Yeah, just quickly, I'll give you some information here. So, in the past, we've had a school climate policy and a bullying policy. The the state general statute um has shifted uh the general assembly uh made a vote and has shifted away from that process to now saying um we're going to promote a school climate policy. So really focusing on developing the foundational practices in support of a healthy school climate and then where necessary to be able to respond with to to negative items. In the past, it focused more on district expectations. This is focusing more on providing action and direction to schools to be able to do the work. And so there are two things that work through this um uh through this legislation. Uh, and again, they're both required for us to be able to to adopt um and be in service by July 1, 2025.
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Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Thanks for the meeting tonight. My name is Vince Gruso at 556 Glendale Circle. Um I would like to just make some comments about things besides uh housing issues because we do have some really major issues that we need to deal with and one of them is the Gellman Dane situation. So I'm board member of card and a member of the card or the um board for the Alice Creek wershed group as well and we're finding out that um city did some analysis to determine how much water potential we have for drinking water and my wife uh Rita Luso is a toxicologist retired from the University of Michigan and um she with another guy um Dan Mcnell decided or figured out that we probably don't have as much water as people think and that um if it gets contaminated that makes it even less.
We couldn't represent Montil in that litigation uh because we had a conflict, unfortunately. Uh but I can tell you that they have not been successful. uh I think 17 towns joined together, put their money in a pot, uh made a lot of good arguments, attorney did a good job, uh but they have not been successful. And you can't use the trust fund to fund litigation. So even if we had a million dollars in there today or $10 million in there, it couldn't be okay, let's take some of that that money and fight. If you if they if the town wants to fight or if anyone wants to fight, talk to your legislators. I mean, the problem lies in the legislation. That's where the problem lies. So, if I were to summarize this, we're being pressed by the state. Yeah. And that means Governor Murphy signed into law an abomination.
Um, and we have to ensure that the programming reflects our communities and our district's values and respects student privacy. Thank you, Miss Richards. for the students that are attending. Is a parent permission slip required? Yes, President then. Thank you. Sorry, Wade. No, you're fine. Um, the only thing I wish to express to that is just an alternative view. Um, I'm not here to change anybody's opinion. You get to feel how you feel about this. That's totally fine. Um but as in an individual who sometimes is part of categories that are not always expressed uh having other people part of that creates groups, it creates inclusion. Um and having been a part of certain types of trainings in which your job is to go out and speak to larger whole communities and how you interact with the people around you. The purpose is to get people to understand differing perspectives, right?
So, there is the school climate policy, and in a moment, we'll talk about the restorative practices policy as well. Um, but the the policy does direct the development of school-based climate plans. These climate plans are developed based off of five national standards around school climate. Uh the climate standards are developing a shared vision and plan for uh school positive school climate. Policies that promote social, emotional, ethical, civic and intellectual uh intellectual learning. Uh practices that promote that learning. An environment is created where members are welcome, supported and feel safe. And then the development of meaningful and engaging practices. So in these plans, the work is to be able to define what are practices in support of a positive school climate and how are we consistently working to be able to improve that. The work on that is done through a survey. So we catalog what is currently in place, analyze it against those five standards, and then the survey provides us information on how to be able to move forward.
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And the other potential issue could be that Scio Township and Ann Arbor Township already have slight amounts of dioxin 14 dioxin in our water. If it gets to 7.2 two which is a current state standard or yeah state standard for 14 dioxane and drinking water. Ann Arbor would be required to supply these townships with drinking water from Ann Arbor because the treatment plants were built mainly by the federal government and they had a agreement with the city of Ann Arbor that if folks outside the city needed water that Ann Arbor would provide that. So, we're in a situation where there's 14 dioxide moving towards the west or towards the east and that could be a very serious situation. You know, we've um our group has published an international journal uh about the contaminated groundwater getting into a home and evaporating would expose the homeowners. and uh this peer-review journal uh decided that that was actually a novel exposure situation that is very important for communities that have gone for 14 dioxane uh in their groundwater that then comes into the house.
Yeah, I agree. I mean it for 30 years or 40 years I think now we well for eternity if that legislation isn't changed if someone doesn't wake up and say this is insanity then that legislation will control the future of this state for for time in memorial and someday we'll all look back and wonder when did we take the wrong turn and it was when that legislation was signed into law. I know my time is up. I just want to look at the board and kind of see their reactions. the I feel that this type of legislation, we all think it's great to, you know, we'd like to be on on board with affordable housing and help people and so on, but it seems like it's forcing the hand to develop properties, overdevelop properties, and Rathon Road in my in my mind is one of them.
And so when I can better understand different perspectives, I can better represent the student population that I serve or whatever the situation might be. Um I look forward to seeing whatever the agenda is as they they share that. Um uh but I appreciate the question. I I was assuming we gave parent permission slip. I just wanted to make sure. Well, and President Wade, I did want to clarify that the sponsor said the resources on the website are archived resources, which I'm not sure if that's the ones you're referring to, but that they're not things that were currently being used. So, I ask her, hey, can you get the agenda? So, yeah. I just can you point me I mean, I'm at the astco.org website, Miss Van Hook. Where where exactly are these things that you're talking about? Cuz I'm looking. I I would like to see them.
