Is there a motion? I move to approve the food service management company corporation. I second. All in favor? I. Okay. Uh the next item is consider property and casualty insurance. Yes. So we began our RFQ process in midappril to interview prospective insurance brokers for our property and casualty insurance. We did have three agents that we interviewed with. MJ Insurance, McGawan Insurance Group, and RT Insurance. After those interviews and the review by the selection committee, we do recommend that the board approve a renewal with RT insurance. Note that give credit to Andrew and the staff for putting together a really good RFQ, attracting really qualified proposers. The the three that were interviewed were were very impressive, but um William insurance does a great job in fully support the recommendation. I'll second.
And when she went to run in the race, she ended up just walking off kind of embarrassed. Um, so, you know, and emotionally kind of a setback cuz now she's calling herself a failure because she didn't finish the race. So, it's really sad that we we can't um have some type of steeple chase thing. I know this has had been complained about in the past as well. Um, as a member of the parks and recreation commission, we did discuss this. Um, we just discuss kind of the quality of our fields and especially the tennis courts. Um, and and kind of discuss it at length, the girls tennis team. Um, and it was evident that the athletic director and the school district knew that the tennis courts would not be usable this season months ago. um you know why did we not make any accommodations for those girls to play on a real court before their first match?
Please hold your applause until the end. First, Mrs. Amy Shandandy, president of the board of education and Rampart High School's board of education liaison. Mrs. Nicole Kz, vice president of the board of education. Mr. Aaron Salt, board of education director. Mr. Derek Wilburn, treasurer of the board of education. Mrs. This is Lauren Yanes, board of education director, and Colonel William Sullivan, US Air Force Academy liaison, who is unable to be here with us tonight. Additionally, we have Mrs. Ginger Haber, superintendent of Academy School District 20, Mrs. Becky Allen, deputy superintendent and chief financial officer, Dr. Susan Field, assistant superintendent for learning services, and Dr. Dr. Becky Harris, executive director for learning services school leadership. And then on my Oh, clean that [Applause] one. And on the right side here or your left, I have my administrative team. First, we have Mrs. Kylie Bailey, assistant principal.
I am incredibly grateful for the memories we've made over the past 13 years. So many of them wouldn't be possible without you all. To our teachers, thank you for challenging us, believing in us, and occasionally pretending not to notice when we walked in late.
If you can make a heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and senue to serve your turn long after they are gone. And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you. If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, then yours is the earth and everything in it. And which is more, you'll be a man, my son. Class of 2025, your future is filled with endless possibilities.
So, for example, we should allow highrises in the transition district where it's not adjacent to single family housing. Um, in this case, it's a win-win. It allows density and helps people to live closer to where they work or go go to school, but also it helps people who prefer that their single family neighborhoods uh don't feel as much pressure from those highrises. Um, I'm seeing some stickers around here today with those little buildings, little homes with the high-rise adjacent to it. And maybe there's a fear of, you know, that overshadowing. And I I would think that maybe that helps assuage some of that fear there. Um overall being able to apply these different principles across the individual categories that we have for the land use helps keeps things streamlined um but also increases density and allows us to build for a more inclusive Ann Arbor.
And the HMFA has als is is also supposed to propose legislation or propose regulation that also will not be adopted until after the plan is due on June 30th. Our state of work. Okay. So, uh you know, so so whatever ordinances and documents are attached to to this plan, you know, we're going to have to adjust once we know what the rules were. sensible thing would have been tell us what the rules give us a chance to comply with it. But the state is operating in this way and in fact many municipalities have said well why don't you extend the deadlines so we know what the rules are before we adopt the plan and everyone so far to my knowledge has been denied. So uh so that's where we stand. So with that I'll turn it over to Kendra and Kendra Kendra Ley. Ley, very accomplished affordable housing planner, is a court-appointed master in many cases, highly respected throughout the state, will go over the plan that she presented or that she prepared.
It was it actually I almost wanted to cry. It was very it was very emotional and you could see the emotion on the veterans walking in. And so people can still be appreciated and recognized after all these years. But they were Vietnam veterans. So a lot of them had to be pushed in. Here you can see that experience and I'll add to that from and every single one of the welcome homes in a lot of that and to have a young man step forward out of our group and approach every one of meant a lot to those as well. We got visit one of my dad's best friends at Vietnam as well. And then we ended the day which we had never gone to at the National Cathedral. That particular day they were having a festival. There was a lot of local performance that go performers there performing.