Does anybody have any questions? Good evening. It is my pleasure to welcome you to an evening of music with the Berlin Boilston Regional School District. If you don't know me, my name is Holly Baringer and it is an absolute honor to be the new elementary band director at Berlin Memorial School and Boilston Elementary School. I started here in January of this year and literally every single day I feel infinitely grateful to be in such a special community. All my family and friends can attest to this because I brag about y'all constantly. I tell anyone who will listen about how phenomenal it is that this school district truly understands the value of music education and proudly supports our incredible band and choir programs. From day one, I was absolutely blown away by how this community shows up. Um, our amazing administration shows up every single day to happily answer hundreds of questions a day and keep us organized.
We set up the Esau Meadow offense with just over a minute to go. Calibaries to Trilio over to Witworth. Over to Luke Kasich. Kasich looking to go by Okconor. Nice feed to Jordan. Jordan backs it off. Goes into the middle. Jordan with another save by Pek. Jordan comes up with the ball. Gets knocked away. Good work by Lucas to turn it around. Knock it in. Mcknney comes up with it with 37 seconds to go. Ke with the ball. Turn around. She goes in and out. 27 seconds left. Kicks the ball back out to Mack Whitworth. Over to Luke Kasich. Kasich with the ball. Nothing there. She gets it knocked away. Matt Whiter with the ball. Should have been a charge. Bodies flying everywhere. Mac Whiter with the ball. She's got seven calib getting it. Moves in. Trulio turns around, takes a shot and all and it stopped.
So we're here tonight to celebrate not just 10 students to celebrate 33 students for their high achievements. This is the top 15 uh% of the class and we broke them down into three different categories. Um the first category is uh kumloud which is the top 15%. Then we have the magnaumloud which is the top 10% and then we have the sumokum loud which is the top 5%. So, what I'm going to do is name the students. Uh, I'll call their names out and ask them to please stand. Uh, when we we will have a brief recess that is scheduled in the agenda. We'll actually run a slideshow behind you so you can see where some of those students are planning on going to school next year or what their plans may be. And I asked them some very um Bob Beldenworthy reflection questions uh that they answered and you'll get to see their responses as well.
Okay, excellent. My name is Michelle Bennett. I am in the planning department at the city of Ann Arbor. Although I was thinking a little bit about my previous position, I started at the city of Ann Arbor as a community engagement specialist and we may have had some overlap with this commission because I helped out during the bsentennial on the um murals that were going on the basketball courts. And so I was a part of that process on on the staff side helping review those. and I I believe we got some input from you all on process and um so that was my first and only time working with the um public art commission. Um I'm happy to be back tonight in a new capacity to share a little bit about the um draft comprehensive land use plan. So I have a few slides here. Let me um share them and see how this goes.
Ludas with us uh tonight and Miss Bton. Yeah, I taught her kids. I taught her children and I just had a brain freeze up here and I was practicing in the bathroom. So, you know what? say anything. Uh but thank you Miss B for coming. Thank you Mr. Ludas. The board is always and every year so incredibly generous uh to our clubs and activities in terms of making things happen. um whatever we ask um their support is um something that we can always rely on and it's one of the reasons why when you look at the extracurricular spaces here at preschool the growth every year one after the next after the next more kids get involved more people are participating our programs go the kids come they initiate they say can we do this can we build a club for that um and the answer from our administration from our board from our community is always yes and what an empowering thing that is for our students to So on behalf of everybody who benefits from that, thank you very much.
So 95% of the real link cameras are operating and all of the picata security cameras are operating. So you just going to have the two entrances into the campus. The two main entrances. Yes, sir. These two. So when you have special events, ball games, concerts, whatever. All the entry be through those two gates. Well, um that's the plan, but I know of course talking with Mr. Y and our we'll probably open the gate by some field for the events. We're going to we'll make the accommodations necessary, but um during the dayto day, these are going to be the two main entrances right here. Just so it helps just if anything, the school office more than us keep track of who's coming in when, what time, students, parents come in late, coming to pick up students early. We have the sixoot chain fence now. Mr. Nolan and his team, they close it at 8:30.
Um that's always good to to enhance some things. Uh maybe the last class I saw or I still see several of them kind of joining boards and committees. So the bar set pretty high. So now it's up to you all. But I'm sure the board would like to ask uh them questions about uh just their experience. I will open it up to the board uh if you have questions uh for this graduating class. Don't jump all at once. I know. Uh good evening. And uh you know what I I know what we've gotten such great feedback about this program even though it's still in its uh early stages. But that's wonderful. Um, I'm curious as to what people found um the most interesting um what did what or and maybe even what surprised you the most? General question for anybody. So there's no right or wrong answers here.
