What you see in black is the changes. What you see in blue is the justification. So here we are um we added use 14A daycare child care daycare childcare center um it is showing in the table of uses the table of uses as allowed and it is listed in the schedule of uses as permissive. So this inconsistency is being corrected. It is an allowed use uh a protected use. Next slide please. Um here uh what we're showing is the full deletion of use number 27 low or moderate income apartment. Um this was an access apartment is the legacy term for accessory dwelling unit. This was an an ADU category that is no longer needed. Um it was a legacy use that was added before both the affordable housing bylaw and the protected use ADU bylaw which we added at the last town meeting. Um this use has not been exercised.
>> Any opposed? >> Thank you very much. Moving on to our action items. We'll start with 9.03 calendars for school years 2027, 2028, 2028, 2029, and 2029, 2030. Dr. McCord. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Governing board members, uh tonight we bring before you uh three calendars that will start in 2728, 2829 and conclude in 2930. Based on the information that we received from our community uh families as well as our staff, uh it was overwhelming in terms of the majority of people uh want to continue with the style of calendar we have which is the 222 and that is our recommendation for you for this evening. Dr.
It is extremely limiting. It requires a 30-year deed restriction uh for affordable housing and only applies to attached ADUs, not detached ADUs. Um, also, most importantly, a low or moderate income ADU could be designated and implemented under the other existing ADU categories that we have in our bylaws. So, this is just cleaning up to delete that legacy third category of ADUs. and uh also some clarifications of the footnotes. Um you can see the bold text is the clarifications that just um clarifies what was meant by that. And the last slide um this is where uh the low or moderate income apartments use was referred to in a business district. And so while we're deleting the use, we're also deleting the reference to the use for consistency. And that is the extent of the uh miscellaneous updates for the zoning bylaws.
Martin who is our resident calendar expert uh is willing and able to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Is there any questions from the board? >> Well, I I do have questions, but do we want a motion first before questions or >> I I don't know how I'd like to move to make an adoption to the action item or to make a change. >> Okay. Um, I would like to move to potentially look at another calendar option besides this one as well for the um try to I don't know how to word it just for the the splitting of the fall break to be able to have Thanksgiving week and one week in fall in fall break. >> Okay. So, is there is that a motion you'd like to make? >> Yes. So, help help me articulate the motion. >> Um, I move to review an option that splits the fall break between October one week and one week in Thanksgiving.
>> Thank Thank you. Um, does anybody else have any comments or questions on this article? >> Just a point of order. >> Point of order. >> Yes, Mr. Durances. >> Before you can enact a zoning bylaw, you need a report of the planning board that says that on certain date they held a hearing and that they vote to recommend adoption. >> I believe Miss Harrison started her presentation with that comment. >> That there was a hearing and that they did so vote. Yes, the hearing was held on February 10th of 2026 and vote the vote was unanimously in favor of this. >> Great. Thank you. >> Okay. Anybody else?
Is that >> So maybe my suggestion is that you table this motion so that we can study that motion because I don't think we can make that off the cuff tonight. We have to come up with a different option if that's what your your motion is. >> We can table it. Um I don't know if it was something we could discuss or if we have to table it and create a new action item. We we can certainly discuss it, but what I'm saying is that um there's a process to creating the calendar. And so um >> sorry, >> if you're going to change what we have here and what we have surveyed the community on, we might need to come back with a calendar that shows what you're recommending rather than just adopting that change tonight. So what what we can do is we can so there's two options.
>> Hearing none, we can uh proceed to vote. You gave another two minutes. You made it closer by asking a question. There we go. >> Okay, we're waiting for anyone else to vote. Okay. Um, let's reveal the totals. But there goes that core. >> Yeah, we're good. >> Okay. Um I'm going to guess this is 2/3 also. 92 to8. Um so the the uh article passes. Um just before before I adjourn, I was asked to deliver a PSA uh to let you public service announcement to let you know Congressman Jake Achenclaus invites you to a meet and greet at Sherburn Library Tuesday, May 5th from 2 to 3 p.m. in the community room at the Sherburn Library. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all for sticking out the town meeting and for being here. Uh we made it through with a quorum and uh we got our work done quickly.
