And by not being specific as to what we're going to do, whether we're going to sell, lease, that's not very clear that I mean, how do we expect our voters to say, "Sure, do whatever you decide instead of having a clear decision on what exactly we're doing. And if if we want to be able to have either a cell or lease, then we should have two separate b separate ballot measures on the ballot. We should not be combining them. President Wade Memorook, I our legal counselor for elections couldn't make it tonight. So, if the board wanted to table this so we can answer those questions. Um, I'm I'm not I don't know if Miss Mlullen couldn't answer that, but Madame President, Miss Van Hook, I'm checking the resolution. It is written by uh the legal council August Rosenfeld. I'm assuming it was Jim Gil who wrote this.
So, any questions on the report? Comments? We're going to save uh for executive session. We'll be talking about the superintendent's evaluation this evening. if you have questions on this board. Yes, I just have a quick question on the student hall of fame like how many years gap were there in is there any way to engage alumni to vote for students that they Yeah. So what this is is this is the K high school wall of fame and it's for graduates that graduated from K High School 10 years or more. It was something that I started when I was the assistant principal here at the high school. I haven't checked, but I believe they haven't inducted a class in the past four years. So, what we did was we sent out nomination forms this year to community members and we did receive some back, but we also have a pile of nominations from when I was here the last time and then Dr.
Diego Moreno, first and foremost, the village is a journey where I learned and experienced. Thank you for the teachers who guided and helped me along the way and challenged me through my struggles and gave me confidence. Thank you to my friends and students who gave me an experience to learn. Thank you for all the help and guidance you gave me. I will attend the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. I will continue to be passionate through my choices and my career. Ethan Moer. I'd like to thank my family for the constant love and support they have shown me the past 18 years. My friends for always pushing me to be a better person and student. My teachers, especially Mr. Hathaway and Mrs. Readinger for the constant support and encouragement. My plans after graduation are continue to pursue a career in hockey. Asher Mullins, I first would like to thank God for all his blessing and the trials he's put in my life to get me where I am today.
I want to echo or I want to emphasize that that fear is very understandable, but it echoes the rhetoric of racial covenants that have historically kept people like me, people of color, and other marginalized people out of places like Ann Arbor. And so I ask again, is this fear of the plan do you that you have fundamentally a selfishness that might be born out of fear? I really hope not. I I am a firm believer that as your neighbor, as a fellow citizen, I that your world and my world are like deeply intertwined. That my success as a fellow citizen is not inherently going to reduce yours. And guess what? I'm afraid too. I hate change. But I was raised to say if there's not enough food at the table, let's make more for others. So I ask the commission, please let Ann Arbor grow.
So at the last meeting, you brought um the um Chris Puglesi from the other housing, right? and you said that it didn't make financial sense for them to develop a project under five units or they couldn't get funding. Um but now we've gone on Borie Avenue to two. So who's going to fund that if we can't get We haven't picked the developer. However, um I I do know that that particular organization is interested in doing the five units at the municipal building and would also do those two units because they they can combine that together in one application as a scattered site um okay um application and and it increases their chances of getting money. Okay.
Oh, I I understand everything that you guys are asking for and we go over everything at each meeting. Well, in order that's what I'm saying, in order for me as a schoolboard member to support this, I need more. This budget report does not is not clear. Yeah, I I I have um templates I can provide that that would be easier. Just fill in the blank and kind of eliminate the questions. Um all you want is a column on there that says what came in. that needs to financial report. Yeah, I'm I'm a financial analyst by trade. I've got a ton of them. Um I know a lot of different ways to to break down um budget versus actuals. is in charge of our Yeah, just be a quick film like that would probably help a lot. Okay, good. Thank you. All right, Mr. Schuber, I'm not sure if I want to go over this one now.
Um, in my experience, um, it is common place for a school district to ask for all strands of authority with regard to legal property. Um but I am not an election law expert. So um I I am familiar with the Cromco decision. It doesn't address specifically this the issue that you are raising which is whether there need to be separate questions. Um so without Mr. Gil being here, it would be my advice that you table this item if it's not going to affect the district's ability to call for an election at a later date. Is that correct? Correct. it would not affect our timeline in which we can get this on the November ballot. So, if the board wanted to table this one to which our legal council, Mr. Gil, can come back and answer those questions. Do you want a motion the table? I'll I'll motion.
