The biggest problem with this is that you attempt to redefine the central values of the people of Ann Arbor. The central values are the character and the trees and the beauty of Ann Arbor and any other value you can think of is secondary secondary to that. The we're going to kill the goose that laid our golden egg. Uh why is this plan so very dangerous? So so dangerous to the city of Ann Arbor? Well, first, it'll make our city look congested and be congested and funny looking. It's second, it's not needed at all. The latest pro population projections are the population is actually declining. Um at parks they could take down the tree canopy of tree city much of it by just changing the setbacks in residential. There's such staggering conflict of interest on this board that I won't even go into it. We do have a strong a real tree ordinance like they have in Evston, Illinois and other places if this is going to go forward at all.
This is a fourth round unmet need. they have to be separated. The fourth round has different regulations, different rules that we have to abide by. Um, the Route 71, it's hard to see on this, I apologize, but it's they're in blue, kind of in the middle of that screen that runs diagonally from bottom left to bottom right to top right. This is approximately 15 acres in size. This is what's known as an overlay zoning district. So the base d the sorry the base zoning whether it's B1, B2, whatever the zoning is on these parcels remains as is. I own a business in that location. I can expand it. I can change it to permitted uses within that be that business zone. Um the overlay is just simply an option. If I want to develop multif family housing or mixeduse housing, I can take advantage. It gives me another option to to develop under.
He is a prime example of what a continental cult looks like. Brody is such an amazing kid. Every teacher that has had him has commented many times this year on how hard he works and how much growth they have seen over this year. His respectful attitude and kindness helps to create a positive classroom environment. And he always works hard to ensure that his assignments are completed thoroughly and on time. Brody has a great sense of humor which makes him a joy to teach and adds so much to our class dynamic. Most impressively, Brody achieved one of the school's top scores on his recent civics exam. Academic excellence and love for social studies. Brody has truly been an example of what a continental cult should be. We know he is going to be amazing in high school, but we are sure going to miss him. Congratulations, Brody, the middle school.
Not the adults who failed both students. No, they pointed fingers at the alleged victim. The district maintains that they had a right to conduct this interview despite the fact that even uniformed patrol officers do not name suspects nor conduct these types of interviews without extensive training and certification of interviewing alleged victims of sex crimes. Even worse, school personnel took it upon themselves to declare this allegation unsubstantiated. Let that sink in. Non-law enforcement school personnel without proper training, without legal authority, decided a rape allegation was false based on a couple of questions. A dean of students whose job is to investigate, quote, "From your job description, minor school code violations played detective in a sex crime allegation." This was not just a mistake, it was a catastrophic failure. The truth is the allegation wasn't real, but the damage is a student now lives with the trauma of being wrongfully accused and publicly shamed.
Yep. Okay. Keep it going. I haven't looked at that. What is that leaving as far as working cash remaining in that fund? Taking 20 million out. Do you know off hand? If you don't know off hand, that's okay. right now that would leave just under $10 million in working cash. Okay. And I would expect a lot of that is going to be updated to go somewhere else. Right. Well, we've got the 6 million that will sit there indefinitely, okay, from bonds we sold in 2020. So then that four million is the final leg of our construction projects that we sold the working cash bonds for. Okay. All right. Cool. Thank you, Brian. Any other questions, comments? Not about that. Okay. All right. Do we have any old business? Uh yeah. So I know that we took our directory down uh from public view uh for security reasons, stuff like that.
I don't I don't know. Or I don't know. That's my opinion. It sounds more like it's just about the attractive, not so much about the educ the development developmental their skill sets. Or could you mention something about their professional development? I have one, but it's a little bit shorter. I don't know. Yeah, please. Um, continuously enhance staff quality through strategic hiring, professional growth, and retention to foster ongoing improvement. Can you say it one more time? Sorry. Continuously enhance staff quality through strategic hiring, professional growth, and retention to foster ongoing improvement. Instead of improvement, can we say development at the end or I don't know. I like that though. It's hard. You can find yours and lose. Yeah. The sentiment of both the one we need to visual. I'm a visual learner. I I think I think we're saying the same thing. We're trying to word.
