001Everyone's in place. All right. All right. At first, we're going to ask um Mr. Stringfeller to lead us in prayer and pledge for today. >> Our heavenly father, we thank you for the opportunity to meet today to serve our community. Please guide us with the wisdom and intelligence we need in order to vet the items that are brought before us today. We also pray for our staff and our teachers and principles and all of our children uh that are in our buildings. Uh we pray for a good school year. Things seem to be going well and we certainly hope that continues. Uh we ask all these things in thy name. Amen. >> Amen. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
002under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Well, good morning this morning. Do we have any announcements? Uh, Mr. Stringfeller. >> Mr. Superintendent, I assume everything has gone well. Somebody asked me the other day, "Is school opening up okay?" And I had two answers from them. I said, 'Well, I assume that is because I didn't get a call from my superintendent about a problem. And I said, "Nobody from the news media call me either, so I assume everything I'm just making a joke, course, but everything went okay." >> Everything seems to be going well. You know, we have our normal first of the week issues. Uh, but other than that, nothing nothing major. >> That's good news. Awesome, Mr. Parson. >> No announcements. Okay. Well, I'm gonna echo and follow up with
003Mr. Stringfeller. Um, shout outs to our facility guys and uh our media people as well as our staff. Mr. uh Hack, again, an excellent job get our school staffed. Uh hopefully we will continue. Um I think school went off well. I know in my district everybody was pleased and we got them in and got them out. That's all that matters. All right, Mr. Superintendent, you have anything you need to share? >> Yes, I do. On the agenda, if you will allow me to, I need to pull um one item. It's in the consent agenda. It's D6. D6. We need to pull consent agenda item D6. >> Okay. as far as Okay. All right. Let's move on. We're going to move on to action items. Yes, ma'am. Okay. We'll move on to action item C1. It's
004the 2025 student code of conduct that we do every year. Uh there is no financial um source for that. Uh but that will be our 2025 student code of conduct. C2 is with discovery education. Uh it is to create a learning environment for administrators, teachers, media specialists for digital con content for 75 schools. That's coming out of district local funds for two thou $257,300. C3 is also with Discovery Education. Uh it is to grant license to access discovery education services uh for 88 schools coming out of local funds, local technology funds for $245,960. Action item C4 is thrive way. It is to provide training and resource for each um each school will have a coordinator uh for path curriculum and peer helper. Uh that's coming out of our anti-bullying grant for $239,200. C5 is brothers
005working together Port City Classic. It is to stage a college football game um known as Port City Classic. The financial impact of that game is $30,000. C6 is with the flipping group for OORRO. Uh it is to uh provide two consecutive day training sessions for 50 participants. That's coming out of title one funds for $28,000. C7 is an agreement between us and Edith Gil with the CAP Edith Gil with the CAP 2 program. uh she will be supervising staff and students and providing ongoing professional development and facilitate the cap 2 uh that's coming out of at risk funds for $24,500. C8 is an agreement between us and Worldgate. It is to assist our conversion team with integration and troubleshooting issues. Uh that amount is 18,500. That's coming out of local school funds. C9 is Consuela
006Prince to provide instructional support for our first CLA uh first class prek pro program for our teachers and auxiliary teachers. That's coming out of title one funds for $15,000. C10 is with Imagine Learning with four sites. It is to provide three uh year software license. It's coming out of district local funds for $12,243.95. C11 is with Bailey Education Group for Taylor White. It is to provide an 8-day professional development, learning, and coaching services to teachers. That's coming out of Title One funds for $12,000. C12 is with the Battle House for Bryant High School's homecoming dance. That's scheduled for Friday, October the 7th, coming out of local school funds for $10,500. C13 is with Centas Corporation for Kate Shepard. It is to provide rug cleaning services. It's coming out of local school funds for $10,1312. C14
007is with the National Center for Youth Issues. It is to provide a professional development session half a day for our counselors coming out of title two funds for $10,000. C15 is flashlight learning. This is a revision um coming out of title four funds. Uh we upgraded to benchmark scoring licenses which is $10,000 which add our total amount to be $43,750. C16 is learning for Holloway Elementary. It is to provide site license subscription for 500 students in grades K through five. It's coming out of title one funds for $9,375. C17 is also with Learning for McDavid Jones. It is to provide the services of EXL site license for 350 students coming out of title one funds for $6,957.50. C18 is Frog Street Press. It is to provide uh an opport uh appropriate comprehensive curriculum for 67