Kwell was out. We'll fill those gaps for the years that aren't. We won't we won't be able to fill the gap of like not um an induction class of 2024. We won't be able to do that. But what we will do is we'll have a class of 25 moving forward. And as you're walking out tonight, if you just look to the left next to the gym, you can see and that's something that I've always said. You want to build something in a district that will be here longer than you are and that will be sustainable that when you come back 20 years from now, it's something that is still going. So, we need to re not reinvent that. We need to just bring that back. Jordan, um along those lines, and I know it's not here before, but are we moving forward with the anti-grace situation?
Next, I'd like to thank my mom for all the hard work she's done for me and being the light not just to me, but to everyone around her. Next to all my friends and mentors that have been patient with me and believing in me and pushing me to be my best. Thank you for an amazing high school year. I'm looking forward to my next steps as I pursue my finance degree and play soccer and college. I will buy you all a car when I get rich. Kale Netor, I want to thank my friends and my family, especially my parents for helping me get through this crazy journey of high school. I also want to shout out my teachers, specifically Webster and Reinger, for always providing support and being there for me. I will be attending UCCCs to pursue a career in cyber security. Gabriella Newman.
Let Ann Arbor flourish. And do so by allowing more housing. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Good evening, Ann Arbor. My name is Joe Zilka. I live at 1920 Woodbury Drive and I live, work, and ride the bus uh here in Ann Arbor. I'm speaking tight in support of the downtown hub and mixeduse zones on the comprehensive plan and allowing greater height, density, and less restriction in the hub and transition and downtown areas. These are exactly the areas of the city that we should be building taller housing along major corridors, near jobs, near campus, well serviced by transit, and away from low-rise residential neighborhoods. We need more of these because these types of developments will help solve our housing affordability crisis crises uh in from the top down and from the bottom up. top down, of course, by increasing the supply of units to meet our very high demand, pushing up our very low vacancy rates, and giving renters and home buyers more power in the rental and housing markets, respectively.
And you can just finish up Miss Loft in your three minutes is up on your chart on page seven. You have a couple of lots that I have questions on. One is 616 Union Avenue. Did you mean Union Lane? Uh, I don't because Union Avenue there's it was a doctor's office. I don't know what it is now. Okay. Then it's probably it's I'll across the street from the school. If it's a vacant lot. Yes. Is that what you're looking at? Yes. Is the Yeah, it would be a vacant lot. Isn't that privately? Is that owned by the municipality? No. So, a vacant land analysis looks at vacant land. It does not have to be municipally owned. So, it's So, again, a realistic development potential is based upon the vacant land in the town at the time I do the analysis. It doesn't matter if it's private or it's public.
We got Yeah, go ahead. So, just going over the M fund again for you for this board meeting. Miss Jenn, if you could scroll on down, you see that there's that one category within employee benefits. Those are um that's an insurance payment for our food service that we have to subsidize. So, there's a little bit of money that needs to be moved around um just to to cover that expense. Other than that, you see that the district still has roughly $155,000 left that needs to get us through the remainder of the year and the majority of those funds are still going to be allocated towards um benefits, you know. So, payroll is is already encumbered, benefits is not. Correct. So the payroll is encumbered because we know that such and such employee is going to make x amount of dollars. If such and such employee decides to work less hours that week, naturally the benefits, but that number is still accounted for there.
Um, I move to um table uh action item 8.3 second. Mr. German seconded. All right. So, we have a table with Mr. Sherman seconding Miss Zimmerman. All those in favor? I I live your life now. All right. Motion carries. 5 to zero. This brings us to 8.4 approval of policy IHA basic instructional program second read.
Yeah. So, that's a good question. Um, so I made a recommendation to this board and to the board of selectment to I think it was three. There was three recommendations. The number one recommendation was to name the whole stadium Nancy Grace Memorial Stadium was to name the turf field Legends Field and was to name the the the field over to the right where the track participates the captain's assignment field. So that was discussed at a board of selective meeting. The last I heard is that they're supposed to have a a form on that to solicit feedback. And that's the last I slide. So the the goal would be in the fall would be to have a ceremony to do all that. Um the the fall would be to have Nancy Grace Memorial Stadium. Then on another day the field Legends Field and then on another day do um Cathy Design.
