Haven Smith, I'd like to thank Miss Debbie, Miss Webster, and Jake for their kindness and guidance because I desperately needed it. I also like to thank my parents for helping me to get this far in life. Next year, I will take a gap year and do volunteer work to help me figure out what I want. Sophia Smith. First off, thank you to my mom for being by my side day after day. My dog, Shadow, for always being there, like it or not, and my best friend, Ekko, for holding me up in high school. I love you, Mr. Stewart, Tac, and Lindsay. Thank you for being the teachers to show me my career path and always being amazing people. I'm going to college for teaching and education at Lynfield University. I am forever thankful to my family, friends, and teachers at the village.
And I have been attacked twice on a bicycle. My husband too. and is just motorists who get angry because they want us off the streets. There's a little bit of that road rage. So, when you make it more dense, you're going to have more people who don't choose public transportation, which I think is terrific and I believe in it 100%. And I advocate it. But a lot of people still bring their cars and they got to go somewhere and they're going to upend the street. And I'm concerned about losing the trees, the canopy of the trees. When you cut those trees, our our city will be hotter. We'll have less we'll have issues with water runoff with rain. You will release into the atmosphere the carbon that has been stored in these trees. The history of the trees, it's not just the beauty of the trees, they serve a function.
Right? It's our property. We should be have the right to say what we're doing with that property. All right. So, um, is that something that we can have a conversation about or does a planning board want to talk about that? The town has a responsibility to adopt a plan, file that plan, and seek approval of that plan, right? With our with our property, however we can do it, right? And there are and as Kendra indicated uh the Mount Laurel subcommittee looked at every possible iteration and this was the best plan for your community that we could come up with. Okay. We didn't have the freedom. It would have been great to say we don't need this, we don't need that. We didn't have that luxury. We had to meet that number uh to be able to have a chance of getting our plan approved. And let me be clear, we submit this plan.
91% of the parents um strongly agreed or agreed that the materials promote critical thinking, discussion, and essential skills. And 82% of the parents agreed that the resources provide rigorous learning opportunities while 18% indicated partial rigor. Um so once again there is a strong alignment between the community's input um via the public feedback survey and the comm community I'm sorry the committee's work on the review President Wade um how many did you say did the survey 11 11 and then how often is our supplemental material list um reviewed and updated. Um I it looks like we have 21 pages of supplementals. It is updated annually um like the novel list. Okay. And is there do we ever decide like nobody's using this and we can get rid of it. Correct. Um we didn't delete any this year. We wanted to focus on testing the new process, but next year we will go through with a committee and see if there are any that we can remove from the list um and go through that process with the committee um in the school year 2526.
Um, and yeah, I think that's that's pretty much it. So, staying with United, yes, figure 17.5. 1705. 1705, which is a little better than where we were. Who's on the insurance? Um, it's myself and Lou. Um, Mark is there, but then Elizabeth Windsor, Steve Sedor, uh, Ryan Miller, and so there's two for Border County. Two for each. Two for each. Yeah. Let me tell you the uh the insurance knowledge on this group. I mean it's a pretty it's a pretty good group. It's a really good committee like a lot of value they remain after this temporary temporary now we're looking to make it permanent.
Gia Smith, I would like to thank Miss Webster for being an amazing mentor and friend. I also want to thank Jake for getting me into a program that would help me for my career. Next year, I will be taking a gap year and focusing on being a nail tech. Carter Sturk I want to thank my parents and my family members for pushing me to do my best as well as the teachers who have guided me to amazing opportunities. I'm here today because of the amazing guidance through my education and life. I plan to extend my education at CSU in the new construction engineering program. Ava Stockwell. I want to thank my parents for always encouraging me and pushing me to be my best self. I couldn't have done it without them. I also want to thank coach Martinck at Rampart softball for helping me to be the best athlete I could be and being a great role model for my softball career.
