001Mr. chap. I was complaining about the clock at military time [Music] callers meeting order. We ask uh a chaplain Mr. Stringfell offers uh in prayer and pledge. Yes, you have to do the prayer. I I'm not wearing my collar today. Yes, you please stand. Our most gracious father, we thank you for this opportunity for another day to serve our community. We ask your blessings on our school system and all of our teachers and our superintendent and his staff. And we pray for the safety of all of our children that are on break during this summer season. Our heavenly father, we ask for your to give us the patience and wisdom and understanding to discuss the issues before us as we look at the things that need to be done for our school system to improve
002it. Our heavenly father, we also pray for our nation today as the world is in turmoil now and we pray for peace and we pray for understanding for all countries. We also pray for our first responders, more so now than ever, for our soldiers and military people that are abroad and at home and also our first responders here in this country. We pray for all of these things in thy blessed name. Amen. I pledge algiance 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. [Music] Mr. Superintendent. Yes, sir. Uh we will start our action items. We will begin with C1. with our annual state of examiners. Uh they will be coming on Wednesday to give the
003findings of our most recent audit. That's actual C1. C2 is a revision of our board policy manual. Uh that revision is board policy 6.631 631 and it is a result of the Alabama legislatoring a bill entitled the Alabama Paid Parent Lead Act. Uh so what we did was just to make a revision sorry make a revision of uh our board policy to add that paid parent leave act of 6.631. Action item C3 is Greenwood Publishing. Uh it is to provide the purchase of do the math legacy materials and service for K5 schools. That's coming out of district that's coming out of district local funds as well as title one funds. The title one funds is 773,373.34. The district local funds is $180,62062 for a grand total of $953,993.96. Action item C4 is a um agreement
004between us and the DA's office with helping family initiatives. It is to provide a partnership with the um board to reduce truency and disruptive be behavior. Uh that amount uh is $664,000. I will uh pause and just mention to you guys that we will be having a press conference with the DA's office on June the 30th uh to um provide information on the helping family school initiative that we did last year. It um reduced our truency by 50%. Uh so we want to um Keith Blackwood wants to brag on that a little bit. So we will have that uh press conference on June 30th. Mr. Superintendent, I'm glad you mentioned that because I was going to ask, we've done this for the past few years. Um, did we have any data as to what impact
005it was making? So, I was glad to hear that that was significant on that uh truency aspect of it. Right. Yeah. So, we've been doing it for years, but uh I think since um DA Blackwood has taken uh over, I think they tweaked it a little bit. Uh and it it it really paid some good results. One other thing I think was this part of it where they were getting data from our discipline code on students that were having excessive discipline issues and they would send people out to u counsel with them and so forth. Was that part of it also? That's that's part of it. It's it's it's a couple things going on. The second part to that is they're actually tracking some of the students that was um when it started back in
006the early two 2000s that tracking those kids to see um well hopefully he'll address that also. Yes. Yes. Thank you. All right. C5 is Forefront Education. Uh it is to provide an annual subscription for 12,000 students. uh K2 uh early numerousy screeners that's coming out of state funds for $123,000. C6 is with goodwill of GF Coast. It is for our Alabama home visiting pro program for preK students. It's coming out of title one funds for $80,000. C7 is our active internet technology uh AI chat box. It is to provide a website to answer questions for from parents and visitors. It's coming out of district local funds for $12,000 for the first year and $15,000 for year two and three. C8 is with the flipping group for Orchard Elementary. It is for capturing kids heart to
007provide two consecutive day training sessions up to uh 50 participants. It's for coming out of title one funds for $28,50. C9 is with learning for ISO merch. It is to provide site license subscription for 525 students. It's coming out of local school funds for $12,993.75. C10 is also with learning for DOS intermediate. It is to provide a site license for 525 students in grades three through five. It's coming out of state funds and local funds for $12,638.75. C1 is an agreement between us and Blue Search. It is to provide realtime case support and identifying potential threats and security risk within our school district. Uh, I believe that fund source may be title 4. Uh, but it's for $10,000. C12 is with the county commission for um Burns Middle. It is to provide uh basketball uniforms