Thank you. Sarah Elena Mon. Graduating with high honors, Damon Matthew Monteo, [Music] Mason Timothy Miller, [Music] Jasmine Haticha Morales, Darren Depri Mentor, [Applause] Payton James Morland, [Music] Isabella Sophia Montesi, [Applause] Jason Michael Morin, Mersai Nore, Preston Daniel Modri, Jasmine Daniel Morales. [Music] Graduating with high honors, Casey Grace Munger, [Applause] Rodrigo Jose Moreno Jimenez. Graduating with high honors, Gabriella Christa Nelson Carpenter, [Applause] graduating with high honors, Aninsley Janice Morse, graduating with honors, Noah Matthew Nicks, Benjamin Troyer Mhola, graduating with honors, Caleb Bradley Obenchain, graduating with honors, Luke Dougl Nelson, Zuma, Organis, Mora, Matteline Grace Niles, William Randy Parsons, [Music] Aiden Caleb Noitzky, [Applause] Isabella Khani, Opuna, Hel Pur, [Applause] Isaiah Kalakaco Olsen, [Applause] [Music] Aiden Aaron Perry, Gabriel Ryan Overmmy, [Music] Tavius Jordan Peters, [Music] Gared Joseph Patterson. Graduating with high honors, Victoria Anaivna Pinchuk, Cassandra Don Perez, [Applause] [Music] Lauren Alicia Pittz, Aiden Kakoa Peters, graduating with honors, Tanner Reed Polari, Ryland Derek Peterson, Stephen Lucas Pope, Ayla Rose Pyro Castro, London Ryan Prader, John Jackson, Poly Castro, Adriana Marisol, Kinyones, Jaden Marie Polyfco [Applause] graduating with high honors.
I want to give a special thank you to my family and all the people who have come to see me graduate. You have made me who I am. I am planning to attend CSU to study mechanical engineering. Isabelle Karu. [Music] Thank you, village, for being a place I will always cherish even after high school. Thank you for surrounding me with amazing peers who I get to call my friends. For the teachers who do a great job understanding every student they meet. To my mentors, Susan, Carolyn, and Flan for keeping me going even when pre-calculus felt like it would never end. to Nathan and Lindsay for giving us an amazing opportunity to bring home a state championship title with the best team of girls and coaches I could ever ask for. And thank you, Mom and Dad, for pushing me to be who I am and helping me pursue my passions.
Um the setbacks are the key parks. Parks these folks are going to try to take the parks. I spent many years of my life making parks and open space along with Mayor Heftier, the greatest mayor in Arbor has ever had who cared about space, about uh green space and trees. Parks are on the chopping block in eight different places. No, you're not going to have parks. No infrastructure. There's no one to pay for it except the people who are sitting here and the people who are living in our neighborhood. way to pay for I'm sorry. Pause for one second. If we could actually pause with the commentary associates so we could let him speak. Thank you. Seven different ways that you're going to pay for infrastructure. They make it very clear it will cost you a lot of money which is ridiculous. Wind population is essentially declining.
And we are looking at 10 to 12 units per acre. Same thing permitted uses would be mixed use as well as multif family. Uh and the biggest piece of this of an overlay zone as well as the redevelopment areas any development spec specifically residential would have to provide a 20% set aside of affordable housing. That's the whole idea of u providing additional density is that you give an option to provide for residential development. uh that increase in density uh requires a set aside of affordable housing. So that's the how the municipality can create what I call meaningful opportunities to capture future affordable housing into the future. Next slide please. This is just a reiteration of what we just talked about the fair share plan. Um I would say that it has gone through several iterations and collaboration in a very short period of time. Um just to give everybody a sense the third round uh for the most part took years at least two to three years to negotiate settlement agreements.
This is a testament to the amazing parents that you are. The time that you give to our school, the time that you give at home, the values and the love that you instill in your children. And we thank you for being continental families. This is amazing. future very important awards we would like to take the time to acknowledge and audience come up here help us celebrate bring your certificates Get together. [Music] All right. So, right now we're going to be recognizing very important people that have been nominated by our colleagues, by the entire staff here at Continental. It is called the Golden Horseshoe Award. So, first we would like to recognize and ask Roxy to please come forward. [Music] Roxy, the following message is from your colleagues. This is a compilation of messages that have been um submitted. This evening, we'd like to take a moment to recognize someone very special, our amazing food service staff member, Roxy.
