Um, I knew that she was dependable and trustworthy even as a freshman when she uh came to promote our club for back to school night and somehow even managed a few of the artworks her and her friends made during art club. Um, I'm excited to see what she brings to art club for the next four years. [Applause] Hello, good evening. My name is Weber. I teach ceramics here at High School and I run the EHS club. My award tonight is going to Shave has been an integral member of play club this year. I first started working with Shade in the course of last year. Uh during that course, she really started showing me extreme leadership qualities. I still to this day keep thinking she's a senior and she's a junior. The leadership qualities really showed during that course. I do not usually do group projects in ceramics and decided to try a class chess set and she really stepped up and helped with organizing that and getting that together with the other students and I really started seeing some great things from her there during clay club this year.
We're going to be keep that gate in case of an emergency exit those couple doors, but um we're going to keep all that in in play as far as with the security and cameras and entry points. I think during school hours everything could be locked but then after school hours during games and events then it'll be open for emergencies. Uh the Mr. Richards has a key and the sheriff's department is going to have a key. So anytime that we somebody needs to come on the campus sheriff department has a key on their office. Looks good. So then we'll have to work out something with the sheriff's office that when if there's a call the football field during the are you are you going to leave that that gate open or closed for for practice? You mean like if somebody gets like rough? Yeah. Yeah. We'll probably leave it open for practice.
He would he would welcome it. Believe me, he's the type of person that would, you know, stop and have a coffee with you, too, at the same time. I've got a question for this fine group of people. First off, I do want to thank y'all for raising your hands and participating in this process. So, it just shows that you all were willing to step up and learn more about the town and uh all the folks that support us residents here. Uh but I have a question for all of you. Show our hands. Through this experience, are you now even more motivated to step up and volunteer with the town? Can I see some hands here? All right, we're going to hold you to it. Thank you. You're all on camera, so it's all on camera. It's being recorded. It's being recorded. In all seriousness, thank you so much for your participation.
This is Rob I'll get it right eventually Mr. repeat the new principle of oil. You know, I don't know if you probably realize this, both of these teachers. [Applause] things. I know that here [Music] [Applause] [Music] wave of course you came in the middle of the year um to join us and to do just an outstanding job with all our kids. So you can take one of these. You want to take one. [Music] this evening. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Drive safely. [Applause]
I'm almost done. As an inclusive teen, even if they come from different schools, they help each other persevere through learning a new language and they work through all of the interesting sounds that come out of these humps of wood and metal and by the end of the day, they end up with some really great music. I am so lucky and grateful that I get to make music and memories with these students every single day. But before we do, I would like to remind everyone of the no food and drink policy in this auditorium with the exception of water. We are grateful to Tanto for letting us borrow this space. So, let's leave it cleaner than how we found it. Please take a quick moment to note the exits at the top of each stairwell and at the bottom of each stairwell. Um, And up first is our fourth grade combined band composed of students who began playing their instrument in September.
Carolina Kasich looking to get a little too close to that restraining line. Gets the ball over to Calibris. Back to Kenna Marino as they're looking to kill the last 24 seconds. So now looking to get out a little bit out of trouble as Kenna turns around. Has an opening goes by. Everybody turns around. Kenna Marino gets a shorthanded goal. Good job by Kenna Marino to evade four Grafton players. go by and get a shot out just over Pec's shoulder. Kenna Marino gets her first goal of the game. Put the Spartans up five to one. Good timing because the Spartans only have 9 seconds left until they're back to full strength. Addie Jordan back up on the draw. [Applause] Looks like they're going to get a redraw. Ball goes up. Nice grab by Scallion. She makes quick work. She gets the ball up to Willer. Willer getting double teamed.
You have to sit tight for a little bit longer. Just sit tight. Thank you. The subtext is that we have all these cupcakes and we have high expectations that you will make them go away. Let's be real. Okay. So, um, thank you very much, Mr. Banda, and congratulations, students. It's and I know that we're sitting here clapping, but man, you've earned um you've earned everybody's respect with your hard work. Um Dr. Brill, we understand that you have some announcements about teachers and staff. Um the floor is yours and I'm happy to help you. All right. We also have some gifts for everyone. So, we're going to announce our teachers of the year for each building and then our district teacher of the year and then we'll go on to our staff members of the year. Um and when we call your name, we'd love you to come down uh shake hands and we uh the board has a gift for you.