We can make a motion to approve the calendars for the school years listed and someone can second that and then we can discuss what you're proposing tonight or we can move to table this until we have the opportunity to have a work study where we where you where you work with one of the administrators to create a calendar like you're describing and we can discuss it. So what >> and may I kick in on that? Just if if we end up creating a different calendar or an alternative calendar, my suggestion would be that if we go all the way down that road, then we go back and we have to reservey everybody once again because I think that's only prudent if we've gone to our community with the options that we've been given. we've presented you to uh this information to you as a board at at a work study and if tonight we're looking at changing gears, I think that is detrimental to our integrity as a school district if we adopt something without going back out and uh reserveying people.
Thank you. >> Move to adjourn. >> No, you move to adjourn. >> To adjourn. >> Oh, I make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Thanks. Thanks for yelling that out. We We have people leaving already. >> We're journ now. Thank you everybody.
And >> if we have the time, I think reserving people would be a good idea. I just think that um based on a number of things that I've researched and things that I've I've looked into and people that I've talked to, conversations I've had, the the speaker here tonight with her concern, you know, it just it might be worthwhile to to do that. I don't know based on the district's timeline if we would be able to do that reservey or how that would work out, but um I feel pretty strongly about it. and and I would just caution you in this sense that we are getting there's 17 days left of school and our captive audience is decreasing by the moment and so uh we have to be mindful of that and it's a busy time of year for people to uh go back and take a survey and so that's just my caution.
I I I worry that we won't get the results in fast enough to be able to make prudent decisions. >> Okay. So there'd be no way that we would be able to do the survey in July. like that would be too far out >> I think because uh we have done this in the in the spring in before the upcoming year so people have time because people do plan ahead a year in advance for trips and whatnot and so being able to get this information out to our communities is important. We've gone to all the superintendent councils about this. The community knows this is expected that something like this would happen before the end of the school year. So that that's the difficult part about this I think. What if if I could make a suggestion? What if what if instead of approving the calendar for the next 3 years, what if we approve or make a motion to approve the calendar for 2728 only?
And that would give us that would buy us some time to be able to create or look at a calendar that you're suggesting. It would give us time to perform a survey if we decide to if we wanted to do that and then give us time to vote without affecting a schedule that maybe somebody that a number of families have have already created for next year. But it's not next year, right? It's 2728 that would be adapted and we're going into 2627. So it's we're looking at like two years >> vacations. I mean um if people are traveling to destinations a year or two in advance is typical to um get reservations depending on what you're doing. So, um, people are already planning their vacations out into I would suggest the 2027 2028 school year. >> I don't even Can you book airflare that far out?
I feel like it's like a year in advance, right? >> I just know when I tried to make reservations in Yellowstone Park, and this was years ago, um, they were like, "You have to book those reservations two years in advance." I actually lucked out and was able to get a one night stay at the Yellowstone Lodge because someone had cancelled. But that was uh a miracle ba basically in my view. Um but if you're going to go to high destination places that are in demand 2 years in advance is not um it's it's typical for some things. >> I understand that. >> I just I I've sat on it. I did some research. I had some time to think about it and I'm at a point as a board member where I don't think I would be comfortable adopting this calendar tonight. So, if I'm alone in that, I understand.
I if we need to I'm not sure what the best course of action is, whether or not we should vote um I would like to discuss it, but >> are are we what are we doing? are >> there's no there's no motion on there. Do we want to make a motion? >> I will make a motion and then we can amend it if you wish. But I make a motion that we adopt the calendars for school years 2027, 28, 28, 29, and 2930 as have been presented and are on the docket tonight on the agenda tonight. >> Thank you, Miss Humphre. Is there a second? >> Second. Thank you, Mr. Briner. Okay, now we can we can discuss this. Dr. Robson, you were going to say discuss you were going to discuss something. >> Yeah, I'll I'll just say I I appreciate the tremendous amount of work that went into this um and the survey.
