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MCPSS SCHOOL BOARD MEETING - MARCH 23, 2026

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YouTube / Mobile County Public Schools
Date
2026-03-23
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Mobile County, AL
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1,192 words · about 7 min
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2026-05-08

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001My name is Donald Trump. Wait, let me ask one question. I should have been closer. Tregil Uh Ms. Farrish Okay. Ready, sir. Yes. I'll call you back. Yes. He's talking to the president. He's on the president. Good morning. Uh This is the regular meeting of the Mobile County Public School Board of School Commissioners. This meeting is now called to order. Uh at this time I'm going to steer away from the norm and I'm going to ask Mr. Hatcher to share with us a moment of in prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Hatcher will you please lead us in prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily

002bread. Forgive us for our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the glory forever and ever. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. May I have a motion for the approval of the minutes? >> So moved. Do I hear a second? >> Second. I'll put the question. All in favor? >> Aye. Any opposes? Motion carried. Okay. I'll make a motion for the adoption of the agenda. So moved. Do I hear a second? Second. All right. All in favor? Aye. Motion carried. All right, do we have any announcements today? Mr. Stringfellow No,

003ma'am. Dr. Crenshaw Mr. Parson >> No, ma'am. Mr. Hatcher No, ma'am. Well, I guess what? I do. All right. We want to just recognize um our counselors. I have four I have four counselors from District 4 that was recognized with the VAMP program highlighting counselors in in the great state of Alabama. And those schools' counselors are coming from Craighead Elementary School, I Shall Overcome Elementary School, Palmer Pillans, and BC Rain. So, we want to send a shout-out to those counselors and those schools for great recognition and representing District 4. Okay. Do you have any counselor awards? Okay. All right. Do we have any reports and recognitions? Thank you. Do you have any citizens' requests, Mrs. Tregil? >> No, ma'am. All right. With that being said, let's move on to action items. Uh action item G1

004uh is the 2026-27 Bondy Elementary School year-round calendar. I ask that you approve action item G1 2026-27 Bondy Elementary year-round calendar. Do I hear a motion? Madam Chairperson Yes. Uh since we have vetted these in a work session and have asked questions uh or have concerns or whatever, uh I move for approval action items G1 through 10. Oh, I'm sorry. Just because items 2, 3, 4, and 5 are somewhat confusing. I'm going to go through what we're doing here. Item two is the new seizure policy. Forget the one in uh item five. Item three is the safety plan, which I've already advised does not have to be shared with the public, but uh we do need to vote on it. Mr. Kaylor, I'm sorry. I wanted to say one thing. We took it off of

005G5. Uh the seizure policy? Yeah, the one that was off of there. Okay, good. Okay. Good. All right. All right, forget what I said about seizure. That's number two. >> [laughter] >> Approval of policy changes. That's the confusing one. Okay. When you have any What's going to be voted on is extended care policy 4.731, the mental health awareness policy 6.31.1, and Alyssa's Law 5.801. Aaron's Law, which is 5.2 01, does not require a policy according to the general counsel for the State Department of Education, so we need no action on that one. If it's on the agenda, it can be taken off. Okay. [snorts] And it? By the way, Anna Alyssa's Law is the same thing as uh supervisory supervision of low-risk juvenile sex offenders. They're one of the same. That's all. Did everybody [snorts]

006get clarification on that? Yes, ma'am. All right. Do we need to make any adjustments? As amended. As amended. Okay. Thank you. All right, so do we have a motion? Second? Second. Okay, you second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposes? Motion carried. All right, Mr. Superintendent [snorts] Yes, ma'am. Action item G11 is Riverside Assessment uh to provide a system of digital security and streamline testing for special uh education. That's coming out of RAISE Act funds for $169,217.49. I ask that you approve action item G11. Madam Chairwoman Yes. >> Inasmuch as the items have been vetted previously uh in work session board meeting, I so move to approve action items uh 11 through 31. Okay. Do I hear a second? Second. All right. We have a motion to approve action items G11 through 31. All in favor?