008and door and window wraps. Uh again, that's coming out of the county commission fund for $9,100. C13 is with the flipping group for Griggs Elementary. uh is for capturing kids heart a one-on-one and group session uh coming out of title one funds for $9,50. C14 is also with the flipping group for Hutchkins Elementary. It is to provide a one-day one-on-one session uh for administrators coming out of title one funds for $9,50. C15 is with team springs tutoring for Chastain. Uh it is to provide professional development uh to focus on classroom management. It's coming out of the governor's turnaround funds for $8,000. C16 is for Kelly's dance academy for Dixon Elementary to provide dance instruction for all students. Uh it's coming out of local school funds for $6,90. C17 is with Buck Institute for Education for
009Mary B. Austin. It is to provide professional development for all teachers and staff for projectbased learning coming out of title one funds for $5,500. C18 is for Renaissance learning for council traditional. It is to provide renaissance learning site license for accelerator reader for 638 students coming out of title one funds for $5426.54. C19 is for Alma Bryant video board change order. It was a decrease of $10,000 making the grand total revision of $339,200 coming out of local funds. C20 is a sidewalk easement uh for the city of Centell proposed a nonexclusive easement uh for a sidewalk adjacent to Central Nail High School. There is no financial gain. C21 is an agreement between us and uh UKG. Uh it's just a system renewal uh for our uh annual software license and software equipment and and support.
010C22 is what we do annually uh well twice a year um to end the supplements. Uh C22 is for the department uh heads supplements to end. C23 is for the counselor supplements to end. C24 is for the athletic coaches and band directors supplements to end. C25 through C39 is personnel that will be listed under separate co cover. Are there any questions on the action items? Yeah, Mr. Super. I just want to ask, are we still and I I I know we had a process before, but I see a lot of these um actions on here, like I'll just pick the flipping group for example. Are we still vetting the effectiveness of each of these before we Yes. every day? Yeah. because you know undoubtedly those that keep showing up multiple times I guess are doing
011an effective job. Yes, I we have a team um Dr. Brackens leads that team that assess those um con contracts and those pro programs daily and I think um this year you will see the results in our test test scores. Okay. Thank you sir. If there are no questions, we head to the consent. I had a question. I know it's totally different from this and which what got my attention was coaches and stuff like that. And just from what I'm seeing, we're having a problem in some schools more so than others. Uh, I know one school has 17. I did have 17 stipens or coaches that don't vacancies. Uh, it's just hard to find people to do that in certain areas. Uh, I know in the past we I think we've done it before or
012maybe maybe not. if there's some way we can look into. We have a lot of volunteers uh in certain areas that volunteer the different sports programs. Hope to get vetted out, do all the stuff they're supposed to do as a regular employee would do. Wondering if we could bring that look at that to see if we can uh use that to put more people on these get more help. Some teams are having or some schools are having more trouble than others filling those positions. Now, are you asking because that that we do have volunteers. So, you're asking for them to get the stip. Yes. That would classify them not as a volunteer. They would be getting paid. So, some of them prefer to be volunteers and there's reason why. I understand. So, do they have
013an option? Some of them do. Yes. Yeah. That's because we got I know one particular location that would love to have it. They're not aware that they I know question. So refer to whoever I need to. Yeah. So what what what school is that? Cale. Okay. 17 last I heard. If you have the athletic director to call me. I guess I have to count. Yeah, I guess. Okay. All right. Are there any other questions? All right. On to the consent. D1 is for Bay Gourmet Catering for Mayor G. Montgomery uh for their homecoming dance scheduled for October the 4th coming out of local school funds for $4,400. D2 is for Renaissance learning for North Mo North Mobilebile uh to provide Renaissance learning for accelerator reader for 420 students coming out of title one fund for
