It’s happening!!!! #a2council From Mayor Taylor being mildly annoyed that we asked when we were a splash pad to the (only ~6 years later) reality! SPLASH PAD!!!

Watching #a2schoolboard is increasingly frustrating. A lot of comments seem to think #a2schools is just not paying the teachers enough to be mean. Loss of enrollment year over year, something I’ve been saying since 2020, is why! Build more housing, get more students. Rightsize as necessary.

NIMBYs can't stop themselves from saying the quiet part out loud. They don't want affordable housing. They want that parking lot to stay a parking lot. They didn't want a park next to the library either 🤷🏽‍♂️ #a2council

Where do I even begin on this article? #a2schools #a2council annarborobserver.com/why-the-aaps...

I got my first Summer Game code and I don’t have to switch doctors or insurance for my family. It’s a beautiful day in A2! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

AHHHH! The @aadl.org Summer Game code is on at least one AAATA bus already!

Actual conversation in my house due to all the Nextdoor and Facebook posts sarcastically asking where all the kids will go to school if we build up Ann Arbor, and demanding we make developers pay for the new schools we’ll need. #a2council #a2schools

My kids watching the classic Bob’s Burger’s episode “Flu-ouise”

This article and the way AAPS seems to be describing this as hit in funding frustrates me. The way we pay teachers is based almost entirely on enrollment. Isn’t the new housing that will increase enrollment worth something to them? #a2council #a2schools www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

"Why aren't kids playing outside anymore"

The irony of getting the PowerSchool enrollment email while you’re giving negative public comment to #a2schoolboard.

TFN you’re looking for long underwear so you can be at your kid’s soccer game in the merry, merry month of May. #PureMichigan

AAPS parents concerned about the teacher contract and bond pause debacles, here’s a deck of slides presented to the #a2schoolboard on the budget. Lot of tough pills to swallow when you look at the birth data and building capacity numbers. #a2schools resources.finalsite.net/images/v1777...

Washing the winter coats to put into storage for next year in. Really taking a risk here, but sometimes you got live a little dangerously.

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

people get hella mad when you say adult drivers should be more responsible than children on our streets.

Spare a thought and/or prayer to all the Michigan moms with sensory spicy children trying to navigate the temperature swings and needing to going from pants to shorts to pants to shorts 93 billion times this “spring.”

Sidewalk repair fund going to take a hit. #a2council

WOOT! The most entertaining part of having this PTO fundraiser run on graduation weekend is being yelled at by UM college grad moms because they have to be at Hill in 4 hours, how dare we close our streets. 🤣 #a2council

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

Next time someone says UM never does anything for Ann Arbor! My pet peeve will be vanquished! #a2council www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Did the “I saw a bird” prompt with my two sons with very predictable result: G: *earnest tone* “Cool, that’s so nice. What color was it?” E: *sarcastic tone* “You saw a bird? Wow.” 🙄

A personal disaster for my family with a kid who sees multiple specialists in Ann Arbor if this happens. Do I yell at MM, our employer for choosing BCBS as the insurance dance provider, or anyone else who can tell those two this is some bullshit?

Between the no contract for teachers and now this “Oops, we don’t have enough $ for the new school we promised when you voted for the bond” news, I’m feeling like maybe it’s time to start paying more attention to #a2schoolboard over #a2council for me. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Back on my #a2council planning commission watching. 3 minutes is too long, sorry not sorry.

I also can’t handle the old guy who lists everything wrong with Ann Arbor (including gridlock, which lol) so it’s not a desirable place to live so we shouldn’t be building up. May he be put out of his misery soon. #a2council

I’m just catching up by watching #a2council planning insanity and some comments are so ignorant I can’t even. Why can’t we price fix South Town development for teachers?! Read a law!!! I cannot be a commissioner ever because my face would be Liz Lemon eye rolling all the time.

People complain the city doesn’t plow roads well and #a2council is so out of touch with drivers, so they don’t care Now with a possible on-street parking ban to do better snow plowing it’s all where could they possibly park and doesn’t council understand people have cars?! It’s maddening.

Adding “did you try restarting it?” to the list of questions men can no longer ask me. It’s misogyny at this point. I’ve been a human interacting with tech for my entire adult life, so just assume I’ve always tried restarting it. (Fuck Verizon btw!)

Public comments have some impressively absurd reasons to not pass the CLUP tonight. #a2council Increased car insurance rates and possibly it didn’t explicitly say new developments will not be ADA compliant and accessible?

Explain the aversion to simply having a 2-hour delay for schools now? Schools did this all the time when I growing up, never utilized now. (I don’t blame #a2schools for this morning, the timing of when all the sidewalks and intersections iced over was terrible for decision making.)

My goodness, complaining about the lack of process on the Packard (Easy Street area) project that has been kicking around for a flipping decade… #a2council

The quotes in this are wild. Zero introspection by these people. They love Ann Arbor and UM so much they want to support it… by holding housing hostage so they can use the city as a playground for 6 weeks in the fall. 🤦‍♀️ #a2council www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Presumably someone is mad at me for reporting them for not shoveling their sidewalks in the past so reported my house (and only my house) today when it is 1) still snowing 2) not yet an actionable amount of accumulation. Why are people such petulant toddlers about sidewalk shoveling? #a2council

Frito’s favorite Christmas present might be the PS5, but only for the Stray game.

Meowy Christmas from Frito, who only got his head stuck in bags twice. (Must not be his turn with the one orange cat brain cell today.)

🎶 Simply having a wonderful Christmas time 🎶

Watching the #a2schoolboard meeting for the first time in a while. Much discussion from AAEA and AAEA-P about low pay, stagnant wages. District ability to pay them more seems questionable. This is a sucky standstill. Support and sign investinmikids.org to get more $ for public schools.

I was just at a screening of Home Alone and when the address of the McCalister’s home was mentioned, 671 Lincoln Avenue, a bunch of kids did the voice and hand movement still! 🤷‍♀️

Giving #a2council the neighborhood drama. After fed up parents said they’re going to report houses because their kids are falling on the way to school, they’ve been told “shame on whoever reported them rather than talking to their neighbors or lifting a finger to help.” I give the fuck up.

Today was absolutely diabolical walking the kids to school. Witnessed about a dozen falls. Understand that this is among the worst case scenarios for sidewalks with warm temperatures causing melt followed by a freeze, but so many didn’t even try! #a2council

“How about all the new buildings in Ann Arbor?! There’s construction everywhere!” - the color commentary from the Michigan Basketball game tonight. lol, #a2council

Over it. #a2council Snow/Ice removal on sidewalks seeclickfix.com/issues/20508...

Officially in “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” season where my neighbors guilt trip everyone else for reporting them for not shoveling the sidewalks. How dare any of us be so unneighborly (to not want people to slip and fall)! #a2council

Honestly, probably my fault for putting a plush bird ornament on the tree. It’s his now.

For my birthday my sons got me (chasing the kitten off) roses! Can’t wait until Christmas tree season!

Another reason to hate AI… it decided that I should pay over 2x as much for an @mlive.com subscription! Did it just scrape tax assessor data and decide we’re rich? Just going to cancel.

Shocking absolutely no one, people with PtP signs on Granger are not handing out candy tonight. #a2council

So @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social (on Instagram) says the schools *should* have the money to fund free breakfast and lunch, if I heard him correctly. No update from AAPS, but that’s enough for me to not worry about figuring out their awful meal payment system today. #a2schools #a2council #a2schoolboard