007Aye. Any opposes? Motion carried. Let's go. All right. Action items G32 through G41 is personnel, which will be listed under separate cover. Okay. Do I hear a motion? Madam Chairwoman, I'll make a motion to accept uh action item uh 32 to 41. Okay. Do I hear a second? Second. All [snorts] right. Any opposes? All in favor? Aye. Motion carried. All right. All right, onto the consent agenda. Uh we have H1 through H14 that are um action consent agenda items that are less than 5,000. H1 through H14 includes out-of-county travel as well as various bids. That's consent agenda H1 through H14. All right. Do I hear a motion? Yeah, Madam Chairperson, I would recommend that we approve uh consent agenda items H1 through 14. All right. Do I hear a second? Second. All right. Any opposes?

008All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carried. All right, onto our flow-through items. Uh if you see here, you have uh one flow-through item, which is our private and parochial school um federal dollars. Uh so, that's uh flow-through item I1. Do I hear a motion to approve flow-through item one? Motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Motion carried. All right. All right, onto student expulsion. We have uh J1 through J5, which will be listed under separate cover. Um Madam [clears throat] Chairperson, I I move for approval of student expulsions 1 through 5 with exception uh Mr. uh Superintendent, uh one and three and uh I think needs to be examined because it may fall under uh special ed acts like that. I'm not quite sure, but you can get a clarification

009because we'd have to follow the rules on that. Okay. All right. Second. And those explosions are one and three. One and three. Okay. All right. Uh we got a motion. We have a second. All in favor? >> Aye. Any opposes? Motion carried. All right. Information. All right. Information item, we have K1, our monthly financials, as well as K2, purchase orders over 5,000. Okay. Thank you. Uh Mr. Attorney. Madam Chairman, we have uh received three additional employment agreements for a total of six. Uh one received by the board on 3/5, two received by the board on 3/13, three received by the board on 3/19. So, we need action on all six. All right. Did everyone receive those uh emails from the attorney? >> Yes, ma'am. Are we in compliance? So, are we going to accept them

010uh Madam Chairman. Yes. I also move concur with the uh recommendation of the attorney on said personnel matters. Okay. Uh do I hear a second? >> Second. All in favor? >> Aye. Motion carried. Scheduling the meeting, Mr. Hatt. Actually, it's on April 1st. Uh we're having some resolution discussion, so we'll have to hold it until tomorrow. So, we're not looking at Oh, okay. April 1st. April 27th is not going to happen, Brian. April 27th. It's scheduled. What is needed in your calendar there? >> [snorts] >> Also, on April April the 27th, um Miss Abrams may get with you guys. We may have to change that uh April 27th date cuz I will be in Montgomery repres- um for one of our schools uh getting an award. So, we may need to change that April 27th

011date, as well as um she will also get with you um to schedule a time for our whole board training. Okay. All right. Mr. Mr. Mr. Superintendent, I noticed uh I'm glad you brought up that whole board training because we received a flyer on some suggested topics and stuff, so I assume you will probably pick one from that list like that. Okay. They seem to be pretty good. We don't want [clears throat] to 8-hour just uh I'm not I'm not in that one. Just make sure that uh so we can make notice that everyone is present for that whole board training. Mr. Hatt. >> calling whole board? I'm need the phones. Why you called Mr. Hatt your name? Okay. All right. So, we um uh So, all of us are clear on our scheduling of

012meetings, and we do have the updated April calendar. All right. >> Yes, ma'am. Do I hear a motion for adjournment? >> I had one other thing to say. What you have on there? Mr. Hatt. Well, what Mitch? I just want to give out a congratulations on Baldwin County Superintendent that retired and that uh that he'll have a good retirement cuz >> Mr. Tyler. I know he does. Seems like done. But I'll say he done a good job. So, congratulations to him, and I hope they Okay. Well, we wish Mr. Tyler uh We extend congratulations to Mr. Tyler, also. He's been around for a while. A while. All right. Do I hear a motion for adjournment? So moved. Do I hear a second? >> Second. All in favor? >> Aye. Motion carried. We are adjourned. Mr.

013Attorney.

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