Lillian Edwards. Most importantly, I want to thank my friends and family for constantly supporting me and pushing me these last four years. I also want to thank the whole village staff, specifically CR, Susan, Readinger, Erica, Lindsay, Nathan, Carolyn, and Coach Shannon. Thank you for all the laughs, hugs, support, and love. I truly could not have done it without you all. I'll be attending Windgate University for collegiate volleyball and majoring in physical therapy. Cris Elliott. [Music] I want to thank all my friends and family for being by my side and pushing me through this long school career. I also want to give a huge thanks to Stuart. He has helped me out so much through my high school years, and I don't know if I'd be the successful student I am right now without you. I plan on racing motorcycles at the professional level and continuing on my success with my father and mother.
Two condos on a lot. They're now $1.2 million. Yeah, that's affordable all day long. Yeah. It's not going to work out. You're not going to get any lowcost housing. All you're going to do is you're opening up our residential areas to unrestricted development, which will be by outside developers. They're going to do irreparable damage to our neighborhoods and then it's done. You can't fix it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bill. Hello. Hi, commission members. I'm Emiline Hul. Um, and I live part of the year at in Churchill Downs neighborhood and the rest of the year on U of M's campus. I am surprised a U of M student who is also a lifelong Ann Arbor resident. Please don't put too many restrictions on density in the city. I would like to continue living here even after I graduate and can no longer live on U of M's campus or in my parents house.
Um, I will I will say to you that things could change. This is just a this is a master plan. This is not an ordinance. This is a plan that can change over time. It could change because of objections. Um, I'm not suggesting that somebody necessarily will object to it, but if somebody does and we have to negotiate and settle on something different, we will be back before this planning board with a an amended plan for public uh comment and and review. Uh I also will tell you that there is typically uh opportunities uh there are opportunities for all of you to um provide not only public comment tonight but on each of the projects that you solve the individual parcels there has to be site plan approval. So they will come to this planning board and go through the normal process of site plan uh approval that uh is required by municipal land use law.
Angel and staff writes, "Janelle has a special talent for making us feel appreciated. Whether it's celebrating our birthdays with personalized things prizes, jumping in to decorate doors with creative flare, she goes the extra mile to ensure everyone feels valued. Her thoughtfulness shows how deeply she cares about getting to know our staff. She's amazing and does much for our school student staff. She's been faithful to our Wednesday workshop and our cobook store this year. We appreciate her so much. She gives her time generously, always showing up with the smile and willingness to help. No matter how big or small the job, her efforts to rally more volunteers doesn't help. Congratulations. Next, we would truly love to have our Continental School District Educational Foundation please go forward. And as they come up, I we'd like to give a special thanks to Holly Watka who has done so much hard work with [Applause] our activities all throughout the year and has been leading like everything that just happened as well for um like the door decorations for the teachers, the getting all of the meetings for the father and daughter dance and the the mother and son just um gatherings a lot.
Um, and I think it's important to add this language to the policy to ensure that um, we protect our students um, and that we never experience that in our district again and that it makes it very clear what the expectations is of our staff um, and that we demonstrate the commitment um, to a safe educational environment for our students. So, if um that's the only thing that I if I can give you the language if we're willing to be able to add that. Um, President Wade, board member Van Hook, absolutely. Please feel free to share recommended policy language and we'll be glad to bring it back for a second read. Thank you. Can we get that shared with us after? Great. Wonderful. Any other further comments? All right, great. This moves us to 7.2 policy JL if sex offender notification first read. Mr. Walker, you again.
At least moneywise something you're capturing. You know you're capturing you got a budget. You got the financial sheets you know the main financial sheets. Isn't the education foundation the only one? I'm not sure. No. No. Don't the PTO have Don't they have a They're not really tied. They're not I don't think they're really tied. They're separate entities, I would assume, because But don't they have Don't they have checking accounts and all that, but they're all they're separate entities? Yes. Where I think the education foundation is is linked to us. Well, they're kind of their own. They kind of their own. Everybody has their own thing. And I think that was the intent. I'll go back and look at the policy on that, but I think it says, you know, if you are are affiliating yourself in some way, shape, or form with the school district and you have your own funding or whatever, you capture your own funding and your finance and all of that.