014$4,147.80. D3 is for the low the low cal for Davidson High School's 2026 prom, which is scheduled for April the 3 coming out of local school funds for $3,400. D4 is for Elevate Consulting for Collins Road. It is to provide the entire faculty and staff a professional development coming out of title one funds for $3,375. D5 is Adams Learning. It is to provide a one-year scholarship um for management and intervention tool. Uh that's coming from the governor's turnaround funds uh for $3,114. D6 is Concord theatricals for Baker High School. Uh it is to provide a musical for approximately 250 students. Uh and it's coming out of local school funds for $2,895.85. D7 is Sonia Mox for Collins Roads. It is to provide a professional development for the entire faculty and staff on classroom organization and
015management. It's coming out of title one funds for $2,525. D8 is Holyfield. Uh it is a revision. Uh it is to conduct district transcripts uh for 10th and 11th graders. It's coming out of local school funds for $2,500. D9 is Leslie Franklin. It is Franklin. It is also a revision uh to conduct district transcripts audits for grades 10th and 11th grades coming out of district local funds for $2,500. D10 is for Claré for Murphy High School's 2025 uh homecoming dance scheduled for September the 19th coming out of local school funds for $2,400. D1 is Neutralink Technologies for Holloway Elementary. It is to provide a one-year curb smart sub subscription come out of local school funds for $2,350. D12 is David Busters for BC Rain. Uh it is to provide the venue uh for ACT top
016students. Um it says governor's turnaround funds, but I think that's school improvement. We'll make that change. The amount is $2,196.83. D13 is home court publishers for Austin Elementary. It is to provide a professional development coming out of title one funds for $2,000. D14 is also with Concord theatricals for Baker High School for Charlie Brown's Christmas for 250 students coming out of local school funds for $1,82121. D15 is elevate for er Dixon to provide um professional development for the entire faculty and staff of uh classroom management coming out of local school funds for $1,375. D16 is a gentic learning educational for er Dixon. Uh it is professional development for the entire staff also for managing classroom um discipline. It's coming out of local school funds for $1,100. D17 is with us and the Alabama Forester forestry
017foundation for Sims Elementary. It is to provide uh to establish and maintain a schoolyard forest. there is no uh financial impact. D18 is MTI Enterprise for Oshair Road Elementary. It is to pro provide a musical uh coming out of local school funds for $665. D19 is out of county travel. D20 is various bids. Are there any questions? on the beds I guess facilities on that fence that we've been discussing since no high school. Has it I know we had a whole I know we had bids come back. Have we went further than that yet? So we get how how close are we? I mean we been rolling along then. Oh, okay. All right. Any other questions? Okay. On to our flow through items. We only have one is a contract um with Sachi Tech for
018Lighthouse Baptist. uh coming out of title four funds. It is a uh for a site license uh site license for comprehensive dis dismissal and that's for $4,600. That's our work flow through items. On to student expulsions which are listed under separate cover. Mr. Superintendent 1 through 12. Yes, sir. I have not had an opportunity yet to go through each one of those, but I ask you again before the board meeting to take a look and make sure that we uh are applying those three extreme disciplinary things if any of those apply for it like that. Okay. And you have opportunity before Yes, sir. Wednesday. Okay. All right. And so the only thing we have left is umformational items and purchase orders over five 5,000. Okay. Um any attorney client prod? Yes, Mr. Chairman. We have
019uh six employment matters to consider Wednesday. Uh the subject of my emails of three of them on 529, one on 62 and two on 612 action Wednesday. Okay. Scheduling of meetings. Okay. We have a hearing. What time we still have a student here in Wednesday 11? So I saw my calendar still on Mr. Stringfellow, you have anything? Yes, sir. I would like to say a couple of weeks ago I was uh invited to attend the awards ceremony for the ROT SECME program that they spend the week at Spring Hill College and um this is my second or third time to attend it. Those folks are doing it. There was about 150 students, not only from Mobile County, but some from other uh districts and so forth, but most of them from Mobile County. And that
020is a tremendous program. And I understand that it's being exported to other districts around the country because it initiated here. But I just wanted to put in a good word for that because they're doing u an outstanding job. and it was started by Colonel Barl, but he's just kind of overseeing it because of the uh the grant that was done. But the new members, they're doing a wonderful job and I was very very much impressed and I think it's going to be very beneficial for the students that were involved. Made no s Miss Parson. No sir. Mr. Hatchet. Okay. Off a motion. We adjourn. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Opposes.