I am thankful to my parents, my mentor, Miss Christie, and my sister for their unwavering support, which has been so important in getting me to where I am right now. As I look to the future, I am excited to begin my studies in interior architecture and design. I aspire to study abroad in Italy to further develop my skills and gain new experiences. Without the guidance and inspiration of my loved ones, I wouldn't be able to pursue my dreams with passion and confidence. Malachi Nalin, I would like to thank my amazing family and friends, my mom and dad for always being there for me, and all my siblings for teaching me valuable lessons. I would like to thank the wonderful staff and my amazing mentor, Miss Christa, for never giving up on me. Next year, I plan to further my education in trades and learn different fields of work.
And crucially, from the bottom up, generating more property tax revenue for the affordable housing fund, thanks to voters across the ideological spectrum who are here tonight, who came together in 2020 to pass that millillage overwhelmingly in 2020. The Ann Arbor Housing Commission needs as much money as possible in that fund to build subsidized housing for the folks in our community who need it most. Thus, we have no more time to lose. In addition, the hub and downtown zones are already served by our current public transportation infrastructure. If we get the land use right in these areas, we can unlock the full potential of the AAA's long-term transit vision, the Ride 2045. So, what is the ride 2045? Thanks to Ann Arbor voters also overwhelmingly approving the 2022 bus millillage, the Ryan's long range plan right here, right now envisions a future with enhanced transit services connecting all of the downtown and hub districts to each other uh with the following improvements.
it's vacant and available for future affordable housing. Um, you don't have to build on that necessarily on that lot, but it does create that realistic development potential number. Okay. I I have a couple more questions on this chart. 403 Higgins Avenue, is that the grass lot that doesn't include the Whiskey Lounge property or it's both lots. So, it's somehow went from 104 down to 20 as far as the RDP. So, a density has to be um applied to a property and that's the density that we apply to that property to equate to a realistic development potential. That's not what's going to go there necessarily. That's what think of it this way. It's a calculation that creates a number, but it's not actually a project. Um that is going to be proposed there at this point. And just more one more, can you tell me where Route 70 and Tamarak Drive is?
So um our hourly employees um like their max allowable hours. Is that what what's encumbered? So with with our with our hourly employees, I usually put it in for the amount that they make and by percent because there could be an opportunity where we have to have somebody work overtime. Okay. So I want to be able to cover that expense while I'm creating the budget. Do you know what to expect for um outstanding benefit payments? 28% of the payroll, which is more or less than 150. No, no, we're we're we are on track to hopefully have about 10 grand left at the end of the year. So, turn off. Can you get us any closer or I don't think we're sweating. I'm the one that's been sweating it for for months. So yeah, we're on track to hopefully have 10 grand left at the end of the year.
Any questions or comments from the board before I motion? This is I think this is the one we have. Do you have a statement? I think all right. Great. I motion that the governing board approve policy IHA basic instructional program. Second. I'm going to give that to Miss Van Hook. Seconded. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. 50 8.5 approval of supplemental notes. Miss Davis, good evening, President Wade and board members. Um, I was here in March and presented the process that we used to review and recommend our 6th through 12th grade novels. And today I'm here to go over our results of the public feedback. Um, and I'm excited to say that um, we had 15 parents provide um, feedback um, across all our grade levels, 6 through 12. 93% of those parents agreed that our novels align with the Arizona State standards. 93% of those parents agreed that the novels promote critical thinking and meaningful discussion.
So each three would get the the notoriety what they deserve. Kathy Designfield is where Cathy Designs is the parking lot right now which we used to have. So now we move it over to the tracking field where they do the javelin and the scale. Any other questions for the superintendent? We'll take up more of this executive session. Okay. Thank you very much. We are going to move to uh standing committee reports. We'll start with Mr. Bush and we'll work our way down. Mr. Bush, anything on finance you want to just update? Yep. Hi, thanks Lou. I'm sorry I couldn't be there in person tonight. Um during the finance committee, um Mrs. Robbins took care of most of the details here, but uh we did discuss the fact that we are still in the red and um we will be discussing at a future meeting the appropriation process with the board of finance.