Yeah, you can add forge strategic partnerships. I do like the word sustain sustainable as well because it's not just created. So if we could add the sustainable pipeline to Felicia's I think so you want to read it one more time for please read again. Yeah with you say sustainable before we're just going to keep sustainable pipeline. Yes. forge partnerships with higher education institutions to build a robust sustainable educator pipeline. Robust and sustainable probably that and robustly sustainable. No. Um how robust sustainable robust and sustainable I think robust and sustainable. Those are two very different things. Yeah. robust and sustainable. I think the teacher preparation programs might still want to be in there, right? I was just thinking the same thing. Although I don't know if we've ever hired anybody through like the ARC program. Okay. We have I think the hire um I think how Felicia should definitive arc teacher preparation everything's inclusive of it.
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Thank you to everyone at the village. Xavier Far. First, first I want to thank my mother for pushing me toward my goals and helping me achieve them. I want to thank all the staff and every teacher I've had over the years. Most especially the amazing mentor reading this for me. for his continued guidance and support. I will be serving my country in the Air Force special forces. Daniel Fert, thanks to my mentor for helping me get my classes all worked out and to my dad for being the one to write this note instead of me. I'm headed off to Colorado Mesa University to study mechanical engineering or electrical engineering. For you cosmir fans, I kind of lost track of time. For two hours, there were books involved. Anna Fiser, I did it. Yay. I'm going to college or I may take over the world. It's anyone's guess.
I don't want to have to move away from a city that I love and have grown up in just to be able to afford a house or apartment of my own. Thank you. Thank you. Hi commissioners. Um I'm Peter Hul. I live on Yman Court here in the city and um I'm going to share my core values. My my singular core value is my family and they came here tonight. And I want to ask you to please uh avoid restrictions on these transition zones that will limit density. We need more units there and everywhere in the city to keep housing prices in check so that people like my daughter don't have to move away in order to be able to afford to start their own lives. Um, I just heard someone say that if people want to be near Ann Arbor, they can live outside of the city limits.
Next slide. And I will be quiet and um yield the mic to all of you for questions and public comment. Before you yield, Kendra, I just want to correct one thing for the record. You had talked about uh the plan being on file. You submitted it on May 2nd, so it was on file 11 days prior to uh prior to tonight. Perfect. Thank you so much. Thank you. I would also just add Kendra gave some examples of incompatibility. Another example was given at the last public proceeding when Kendra laid this all out by the uh representatives of the neighbors to the high tide site and and and they made a compelling case for incompatibility. Uh that was another example. All right. Very good. So for those of you who have not attended a planning board meeting before, let me review the procedure with you so that we are all on the same page and we can proceed accordingly.
So we thank you Holly on behalf of all of us here at Continental Holly as well. She's another one that saw a need. So, we were short bus drivers and she was willing to come forward this year and driven a midlife crisis. It takes a special somebody to decide to drive um a bus full of 73 children at times. Um and we just figured with her large van um she had a lot of practice and so she picked up driving very very quickly and has been a great asset there. But oftentimes the things that Holly does for our community, everybody notices here at school, but they don't always realize she goes above and beyond. So like Ayso soccer, all the different clubs and in her church, she's always volunteering. So thank you for all your hard work and what you do, not just here at our school, but our entire community for all the children in it.
President Wade, members of the board, uh bringing forward an update to policy JLif and that is a recommendation for when there is a sex offender that is part of our school community. Um thankfully that's not something that happens frequently, but however, it is something that has happened before. So we do have a policy in effect to address. There's been an update statutoily regarding the levels of sex offenders. Um, in the past that sex offenders are classified in three categories, uh, one, two, and three, with three being the most egregious offenses and the most, uh, potential danger of repeat offense. Um, the new policy is bringing forward the recommendation to add level one offender who has also been convicted of certain crimes against children to be included into the policy and that our schools must be notified if an offender has legal custody of a child who's enrolled in our schools.
At least let the board know your your you know, let show us your your financial sheets. I guess that's it. I didn't make the rule. Yeah, like I said, I'm trying to think about all the PTO's, so I'm trying to I think it might be PTO. Let's go back and look at that. That's all policy. Okay. It's in the policy. I don't know which one off hand, but and you can probably get a better feel. I'll look at it again. And like I said, as new board members come on, we can always change things, you know, to make sure I hope we don't change that. No, no, but she she No, but I meant to change that practice because we've never had them up before. No, I'm saying I hope we don't we change that practice. We need to I I brought it up. I mean, 10 12 years ago, I saw it, but I think nothing came out of it.