We're required to be able to utilize a survey that is based on um a standard practice. We're going to continue to use the survey that we've used in the past that was developed by Panorama, but there are some opportunities for us to be able to engage in some other broader question for the community. But we'll be using that information. The schools will be using that information to be able to guide their improvement process. So, in the past, you might have heard about a rating in at a particular area that showed uh an opportunity for growth. Our administrative team is going to be doing more of that work again as well. So, it's really the survey to be able to drive the improvement plan and the improvement plan is brought to us as the district um each year and it is co-constructed with the administrator and multiple staff there.
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So I think we need to make sure that we don't um look beyond that. We need to make sure we deal with these critical infrastructure issues because nothing will work well if we don't have good water and we don't have good sewage hand management. Um there was some talk of using Great Lakes Water Authority. The mayor was very excited about it and wanted to go that route and Rita and Dan Mcnell actually explained to the city council that Detroit water was not really a good option for us. It's very expensive, very energy intensive, and the quality of its intakes is not the greatest. And so thankfully the city council decided not to use that. So that's something we need to look at, take care of. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Good evening. I'm Ellen Ramsburg at 1503 Cambridge. Uh to begin with, I really do want to thank the planning staff and the commissioners for enduring these long public comment sessions and for adding opportunities for more information sessions.
U I think Bory peeling back to two is a lot better, but I'd like to see it go away all together. But look, it's hard to disagree that affordable housing is a valuable and important thing to do. It's just a matter of striking a balance. And that legislation was a complete imbalance. Someone put the thumb on the scale and they ignored legitimate municipal interest. It was all about developers making money and nonprofits on paper having big big numbers that they could say look what we did. But at the end of the day, how much housing we get is going to be a function of the marketplace and how much money there's available for. How many last question how many actual families do we feel would benefit at the end of the day that are going to get to live in Bel through this? Well, I'm curious about the real the net.
Um there was I looked in the Google Drive and there's a Google Drive um that I found when I went on there. Um I can't do it now because I I'd have to dig again, but there is a Google Drive. Um I thumb through the Google Drive. I'll look again. I can find the link and send it to you. Thank you. But I I and I can share the um the two curriculum as well. Okay. Thank you. I I also would like to see that link because I didn't see it as well. When I Sorry, I don't have it in front of me. One of the date this is a June dates for this. Is that right? Is it June? Okay. So, in order for them to be able to go, we'd have to vote on it today. I can make sure though that the survey information is included as an additional parent permission component and that I mean not only would we see the agenda but the parents would.
And one other thing that is a little bit of a difference here is what's called challenging behavior in place of just bullying by itself. Challenging behavior is what we would consider essentially a catchall. When someone uh has a concern about behavior, that information is brought forward via a form that documents the the information and then subsets of challenging behavior can include things like bullying, assault, harassment, teen dating violence, physical violence, threatening. What happens through this process then is when information is brought forward, it allows the administrator to work through the process, identify the next step and then be able to support it in an effort to get uh the right mitigation or mediation practices in place and discipline restorative when when possible in place to be able to support our students with that. Um and so so those are the main elements that are a part of this plan.
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I recognize that you have a huge responsibility and I believe you are sincere in developing a worthy comprehensive plan. That said, I continue to be concerned that it is only recently that you've begun to reach a larger and more representative cross-section of residents. I'm concerned that you continue to say that the comprehensive plan is only a framework that details will follow in the zorning ordinance itself. If the comprehensive plan does lacks substantive data and accurate projections to guide the zoning ordinance, then residents cannot depend on the final outcome. I'm concerned because over the last years I have observed planning commission and city council reduce the number of opportunities for public hearings for developments that affect immediate neighbors and the community in large. I'm concerned that changes are made to the unified development code with little or no public redu public notice such as the reduction of square footage and setbacks required for a duplex in the R2A zone which now allows two duplexes on a lot instead of one duplex.
The net the net is I mean you have 19 units that over the next however many years will become available for 19 families as an as an absolute and then you have zoning that would potentially allow for above and beyond that. Thank you very much. Sure. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Come on up. Hi, I'm Christina Hathaway, 925 Cole Drive. I have a question. This fair plan that you've proposed, is this including the whiskey lounge piece of property? The fair share plan includes the uh Higgins Avenue corridor redevelopment area and so that would include and that includes that property. Yes. So according to but not in the density that the developer is proposing in their builder's remedy. No. Right. But in this build a remedy suit that he has and according to what you told me at one of the council meetings that we have until June 30th and at any point before June 30th the judge could come with a a judgment which could be in his case.
So yeah, and President Wade and and that's my concern is parents when they sign a permission slip that their kids can attend. I would have never assumed that a StuCo camp would would have this type of curriculum involved in it. There's no reason for it. Um it's not the the purpose of student council. Um and there's there's no reason to include it. So, um, so yeah, parents sign that their parents can go without knowing any of the curriculum. So, it would be nice that with a permission slip, parents are able to see what their kids will be um, participating in um, in future um, uh, permission slips. That would be great to be able to provide to parents. And then that gives them the opportunity to say okay no you can't go at all or you can go but you you can't participate in these activities.