008uh first class prek classrooms. That's coming out of state prek funds for $6,700. C19 is um our warehouse re-roofing project. There were three biders. There were three bids. We went with the lowest bidder which is double A construction for $1,326,000 and that's coming out of PSCA funds. C20 is Dixon Elementary Chiller replacement change order 1. That was an increase of $42,555 bringing the grand total to 380,642,000 and that's coming out of uh PSCA funds. C21 is ER Dixon chiller replacement change order one. Uh that was also an increase of $93,229 bringing the grand to total to $335,978 also coming out of PS uh C funds. C22 is our recruiting schedule for 2025. Uh it is a proposed recruitment trip plan for 202526 school school year. There's no financial impact. C23 through C31 is listed under
009the separate cover. It's personnel items. Are there any questions on the action items? >> Mr. Superintendent, uh, I had a chance just to look a little bit over the, u uh, student, uh, code of conduct. Were there any major changes that, uh, you can make note of that were in it? >> No, no major changes. Um, there was a couple uh, state changes that we have every year, but but no major changes >> in order to comply with the correct new rules and stuff. Correct. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Superintendent. Uh number five, the Port City Classic. Uh by addendum, we increased the rent to $35,000. >> That that's a different uh that's the Gulf Coast. >> That this is the second game. This is the Port City Classic. >> Mr. Super, >> the the original
010one was 35. This second game is 30 because it's a a much smaller game. >> Mr. superintendent, that um amount for the that they're paying us for the game, is that sufficient to cover our cost and stuff? >> I wouldn't say that, but it's it's we we we we got it to a point where we can live live with it. >> Okay. >> Yes, sir. Are there any other questions? All right. On to the consent agenda. D1 is with the Riverview Plaza for Vaga High School homecoming dance which is scheduled for Saturday, September the 27th. It's coming out of local school funds for $4,250. D2 is learning for for Mobile County Training School. It is to provide the service of classroom license access uh to the subject areas of math, English language arts for 200
011students. that's coming out of title one funds for $3,750. D3 is with Renaissance Learning for Holloway. Uh it is to provide a one-year software license for accelerator reader for 350 students. It's coming out of title one funds for $3,69.50. D4 is saying something for Murphy High School. It is to provide professional development uh training. has come out of state funds for $3,500. D5 is JJ and Zach for Grand Bay uh Middle. It is to provide a one halfday professional development for teachers and staff. It's coming out of title one funds for $3,500. D6 we pull. D7 signs for uh everyone for Holloway Elementary. It is to provide a 40 two 45 minute STEM program sessions. It's coming out of title one funds for $2,250. D8 is Top Golf International for Murphy High School. It is
012to provide the venue for two hours for 85 students. It's come out of local district funds for $1,814.50. D9 is Mobile Community Action Head Start classrooms. It shall provide uh to promote school readiness. The schools are Burroughs, Ella Grant, Florence Howard, and Spencer Westlon. There's no financial agreement. D10 isou for housing first. Uh this is a contract uh for the homeless students and families. There's no financial agreement. D11 is souls for souls. Uh this is to accept new and don donated products for our homeless uh students and families. There's no financial obligation. D12 is with Monstellar Medical Agreement. It is to provide an on-site mental um behavioral and substance use services to students and parents and staff uh for Alba Middle School. There's also no financial agreement. D13 is darling ingredient for Lad Stadium. It
013is to provide the removal of used cooking oil, grease, and shortening. Uh there's also no financial agreement, no no charge. D14 is with pre-scientist for Philips Preparatory. It is to participate in a community partnership where students um participate in letters to pre-scientist pro program. There's no financial agreement. D15 is out of county travel and D16 are various bids. Are there any questions with the consent agenda? Hearing no questions on to our work our flow through items. We have three flowth through items which are our private and parochial schools. Um E1 is with brainfuse for uh most pure heart of Mary. Uh it's uh for title one funds for $990. Flow through item two is also with Brainfuse with Pritchard Prep coming out of title one funds also for $990. And our third flowthrough item is
