Sanders was the entire team holding each other accountable for that work. You know, often we talk about out of the mouths and these um comments are out of the mouth of the staff that engaged in this work over the course of the year. And what it really really breaks down to is again that intention for having those structures and then that shared commitment um and again promoting uh grace as we strengthen the collaboration of that So again the team and now Mr. Brown. Oh wow. Great job. Great job. Thanks for all the hard work. I just wanted to say how proud I am of Moan's entire staff for taking this on and the leadership that you have at the building is very strong. This is a role model that I'd like all of our buildings to see because not not everything is always perfect, but you do have a voice.
Motion Jordan. Thank you. Second. Thank you, Erica. Any any further comments, questions from Mrs. Robin? Hearing none. All those in favor? I Mr. Push. There you go. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Thank you. All right. The highlight of the night. Do you want to introduce Mortto? Sure. So, Mrs. Cortto, the principal of Candon Community School, is going to talk about your children and I believe we have a couple middle school students that are here this evening that were not able to be here at our last meeting. I want to let families know that you have plenty of opportunity to take pictures after with the the board. If you're if you're close enough to be able to take a a picture there, that's fine. But I promise you, you'll get a a picture after. Mrs. Cortto. Okay. Thank you. We are going to start with the middle school students.
Congratulations. It is my next my pleasure to present this year's validictorians and saludiatorans. The international back laurate validictorian is Sienna Fair. Sienna is joined today by her mother Vivian Finei Falair and father Francair and her two older sisters who are watching online, Flora and Kiara. During her time at Rampart, Sienna was involved in National Honor Society and completed competed on the varsity swim team for four years and varsity tennis for two years. Outside of school, Sienna volunteered knitting hats for babies at the hospital. Sienna will attend Humanitas University in Italy where she will pursue studies in medicine and surgery. Sienna [Applause] Fair, the college prep valadictorian is Aana Paul. Here to celebrate with Aana are her parents Ravnit and Navnet Paul, her brother Prabnor Paul, her grandparents Cole Deepep and Gurander Paul, and watching online are grandparents Rajbun and Jug Dave Bra. In her time at Rampart, Aana participated in National Honor Society, Future Business Leaders of America, HOSA, Future Healthc Care Professional, Student Council, Speech and Debate Team, was co-founder of Hearttoart, and played varsity tennis.
Now that the bar has been set appropriately low, I welcome Miss Habberer, the members of the Academy District 20 school board here with us, Mr. Sison, parents, honored guests, and of course, class of [Applause] 2025. First and foremost, I would like to thank all of my amazing family, friends, and teachers. Specifically, I wish to thank my absolutely fantastic parents who supported me when life got difficult. Thank you to all of my teachers who each helped me learn in unique ways and more importantly taught me to have fun along the way. Speaking of fun, I'd like to thank all six of my siblings for their contributions to my life. my relatives, my close friends, Josh, whom I promised to include in this speech back when I didn't think I'd earn it, and my fellow classmates in the class of 2025. I learned many lessons throughout high school in and out of the classroom, but if I could share just one with you all today, it would be this.
Sure. A word of the day, you start it. Want to fund raise? Go to emerging leaders and it will pull through. The village was not a place where I felt stifled because we were always welcome to grow and share our own opinions even in conversations with teachers and adults alike. We are treated like adults and now the time has come for us all to take this and carry it with us in the future to bring out the peace of the village with us. I ask that we bring the curiosity and the desire to learn and make an impact that has been instilled in all of us. This is not just our last year but also a farewell to a few teachers and I would like to thank Martha for her kindness, Caleb for his willingness to listen and his knowledge. Miss Debbie for her silent teaching.
To the concerns about shade, why should shade from trees be good, but shade from buildings bad? I could go on, but I'd like to end with a basic question that I'd like everyone to consider. What is the minimum acceptable amount of land that you think someone should be required to pay for in order to have the privilege of being your neighbor? It doesn't matter if you buy or rent singlestory, multi-story, detach, attached housing is by definition having the exclusive right to a piece of land. For all talk of newly built housing being expensive due to labor and materials, the one thing that this body has a direct influence on is the minimum amount of land you need to pay for in order to live here. There are of course ways to make land less valuable by constraining development, sabotaging economic vitality. And maybe there are some who would support such a myopic strategy just to spite the greedy developers.
Just so everybody is aware these ordinances are in draft form only. Uh per the fair housing act we are not required to adopt ordinances now. We are to go through the process. If we get a judgment of compliance or an approval of the plan, we will then adopt ordinances after the fact. Um, next slide, please. So, the first uh project is 620 Higgins Avenue. Uh, you you all may be familiar with this M &D. Uh, again, this is across from the gym. This is uh site that was found to be in need of redevelopment. uh this is a builder's revenue lawsuit and had spent um probably close to a year negotiating with this particular developer. The development the redevelopment plan was adopted in 2024. This property is approximately 1.3 acres in size. Town houses will be uh developed on this property. That's what the redevelopment plan permits.