They would listen to a lot of the work we've done. they'd provide us feedback and we would meet uh regularly with them. The planning commission by state statute is considered the author of this plan um through the Michigan planning enabling act and they will be one of the final adopters along with council. Um, so it has to go through planning commission and then be approved by council and then like most plans then it's on staff to implement what we have um laid out for ourselves. I also encourage you all to go to this uh site. This will route you actually to the city's new engagement portal and there's a project card there that has the draft plan there. It has our timeline. It has all of the recordings from our planning commission meetings where we discuss the comp plan um which I'll refer to it as uh sometimes for short the comp plan and um it has slides from our steering committee meeting.
She continued to progress in her work on the wheel independently. I was seeing much progress with that um in her improvement on her pieces she was throwing on the wheel and also trying out new glazing techniques like that. Really, she should be splitting my uh stipen for the clay club because that's how much of a help she was with me helping me keep track of beginner students in clay club and who needed a late bus pass at the very last minute before they ran out the door. So, I appreciate that. We are a fairly newer club at Union High School. Play club has been here for about four years. Um, so we've been getting many more interested members coming in, newer members coming in. So, Sh has been very helpful with um helping out the beginners, making sure they know where things are and starting the studio.
Okay. Just out of curiosity though, I know you said that the sheriff's department has a key. Wouldn't it be more ideal to have like a keypad for the gate? That way, who'sever on duty doesn't have to, you know, go to the office to get the key, then to come back to let the ambulance in or, you know, something like, wouldn't it be easier? Right. We we'll get there, but first we got to get everything set up. No, I get it. Yeah, that's that's the plan eventually, but for now, we could by a lock with a combination of the number. We're not there yet. Yeah. No, it's just a lock. Yeah, it's just like a padlock. Yeah. Yeah, we we'll we'll we'll get there first. We're going to make sure we have our keys in place for CIS to come over, do a walk through, let us know what the options are.
It's it's really important. Um really important stuff. So yeah. [Laughter] It's fine. Yeah, we we didn't have to worry about where everybody was. We knew where they were. I'm I'm curious like what were your expectations coming in? Because I know you were saying that it was kind of like an us versus them kind of mentality. How about some of the rest of you? Like what was what were your expectations coming in or something? Okay. Mhm. Yep. Yeah. Would you recommend this experience to uh your friends and neighbors who might have come might come in with some of these perceptions and might walk out in a different way you were going to Mhm. Mhm. Right. That's right. Right. Right. I I love that recommendation. In fact, it hearkens back to uh we there were a couple of sessions before you put together the citizens academy, Michael, where uh different citizens groups and and there was a citizens group that I was involved in asked you to come in and do just that.
We start with how to open their case so their instrument doesn't fall out upside down onto the floor. We put our instruments together. Um we learn how to read music, produce a good quality tone on our instruments, put all of those skills together, and we end up with something like this. Our first song today is Hot Cross Buns. I'm certain you've heard this melody before, but this is our first piece where we have some musicians playing the well-known melody while other musicians are playing a supporting role in the harmony at the same time. Um, we will be playing this twice. So, please hold your applause until we do this both times so that each student gets a chance to play both parts. Without further further ado, fourth grade game. Feet straight back again. Monster time. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Jack [Music] [Applause] Next we have the funky song and after that a class favorite too much will work glues.
Addy Jordan. Kylie Marino in on that. She tried to try to keep going with it. And Addy Jordan took a step. Addy Jordan knocked it out of her hands. Now Addy Jordan is off. Addie Jordan over to Lucas. Lucas turns around, fires a shot from 12 meters out over the left-handed shoulder of Pack to put the Spartans up six to one. What a shot by Lucas. Caroline. [Applause] That all started back here at the 20 yd line with the Grafton girls selfstarted and Addie Jordan waiting for that. takes a step, knocks it away, runs out the field. Nice assist to Caroline Lacic. Put the Spartans up 6-1. Just under 10 minutes to go in the second quarter. started. Check Where are you? [Music] And we're back after a quick timeout from Grafton. They had a little discrepancy about the play and Addy Jordan knocked the ball out of their hands.