Okay. So forge partnerships with higher education institutions and teacher preparation programs. No teacher after institutions to build a robust educator pipeline. Unless we added another word robust and sustainable educator and sustainable educator pipeline. Yeah. Vigorous. I think so. Yeah. We're getting rid of of talent and diversific. Okay, here we go. Uh C, refine comprehensive onboarding programs to support new staff through a smooth integration into district practices and culture. I I I didn't like school, so I I I added We can debate this um onboarding programs to ensure new staff are effectively supported and seamlessly integrated into the district's practices, expectations, and culture. Yeah, I don't like I like that one. What was the other one? So it's refine and just starts off the same way. Refine and enhance comprehensive onboarding programs to ensure new staff are effectively supported and seamlessly integrated into the district's practices, expectations, and culture.
Thank you me for doing it. Thank you family for supporting it. Thank you teachers for enduring it. Thank you friends for joining it. I'm pretty dang smart and I can't wait to see what happens next. Good luck world. She's loose. [Applause] Andrew Foster to my parents, my sister Zoe, my grandparents, and my boys Jaylen and Nate. I wouldn't be here or who I am without all of you, and I'm forever grateful. I love you guys. To the special lady reading my thank you note, I want to say thank you so much for all the help and guidance you've given me as my mentor. You are a big reason why I was accepted into the Richmond International Academic and Soccer Academy in Leeds, England for the 2025 fall semester. Bryce Bricky, first off, you're welcome for all I've contributed and all I've accomplished here. But now I must go do something at some point and reluctantly move on from such a special place which has produced some of the best and most unique experiences of my life as well as introducing me to some of the best and most unique people in my life.
And when I think about that applying to my own kids, that that really hurts. And um, don't don't tell me where my kids should live. And don't tell them either. So, please let's uh let's try and open up Ann Arbor to everyone and especially the young people so that they can start their lives here and stay here if they choose. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Um my name is Maggie Fry and I live um on Cook Avenue at the top of the steepest hill in Ann Arbor. Um, and I'm not an expert on urban planning, nor am I particularly well connected to others in the room. Um, I have three young children and I talk with them frequently about how I think Ann Arbor will look very different when they are in high school. Um, I believe that with the climate crisis that we face that trans transformative urban resoning is inevitable and this plan uh represents the kind of future that I talk about with my children.
Um in the notice for tonight's meeting, um we we'll be hearing people for three minutes at a time. Okay. So there's a lot of people here. We want to make sure that we hear from everybody. First, we will take questions. So if anyone has questions for Miss Ley, hold on, Sarah. I'll get I'll get to you. I'm going to go through the procedures first. Okay. But I promise you'll be first because you raised your hand first. All right. So, going back. Um, first we will take questions for Miss Ley. All right. If you have questions, you may come up and you'll ask your questions. We'll take you one at a time. We're going to ask that you give us your address, your name. Um, for the record. After that, we will hear public comment. All right? And then after that there will be discussion from the board and the board will make its comments um and we will um then put this to a vote before we hear from p the public will take questions from the board.
So thank you all. the only one that was in costume for Christmas. So before we give this award, I have some more letters for the foundation from students. But here's one letter from our students before we read um our what we would like to read for you all. Dear CSDF, thank you for supporting the orchestra and jazz students. Thank you for giving us instruments to play and I greatly appreciate you for giving us instruments to play for 25 years. I also appreciate you giving us playing equipment for outside like the cornhole or the foosball tables. Thank you for funding the school for such a very long time. I'm also very very grateful for the music equipment outside like the drums. I greatly appreciate you for funding us, our school, and for doing this for 25 years. On behalf of our entire school community and Continental School District governing board, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our incredible Continental School District Educational Foundation.
All right. Thanks, Mr. Walker. Oh, wait. No, go ahead. President Wade, Mr. Walker, is it possible to add that the notification in the statute says notification um is should be within 45 days of their presence in the area. um to the second paragraph um where it says local law enforcement agency to notify the community um if we can add within 45 days of their presence. And then um also it said notifications must include offender's photograph, address, and a summary of their criminal background. um notification must be um diss disseminated in a non electronic format. Um electronic notification may be used only if recipients opt in. And then um the statute language um the school in which the juvenile is in um this is a second page um the school in which the juvenile is enrolled shall make the information it receives um persuant to this section available to teachers parents um guardians and custodians on request.