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Lastly, I want to thank everyone in the village who has treated me with so much kindness. Thank you all. [Music] Andrew Coats to my incredible mentor Matt Stewart. Thank you for your encouragement, support, and unwavering belief in me. Your men mentorship, particularly in teaching me to pace myself and handle heavy workloads, help me develop skills that will serve me well throughout my life. For your guidance and support, I'm eternally grateful. I hope that we will keep in touch and that someday I can return the favor. Ashley Lane. I want to first thank everyone in my life for supporting me throughout high school. Specifically, my whole family, my mentor Lori, and my best friends. They have guided me through all aspects of my high school life. I will be attending Utah State University this fall, pursuing a degree in STEM. Dylan Lee Thank you to all of my wonderful friends, my family, my boyfriend, my teachers, and my perfect mentor for getting me through the last two years.
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And a Google search clearly shows all four still have housing shortages. I want to be clear. I support high-rise highdensity housing downtown and in major transit corridors and that this is consistent with A20 in that public transit use would be facilitated. My specific proposal is to pause the densification of single family home neighborhoods. The rest of the comprehensive plan may well suffice to achieve housing goals in the current reality of growth projections. Let's not unnecessarily destroy the character of Ann Arbor. Thank you. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Greg Monroe. I live at 1261 Bending Road. Um, so I've lived in Ann Arbor for almost 40 years. I was born and raised here. Um, I even recall uh being a paper boy and delivering the Ann Arbor news. Um, which is an anecdote I bring up to kind of speak to the fact that I was not made aware of the the plan or anything uh that was happening around this.
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So if that law was signed into law, there'd be another bite at the apple. But um unfortunately I'm not seeing a lot of uh traction for that law because ultimately those in power at the top of the food chain would have to agree that we got to give towns relief from these ownorous requirements and so far no one's budging. Right. One more question if you will. Um just finish up quickly. Yeah, this is it. Uh so in the redevelopment zones along Higgins and 71 is I think you mentioned so I guess there to be 20% has to be set aside for low income or affordable housing I should say. Correct. Yes. And that's deed restricted. That's deed restricted and that's a good point. Um affordable housing is considered to earn a credit if it meets the income qualifications and it's deed restricted for a minimum of 30 years for low and moderate income households.
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So it's kind of just a game title one and title four funds is kind of the pass through. Yes. Yes. Yes. And the IDA that we use for all our special education needs. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And next is uh the change in policy services. So, as we had discussed um last year on looking at moving from ASBA to the trust model policy program and the amount of money that it would save us, we just kind of wanted to give you the information um to let you know that the preliminary numbers showed approximate $5,000 annual savings to the district if we go with the trust and are not part of ASBA. So, we're going to continue to look at that for this year, but we don't have an option for this upcoming school year, but we would like to propose it possibly, you know, by January so we can start to make a decision on whether we're going to move our policies over to the trustee.
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And the idea that we have 14 million less to continue to budget unless we do something about it. And if you are upset as a community, I am here with you. Demand more of your state legislators. Demand that the state of Arizona structure things differently so districts do not have to vive for what should be provided for our kids. It should be and it's not and instead we have to do this. This is literally part of the structure that has been written into our law for decades now. If you have desires, if you want to know more, sorry, Mr. Moore, I'm giving up more of your time. He is a fantastic individual to direct your questions to to offer these types of things if you struggle to understand why we have to do this or how how we are impacted by it. And I greatly encourage you to to to follow through with that.
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Jordan and Mr. Mr. Bishop and Kira for being honored as one of the Bonnie B. Carney Award of Excellence for Educational Communication for our newsletter. And I do got to commend the board and Mr. Daniels for his leadership on successfully negotiating contracts with our administration, our secretarial secretarial which we'll talk about tonight and our custodian learning environment and belonging. We continue to really work hard on the mental health services of our students and promoting counseling services and social emotional learning programs. This year for the first time I created a superintendent advisory council that I met with uh primarily ninth and tth graders because I know that they'll be back next year talking to them of what's going well in in the can public schools, what's not going well in the can public schools and really sat down and edit with Mr. Deipo and had a a great conversation with them and they're going to in the fall meet with seventh and eighth graders about the same type of questions that I asked them.
