I'm just saying why isn't there thought of an entrance off of 35? Well, I mean there was discussion with Mumford about that and they were going to approach uh DOT about that, but um I I want to say indications were that DOT would that that there's not adequate right of way there or um you know like geometry is an issue. Um and but there's an entrance. So that other that other property just right connected to it there's an entrance there. That's at a different grade though. that's like at grade whereas the property falls off pretty quickly from the state highway onto the Mumford property. So there's more to it than just you know having a an opening in the curb. Yes. So ultimately it would be a state decision though if that was going to be allowed or not. Okay. But I still think as a town we should pursue that.
Um, how much did we receive this last year in 301 funds? So, we received a little over 600 grand. Um, but we carried over about 150. So, we were able to pay out quite a bit in 301 money this year. Um, I think we played out close to $13,000 per teacher for 301 funding. Nice. Speaking of 301, I do know what the amounts are for next year. It's going up $50 per weighted student count, but student per weighted student count. So, so what they do is they take our weighted student count, which includes um the pluses that we get for our special needs kids. So instead of 600, instead of instead of 600 students, we could have 660, which would be based off of, but that's going up $50 a year. $50 more than it was this year for weighted student count. Okay. So that's a good increase, but it still is going to reduce our what baseline budget.
As board members, we cannot ignore this evidence. Our goal is not censorship, but safeguarding children from content that they are not ready to process. How does exposing them to such material improve student achievement or outcomes? At the last board meeting, um board member Glover mentioned that um with policy IHA um regarding 911 that um the content was too explicit for for minor students. um yet here we are um allowing our students to read such such books and I I just I don't understand how um we can continue to allow this to happen. That's all. President Wade. Um I am I'm kind of frustrated that this only says sensitive content. I wish it said sexual content. That way it really um helps parents know what's what this entails. This is very frustrating. Um because in all uh I am I'm an advocate for learning and reading and good literature, but I just don't understand this pivot.
Uh just let uh John know and make sure you get those. You'll just get the policies which are relatively short. They're required and we didn't find anything of any great significant changes. Pretty straightforward. We also began a discussion continued our discussion of the class size policy that John has tightened up to accumulate. uh class size policies for a dozen different districts around the state that continue to do that also provided with some research. Uh we will tackle that uh topic uh first thing in September bringing a recommendation we hope to the whole board in October for a vote in November by vote and there are some things voting on tonight which you can see in your agenda. We'll take it. Yeah. Okay.
Grant Roman. I want to express my deepest gratitude to my family for their encouragement and the constant feeling of belonging and the love they've always shown me. I'd also like to thank the many teachers that taught me over the past four years for getting me to where I am today. I intend to carry on with my passion for music after I graduate. JC Rosenberg. I would like to thank my family, friends, and teachers, specifically Flan and Susan, for always supporting me and their encouragement throughout these years. To my mom and dad, thank you for always looking out and being there for me. And a big shout out to Celsius for getting me through the days. I plan to attend college in the fall to study dental hygiene. Cammy Rucker. To my mom, dad, brothers, and sisters, thank you for being my biggest supporters. I truly have had the best support system, whether it's athletically or academically, along with my teachers, friends, and coaches, especially the Batbuster organization.
So, thank you. Bye. Thank you. Hello. Uh, good evening, commissioners. My name is Tony Panel. I live at 1328 Manover Road in Northwest Burns Park and that's four houses east of uh South Horse so we're right in there with the students and we enjoy it and uh that so the forest will be part of the proposed Packard corridor transition district and I'm speaking on behalf of about a dozen owner occupant people on our street but also on a bunch of the rental students um there on South Forest and the neighboring streets um uh in the rent the old rental housing because amidst all that what a lot of people don't know, maybe a lot of people in this room don't know, is it's not all student rental housing between the south of campus and down into our neighborhood. There are lots of owner occupants there.
If they say no, they say no, that's fine. But I I think with the amount of traffic that you're looking to put over there, especially with the schoolhouse bridge being that's going to be closed for a minimum of a year, if not longer, um you know, that's uh you know, just something to think about if and again, entrance only. I'm not thinking both ways. I'm thinking entrance only I think would definitely help out the traffic on Ranken Road. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions, sir? Come on up. Uh George Tibo. I live on 636 Susan Lane. Um I was president of the board of ed when we expanded the school back I don't know 15 20 years ago. So I have a vest vested interest in what goes on in here and the little little people that run around here. If you drove past here last week when it was sunny, you saw 40 50 maybe even 60 bicycles.