They did such a great job. We continued preparing our students for the self assessment including the alternative assessment. Like I mentioned earlier, AD came out to provide uh in-person professional development. Um we identified students who needed some changes and we were able to implement those and again we had some staff members leave and then we were able to fill their positions pretty seamlessly and so providing that. [Music] So here we are at quarter four. We are in the thick of uh state assessments both with our alternative assessment and the general education assessment. We started the quarter with 83 qualified students again across prek8. We continued with professional development. I focused on our vector trainings and got some really positive feedback there. and I will talk a little bit more about our corrective action plan for our state. Um, again, just to recap, we are also planning to look at having the Puma County Superintendent Office, primarily Diane Kent, um, come out and provide a training for the special education staff.
And it is unfortunately a thing that we need to come to reality with. And in middle school, they do something called sword and they do a little lesson about mental health. And it's unfortunate that we have talk that we have to teach it younger. But I do feel that it would be beneficial because a lot of kids like all the kids in sixth grade are saying that they think it would be beneficial for the kids because they just don't know how to process emotion even though they have it and it's a very serious subject and I feel like if we as a district choose to tackle it instead of hide away from it is another forwardinking kind of mindset and like I said it's becoming a huge thing in society to talk about. So starting those conversations at a younger age is just creating more open-mindedness and could honor honestly be hugely beneficial for those kids.
You do have the power to engage and take um take the lead and uh making sure that you can control your destiny as far as your culture and your building and so forth. So anyway, thank you for your work and I ladies, thank you for being here tonight after the long day. Yes. And I just want to say thank you for ramping up your professionalism. Great job. Okay. Great job. Yeah. I think they set great examples for people instead of just giving up or doing something but working through the problem. So thanks very much. That's great. Kudos. Definitely. Great job. Good job working through it. Excellent. All right, you can pick up your check on the table. Take care. Good job, Dr. S. Good night. All right, keep it going, Doc. Okay, as you know, last uh meeting or so, um Mr. Alrech left his parting gift of of offering up looking at naming one of our facilities, and that's the softball field.
So, I'd like to call up Tess Hartley and Julia Greenlaw. All right. Canton has a long and prestigious history of supporting music and having exceptional musical talents. This year, we were once again named one of the best communities for music education. This highlights the talent pool here is deep. And from this pool, Tess Hartley and Juliet Greenlaw have shown themselves to be among the best. This spring, Tess and Juliet performed as part of the Northern Region Music Festival. And to get there, they had to learn, rehearse, and perfect a complicated musical piece and then audition. Only the highest caliber young musicians are then invited to participate. Tess and Juliet were selected through that rigorous process. They were obviously dedicated and have dedicated a tremendous amount of time to honoring their skills and their selection to the Northern Region Music Festival is a testament to that hard work.
Outside of Rampart, Aana was a co-founder of the nonprofit we are 501c3 International, volunteered at UC Health, Rise Above Colorado, and Youth Healthcare Alliance. Additionally, she completed a paid research internship studying neurocognitive development at the University of Colorado and Shoots Medical Campus. Aana will attend Stanford University, double majoring in human biology and psychology with a focus on neuroscience. Aana is a National Merit Scholar, Elks Foundation Scholar, one of the Gazette's best and brightest scholars, a semi- finalist for the Coca-Cola scholarship, an Inspire Asian scholar, recipient of the Mickelson Foundation scholarship, as well as the D20 Foundation scholarship. Aana Paul [Applause] The international bal laorate saludiatoran is Claire Coliseimo. [Music] Claire celebrates her graduation with her parents Brooke and Andy Coliseimo, siblings Drew, Ashley, and Taylor, her grandparents Gary and Morton, her aunts Tiffany and Stephanie, her uncle Dustin, her cousin Brian, and friends and family Sarah and Penny.
To be successful, you must overcome obstacles. We have all felt how hard it is to start working on a goal or assignment. Whether it's a project for a class that just isn't working for you, a presentation for work that you dread, a large cleaning task, or a speech you've been asked to write for a graduation ceremony. Getting started is often more difficult than the task itself. This is the first hurdle for any goal, deciding for yourself to follow through. As Wayne Gretzky famously put it, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Challenge yourself. Dream big. Decide whether your dreams are worth following. And if they are, commit to accomplishing them. After you have decided to pursue your goals, all that's left is for you to overcome every roadblock involved. You'll have to plan for your own tasks, but let me share one of my learning experiences as an example.
