There's a lot of more finite work that we're working directly with um some folks at the state. We actually just had a meeting yesterday with Amanda Picket from the state to be able to speak to a caps group about this and we'll have um some uh rest state partners come to be able to work with our administrative team um a little bit later this month and again over the summer to be able to continue the support for this. One of the things that Mr. Bishop and I spoke about is we're definitely going to have to educate families and that'll be done in the beginning of the year and he's thinking about a possible video. This way parents can watch it at their leisure, not have to attend the event. So that's something as Mr. Shler said, this is going to be new for ministers. It's going to be good for families, new for teachers, new for um students, but it's state law so we can't change it.
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I'm concerned that planning commission has resorted to passing PUDS in order to circumvent the existing zoning based on the premise that the locations warranted upzoning rather than whether or not the development met the requirements of a PUD. I'm concerned that planning commission is not considering the unique pressures on Ann Arbor for speculative development or the unique qualities of each neighborhood by applying a blanket low residential zoning to all R1 and R2 zones. These concerns make me very wary of the process and very scary of the outcome. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hi. My name is Julie Ritter. I live at 920 Katherine in the old fourth ward, the most densely developed ward in the city. I've lived there for over 50 years. And I've been part of this plan for over seven years since before the pandemic and I'm in I'm familiar with a lot of the different moving parts of it.
Can I just finish? Sure. Be in his favor. In conjunction with that, you also mentioned that the planning board does not have any jurisdiction over the zoning of that whiskey lounge because of the builder's remedy suit. So if he decides to have four and a half stories with the third and fourth floors overlooking and having unobstructed views of not only the river but also the Atlantic Ocean, which he can then sell at fair market value and just have the first floor with several 15% of the units being for affordable housing that We the or the planning board, which is us because you're representing the town, has no say of how high he goes because of his suit. And this is all part of what you're going to be voting on this evening. I I I think you're misconstring what's being voted on. What's being voted on is not to authorize that site to be developed at four stories with 101 units, but it is for a redevelopment.
All right. I Yeah. Go ahead. I motion that the governing board approves the overnight and out ofstate student travel request for Williamsfield High School student council. Can we make an amendment to that to just say that as long as it wait as long as it includes the agenda? I mean that's what we were talking about. We're going to send the say that in our vote so that I mean do I have to is that possible? Madam President, uh Miss Schultz, Miss Wade would need to amend her motion. Okay. Thank you. I'd like to amend my motion and remotion. I motion that the governing board approves the overnight and outofstate student travel request for Williamsfield High School Student Council with the agenda going out with the permission slips. Thank you. Second. There we go, Miss Schultz. Thanks. All those in favor? I I I just have a quick question.
The state and cave have high hopes that this constant emphasis on improving school climate will pay dividends and I hope bullying issues will be addressed before they become bullying issues. Not that that's going to be perfect or anything. Uh I've read the explanation a couple of times. I've actually discussed it with one of the general write it and they have high hopes for it and we'll see. Okay. A quick question. Sure. Um John the the surveys that are already in place. So the survey goes out to staff, student body and parents. Yep. As well. Correct. Yeah. Yep. Any other questions? All right. The motion on the floor is that the camp board of education approve the Connecticut school climate policy is first read through first and second. All those in favor? I opposed. 80. Thank you very much. move that can board of education approve the restorative practices practices response policy is a first read Joe second Erica I'm looking at you and I say Erica Jordan see it's after 8:00 I'm usually done by now um I have a first and a second it's part of the same law required to adopt it as is uh John you comment so you Did you handle that already?
Thank you for all your hard work. I know it's a big job and I'm really disappointed in the plan that there is now. It's actually an execution process and you're executing a predetermined plan going back many years based on commodifying the real estate of the city of Ann Arbor for the benefit of the wealthiest members of the community and the extremely wealthy interests of people outside the community including national and international concerns and businesses who want to park their money in US real estate using a big tax loophole a massive upward and outward transfer of wealth. You don't want to hear from existing residents because you've never truly asked at the beginning what people wanted, what problems they had, and what they wanted solved. If you did, you would have put notices into the water bills that everybody got so that everyone would have known about it.