No, no, because our baseline budget, so our baseline budget and our 301 budget are two totally separate things, right? Okay. Um, but now they're taking 301 into account. 301 is only part of the aggregate expenditure limit, which is how much the state can legally spend for education. Oh, you think that'll ever get on the ballot? I I honestly I don't see that there's a big push for it. I don't see it. What's I'm sorry. Does it have to be a ballot item or the legislator? The legislature can do it, but the legislaturator is not going to dirty their hands with so they will either pass it off to the vote or they will just leave bad policy is bad policy. I would put my money on those right your state we still need approval for that motion um I move to approve the district financial report seconded Mrs.
There's other good options out there and I just don't understand why we need to kind of throw these extra ones on here. Um there's a quote by Socrates. If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation. I am an advocate for protecting the sanctity and innocence of our youth. There is certain topics that are more need to be addressed at home. And so again, I just want to pivot and make parents aware if this passes tonight, be very mindful and watch for everything and have those conversations with kids at home. And I I'm just really bummed out that this I'm really disappointed um that we need this um that the district thinks we need this when we could have found alternatives and very we have so much rich history and literature and I I just don't see the point of putting this on and that it's not clearly the sensitive is kind of misleading.
Any questions for Mr. Shil? Was there any I looked at them? I didn't see any. But was there anything that required funding any of these to implement them? There was no funding. Hard to say no to that, but I don't think there's anything requiring funding that didn't come up. No, John. You know, they often Yes, they often slip something in money. I don't I don't see that. I didn't hard work. Mrs. Hayes. Yes. Um, at our April meeting, um, few of the highlights we had, we had a presentation by Canton police officer Patio. Is that right? Um, you may know. I think I know. Um, he went over the new DARE program that's going to be piloted in sixth grade for the 25 26 school year. It's not for those of you that are that can remember the old DARE program, but it's not the old DARE program.
I will be going to this study psychology and pursuing my athletic career playing softball at Northeastern. Aurora Sales Thank you, Mom. Thank you, Dad. You guys have been my biggest supporters, and I'm grateful for all of the work you both have done so I can be here right now. I can't put can't even put into words how grateful I am to have you guys. This school is my home, and I will cherish what I learned here and have had here for the rest of my life. Ivy Savage. [Music] First off, I just really want to thank my family, friends, mentors, and just so many people who have supported me through the years. I am also so grateful to my heavenly father. High school can be terrifying, but thank you to all for helping me laugh through it. I will be attending BYU Idaho in the fall and then heading on a mission to share the gospel.
Uh some of them are getting older, some of them are still younger, but it's a very mixed neighborhood. It's a very mixed neighborhood. And I think this is the neighborhood too that all of us will agree is this is part of the story Ann Arbor architecture. Now whether you are uh you know a person who teaches at the school at the the college of architecture or not we all value that it's it is part of why we moved to Ann Arbor why we live here if you didn't grow up here. Um so what I'm asking you is a rather pointalistic thing and that's to reconsider this whole that this whole district has been put into has been put into the um um the south the the the corridor transition district. all that area south of campus, south of Hill, all those old houses. Um, this is a numbers old horsing stock.
What uh my question is is is first off is what level of or what factor was safety in the Wrath development and for that matter for the municip municipal development which is a butts up to the school safety factors it relates to traffic little kids riding their bikes to school not traffic little kids riding their bikes to school as it relates to what specifically uh the number of cars that would be added when when Mumford first came with 12 houses that was 24 cars. Now you're talking significantly more there there was you stated there was no factor appropriated to the to the new development in terms of cars. So no there there's not a requirement per the council on affordable housing rules the affordable housing rules as it relates to safety but it does indicate that any um municipality sorry any project would have to have access to appropriate roads and as I indicated that there has to be a traffic impact statement if there are improvements that are necessary because of the additional traffic offsite sidewalks curbs bike lanes that type of thing it would be um the require requirement to provide a prata share from the development to uh those improvements.