Another student was questioned about rape in a school office by people unqualified to do so. Both were failed in devastating ways. And I'll see you at the next meeting. Was an aggressive timer. Okay. We have no other requests to speak. So this moves us to the consent agenda items. I motion to approve consent agenda items 6.1 through 6.11. Miss Van Hook seconded. All those in favor. I I motion carries 5. Oh goodness. We would like to thank Uru Otto and Higgley Achievement Foundation for their donations to our teacher of the year celebration. And at this time, I'd like to turn to Karen Johnson because she has an announcement, I guess, since we just approved it. Are you unaware of this? Introduce Mr. Fields. All right, great. I am aware of this. I'm sorry, President Wade. Mr. Fields, would you please stand up? I'd like to recognize Mr.
You mean? No, no, no. No, the emails. Oh, the email. Yeah, yeah, sorry. Uh but I've heard from uh constituents that now there's no way to contact like teachers or or uh you know kids teachers or or people in the um in the buildings because you don't know who's actually at the buildings. So, is there will can there can we find a way to get like uh stakeholders information if they need to get a hold of like other teachers or other administrators in the buildings stuff like that like Yeah. So, there's a couple different stakeholder groups that you're talking about and I've actually talked with one of our park district particularly about this. So, as far as the students are concerned, all the parents have access through the dojoos and things like that. Okay. So, parents aren't the issues. I think what we're talking about is somebody from the outside.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, what was the word organization? I just organizational excellence. So I took uh in developing highly a highly skilled workforce to foster long-term here's where it is organizational excellence and sustained growth. I think we're all district instead of organization. Yeah. I like excellence in there or professional excellence. Yeah. foster room for professional excellence and sustain that because this is about their profession as I like professional professional that's still all right so professional we agree with that then so it would read this way then continuously invest in attracting retaining and developing a highly skilled workforce to foster long-term professional excellence and sustained growth Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Okay. One down. In the professional excellence will cover what I was saying because in professional excellence you should be getting training development and workshops. Okay. Good. Okay. So, we have new board six.
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I wouldn't be where I am today without all of your support. Love you lots. Ryland Clark. I want to thank my family and friends for their continued support. Without them, I wouldn't be in the place I am today. I would also like to extend my gratitude to my mentor Kevin who helped me when I with all that I needed. I would also like to thank Jimmy for making history interesting again. Alle Alexander Colin. This would not have been possible without everyone by my side. Thank you to my amazing family, coaches, friends, my mentor Sherry, and all the teachers at the village who have helped me along the way. I am furthering my education at Pikes Peak State College while continuing to pursue my dreams with hockey. Best of luck to everyone moving on. Can't wait to see what the world has in store for us.
Wow. I've got it. I hope you read it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello, my name is John Beal. This is the second time I've spoken here. I live at Heatheridge. And uh again, this plan uh the so-called plan um you haven't really consulted your citizens, your taxpaying citizens, your voting citizens, and and a survey was done. Um that was kind of a random survey with many of the people if not most of the people really not our brights not really your taxpaying citizens. Um they came up with this survey that that really didn't ask them about the plan asked them about other things. So, we've come up with a plan that doesn't contain any data, almost no data whatsoever to support what it intends to do. Um, it's it's qualitative at best. It's a lot of handwaving. Um, and it doesn't demonstrate again that there is a housing shortage or housing crisis in Ann Arbor.
We are doing what we had done in the third round in three years in basically a several months. Um and so in this short period of time, you know, kudos to the municipality for um really moving forward and putting together what I would say as a professional planner in the state of New Jersey that's been doing this for 30 some odd years, a robust and comprehensive plan. Um not only does it look at individual parcels, but it looks at corridors for future redevelopment. It addresses the obligation um certainly permit promote smart growth and uh redevelopment of a commercial district. Next slide. The ne the the master plan and housing element. I wanted to give you this slide just so you get a sense of what's in the plan that's before this planning board. These are the required elements per the fair housing act. There is an appendix that has um updated census information on the housing demographic and employment analysis.
Roxy, thank you for being such a bright light on our campus. You are always smiling, always spreading positivity, and always making everyone, students and staff alike, feel welcome and cared for. You go above and beyond every single day. Whether it's through your delicious meals, your warm greetings, or your willingness to jump in and help wherever needed. You make a difference in so many ways. You are a phenomenal team player and it's clear to all of us how much heart you put into your work. And let's not forget you make the best food ever. surprised that your kitchen is one of the happiest spots on campus. Roxy, thank you for all that you do. Our school wouldn't be the same without you and we are so lucky to have you as part of our team. A few words about Roxy as well. um it didn't say it in there, but she also drives bus almost every single day as a substitute and goes above and beyond and stays late to be able to do that to make sure all of your kids go home safely every day.