014Amy De Hart for Little Flower. It's coming out of title two funds for $500. Are there any questions? Hearing no questions. We have ourformational items, our monthly financials, and our purchase orders over 5,000. And our go ahead and hit. We have zero student expulsions. Thank you. Um, Mr. Attorney, >> Mr. Vice Chairman, we have uh three employment agreements. One I sent to the board members on 8:13 and two I sent to the board members yesterday. >> Yesterday. >> All right. >> That'll be considered Monday. >> Did you receive it? You haven't got Okay, that's probably all right. All right. Do we have any scheduling of meetings? >> So, we will not have one on Wednesday. >> Okay. [Music] >> Mr. Mr. Chair one, may I make a comment? >> Right. We have several uh con
015contracts that um are just sitting there that did not meet the dead deadline um for this board meeting. Uh I I have denied all those um contracts because either they weren't done on time or the attorneys um still had them um which they're supposed to. They know the attorneys will take a certain amount of time. So they need to >> four down here yesterday. That's when I got them, >> right? But my point is they know that the attorney has to look at them. So they need to get them to us in a timely manner. >> So I will look through all 10, 11, 12 and see which ones are timesensitive. So I may be adding those. Uh not all of them, but I will be adding some on on Monday. Okay. All right. Thank
016you. Um any questions? Mr. Are you you're done? >> Okay. So we are meeting on Tuesday but not Wednesday was part Monday though got that. All right. >> We got any >> things coming up >> called dog. Okay. I did a great job the first morning of school at Spencer Weston. >> Yeah, it it was um so with that being said, I want to thank um facilities for putting my place in up and running. It was a great day at uh in Tomville. Uh very emotional for a whole lot of people other than myself. >> So uh >> she didn't mention that she cried. Well, I was the only one that cried. >> Mr. And Mr. An Mr. Anderson cried, too. >> He cried. >> He cries every >> but uh he cries every day.
017>> It was a great day. Um the only issue that I have is uh alumni want to come and visit the building and see what's what. Um, I had an opportunity in four days to visit all of my schools before the opening of school and everything everything looked good in all of my schools. I was very very pleased except for one and that was pillings. We got to remove the carpet that was so backed up. But um again, Mr. Stref, you >> I would concur. I had an opportunity to go by uh all the schools in my district and uh before the start of school and uh everybody seemed to be on task and pretty much ready to go which I know there's a lot of people don't understand but it takes weeks and weeks
018to try to get everything ready for the first day of school and uh they do uh yoan's work and trying to get all that done right. So, I do appreciate everything that the central office and all of our support people did, just like Miss uh um McDay said like that. So, uh anyway, I'm glad we've had a good opening, Miss Pars. >> Well, I didn't get to visit every school. My phone works and uh I don't want to get in their way. >> So, uh a couple of them, you know, I spoke with, but they uh you know, they needed they called me. But again, everything went did go well on my I was very u happy and satisfied and that that uh everything went as well as it did. I mean it was it's
019a big deal and you got I think it's on the news 50,000 children, students uh busing it's huge. That's not including all the curriculum and everything. So yes, everything went >> Mr. Theres. >> Yeah, I do want to mention uh my executive uh staff. I think it's like I don't know 22 of them. But um we're required every year uh they're required every year to go to at least six schools uh and report to the principles that if if they need anything, how's everything going? And we get a list uh to see if there are any issues. So I do want to thank my executive staff because they got out all week and visit schools uh to check on the principles. So I do appreciate them for going out to those schools. Yeah, we appreciate
020everything that uh this staff has done. Uh as as a former teacher, I think this year was the the greatest that I've seen a great school opening because we didn't have any issues or concerns. >> I agree. >> Really? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> But this year was great. >> So I know where we're going. >> Great. >> What did you say, Mr. Parson? >> I know where we're going with all this. Go ahead. I move uh for adjournment. >> I hear a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I move. >> We've got a facilities. >> We have a facilities meeting. How many can meet? Three or two. >> Give him that shirt. That's my favorite color.