Miss Stacy for running our building. Mr. Stewart for his passion for teaching. And lastly, Miss Lindsay for her leadership, which we all look up to. None of us would be here without the support of our families. And I am especially grateful for my mom and dad who are always there. and help bridge support and our classmates who made these four years so worth it. Let's end our village career the same way we begin every day. For the last time, look to your neighbor and tell them to make it a great day. Thank you. [Applause] Now, class of 2025, smile. And our graduation would not be complete without a speech from our principal, Miss Lindsay Keller. You're good. You're so good. Thank you, Aspen. And thank you to Gabby and Reagan for representing our school so beautifully. Today, I want to talk to you about something deceptively simple, something that might just change your life just like it changed mine.
But I hope most of us can agree that highland values are a good thing. And we can all share in that prosperity if we stop forcing every single resident to pay for a superersized bulk package at the price of admission into our community. Thank you. Good evening. I'm Jonathan Lavine, 456 Hillale. Uh the decision to limit building heights in low-rise residential zone to three stories instead of four will reduce the housing potential in those areas by more than 25%. And that's because the buildings the projects will be smaller and many won't pencil out. So it's even more important that we allow other parts of the city, especially those with high housing potential to help meet our urgent housing needs. Three quick points for the commission. First, thank you for folding the flex zone into the transition district, but let's not create multiple transition districts. Harmful uses don't belong anywhere in the city, and uses that meet performance standards should be allowed throughout the transition district.
20 units. There will be three affordable housing units. These are rental units and you get three bonus credits because they are rental units. So out of the three, you're actually getting six credits for this particular project. And the density is is right around 15 units per acre. Next slide, please. This is an example, and I think I showed this the last time of what of what this project is going to look like. It was part of the redevelopment plan. We spent a lot of time, the affordable housing uh committee spent a lot of time going through uh what they wanted to see architecturally, layoutwise. They did not want garages facing the front. They wanted this a front-facing type of community with porches and engagement of the street. Uh and so this is just a representation of the type of architecture. And I think it's representative of the type of density that the municipality is comfortable with moving forward with future projects um as it relates to specifically the Higgins Higgins Avenue corridor.
um after school gets out. Um our state audit, our corrective action plan, that is something that is being developed further and again we had some great professional developments that were in place. Next slide, please. Thank you. So the 16th, which is this Friday, I have a meeting with our program monitor. We have a few long-term goals that we are going to put in place for our corrective action plan. And the corrective action plan is not a negative thing. There are certain things we were asked to change on our evaluations and that process is a little more in depth than when we change things on IEPs. And so to give students the most time possible to gain skills before we reook at their evaluation, we're going to give them that time, which means we're going to have a corrective action plan moving into next year. It also gives more time for some more in-depth training for all of our staff members.
Okay, next up interactive learning. Um so a lot of us agree that when we went to the ASU mix center, it was a very interactive learning lesson and kind of like unique experience where we got to experience learning through VR. Um, and that was very, we kind of opened our eyes and we saw that um, interactive learning is way more beneficial when we're able to uh, remember it or like have fun with it. Um, instead of just being handed papers cuz we will just forget it and there's just a billion papers and it's not really beneficial. Um, for me like fourth and fifth grade were my favorite years even though I was really young. But, um, I was those years I did a lot of like interactive learning, hands-on activities. And I think that's helped me and like I've grown with that and I've remembered those lessons and I think uh, if we apply that to older and like high school years that that could be beneficial.
So, as you recall for last night looking at our last time looking at our policies, what we need to do in open session is everybody in their district needs to uh share a volunteer that would serve on that committee. We need to do that in open session. So, I was hoping that if you had your names tonight that we could just have you share them. I know some of you have already emailed them to me. Um, and I did talk with Dr. Hall about his person, so I can share that as well. So, um I don't know if anyone wants to do a shout out here of who they want to do from their area. Jamie Healey. Okay. Okay. I have I have chosen uh Brian Milbour to be my tribute. Okay. Uh Dr. Dr. Holland mentioned a Danzel Franklin, so I'm going to add him to the list.
They are among the best of the best. They should be very proud of themselves. For selection to the excellence in the treble choir at the Northern Region Music Festival, we are proud to recognize Tess Hartley, who I don't believe is here tonight. and her selection to an excellence in the band on clarinet at the Northern Region Music Festival. We're proud to recognize Juliet. [Applause] All right, moving on to our CIS students. We will start with Finn McGee. Finn McGee is being celebrated for his role in advisory. As a sixth grader, Finn helps to create a fun and welcoming environment for our group, says his advice or his adviser. Ben continuously helps foster our conversations while encouraging others to share their ideas through laughter. Then I'm told that the blue monkeys will miss you next school year. Congratulations to [Applause] them. All right. Congratulations to fifth grader Cameron.