And I noticed that it was pretty much fifth graders that had auditioned, maybe a few fourth graders. And I said, you know what? It would be nice to have for their final concert to have the fifth have fifth graders, those that had audition to uh sing that. So, you'll hear a group of fifth graders and you'll see in your program where those fifth graders at audition are going to be singing a solo. [Music] You're better than [Music] just completely unaware. [Applause] [Music] It's okay in the moment when you [Music] makeile crazy [Music] Just the thought of you can drive me. Oh, you make me smile. [Music] Even when you're gone along the sidewalk and just like that You make me smile like a [Music] bird like a record. [Music] without you inside your [Music] eyes. Shine like Ask the thought of you can drive [Music] me out of bed like a bird like Maybe on Sunday [Music] night you can drive me.
Our wonderful principles show up every day with enthusiasm for teaching and learning. They are genuinely excited about the growth of our band program and encourage me not just to follow what's been done in the past, but to become the teacher that I was meant to be. Every single day, day in and day out, I watch our amazing teachers and care professionals show up with unbelievable amounts of tenacity and patience, going way above and beyond to do what is needed for every single student at our school to be included and find success. I want our wonderful custodians to show up every day happy to do what is needed to support the safety and well-being of our students. And I am eternally grateful for their help setting up for concerts. And don't even get me started on our families. I am incredibly grateful for the support you have shown uh to me and the band program and the chorus program and to all of these students.
Clocks are stopped with one second left. Looks like somebody's getting a yellow card. And that's it. Angelina Trillio got a yellow card. That's why the time expired. I was hoping that it would have been on Grafton. We would have had an eight meter attempt, but no luck. End of one. Spartans up 4-1. And we're back with second uh quarter action as the East Salt Meadow Spartans have a 4-1 lead. Goal scorers Marrison for Grafton as she was the first one to score of the game and East Salo has goals by Mac. Whitmer has two goals. Addy Jordan with a goal and Calibris with the third goal or fourth goal. Last game was a close game. Grafton leading three to2 after the first quarter. They're up 5-4 midway through the second and Esau metal poured on in the second half to beat them 16-8. Wouldn't expect anything less than that tonight.
Um, so I just ask when I say your name that the students stand. Also, in a scheduling conflict, there is also a band uh end ofear banquet tonight. So, some of the students that I'll name are not here tonight. They're at their band banquet, but I will still say their names anyway. So, we'll start with our Loud students. So, um, first up, we have Khloe Fitzgerald, who is at a softball game. We have Madison Sahosi and I think she's not here. We do have Fiona Feny. I know she's here. Alli [Applause] Brunette, Casey Sterinki, Board of Education Student Representative Melissa Baines, Isabella Ponttoorvo who is at softball right now as well. Um, all right round of applause for Isabella. Also, Mia Ukaro. Did Mia make it here? Nope. She went home. All right. We also have Elelliana Colbear. All right. And Aranda C. Oh. Oh my goodness.
Can everyone see this front slide? Okay, awesome. So, I want to start by explaining what this is. This is not a process that the city goes through often. Uh the last time we embarked on this journey was in 2009. That was our land use plan that had many other elements um in separate documents. And part of this effort is to try to consolidate a lot of different plans that um staff use to review into one document. And the purpose of this document is to be long range and to be comprehensive. Um, and when we say comprehensive, we are primarily focused on land use, but that ties into so many other components of a city like transportation, housing, um, retail, parks, how all of these things connect, right? Have some tie into land use. And so we have spent the last year and a half doing a lot of research and following a similar process that a lot of planning or city planning documents follow, right?
We're going to ask each of our adviserss to come up and present to their club uh recipient tonight. Um the program is listed there for you. We'll start with our writing design and competition programs, our special interest programs, performance programs, and then our school and service. The advisors will simply come up. We'll provide a little bit of toast for your students. Um, and then we'll present them with their certificates. And so we'd like to begin tonight's presentations with the art. [Applause] Hi, I'm Sarah. I am the advisor. Um, my award tonight goes to Tiana Lewis. I first met Tiana when she was in my craft class last semester and I knew right away that she had a great talent for art. Um, so I was excited to see her when she showed up when art club started a couple weeks later. And not only that, she also brought a couple of talented friends with her as well.