When you tear down these houses that are not ready to be torn down, not only do you lose the historical significance, but you are also putting a bunch of trash and it's polluted trash cuz some of it has lead paint and you know other things that are in building things. You will put that into our soil and I want to think about the recycling too. So when you talk about sustainability, thank you very much for listening. It's very kind of you. Thank you. Please pause. Thank you. Hello. All right. Uh, just sorry. So, I'm Andrew Robbins. I am a relatively new uh resident of Ann Arbor. I've lived here for about 4 years uh on the north side. I am not really what I would say. I don't have roots here. I do meet the uh sort of definition of what you say an outsider, right?
If there's a lot of objectors, they could make it they can make it worse. You know, this is our best foot forward. If if a developer with deep pockets comes in and and and you know, like we're fighting about high tide. We want 101 units on that site. We have it in at like 20. Sure. I don't know that we're walking into the sunset with high tide. You know, uh and so uh you know what what the public needs to understand is we don't have a free hand. We have to operate within the context of the laws that are given to us. Yeah. I think what the elected officials have to understand as well that you have our best interests and we have a right to say of what goes on in the municipality and especially with the property that the bureau owns. Well, and I think that's why you're here tonight to give those comments.
And when uh these supplementals are brought forward, is it like specific teachers that ask for them or just the district decides to implement them? Um so both options will happen. So teachers might find out about a supplemental material that will enrich their um instructional um time or the adopted um materials that they have or um a district employee will bring that forward um in order to help their um department that they support. And do we ever, let's say something's brought forward, do we um ever look and see if we have something that's similar that can be used versus getting a new one? Absolutely. And that did happen with this committee this round. There was one that we had something similar to it and the option that we already had approved was the better option. Okay. Thank you. Of course. I motion that the governing board approve the supplemental materials listed as recommended by the prek through 12 supplemental materials committee for instructional use beginning in the 2025 2026 school year second.
Oh yeah that's is there any been any discussion or remedy from the situation that happened with the broker? So I would say that the committee is on a moving forward basis and our I think with having the committee alone um the issue that happened in the prior year will not happen again is my hope. Um you know we have a lot it it's hard to say if it was who's 100% fault. Yeah we don't. So I don't think Yeah. It's great like oversight. Yeah, we're going to be meeting quarterly. I don't think you're going to have the same You won't have the same thing. There's a lot of eyes on it now and um especially with people with knowledge of what's going on. Yeah. And we also gave the bond committee report. So, we're good on reports.
Lastly, I want to thank my mentor CR for helping and guiding me these last two years, especially being a new student last year. It was hard, but she helped me through everything, and I couldn't have done it without her. I plan on attending UCCCS and majoring in sports communication. Michael Stone. I want to thank my parents, my sister, and my grandparents. I'll be attending Grand Canyon University and want to continue playing hockey. Katherine Cerniac. I know I'm making my younger self proud to be here today. I'm sure she's as shocked as I am. Thank you, Sherry and Kevin, for your honest advice and mentorship during my time at the village. I didn't know kindness could reach levels such as yours. To my friends, thank you. Your tireless support encourages me to strive even further heights on my journey. A special thanks to my mom for being a loyal pillar behind every dream I've shared.
So, I'm not going to come here and talk to you about what needs to be done here. Instead, I'm going to give a little bit of a cautionary tale. I grew up in a town called Simsbury, Connecticut, which has not had any housing growth since the 80s. It my mom, she grew up there, spent her whole life there, got a house there with my dad, and that was, you know, everything. I grew up there. Pretty pretty good life. In the middle of the pandemic, my dad stole everything. My house, my college tuition, everything. And my mom, who had deep roots in this community, possibly one of the deepest roots at that point, no longer lives there because there's no houses to buy. There's nothing affordable. I live out here, which I love, don't get me wrong. Uh, and I couldn't move back if I wanted to because I can't afford it.
I I do want to make one point on 100% projects. Um they are 100% projects as I indicated because the municipality is a backs stop for it and we find funding elsewhere. If it became an inclusionary project, those seven units would turn into 35 units somewhere else because it would have to be inclusionary. So, one of the benefits of 100% affordable housing is that you're reducing the total number of units that would be built within the municipality. So, as the affordable housing committee looked at the numbers that we had to meet, um, affordable housing, 100% affordable housing projects were necessary to help reduce total number of units across the entire burrow. All right. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I think I Oh, one last I thought that was the last person. One more person. Come on up.
