So, quickly, and I'm not going to go through through each one of them, but available means that there's no title issues that would preclude affordable housing. Um, suitable means that it has access to appropriate streets and it has compatible uses surrounding that property. What compatible uses typically mean is that you're not citing affordable housing next to the dump or next to a factory or next to something that could create major negative impact. So when we're talking about compatibility, that's what we're talking about. Developability or developable means that it has adequate sewer and water infrastructure. That's that that it can tap into and has that capacity. And then finally, that it can comply with all outside agency approvals. That's the that's the approvable piece of it. Um so in this particular instance, there are wetlands on this property and and I just want to make that clear on the record.
Lane. She's um had to resign because her husband's getting transferred. He's an active military and they're getting moved somewhere. I don't know. Do you want to know? Boston. Boston. Okay. So, but anyways, good luck to her and with that we'll have our rollers. Yes. Yes. Mr. McGen. Yes. Mr. Yes. Okay. Now, we're ready for y'all. Just grab it. Ready? All right. So, if we can have all our amazing starting up here, Mr. awaken and we'll get started with all of our awards for the night. Parents and families, please feel free to come forward and take pictures and video videos while our children are out here. Don't be shy. [Music] Yeah. Daddy. Daddy. All right, kiddos. Let's go, Colt. So, you're going to come up here. You will you will say your name. You will leave me with your certificate, and you're going to stand right next to me with Superintendent Rico, and we're going to read your certificate so everyone can hear.
So, with that, here are some of the highlights. So, like I just said, we are uh, within this budget, we are reconciling to our 100th day ADM. Our last budget revision, budget revision number two, was done in December. uh that was prior to our 100th day ADM which uh concluded around uh January 10th. Um the one-time funding adjustments were also taken in consideration during this uh final budget revision. So there's a law that was passed in this legislative cycle that included uh two one-time supplemental funding sources. Uh one includes a an additional group B weight funding supplemental for free and reduced price lunch. um that totaled for Higgley 181,000 um just above 181,000 additional funding and then the same law also provided a one-time capital supplemental for 2025 and that total 325,000 just above 325,000. So those are both taken into consideration into this budget.
But, you know, again, as the opportunity presents itself. Why must we get Why Mustang? I You know what? I'm thinking of my high school. I'm sorry. Warriors. Okay. Warriors. I'm thinking I think Mustang I you know that's a whole other story but that's been a lot of conversation between my wife and I and some other colleagues talking about Mustang Mustang but yeah warriors sorry sorry public warriors warriors so okay so what's the next step for this uh well as soon as I get the other names like I said I need to share it out and open I did next week maybe we'll try again next week anybody else have problems like what's the latest well there is no deadline on This is how we can pace this out as much as we want. So, um, as soon as we have our names, then I can move forward.
I'm pleased to announce that this year's recipient of the Margaret Johnson Memorial Award is Wyatt Jambo. [Applause] And our final award of this evening is given in memory of Jamie El Cannan to a student who best exemplifies all-around qualities of excellence. The areas of excellence demonstrated by Jamie Elcannon were academic learning, music, art, personality, sportsmanship, and citizenship. I'm pleased to announce that this year the recipient of the Jamie Elcan All-American Award is Eden Dantis. [Applause] [Music] Those are all of our awards. Thank you. Thank you very much. So, so I I just want to say we're going to take pictures in two minutes, but you know, we just went through a difficult budget time and sometimes that can be divisive to um to a community. But when we get together for these types of things to honor our children, to see what you parents are doing with your children, um is just a wonderful thing.
This is a confession. I spent four years trying to figure out what was going on. I still don't know. Between COVID and the devious licks and senioritis, I just learned how to walk quickly while looking stressed out so people assumed I was doing something important. And somehow that worked. Now being up here sounds like I have it all figured out. I don't. I just had Google Docs, Quizlet, and the constant nagging question of what is the point? Which coincidentally is the same question I asked myself about everything during high school? What's the point of memorizing the KB cycle? What's the point of parking permits if we have to be at school? What's the point of all of this really? What are we chasing? And despite what this speech may suggest, I don't have the answer. I don't know what the point is. I don't even know if there is one.
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 ma 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. Four, watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools. 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.