It is for redevelopment at 12 units an acre. Okay, that's a hell of a lot of lot different than what the developer is proposing. So, he will not be able We don't look we're in a lawsuit, right? The developer can ask for whatever he wants in a lawsuit, right? We can say whatever we think is appropriate in the lawsuit and ultimately a judge calls it. So, and she calls it because we had no master plan in place. this master plan. Now, every site, let me finish. Every site must be suitable, must make planning sense, even a builder's remedy site. So, if we get in litigation, we're going to be taking the position that 101 units on that site is a perfect example of bad planning. And what we have is is an example of good planning. I can't control how the judge rules on that.
Um, the permission slips have already gone out, haven't they? Yes, board member Van Hook. Yes, but we will send another one. Okay. With the survey permission and the agenda and will the agenda include the ser those two uh assignments or what their agenda? It's unclear to me whether that's actually part of this camp. So, whatever is on the agenda, we will share for sure. Okay. Um, I'm going to have to abstain because I I can't vote yes or no without knowing um what the agenda is. All right. Motion carries 3 to one with one abstension. This brings us to 8.8. Ratify payroll and express voucher uh 1130.
I I I think you got the gist. Okay. Uh it's a first read first read. Any questions? Now I have a first and second motion on the floor is move that camp board approve the restorative practices response policies and first read. All those in favor I thank you very much. Next motion moved from the can board of education approve the retention of electronic records and information policies for first read. Erica have a motion. Thank you. Felicia, I'll go that way. Second. Just keeping everybody awake including myself. We have a person second. Mr. Sh goodness knows I'm sorry about all of this. Um the this is pretty easy. This is what we have to do in terms of records. Uh, and there's all kinds of specifics that we need to pay attention to. Anything to add, Jordan or John? It's pretty basic. I have a first and a second on the floor.
You are astrourfingering this entire process with predetermined messaging that is based on aspirational exploitation and not necessarily based in established fact. We keep hearing from our council rep that this plan is based on settled studies, but those claims are not true. Chain migration does not perform as claimed as detailed in a study from the Up John Institute. Rapid transit leading to a reduction in commuting is not settled. If you've been out county any place from Unadilla to Kaiserville to Dexter to Chelsea to any of those places and seen the enormous amounts of development of huge houses on large acreage knowing that those people are commuting into Ann Arbor and not in a million years are they going to move out of that house into an apartment in a high-rise in downtown. Densification leading to affordability is absolutely not settled. I've sent many of you my letter that details 34 different reasons that's true, including the cost of contractors, the cost of supplies, so many different things.
I can only advocate for what we think makes sense as a community and what my expert, Miss Ly, can support. And she is drafted a plan that contemplates a very low intensity of that site. Okay. So my last thought though is if the judge rules in favor of him because we did not have a master plan in place and he doesn't get 101 units, he gets 65 units or about then when he proposes four 4 and a half stories according to you then the planning board has no leg to stand on. It goes according to what the judge decides. You didn't hear what I just said. I just said we're in litigation. The developer is going to be seeking to build the Empire State Building. We're going to be seeking to devel to limit that site to a reasonable density. Okay? I'm not advocating for the Empire State Building.
Any questions or comments from the board? Um so I had uh two items on this voucher pulled. One of them is the um was a book. Um and we were told that um each year um uh we recognize outstanding students with a book at senior awards. Um but I can't support another um giving our student a book containing again explicit content. Um, unfortunately, it's too late um to change what has already occurred since um our I I don't know whether it was Higgley or Williamsfield, but Williamsfield's awards were tonight. Um but I'm generally troubled by um the fact that a teacher would choose this book to give to a student as a gift. Um the the book contains highly inappropriate material including depictions of rape, sexual assault. It also includes references to incestous relationships. Additionally, the book contains references to beastiality. Um, and I don't understand why this would even be considered as a gift.
It says move that the camp board of education approve the retention of electronic records and information policies of first reading. All those in favor? Do you have a question? I'm sorry. No. Okay. Thank you very much. Motion. Can board of education approve the employment student teacher checks policies first read. I have a motion. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. First to second. Bless you, Joe. Okay. Same deal that that when you're hiring someone or doing there there are state required checks to make sure the person doesn't have a criminal record practice. Uh and it this just simply revises a policy that we've had longstanding for for years. There are specific questions you can certainly get to them. Approve questions. The motion on on the floor is move that the cam board of education approve the employment and student teachers checks policy is first read. All those in favor 80.