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Miss Tracy and I joined the village at the same time. We learned the ropes together, and I am so grateful that I had her with me. The last two years are full of irreplaceable memories and opportunities that I'm more than glad to take with me into the next steps of my life. Rachel Lewis. Four sentences are not enough to express my gratitude to the village. I feel infinitely grateful for every teacher who has invested their time in my future. From my mentor, Mr. Stewart, the first teacher I met at the village, to Sherry and Susan, who I had for the first and last time this semester, and everyone in between. Throughout my time here, every teacher, experience, and fellow student has built me up and prepared me for my future in neuroscience at the University of Florida, Kayla Lorenzo. I would like to thank my family and friends for standing by my side through everything.
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Um, even the few years that I lived outside of the city, you know, my my father is an architect and a builder. My mother works for the university. Um, we're very sort of uh we're very interested in the housing stock in in our community. Um, and it was just over dinner maybe last week that I found out about this. And I bring up the the Ann Arbor News example. I I just the folks who say that they were not made aware of this. I just hope that we take their uh what they're communicating and their standpoint uh genuinely and honestly because I truly did not know about this until a couple weeks ago. Um, so I'm here. I'm asking to pause the plan because what I have been made aware of just in the the four years since I've lived here, but most recently post pandemic, maybe a little bit before the pandemic, is I have seen the influence of developers on the the city look and feel and the landscape.
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Um, just to correct you, the Higgins Avenue is redevelopment. The 71 is an overlay zone. They're they're just a little bit different, but they're not both redevelopment areas. Okay. So, the like existing businesses along Route 71, uh, for example, like Jimmy's Cacina, could they just turn and sell and become housing after this plan is adopted? When the ordinance is adopted, after the ordinance is adopted, they would have a choice of their existing zoning or an overlay zone. And right now, they can't they can't sell and become housing. Correct. Based on the zoning, not without a going to get a use variance to do that, boy. All right. Thank you. Sure. All right. Any other questions? Um, in the back. All the way in the back, sir. Hi. Uh, Mike Danach, 633 Rank and Road. Um, just one question and I apologize if it's already been answered, but with regards to the Wrathen project with presumably 30 to 50 extra vehicles, have they done traffic studies on that yet on how it's going to affect the town?
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I I think that makes a lot of sense. Um, is there anything else we get from ASBA with that about $5,000 pricing over the trust? So, that extra funding that that we're paying for ASBA is our membership fee where the the trust doesn't have the membership fee. Um, what that does is it allows them to send us notifications about we've got this conference coming up, we've got this. So, on top of that, the $5,000 for the for the fee. Then you've got the extra $2500 to $3,000 a year that we spend on PDMs and hotels and conference registrations. With the trust, they won't have those things. But it doesn't mean that we still can't attend an ASBA conference for $1,000 when we're already save 5,000 by not having them as our services. As long as I think that kind of industry education is still available to us.
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Again, Mr. Moore, I'm sorry about that because it is it is eye opening to kind of recognize what our state has to deal with. So, I'm appreciative of you. I'm sorry about your time. President Wade, I recognize the importance of funding our schools as do the individuals that I have spoken to within our community. But the issue is they continuously see the direction this board continues to go. And if you truly cared about what the community should do in order to support this district, then maybe changes need to be made when votes and and conversations happen on this dis in order to make the change and allow our community members to trust us because they see the votes. They see the conversations on this dis and it's not something that they want to support. So, I've said it before and I will say it again.
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But I'm going to have them lead the conversation rather than adult leading the [Music] conversation. Each school, as we've done, is celebrating students, which is a wonderful thing. We're continuing to work on our communication forms within the our school district, work working with the Farmington Valley Health District. Example, as Mr. Bishop described screeningers, the elementary age tradition that we had. We got to continue to get more people to attend the events or find another way to get the information out. Our district has done a safety committee is one of the best that I I've seen under Mr. leadership in in working with the center of school safety, Kerma, and our district wellness committee has provided a wonderful wellness incentive and opportunities for our staff. Embracing equity, our district equity team has met monthly in support of our district equity and belonging plan. Our district equity team has met monthly to engage in personal professional learning.
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Also, my mentor CR and all the other teachers who have helped me through my schooling journey. I am going to Pikes Peak State College for my EMS certification. Isaiah Martin. As I'm celebrating my graduation today, I would like to thank my mom and the rest of my family for your unwavering support and encouragement throughout my journey. This achievement would not have been possible without your guidance and love. As I step into this new chapter of my life, I carry with me the lessons and values you have instilled in me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being such an essential part of my journey. I look forward to making you proud in the years to come with all my love and gratitude. Kylie Martin, I would first like to thank my parents for always being there through my ups and downs as well as supporting me throughout my high school career.
