This is one of our favorite times of the year. We try to do a good job all year long and strive to celebrate all the different individuals on our campus that make Spartan Nation the best nation. But tonight we get to pick four individuals to celebrate. And so we again, we try to do that throughout the year. We do a We appreciate Wednesdays. We do Thursday thank yous. We partner with PTSO in some of those and we have last year's volunteer here. Michelle Morris is she's our one of our amazing PTSO members. And so we're very excited to talk about these four individuals who do such amazing things on our campus each and every day. And so let's start with our Points of Pride Teacher of the Year, Ms. Dana Gym. Come on up. >> [applause] >> Mrs. Gym is one of the brightest stars on Sussman's campus.
>> Okay. Um, any questions from the committee? Uh, Rachel, th >> this one is just brief just for folks listening. Can you clarify what the word encumbered means that you're using here for everyone? >> Yes. So, uh, if we have a when we create a purchase order, uh, we we never prepay something. So, we generate a purchase order just say for $1,000. And so, that goes in the encumbered line. Once we get an invoice, then we and let's say the invoice is for $400. $400 would show up at in the yeartoate expense, but the remaining 600 of that purchase order stays in the encumbered section. So, we anticipate to spend it, but it has not actually been spent. >> Thank you. Um I I have a couple other just clarifying questions, Shannon. Um I I don't know if it's in this budget or somewhere else and I know I asked you this in a separate email cover, but is food services being reimbursed the way that the state is set up to do that?
I do that towards the very end of this process. Some of you may be familiar with the April 1st deadline. It is possible that up until April 1st, we could get a family move into this district and we would be we would be responsible for the cost of that student if they were in an out of district private placement. Those private placements can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, that's why I wait till the very end. We also have the potential for move outs. We're getting towards the very end. I am in constant conversation with both Janelle and Michelle to see to check for updates. There are some potential updates that could change. We think they're not likely before the 10th at this point, but those are some changes that could happen that could be positive. And April 1st is not an arbitrary date that Aaron and I choose.
I'd also like to confirm that uh if you had uh 5,000 square ft uh that would give you two units. Um do they have to be attached or not attached? Um a duplex is generally considered attached, but the way the rules were written up um I don't think it's clear that they they don't have to be attached any longer. Um I won't swear to it, but perhaps you'll cover that. Uh so the question is you know what is a duplex these days and or what is R2A these days? No longer a duplex. You can have multiple units more than two on a lot. Uh and the configuration uh can be a couple different orientations. So I hope that history uh helps with your discussion later on tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Stalberg. There are no further hands raised at this time. >> Thank you, Manager Kelly.
Um, some of the other topics too were the uh March of 2027. On Sunday, uh, March 28th is the Easter holiday for those that celebrate that holiday. And so the spring holiday that normally falls on our calendar was going to be on March 26th. And so if we came back to school that week, we would come back from 2 weeks if from your proposal of the 8th and the 15th, have a 4-day week, have the 3-day weekend for those that celebrate the Easter holiday, and then it would be approximately 8 weeks of 5 day weeks until the end of school on uh March or May 27th, excuse me. So that was one talk about two of folding in within spring break, the Easter holiday. And what we did then is we gave off Monday, April 26th on this calendar to ensure that there was um getting out of school on the Thursday before Memorial Day.
Let's start with her contributions in the classroom where you can walk in any day of the week and find her imploring robust and scaffolded discussion questions to help walk students to a correct answer and increase their critical thinking. Um giving them agency, giving them advocacy, giving them skills that they need in order to be successful and be more confident in the classroom, um and working in small groups. She does a tremendous job there. In addition to that, she's also a vital member of our PLC guiding coalition, and her passion and dedication to the needs of students was the catalyst um for one of the most in-depth and robust PDs we've had um for teachers who all said it was the best one we've ever done. All thanks to the advocacy that she pushed forward for students. Um in addition to that, she's also our sped department chair, and so she works all day putting out fires for for students and supports a team of teachers um who have some of the most challenging and unique needs on our campus.
Can you just clarify what's happening with food services? >> Yeah. So food services is not on the operating budget at all. So that's why you don't see it in any of these categories. And it's fully funded by um the reimbursement for the meals. So all of the expenses, the food, the people, the staffing, that's all on the revolving fund, not on the operating budget. >> Thank you. And then I have two questions on those two special ed choice students. I understand they're two different situations, but um the student who choiced the first student you spoke about, the student who choiced in and now is in a special ed placement out of district, is that going to be a continuing um issue for us or is that this year? Do you know if that's something we're going to continue? >> Well, yes. If the student continues to stay in their placement and for some reason does not go back to their home school um then yes because once we accept them as choice student and then they we find a placement for them they're our student unless the family decides to go back.