Yes, even when you are unsure. Yes, even when you are not ready. Yes, because you believe in what you can become. Success isn't just about talent or timing or even intelligence. It's about making a choice. It's about choosing to lean into life with a mindset that says, "Let's see what happens when I try and when I work at it. When I really, really work at it." So when the opportunity comes, say yes. When the idea sparks, say yes. When someone needs you, say yes. And when you need you, say yes. You never know what will follow. Today you celebrate an ending, but more importantly, I hope you will celebrate all the beginnings ahead. My wish for all of you is that the world will greet you with a yes mentality whenever it can. And when you are faced with no, that you will draw upon the skills you have learned and the capabilities that you have, and you never ever let no hold you back or limit who you are.
To do this, I'm going to read excerpts from an essay by James Roas, MIT educated urban planner working in Los Angeles. His essay is based on his educational and professional experiences as a person of color. Here he goes. I'm having him say it because he does it better than I could. Urban planners take pride in knowing, not so much feeling communities. Emotion is generally not a part of their toolkit. Most planners are trained to work in a rational tradition, thinking about cities in head heavy ways and using maps and data to understand and regulate the land and its people. This rigid understanding of communities, especially non-white ones, creates problems because planners only apply a one-sizefits-all approach to land use and urban design and zoning. Not truly listening to these communities or even simply allowing for other ways of being has led to long decades of conflict, trauma, and oppression.
I think in the housing element fair share plan I mentioned that there were not there are wetlands on this property and it's on the southwest side in in this uh view it's to the top left uh you'll see a big kind of open green area um the the developer is not impacting wetlands but they will be impacting the wetlands buffer and have to get a DP approval what's known as a buffer averaging plan um it's it's a I would say it's not an automatic But it is a permit that is given quite quite often. Um so in this particular instance uh they would have to go through the not only site plan approval with the with the board but any outside agency approvals including D uh in order to uh be able to provide uh this inclusionary project and and when I look at developability meaning outside agency approvals that we're not I'm not looking at something that would impede future affordable housing.
When you're done, when I'm done reading your certificate, you're going to walk over there and meet your parents at the table by Mrs. Lean. She's just sneezing right now to meet. She'll help you with your shirt sizes. Okay. All right. You ready? [Music] Students, okay? Say your name and you're going to come stand over here and I'm going to read the certificate. Meline. Maddie is my cult of the month nominee because she's such a kind, sweet, and responsible young lady. She comes to school every day with a smile on her face and is always eager to learn. Maddie practices being safe by following classroom rules as well as school rules. With the short time of being in Mrs. Tesla's classroom and knowing Maddie since the beginning of the school year as a playground monitor, she's such a wonderful student and a role model to her peers.
And then lastly uh as as the board has been well aware of this is the um final year in which our override is fully funded. So next year we'll begin the phase down and the board has already been previewed a phase one reductions and has reviewed the phase two survey. Looking at the too far budget implications for the maintenance and operations budget. Um from left to right this looks at our budget categories. Our revised budget number two which was again in December, our revised budget number three which is currently on the agenda tonight. And then the differences. So from December to uh May or really our 100th day, we saw a slight increase in ADM of 13.8 students. Um that's equated to a revenue control limit increase of about $457,000. We increased our transfer because as we reconciled the one-time supplemental funding from capital which is noted at the bottom um we projected 300,000 in the budget revision number two that total was actually 325,000 so that's the difference um in that additional transfer again that legislative one-time supplemental funding is just for 25 that will go away in 26 and next year so we'll actually see a budget reduction um in that sense the override uh we tred up and reconciled uh that total override number that 14 million represents a fully funded override and so next year you'll see a one-third of that or a third of that uh reduced as we start our phase down and then our budget balance carry forward in December we um reconciled that so there's no change in our carry forward from prior year and then um some small reconciling for our prop1 $123 $3 um totals budgetary change for maintenance and operations of $423,000.
