It's been talked about. It has. Okay. But no one's acknowledging that. That's not my place to acknowledge it. D has jurisdiction over this property. Okay. So then I'm going to ask everyone in the audience please to not shout. Mrs. Coyle, it's her turn. And Okay. And if you'd like to ask questions, you can raise your hand and we'll take you in order. Okay. So, the house on 801 Schoolhouse Road owned by uh the Savages uh Beth and Sean Savage that was sold to Mumford Enterprises so that this whole project could take place. I don't know the ownership situation at the moment. Well, they sold a parcel of it. Well, there may be a contract purchaser. It may not they may not have closed on the sale. So I don't Is it So am I right in saying that without that sale this would never take place.
Many many people do that. You keep keep your phones longer than than they receive updates. They they still work. They just don't receive the um the latest updates. So, what will you do with the extras? Auctionables or um Yeah, currently we we we don't send many working Chromebooks to auction. Um what what we do is we take them apart for parts. Um with with these older devices, the only parts that are compatible with our our newer devices is is the screen module. We we have um we have a good good supply of of modules available. So we can we can afford to sell some of these for $10. Is there a charity or anything or I don't even know if we're allowed to donate those to Mr. Schubert would would have that information. Anything that we purchased the public funds offer back [Music] with something like we care Tucson, would they be able to use them?
But instead of addressing their concerns, instead of making a sincere effort to rebuild the broken trust, the majority of the board continues to make progressive decisions that further alienate the very people we are elected to serve. Decisions that have led to growing disconnect between this board and the families in our district. I have voiced my concerns many times. I have called for for meaningful change time and time again. Those calls have gone unheard and as long as this board and district continue to move in the direction that community does not support, we cannot expect them to trust us. We cannot simply ask for more money without first earning back the trust and confidence of our taxpayers. Um, that's it for now. Go ahead, President Wade. Um, we all speak to the community and maybe we're speaking to different community members, but the community members that I spoken to want our teachers to be compensated well.
the the the principal continuous improvement plans align with the superintendent goals. The teacher goals align with the principal goals and and then believe it or not, our student goals are aligning with the board goals. So, I'm I'm very pleased with the work that we've done. If I start off in the area of student growth and achievement and we did send you this uh last week in in your packet, the continuous improvement plans are are really guiding our our work with the focus on student performance data and we saw a tremendous amount of growth this year in a lot of pocket pocket areas. Also knowing that we have some work to do in other areas. Each school developed their own profile for experimental learning through looking at different field trips that align with the the curriculum and and school visits to expand their portfolio. Kent Middle School has successfully navigated through the commissioner's network three-year plan and the the school displayed an incredible improvement in the next generation accountability report ranking as you know as the highest performing middle school in the Farmington Valley.
And most of all, I want to thank you, Mom, for being my biggest supporter and my backbone through high school. I plan on doing Christian mission work and after returning, attending college to get a degree in criminology. Lily Houseman. I'd like to thank my family for their unwavering support through my entire school career and especially the last four years that's led me through high school. I'd like to thank the village for providing a diverse way to go about my last few years. I'd like to thank my men mentor, Mr. Norris, for believing in me when I struggled to believe in myself and kept secondguessing my aspirations. I hope to go into a future career creating things that could be of use to someone someday and everything else in between. Kira Irwin. First, I thank God for his guidance and blessing in my life. I would like to thank my family and friends who have supported me non-stop over these past 12 years.
Again, just talk to young people and families. We don't all want a detached home with a picket fence, a sea of well-manicured grass, and a two-car garage. Plenty of people do want that, but some of us don't. We just want a place to call our own, neighbors to talk to, and places where we can walk and gather with friends. Nobody's saying that you can't live in a single family home if you want to. Let's just make other more affordable options legal for the rest of us. In pursuit of that vision, I also echo echo others support for expanding the proposed transition and hub districts, specifically to include all properties not currently zoned R1 or R2. I also support removing height caps, subdists, and other arbitrary use restrictions within the transition district. This will give young families more options to decide how they want to live while also relieving developmental pressure in low-rise neighborhoods.