That's a date that's given to us, right? So, that we can make these decisions. So, [clears throat] we get into the significant offsets and this is where we get into school choice. We typically take in anywhere from 400 and 400 and 450,000 dollars in school choice depending on how many seats we put in, how many students take seats, a couple different factors. It seems pretty consistent. So, I'm comfortable putting 450,000 dollars of school choice into the budget on an ongoing basis. We'll continue to analyze that year after year. If that number starts to look like it trends down, we might have to bring that number down. If it's trending up, we might be able to bring that number up a little bit. But for now, I'm comfortable from an operating standpoint putting 450,000. The additional 260,000 is to support some out of district costs that will be ending in 2027.
I'll close the public comment uh and ask if there are communications from commissioners. Seeing none, uh Manager Kelly, could you apprise us of the public hearing scheduled for the next business meeting? >> Uh absolutely. at your uh next regular session uh which I'm blanking. It's on 3:18 or 3:17. I'll find out in a second. 3:17 on March 17th at 7:00 p.m. in these chambers. There is the 525 South State Street vacation for city council approval. This is a proposal to vacate the northern 26.5 ft of the South University right ofway between South State Street and East University Avenues. All properties abuing this right ofway are owned by the University of Michigan. This is in Ward One. And the second is the 615 Riverview Drive resoning for city council approval. This is a proposed annexation and resoning of a single family lot from Ann Arbor Charter Township to the city of Ann Arbor R1B zoning district.
But it also then too the discussion amongst board members and some community members was it was nice to have that 3-day weekend somewhere in the middle of the fourth quarter versus that very first week back and then full five weeks back. So those were some of those conversations that took place. terms of overlapping, we always look at that. You'll see that for the upcoming calendars, I'm always looking at that at fall and spring break. Those districts or charter schools that only have one week, it gets a little bit harder because of course we either hit it with one of our two weeks or we don't. Um sometimes even Chandler, just to give you an example, fall break with Chandler School District and Gilbert School sometimes, even though we're both two weeks, you would think we would overlap, sometimes we don't. Even in fall breaks, there's some years where Chandler has their full two weeks off before Gilbert Public Schools.
In addition to that, she also coaches track for us, and there's several more in additions to that that I could go on for. Mrs. Jim has touched the lives of so many students and teachers on our campus in so many different ways, and we are blessed to have her on our campus and and plays a significant part of what makes Spartan Nation so great. Thank you, Mrs. Jim. >> [applause] >> Ms. Jim, who'd you bring with you tonight? Uh the seventh grade math team, a little ELA, and a little science. >> [applause] >> Is she staying? Yeah. Yes, she's staying. Come over here. First time we've done this, apparently. Next up, we'd like to recognize our volunteer of the year, Ms. Soraya Sharp. Come on up, Soraya. Soraya has taken on all kinds of volunteer roles, not only at Sassman, but also at Higley High School.
So yes, it is and uh but we receive the reimbursement so it should be um it should not cost Pelum or something. >> Okay. And then this might I imagine we don't know for the student that is a Pelum resident who has moved out of district. I wanted to just clarify is that a choice student who's moved out of district or a special ed placement out of district >> that is a Pelum resident so one of our students who choiced out of the district and has special education needs so it's more than the 5,000 that you would pay you we would have to pay whatever their services are for the district that they're at. >> Great. Thank you. >> Okay. Um, any other questions from anyone? Okay. Um, all right. Thank you, Shannon. >> Yes. Go back to my Okay. Um the next item here um is to invite MASC to come and do a an a program on how to advocate for funding and um I have followed up with Tracy Novik um from MASC who is quite happy to come and do that.
So, those costs should will end at the end of 2027. Uh I've done an analysis along with Janelle of the pipeline of students we have moving up through our system um who might be out of district who are currently out of district. We don't anticipate a sharp increase in that in the next few years, next number of years. So, I'm comfortable putting that forward knowing that that will drop quickly. And we will I think we will get circuit breaker reimbursement that will also be available. So, it's it's almost like a one-time cost. It's 1 year. Uh we do also have some uh we do have uh a secondary tier of students and next year we may look at that as well. Um I tend to attribute some of those as if you go back in time and look at when those students may have gone into other district placements.