Right now, it costs $400 a square foot to build new construction in Ann Arbor. And no way is that ever affordable. This plan is based on false assumptions regarding population growth with no reliable citations and false assumptions about many things with no citations. It's not a plan unless you consider it a mar marketing plan for investors. And not only that, it's a concept of a plan. Kind of like Donald Trump's concepts of plans. It hints at the possibility there might be a plan, but this is not it. Please do your jobs. I know you can do better. I know you can come up with the plan we can all agree and let's get everybody on board. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Evening. Hello. I'm um Alice Ralph. I live in a pretty interesting narrow neighborhood on East Stadome Boulevard. And um most people don't know what that's like.
To the contrary, I'm advertise advocating for sensible zoning and the and the judge will be the one to decide. The judge calls it. Okay. And she has court blanch on everything. The judge has to make a judgment. Okay? The judge, you know, you you'll put facts in front of the judge and we'll put facts in front of the judge. If this thing doesn't resolve itself that we think makes sense, they'll put facts in front of the judge that they think makes sense. The judge will have her own expert and turn to her own expert and say, "What do you think?" And the judge will call it however the judge deems fit. And then we'll come back to the planning board for approval. If the judge enters an order and says this is what I'm going to permit on that site, then our choice is live with it or appeal it.
Um, and so, um, I just I I hope that in the future that we can carefully consider literature that we give to as a gift to to our students and choose books that have clear educational value. Um, because this isn't it. Um, the other one again is the expense for the um, StuCo camp. Um and so unfort because they're on the same voucher. Um I unfortunately have to vote the same. I motion that the governing board ratifies the payroll and expense voucher 1130. Second. Miss Schultz seconded. All those in favor? I I I all those opposed? Nay. Motion carries three to two. This brings us to future agenda items. Items for future agenda. The uh does anyone have any requests for future agenda items? Just what we talked about earlier for the Perfect. Great. Nobody else. All right. I motion to Oh, wait. Yeah. No.
Thank you very much. We're going to move into the healthy food certification and read this once um for the record and then we'll take the motions. moved pursuant to Connecticut General Statute Section 10-215F the camp board of education where governing authority certifies that all food items offered for sale to students in schools under its jurisdiction and not exempted from the Connecticut nutrition standards published by the Connecticut State Department of Education will comply with Connecticut nutrition standards during the period of July 1st 2025 through June 30th 2026. This certification shall include all food offered for sale to students separately from reimburseable meals at all times and from all sources including but not limited to school stores, vending machines, school cafeteria, culinary programs and any fundraising activities on school premise sponsored by the school or non-school organization and groups. Madam motion thank you Kim. Thank you Cindy.
Um I think that the overall the the drastic inclusion of every uh single family area uh is um not very human humane. Um, and so I'm going to talk about the fact that I went to three um, open houses at the library branches and I heard the same thing over and over again, which were not really answers, but a statement of goals, I guess. Um, but I'll just say that one person at a meeting last night about this plan had the gumption to say, "This is what's really happening to me." She said, "I'm anxious. This rapid change, this blanket approach is making me fearful." And I was sitting there thinking, hm, that kind of describes what's happened to me as I go to all these meetings. Because living on East Stadium Boulevard, nobody recognizes that the that the neighborhood they're driving through has a lovely little commercial hub at at Washington Stadium and has one at Packard and East Stadium and has one at 7th and is it 7th or Pauline?
Okay? So, it doesn't but the answer is it does still come before the planning board. But the judge, if the judge rules and that ruling sticks, then that is the zoning. It took away our zoning power and the judge did the zoning and then it comes in as an application and we still look at all the other things, traffic, storm water, all the things that you usually look at, but the zoning is whatever the judge said the zoning is. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. I saw another hand, sir. Come on up. Hello. My name is Richard Degrude. live at 9:15 Riverview Drive. And uh I have only a few questions. One on this plan that was submitted, the M &D housing, they were given three units and I thought you said that one out of five units had to be affordable. So why three and not four?