These homes couldn't be built. They'd have to acquire it through a contract to purchase. So either they're a contract purchaser or they're an owner. I I don't know because they don't have an application in front of us right now. Okay. But my question to you is without that parcel without that being sold would they be able to build on this property? Was that they had to buy that parcel to build? So the way we understand the at least the application that came before the board that was under review when it was a subdivision uh they were it was a there was a bit of a land swap between the Savage property and the Mumford Homes property. So because of some irregularities with the property lines the So but I believe it's just a land swap there's a contract purchase in there but it's still probably like a over a 6 acre parcel as it stands without the land swap.
I don't know if they would have a use for them, but whatever students don't purchase will go out for public auction and there would been that way. It's too bad. Do like youth on their own or something. Yeah, that's what we care Tucson. They did it last year for um their kids. They came in and had a tech camp and then they took refurbished um computers. So yeah, unfortunately there's there's this the state's pretty strict on what we what we do with surplus equipment and there's there's a provision within the law that allows us to to offer out of date equipment, educational equipment to uh um to current students. Well, thank you for taking advantage of that that allowance. I think it's it's great to be able to offer that to our students moving on to high school. Yeah, that'll be interesting to see. Yeah, this this will be the, you know, kind of the pilot run.
They want our schools to thrive and they know that we're not asking for funsies for an M override, but something that we need that's a necessity. We've all sat in the meetings and listened to Mr. more talk about what it looks like next year and the survey that went out and the community members that I talk to speak with on a regular basis know how important the M override is to our district and something that we need and it's not something that I take lightly asking people for money but it is what we need in order to thrive um look from my perspective our job as board members is to do what is in the best interest of district. That is literally what our intent is, right? And we do so while listening to the community and any efforts that we do that the community is unhappy with results in not getting elected again should we choose to continue to run.
The district continues to utilize data to provide global and discrete utilizations of screeners to make sure that each one of our students are growing. We started learning walks this year which we had previously in 10 years back we had learning walks. The goal will be to expand those learning walks across the district but also include you if you like in in the learning walks because they're instructional learning walks. Instructional leaders have uh met regularly with Mr. uh Bishop to talk about instructional practices. One of the heavy lifts this year was really looking at and I commend the curriculum committee and Mr. Bishop and his team looking at the new reading curriculum for Cherbrook Primary School that is doing a soft launch this year which will really set us apart from other districts that will just be starting next year. And then our MTSS teams, which really looks at students that are are struggling learners in and helping them really align with our strategic supports in partnership and community engagement.
Thank you to Miss Webster for always chatting with me about life and for being my friend as well as my mentor. I plan on pursuing my passion for dance with a professional ballet company this fall. Ethan Janice, I want to thank my family and my teachers at VHS. I'll never be able to find the right words to thank you for all your support these last four years. The guidance and support you've given me has been instrumental in getting me through my high school years. Thank you. I'll be off to UCCCs performing maintenance on computers and enjoying Costco pizza. Riley Lozano. I would like to thank first and foremost my mentor Sherry. She always supported me with kindness and understanding that helped me succeed. I would also like to thank my parents and my favorite teacher from my time at the village, Miss Debbie, whose passion for ASL and deaf culture was widely inspiring and made for an awesome class.
In short, thank you for all your hard work through this process and let's get this thing across the finish line. I know people are concerned that they feel that there haven't been voices heard, but I think that the most representative way we've raised our voices is through elections. and the entire population of Ann Arbor has overwhelmingly elected the most pro- housing city council in history. So, I think we need to just push it through and get this done. Thank you all for your time. Thank you. Hello. Uh good evening, Commissioner Lee, uh members of planning commission. I've spoken before you before um my personal thoughts, but I'm here wearing another hat. The coalition for action on remediation of dioxane card is partnership of local governments and citizens that look at strategies to address the groundwater contamination from the industrial solvent 1.4 dioxane released by government sciences incorporated.
So there's still developability of that lot. The like the uh Savage lot is not necessarily the key to that property. It's six acres with access to Ratchen Road that could be developed without the the Savage property in a different albeit in a different fashion than what's laid out, let's say, on the exhibit that was provided. But, you know, the math probably changes a little bit, but it doesn't necessarily it's not a go no-go thing if the Savage properties evolve.