prior to kind of the survey and over the past year plus that I've I've been on the board, I the calendar is something I've heard a lot about and what I' I've heard an adult anecdotally and in conversations has been similar to what the the speaker tonight shared um was concerns with kind of the 22 and and wanting the 121 and and that for our our students that are heavily involved in school activities, they they essentially have a shorter summer and and still have a a one to one in essence because they are required to be here for at least one of those weeks during the break. So So those were some of the concerns that that I had heard. Obviously I saw the survey results. I don't know if um I mean Miss Moyer, are you proposing something similar to Mesa? >> Yeah. Um, I mean the question I would have for the the Easter week, I don't know what we would want to do with that.
I mean, I would propose probably to put that at the end. I was just looking at some of the data and the numbers and um looking at, you know, 88 to 89% of attendance for Thanksgiving week and knowing as a teacher that those two days are generally just kind of a wash when it comes to academics. Um I started really paying attention to the benefit for the students. I understand vacation time and all of that, but you know, if our goal is academic growth, then we need to be looking at how do we maximize their time in the classroom. So that's why I started paying more most attention to, you know, using that full week in Thanksgiving and then also, sorry, my throat is so dry right now. Um, using just one week in October. Um, the other research that I kind of really dove into is that backslide when it comes to being off for two weeks.
So we have the two weeks off in March. The families can do their longer vacations then they have the two weeks off for Christmas. Um, but being able to avoid some of that learning loss and I just know how much work it takes when they're off for 2 weeks, getting them back into the groove of retach for 3 to 5 days, reset your expectations, and then really get back into the learning. So, that's kind of where my head was kind of landing with it when I was when I was thinking about it. and oh my gosh when I was I I read an article that Mesa had out and you know some of their logic and reasonings behind their changes. So that's that's really kind of what made me revisit this. So I in independently I when I heard about Mesa's schedule that they were adopting I went out and did some of my own research as well and that was the attendance that week of Thanksgiving was was a recurring issue and and why other schools because I my question was Um, and I I called and spoke to some board members in Mesa, you know, um, my question was where did they come up with this schedule and why?
And just like I said, the overwhelming reason was because of the attendance issues the week of Thanksgiving. I think you're absolutely right in that many many people just kind of take that Monday and Tuesday off anyway. Um, and so I think this could solve an issue, solve a problem with attendance. And then I I have always um been I've always made it clear been vocal that I don't want any school in June or July. I think school in June or July I think kids need that time. I think that our summers are too short. I think that once you do a family vacation and once you do like a a youth camp or a training camp, it's right back into school. And with the current schedule that we that's on the table right now, um in that last year 29 29 2029 to 2030, we come back to school in the middle of July.
And in my opinion, that's just unacceptable. And so I I don't I I like the idea of of we got the results back and the results, you're right, were overwhelmingly in support of the 22. I think something like what Miss Murray is suggesting would would respect that decision of giving still two full weeks off in the fall. They just wouldn't the two weeks wouldn't be together. You'd still have two weeks for Christmas and you'd still have two weeks for spring, but we'd have a couple extra days uh a few extra days in the summer to give our kids a few extra a few extra days. I I mean, I'll just say it. I'm a firm believer that kids need time in the summer to just be bored. I think some of the greatest some of the greatest learning and growing opportunities come when kids are bored.
and uh and so I would fully support um um a a calendar that gave us a longer summer. Those are my two cents. I just I had a few questions about the stakeholder process that we did. I know we talked a lot about that during the work study, but so we presented to the parent councils and we provided, you know, all those different calendars, right? And like what did that >> we provided? >> I think my micro Oh, there we go. We provided uh the 121 and the 222 as we have done. Mesa calendar of course is new to school districts. Mesa is the first one here in the East Valley that is looking to do that. They will be starting that in the 2728 school year. Um types of things. Just couple of thoughts here too. you know, moving to the uh calendar that is split in the fall, you're still going to be mostly starting in July.