That way, all the the traffic has to come through here. Now they'll come to one of these two entry points. So the school office will know who's on campus for the most part at all times. I'm all for it. I just trying to get in my mind where the the gates are going to be for people to enter the campus. We're going to have we have that that right here by between the softball back stop and where you come in to go to the gym. We'll have I believe a rolling gate there too, right? But we'll have we have multiple people have have keys to open that up. Will you have a gate going down that sidewalk that goes towards the gym, the front of the gym? Or will basketball games where everybody come through here? We we'll have a gate there right in front of the gym, too, right in front of the gym.
So I have one question with respect to what topic was the most surpris surprising to all of you um that you learned that you weren't aware of uh that we have in town. Be it finance aspect of it uh how the government's run um different departments and how they utilize their their manpower uh workforce. So Mhm. Yep. Right. Yeah. And with every development, there's more roadways that need to be repaired and watched on. So that's increasing as well throughout the years as well. So yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Great. Did you guys get a chance to to tour the water treatment plant? Did you guys get to the Did you guys get to the water treatment plant? because that would be a great field trip for the citizens academy just as a future future thing. The water I think very That's That's great. Yeah. And he and he would welcome it.
Oh, you make me smile. Oh, you make me [Applause] So, I had a long list of thank yous, but Miss Bearinger at the beginning covered just about everything. But I just we want to re reiterate again just how thankful we are for all of the support for being able to be here at Tahanto for um the staff faculty and um all the parent helpers and of course all of you that have been here um but she covered every single person I think I don't think she missed one and she um had heartfelt all kinds of wonderful things to say and I just echo all of that. So thank you so very much. Great job to all of the students that performed and thank you to you you parents and families for being so supportive. [Applause] Yeah, she thought she was going to get away. I want to well first I'd like to introduce the newest member of the Berlin Boilton school community.
None of this would be possible without our volunteers who show up and donate their time not just to support their own child but for showing up and doing whatever is needed to support all of our students here. The same gratitude goes for our parent teacher organizations. Thank you BMS performing arts committee ling and the baso for not just showing up for your child but for each and every one of our students. Um, I also wanted to quickly thank our uh Mr. Jeffrey Pier and Jeremiah Gall, our music teachers at Tanto for all of your assistance during setup, rehearsals, and letting us borrow your equipments. Um, and the thing I brag about the most though are these phenomenal students you see here before you today, and some are even in the audience right now. These students find so much joy and take so much pride in learning to express themselves, working hard together.
As the yellow card happens, Grafton started off with the ball. They throw the ball away and Esau Meadow will get that ball in. Mac Whitmer chasing it down. Esome looking to kill a two-minute penalty so Angelen Trillio can rejoin the game. Mack Witworth gets the ball over to Kendall Reed. Reed kicks it up to Kenna Marino and she'll look to just eat the clock up for another minute and a half. You'd think Grafton being a man up, they would try to double up on the the ball, but they're not doing that as there's a timeout being called or ref stopping the play. Kids are kids are yelling. Good for the kids. Good for the Esau Meadow kids showing a little bit of team support. Guess they can do that when somebody's not here. Hamilton follows M. Whiter. Get the ball over to Calibri. They'll be looking to kill the final 45 seconds of this penalty.
Aronda Cwley. All right. So that is our our cumla which means with honor translated from Latin. Up next is our with great honor. So our magnumlau please stand when I say your name if you are here. Liliana Denise Mlennon's here. [Applause] Jennica, Emily Gray, Morgan [Applause] Stanowski, Melissa Ferrara, she's Jenna mix, Audrey [Music] Williams, Dylan Berlin, and Catherine Lennon. And onto our last category, which is our sumo, which means with highest honor. We'll start with William Chad, the class [Applause] valictorian. Up next is the class saludiatoran, Arjent Perei. Not sure if she's here. Alina Bal, Isabella Oay, Daffany Max, Brook St. I know Edis is here. Stand on a Tmado [Applause] Nilatu Jonah Master Pablo, Liliana Navara, and last but not least, Nikki Sterinowski. So, thank you to our Brookfield High School students, Latin Honors, and we appreciate your attendance here tonight. Congratulations, and you're all good to go.
Which is let's do an inventory of what we have. Let's figure out where we want to go and then figure out how to get there. So this plan the draft is really a culmination of um research on you can see here a lot of these different topics housing economic development transportation land use what are the trends what are happening in our city what are happening regionally what are happening nationally and one of our data points is also community input um so we we have done quite a bit of community engagement as well and then we put those together and we try to come up with goals and strategies to help us advance the city in the direction that we want to go. To do that, we have quite a bit of help. We had a steering committee that were representatives u from the community. They applied and were selected and um they were sort of like a sounding board.