Lieber yes Mr. Mr. Allen yes Mr. Yes. Okay. Now, the fun events. Tomorrow is a talent show at 8:15. If you guys come, please stay. Okay. There's going to be It's really fun. There's going to be a very special fun um closing. So, you guys do. It's a secret. So, if you want to know, come. Lean's got a straight face. Also, just um for eighth grade promotion on the 21st, if you are able to be here, please let Jenna know so that we can make sure to save seats. I'll be there. Okay. So, Laura, I'm okay. Okay. [Music] Hi, fifth. I know. Yeah. Just let Jenna know so that we can make sure that we acknowledge you and have a spot. Okay. Also, on May 27th and 28th, we were planning for an AVID retreat for two days and we've canled that due to lack of um teacher participation.
It needs to say sexual content on that. So, I just want to express my grievances. Miss Davis, for clarification, how many people were originally on that book committee? Um, I believe we had 28 originally. Sweet. Thank you. I just could not remember. Um, for any individual who is listening and has concerns, uh, it is important to note that when your child is given a book that potentially could have content that you may personally disagree with at home, there are permission slips that are given out before the book is there. That is a policy we even updated the permission slips and what they looked like last summer. Um, and so at the end of the day, what this does is choice. I'm appreciative to this committee even though we didn't have to do this. This is something we chose to do as a district. Again, trying to be transparent and respond to committee or I mean constituents concerns and that individuals could come they could look at this and the fact that every single individual in that committee who are different human persons with different thoughts, beliefs, etc.
It's the new DARE keeping it real program. And um so he gave us an overview of that and um it's going to be great for our sixth graders. Um then we discussed the summer program coming up. We currently have 45 kids signed up. It's K through five led by two teachers. Uh we have we are fully staffed for it and it will occur during three weeks in July. We actually we're up to 60 I think 62. So do you need more staff? We're we're good and we're we're covered by a spot. Okay. And then the uh the last thing we discussed was the weeding report which is um done at all all of the different schools where the library books um are weeded out and the librarians pick which books are to be retired at each school for various reasons. Okay. How do you know that?
Erica Ser Thank you to my mom and dad for being my number one supporters through all the ups and downs of my high school experience. If I could thank all the teachers here directly, I would for all they have done for me. But a special thank you to Readinger and Flynn for being my school moms. I will be attending Stanford University in the fall playing volleyball. Magny Schlater. I want to thank my parents and teachers for supporting me throughout my 12 years of school. I'm super grateful for my family and teachers for pushing me to do my best throughout all of it. More specifically, I would like to thank my mentor Sherry for helping me and being a friend through my four years of high school. Next year, I plan to pursue my passion in teaching. Joshua Schmidt Schmidz. I would like to thank my mom and dad for giving me this opportunity to better myself and grow with my peers.
It's the entire swath south of campus and in Germantown and in lower Burns Park. These side streets are now mapped within the Packard corridor transition district. This is also home to townies. They are intact mixed neighborhoods. They're not rows of rundown rentals right for reasonzoning. Um there this there there we don't we don't right in there to have more student highrises there would really be detrimental. Um I'm not saying we don't want lowrise but not the highrises. This is the storied backdrop of what is really this is quintessential college towns in America. And if you destroy that it's gone. It's gone forever and you will never get it back. I know that from living in Germany. I know the memories of the old people there from what they had before the bombing. And when it's gone, it's gone. Um, the student rentals cost less in in those areas than they do in the highrises.
Okay. Okay. I um I I I find it hard to believe that adding that amount of those amount of cars uh to rank and road and then to schoolhouse road would not have a significant impact on the safety of these kids. Okay. So, I go back to what was uh uh recommended earlier. have all the access out to 35 and none on rank and road. That would make it that would eliminate the safety concern I have. And not only is it from my experience as president of board of ed, I have two grandkids that live on ranking. So I have a personal interest as well. So I'd ask the board to consider that. I understand the pressure we're under due to the state. Okay. But you have to look, I urge you, drive by this school on a sunny day, look at those bicycles and then imagine adding 35 to 50 cars to rank in schoolhouse and right next door.
Um so, a lot of people have already planned to go out of town for Memorial Day. So, we're going to roll over what we were going to do during pres days for next year. And that's going to save up money because it was being paid out at the time of one. Where is your preschool thing happen? It does. [Music] Okay. So, just kind of show up before 10. I've never done that. Is it the gym or is it at the free Aren't there two? Aren't there two, Felicia? Are there one and 10 and then one different? Okay. So, the one:00 one is not on the agenda. Okay. So, 10 and 1:00. So, if you can make at least one of them, they're a lot of [Music] fun. Okay. And also just a reminder, our June meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 12th, not on Tuesday.