There's no proposed development. The lot is 14,375 square feet and found in W 2. There may be a non-public hearing dedicated public comment item, but we're still tracking those to see if they're ready. We're not quite ready to confirm, but you might end up having a third agenda item. >> All right. Thank you, Manager Kelly. That takes us to agenda item number nine, unfinished business. There is none. Which brings us to agenda item 10A, regular business. This is 359 and 371 South Wagner Road reszoning rez25-00006 for a city council approve approval. This is a petition to reszone two residential parcels totaling 12,197 square ft uh area from R1D single family residential to R2A single family residential. The 359 South Wagner Road parcel has a single family home and the 371 South Wagner Road is a vacant parcel. The applicant wishes to demolish the single family home and build a one, excuse me, build one two family home per parcel.
And so, like I said, we try to look at that, but everybody comes out with calendars at different times as well, too. So, the only thing real quick before we hear from the only thing I'll say just to that last point is is this is the first time I can remember where every other district starts the same week and we're the we're the only district. So, usually there's like a mix, but this time it's just we're we're the only outlier. It's it's every other district starting their break on the 8th. Um, couple things that I thought of. First one, when it comes to AASA testing, um, so if they they come back, they have two full weeks off >> looking at testing coming up midappril, right? As from a teacher's perspective, I would almost want the 22 the the weird 4 day week because I would want a little extra time before testing to go over materials and I know math gets really crammed in.
And so, she's an amazing part of Spartan Nation. This goes back to 4 years ago when I when I came into Spartan Nation as a principal. I remember sitting in my driveway trying to fill some last-minute holes on our campus as we started the new school year, and I will use the word encouraged, but it was really begged Soraya to help us out in the English department. Do you remember that, Ms. Sharp? And so since then, and even prior to that, Soraya has just taken on so many roles on our campus, whether it's as a chaperone, with winter guard, with band at Higley High School. She's probably taught in every position on our campus. She's absolutely amazing. The kids love her. The campus loves her. We have a We have a wall on our campus that just has different family photos, as we call them, throughout the year, and she's up there with Keaton Jones, for those who know Keaton.
um she had actually penciled the date into her calendar after the parent call just to hold on to it. Um so we can go ahead with that. That won't be a school committee meeting. Um it would only be a school committee meeting if if a quorum was there and we had a discussion, but that is not the plan for that meeting. So, um I will get back to the parent um and they can figure out how they want to advertise that. I also asked Tracy if we could invite the committees from our other towns and she said that would be fine. You know, she said she'll talk to however many people come. So um so I think this will be a really good opportunity for people and we can help them advertise about it as well. Um okay I think the next item is um >> I have a quick question.
That was uh in or immediately after COVID, right? So, we had a lot of social emotional challenges and otherwise. I can't say those that's that's the reason, but it's it's what I've seen the case um in a number of situations. So, I'm comfortable putting that money forward. I'm comfortable we'll have some savings. I'm comfortable have some additional circuit breaker come 2028. The next few slides are largely informational. Um a lot of these have to do the informational slides have to do with the regional agreement. I want to make sure these are in here so that people understand the implications of our regional agreement and how some of those splits work. Um I don't want to spend a lot of time on them. I'm happy to sit down with people with the regional agreement and go through it. So, now we're on to slide 12 for those of you following at home.
Uh the requirement uh for an area plan is not required per uh 5.29.7A, 29.7A nor is a site plan required per table 5.29-1 of the unified development code. Staff approval uh excuse me staff recommendation is approval. We'll first hear from the petitioner. Then we'll hear a staff presentation followed by a public hearing. Then our discussion followed by our vote. Welcome. Good evening everybody. I'm Candace Brier with Midwestern Consulting. I'm here with Martin Skora. He's the owner and the applicant for this petition. Um we're happy to be here to talk about the requested resoning. Um so, as mentioned, this is two existing parcels located on the east side of Wagner Road south of Jackson. There is an existing house at 359 um where Marty lives. Um and then the the property to the south at 371 is currently vacant. Um there are two additional parcels that Marty owns immediately east of these parcels.
So sometimes it's helpful for teachers to be able to have that extra time >> to to cover those standards before they take state testing. Was that part of the conversation when you looked at the calendar? >> We definitely looked at that. In fact, I've talked to our curriculum instruction assessment department even right now when I heard that this was coming up and obviously there's a there's a big window in our state testing calendar. So, they felt like whatever choice if we stay with what the board voted 3 years ago, we can we can get testing done. There's plenty of weeks to doing that. But to your point, too, some people might see that having an additional week. When we come back, you can spread testing out even further. So, but it can be done either way. >> Okay. And do we know as far as our our teacher population is concerned, how many teachers that we have who have students in other districts?