Miss Schultz seconded. All those in favor I I I motion carries 50. This brings us to 8.7 approval of overnight and andor outofstate student travel with Williamsfield Stuco. Any questions or comments for the board before I motion? Um, do we know um as far as a the curriculum used at camp um what that entails? So, board member Van Hook, I did meet with the one of the sponsors for student council that is going. She has requested the agenda and said she would send it over when she gets it, but I know it deals with leadership, development, collaboration, skills of that nature. Okay. Um, I went on their website and there was a a Google link that directed you to their um curriculum. Um, and there was two that, um, I found extremely concerning. Uh, let me bring it up. Um, one of them was called gender activity and the other one um was called identity circle.
Any any questions on your reports here tonight? Okay. Let's uh calendar of events. Um, I think it's important. Please mark your calendars. Claudia put it in there. Attend what you can. Um, and um, like I said, love to see the Memorial Day parade. Love to see promotion ceremonies. Love to see graduation, but I know there's a lot going on at camp. Can you reach out to us by email or is that not allowed about the retreat? the retreat because some of us if we're if the bus is later, we do get go on a field trip and we can't be here to discuss the retreat. Oh. Oh, you mean the date on the retreat? I'll tell you what. You know what? We'll try to save it to the end. Yeah. And Claudia did that working document where we could say like what date what Joe you and I can look at some dates and then do like she'll do like a way it's helpful if we do it after the school year starts.
Your perseverance and determination inspire me daily. As I pursue my pilot, private pilot license and commercial pilot license, I hope to see you in the skies. Love you all. Ian Tang, thank you to my mentor Martha for always lifting me up and giving me an amazing experience at the village that I will never forget. Thank you to my pastor Josiah Javier for leading and shepherd me shephering me into a deeper relationship with Jesus during these important formative years. Thank you to my parents who raised me to be who I am today. I'm forever grateful for their love and support. Thank you to my best friend Mara Wilson for the decade of friendship since second grade and for the amazing hours of spending time together and playing games. My future plans are to attend Oral Roberts University where I plan on studying for a degree in ministry and [Applause] leadership.
And I say this not because I, you know, want to h Let me tell you I didn't prepare the speech. Not because I want to use my situation to guilt anyone, but more so to tell you that it does not matter who you are. It can happen to you. It does not matter how much you have roots in a community. If disaster strikes, man-made or otherwise, and you find yourself without the ability to stay put, that's it. And housing is not something that can just be fixed in a week. So if we don't start now, that's that's all. So I I do urge please continue with the plan. I thank you very much. Thank you. Hello. Hi. My name is Tracy Swinburn. I live on Potter Avenue. I'm coming today in support of pausing the plan and engaging more citizens in the planning process in a meaningful way.
Tom Mueller, Brown Street. Uh just have a question about the uh High Tide site. I know that the redevelopment plan still has to be established, but it's clear in the fair housing plan that you're proposing 12 units per acre. Uh can you write into the plan that that would be for purely residential project? Because for instance in if the redevelopment plan included a commercial component plus the 12 units would be extreme overdevelopment there. Or if the current restaurant owner who's spending a lot of money to open that restaurant wants to keep that restaurant then build 12 units on the other half of the site. Uh that would also be overdevelopment. So is there is it possible to write into the plan that what what you mean is a 12unit purely residential project and not a 12unit mixed use project. So that's that's going to be up to um the governing body and the planning board as to what the details are of the redevelopment plan.
Um and both of these are um absolutely inappropriate. Um the gender activity um has separates the boys from the girls and um they ask them questions. It says, you know, there's no talking and you just have to sit there and listen. Um, and they ask the boys questions as to, "Have you ever taken a drug or alcohol to make yourself seem more like a man? Do you carry condom in your wallet in anticipation of having sex? Have you ever believed that whether or not you were going to have sex was solely dependent on the woman?" That's just some questions for the boys. Um, and then for the girls, have you dressed provoc provocatively to attract a man? Have you said yes to a man because you were afraid to say no? Have you ever been afraid to show affection towards another woman for fear that you would be called a lesbian?