Yeah. But we are meeting next week. So, that' be a good time to if not then we'll try again in July. We have a July date and we have some August dates. So, we've got a little bit of time. Did you send out that Nelson sent out the accolades of of soup? Was that in a word doc? I cannot. He did send it in as a word doc. I did not. It's a shared doc. Anybody else have problem? got to have access or request permission to well we're gonna put we'll get we'll submit it for the application for the uh the but yeah it actually gave some accolades of soup and I could not open that I kind of open up a little bit and say ah you need access request access on a Google doc do you yeah Google doc is that something you send out to do you send Google docs out for us to open generally notbody I usually put them into a PDF because you is very the owner of the document, whoever sending it out to a public document or something.
And we have to remember that. And when we put these budgets together, it's always with the kids in mind and how we can move it forward and how we can make a better community here in Canada. So, I just want to congratulate our students, but I also want to congratulate the parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles for the way that you are raising your children. You're helping us on the board. So, thank you very much tonight. Now, if you'd all like to get a group picture, we're going to go over to that. I got to do my little tip. All right. We're going to the the superintendent has an idea. Yeah. So, there's a lot of you. So, let's do the future problems first and then I'll call the next group if I haven't memorized. Yeah, that's new. [Music] breakfast. [Music] I want [Music] to kill your heart.
But I do know this. When I was debating whether my full face of clown makeup for the lip dub was too creepy, a random girl in the bathroom told me she loved it. When I was horrified after a physics test that I ended up getting less than a 50% on, all it took was trauma bonding with a classmate to keep me going.
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 stay curious, be resilient, and dream big. I am confident that you will shape our world in remarkable ways. And as a D20 grad, we welcome you back to share about your future adventures.
I believe in all of you and I know the world will be a better and kinder place with you as the next generation of leaders, innovators, creators, and problem solvers. Class of 2025, enjoy this celebration. You've earned it. Congratulations to you all. I love you guys. Thank you. And now, Mr. Salt, it is with the greatest of pride that we present to you the members of the class of 2025. As principal, I hereby certify that these young men and women have met the requirements for graduation from Village High School and Academy School District 20 and are recommended for their diplomas. On behalf of the board of education of Academy School District 20, I accept with pride and pleasure the 2025 graduating class of Village High School. Miss Keller, thank you, your faculty, and your staff for an outstanding job. [Applause] Staff, please prepare to present our seniors at this time.
Our urban inequities are not accidents. They're products of design and intention. In contrast to planners and other experts, most people experience cities in profoundly tactile ways through their senses and emotions. The building blocks of cities are more than structures, streets, and sidewalks, but equally encompass personal lived experience, collective memory, and aspirations. These aspects are what transform infrastructure into place, into a sense of belonging, community. And yet these more ephemeral ways of understanding, excuse me, are discounted when conventional planning practice within conventional planning practice and innovation. Our workshops, he's held over a thousand of them, are designed for people who would never attend a public meeting, let alone speak out at one. Participants quickly realize they possess a singular expertise that surpasses anything experts can provide. After all, who knows and understands their community better than them? This is an extremely empowering realization. I know that quantitative research remains important.
this concept plan uh is put together in such a way that they can uh move forward and receive approval of this knowing that DP they would have to do a buffer averaging plan. So that is considered to be developable. Next slide please. The Burie Avenue uh project has switched a bit. Originally we were talking about five rental homes on this property working with a nonprofit. uh we have pivoted based upon neighborhood um uh conversations and and I appreciate everybody that is here from Borie Avenue who came to the meeting. Um and I think that we we took your um your uh concerns very seriously. We looked at several different options uh for taking those five units off and we'll talk about that in a second. But on this particular property there will be what's known as an attached single family home. So if you can think of it, it's a side by side.
Congratulations, Maddie, for Mrs. Smith. That's amazing love. That's your boy. So Luke has grown so much academically and with his behavior this school year. He is responsible by completing all assignments. He helps others and shows kindness every day. He stays safe and follows all the safety rules. I am very proud of Luke. Congratulations for Mrs. Graasia. Casey has been a kind student to peers and adults all year. He has strived daily to identify as and build on being a safe and responsible student. He's worked extremely hard and shown impressive success at becoming the best version of himself. I'm extremely proud of him and his ability to dedicate himself to being responsible. Congratulations, Casey. Elaine is such an amazing student. She has a kind and caring heart and a big personality. She has a great laugh, too. I just love her. Elaine comes to school every day ready and eager to learn.