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And that is not always a bad thing. I grant that. Um but what I think it just in terms of constructive feedback for the plan is I would really ask the the commission to clearly articulate and define the goals of the plan but also how the plan will actually achieve these goals right because I think everyone here or at least I I shouldn't speak for everyone but I think most folks can get behind sustainability and affordably affordability and I also think that um you know I personally am for density Right. Um, but I think what concerns me is what this plan feels like is it it floats a lot of these these noble lofty ambitions, but then it also is coupled with sort of this um, you know, Lzan's fair, you know, no regulation for developers. Let's just hope for the best, right? And what what I would like to understand from the plan is exactly how it's going to achieve the goals.
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Because there's a lot of kids in that area and there's already more traffic going through every day. So, I just didn't know. So, not there has not been a traffic study for the housing element and fair share plan. Uh, there's no requirement for that. Uh but for site plan approval, if a traffic impact statement is required per for site plan approval, any traffic impact statement would say what the offtrack improvements would be needed in order for them to um provide for safe access um or safer access in accordance with burrow owned or sorry burrow ordinances as well as I think count there's a county road somewhere in there as well. Um ju just so everybody's aware these are concept plans. These are not site plans and so concept plans and ordinances create the opportunity for site plans to occur. So on all of the properties, these are conceptual plans.
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Um they're still lobbying on our behalf and Phoenix. Yeah. And the law conference is a biggie that you know most of us attend every year because different policies change and law changes. So that is what but we figured even if we still attended we still would be saving. Yeah. So we'll have a study session. Yes. Closer to probably January February so we can discuss and start to make a decision. Okay. Now, first grief service advisory. Now, with now with that being said, these are all the policies that ASBA sent us that um so that we need to peruse and discuss that will be on for second week. I my hope was if we weren't going to go with ASBA that maybe we could avoid all of this. But this is just going to help us when we move over if we move over to policy.
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If we want our community members to trust us and and be able to fund the district appropriately, then changes need to be made instead of pushing things into the district that don't belong. And that's the biggest problem. All right. With no further comments, I motion to consider, discuss, amend, if desired, and if deemed advisable, to adopt a resolution ordering and calling a special maintenance and operation budget override election to be held in and for the district and declaring the deadline for submitting arguments for and against the election to the Maricopa County School Superintendent as August 8th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Second. Miss Schultz seconded. All those in favor? I I I All those opposed. I abain. Oh, I did not write that appropriately. My bad. Uh motion carries. Uh 31 with one abstension. This brings us to 8.3 approval of land sale lease or exchange recommendation.
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we even though we're not able to participate due to funding in the correct uh teacher and residence program and possibly not have anybody retire. Um unfortunately we have not been able to do that but we continue to look at how there's ways to increase diversity in our teaching staff and our staff in general. I continue with the mentorship and leadership development program that I started last year at the University of St. Joseph's. Administrators and instructional leaders staff have continued to utilize early release days for professional development. Mr. Bishop and I continue to hold quarterly meetings with the the Croup, the solidarity, equity, and education and collaboration with the community to support school operations, workforce development. I could not ask for a better administrative team. We're we're pretty much a seasoned team. It it minus um Mr. Henry who who's learning. Um we have an incredible high school principal that really leads this school to a what you would want a high school to be.
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I would also like to thank my best friend, Maya Rodriguez Sanchez, who managed to make this the best year yet. After high school, I plan on becoming a gastroenterenterologist to help treat those with severe stomach issues. I am very grateful to everyone who has helped me complete this journey. Charles McClinton. I want to thank my family, friends, teachers, coaches, and everyone else that has helped me get to this point. They have all made me the person that I am today, and I couldn't have done this without their support. After high school, I plan on playing hockey as long as I can and then going to college for sports science later on. Aiden Michechum, I would like to thank my parents as they have set the standard and held me accountable. I thank my friends for making school so much more enjoyable and I thank all my teachers for working with me while I have been absent.
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And that's what I find lacking. And I understand that when you're trying to produce something for the public, um, that, you know, sometimes oversimplification is is needed, but I think that is something that I think would be really important for folks cuz in my experience, I think developers are always going to go for margin. And so what what I have seen is, and I also echo folks comments about one of the things I value most about the city is the character that's within its neighborhoods, within its housing stock. And I have seen firsthand how disruptive it can be when a developer uh buys a piece of land. I have 8 seconds left and then demolishes it, right? And and so maybe that and now it changes the character of the neighborhood. And so I think I'm just asking the council to really take a step back um and take a scalpel to this plan rather than a sledgehammer.
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