So, we're going to start with our um CLES Handwood Lake Elementary School teacher of the year, Laura Miller. Come on up. [Applause] All right. And Laura, if you could just stay up there, just just wait. That'd be great. Um, now from Whiskey, Kimberly G. [Applause] And from Brookfield High School, Miss Patty [Applause] Janetti, you never Careful. How about a round of applause for And it's important to announce that uh there's one teacher who has a lot of work to do over the summer, our district teacher of the year, Miss Patty Janetti. Congratulations. [Music] all the great work you do. Thank you so much. Portfolio. Yes. We're here to help. We're here to help you. All right. Now, we're going to do our staff members of the year. Now, with staff member of the year, we don't do a district staff member of the year. We just have our our five our four staff members of the year.
So it it has quite a bit more information there if you're curious after this. Um this process started with a resolution from city council. These are some of the uh directives that they gave to us um to align with our carbon neutrality plan to densify the city and that does include single family zones. Um to streamline our zoning to have fewer zones that are more uh flexible. Um it gave us a framework here to follow. I'm going to touch a little bit more on this affordability, sustainabil sustainability and equity. And then in terms of land use to look at um ways to repair past land use policies that have resulted in the exclusion of people based on race, income or other characteristics um which zoning uh planners main tool had does have a history of. So they're asking us to look into that. So we brought those goals, I'm sorry, we brought those values to the public.
I feel very lucky to have Shai Play. Um I'm very appreciative of all of your hard work this year and I would be very honored if you would come back again next year as a senior and um that would just be amazing. So thank you so much and present this award to you. Please come on up. [Applause] Hi everybody. My name is Kelly Kennedy. I teach juniors journalism and I advise the newspaper club. So typically the newspaper award is given to an upper classman who has stood out as a key member of the journalism club. But this year I am breaking that tradition and awarding this honor to sophomore Christian joined a club at the beginning of his freshman year and has been the most productive um active member since joining. He regularly attends meeting and he has produced more articles, written more articles and had them published than any other student.
That's that's been discussed before um other ways, but I'm going to just uh we'll get there. And once we're there, I will give you guys a domination. Everybody in town. Yeah, is going to come and do a walk through. We will personally be with them and I'm sure they're going to give us the options and we'll share with them the options that he shared with us. Further, next item. Good job. I'm happy. Okay. Next item is then the administrative report on the primary data presentation. Mr. President, members of the board, we have a report uh focusing on the dibbles very intensive and very uh a very a lot of depth and so we want to really focus on this uh report for you. We will be bringing forth uh other testing data on a later time when we have some more members of our team to present.
You know, kind of an Ashlin 101. And I think it's great because not everybody might have the kind of time that in dedication that you all have demonstrated. But we do need to remind folks that this is not it's our town you know and we made the what we are enjoying right now is a direct result of the decisions that we have made and you know the better informed decisions the better you know the better outcomes will be. So I I love that idea. Yeah. Yeah. Wonder if we could create, you know, like I don't know if you'd call it a webinar, but like a video like a twohour like video that people could access on, you know, on their own time. That was kind of like a a 101, you know, Ashlin 101 and then and then put little things on TikTok so people know to to Right.
[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] SP [Music] [Applause] [Music] Christmas. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Now, originally that was going to be the end of our fourth grade band concert, but these kids are just so amazing that I had to add an extra song because they tackled their music. It was way too easy for easy for them, way too fast. So, we're going to be adding two note tango to the program. First time we'll be playing normally. Second time a little bit faster. 2 3 4 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 2 Ready, go. [Music] One 2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 4 [Music] 2 Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Woohoo! Woohoo! [Applause] [Music] One more round of applause for the Berlin. [Applause] Up next, we have a very brief transition. Um, so students and anyone helping around, please listen to all the directions for this first transition before moving.
Little clarification by the referees and we're set to start the second with Kenna Marino up on a draw followed up by sister Kylie and Addie Jordan. Spartans up 6-1 with 932 to go in the second quarter. [Music] Balls up. It's chased down between Hamilton and Jordan. Hamilton ends up with a ball. She's met by Kenna Marino. Grafton quickly gets the ball over the restraining line. Good chase down by Kylie Marino as Marrison gets the ball over to Okconor or Scallion. Scallium makes her way in. She'll be getting herself an 8 m attempt as it looks like she was followed by Grace Howard. Abby Scallion committed to Colorado Springs. She had three goals against the Spartans. She turns around, takes a shot, misses just left of the net. Grafton there to back it up. Als had it. She kicked it over to Marrison. Marrison looking to do work.