So, we'll see how it go how it works this year. We we won't um I I don't anticipate being able to do this every year because we don't have end of life or devices that go end of life every year. Sometimes um sometimes we have 350 devices that go end of life. Uh uh sometimes we have none. So thank you. All right. I'm to approve the end of life combo books eighth grade students. I second. Miss Lefver, yes. Mas, yes. Mr. McGen, yes. Mr. Ash, yes. And the next is a couple of discussion items on the update to the federal. So, just uh the last board meeting you had asked for any update from the from the US Department of Education. As of right now, all of our grants are coming back, including um the National School Lunch Program within IDA and the title grants.
Right? I think we we sit up here all the time and talk about how there are members of the community who feel one way and there's members of the community who feel another way. And that is the nature of politics. That's how these things routinely shake out. You have people who are in support and people who will be against. At the end of the day for our district, this is a direct benefit. Without having the override, we lose programs. We have already sent out to the community a notice to give an idea and get feedback. I struggle when we have board members who express things that the district is not making efforts to rebuild trust. I've been on this board for now almost two and a half years. In the time that I have been on this board, we've created committees that were asked and demanded of the community because they felt that there was no trust or no ability to talk.
I do have to commend the board to for really looking at this strategic plan and taking it seriously the process that through a series of workshops, presentations, input, significant progress has been made and I'm excited to see um the opportunity to uh implement this plan. it it's something that was missing when I arrived from the to the back to the can public schools that there wasn't a strategic plan for approximately four years. So to be able to have a plan under this leadership that we're going to implement in in fiscal year 25 26 is exciting for the next five years. It really will set the course whether you're on the board of education or not. You will be part of that board that set the strategic plan for the next 5 years with the goal being when that plan is about to expire that we don't just let it expire.
Ryan Johnson, thank you to my parents and sister for supporting me. And thank you to Carly and Keading for always believing in me. Most of all, thank you to me. I plan on attending college for technical design and production. Taylor Johnson. I want to give a huge thank you to my family and friends for always being there for me. Your support has meant the world to me. To the amazing teachers and staff who challenged me, believed in me, and helped me grow. Thank you for shaping my path and preparing me for what's ahead. I'm excited to share that I will be attending the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs this fall to study marketing. I can't wait to see where the next chapter leads. Mattaline Johnston. [Applause] I would like to thank all the incredible staff at Village who have empowered me in my dreams. My family who has supported me in them and my parents especially who have given me unwavering advocacy through it all.
The groundwater contaminations has expanded in county to an area over 3 mi long and 1 mile wide. As executive board member of CARD, I'm communicating with you regarding the comprehensive land use plan currently pending before you. While the proposed plan contains significant language regarding growth and acknowledgement of city issues and discussions of natural features, it makes no mention at all of that portion of the 1.4 dioxin plume that has been expanding into the western part of the city from Sio Township and moving underground into the Allens Creek drain. The plume has affected S Township wells and may affect hookups to Ann Arbor utilities. In other words, impacts to infrastructure. The city should take a stand on continuing to expand the size of the prohibition zone and provide remediation instead of simply pushing the pollution into the prohibition zone and sending it downstream to our neighbors.
Okay, my last question is if you could just finish up because we your three minutes is up. Okay. I just want to ask you, how much do you cost think the cost will be to fill in that property with dirt and get it ready for the affordable housing? I mean, how much do you think these uh town houses are going to sell for? I have no idea. You have no idea. All right. Thank you. All right. We'll go over here. I see a gentleman with his hand up. Come on up. We'll take your name and address, sir. Aaron Moss, 614 Borie Avenue. Um, I'd like to start by saying thanks for hearing us at Borie Avenue at that meeting the other night and changing the plan. Um, based on our concerns, uh, that said, I have a few questions about the plans. The real realistic development plan is 24 units, but the amended plan is now 25 units.
Currently, they are coming back at 90% of what they were the previous year. So, on every $100,000, we're living losing $10,000 in funding. There is another grant that has not been reauthorized yet and it's the REAp grant. Uh the rural education achievement program grant currently receiving a roughly $40,000 a year for that grant. And in my conversations with AD and the people at the federal level, there hasn't been any word yet on whether that's going to be reauthorized or not. But just wanted to kind of give you that update. So federal grants, they are coming back again. They're coming back less than what they were the previous year, but you know, so just on track with the rest of school funding. Yeah. And the was 50%. Um came back at 50%. So, we're hoping that we'll get more funds so then we can allocate some of the additional items that we had or we're going to be looking at trying to add some of the things we paid out of IDA into title one, but that's tight already also.