001e [Music] what else we got turn we call us meeting the order at this time we ask our Chapman Give us pledge and pray all stand please our gracious and loving Heavenly Father we thank you for this day we thank you for the opport opportunity to meet together in the service of our community we ask that you guide this board with wisdom understanding and respect as we make decisions about uh programs and Personnel that come before us we also ask that we be mindful of the fact that we are here to represent and serve the students the families and the staff of this particular system bless this system and may we always seek to understand what is best in for those that we serve amen I pledge algi to the flag of the United States
002of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all Mr thre you have it and now supp uh no sir but I do have some um amendments that need to be made to the agenda so okay you want me to go ahead and do that now or okay um I first would like to say that um we did not uh get some uh of our action items in on on on time uh and they're time sensitive sensitive so we may uh be calling a special call board meeting some time this this week but I will let you know um so we can let the public know 24 hours ahead of time um but we do have some additional items that did make it on
003the the agenda that was not vetted in the work session uh so I would like to go over those action item and consent items now Mr good uh we were informed by person I Rec that one has been already canell no here Wednesday no no what now so we don't have a hearing okay so you set okay okay thank you uh the first uh added uh action item is g17 g17 is an easement at Alabama Power for mayor B Austin to provide power to the multi-purpose building that we're um scheduled to build at May May B Austin uh so g177 is for an easement g19 is with the University of South Alabama to rent the Mitchell Center uh for our college career fair which will be scheduled Wednesday April the 9th uh that's coming out
004of federal funds for $1,875 uh that's all of the action items uh on to the consent agenda h15 is with Inspire and it is to provide marketing campaign services and it's coming out of District local funds for $3,000 for setup and $11,000 monthly maintenance fee that's H fth15 with Inspire h16 is with Corinthians Event Center for Williamson High School senior breakfast which will be held Tuesday April the 29th it will be coming out out of local school funds for $900 and that concludes our additions for our action items as well as our consent agenda okay Mr Hatcher here you have anything well I do I spoke with John Young uh probably three or four different times in his concerns about the our bands and our provocative dancing nature during some of these events and he
005would like the board to consider looking at that and maybe putting some policy in place to tone it down a great deal make it more family friendly okay Mr Parson you have any no sir okay M MCD no sir all right Mr string fell no sir okay now will get U approve approval of minutes so move get a second all in favor say I I I agenda adoption so mooved with the new additions second second all in favor of I I I we announc reports and recognition have a couple today all right can I call forward our culinary students from Davidson and citronel high schools please as well as Mr Stringfellow and Mr Parsons if you want to stand and the teachers too y can shot that way a little bit okay so I think
006those are yours so for the first time in program history mcpss has not won but Three Chefs qualifying to compete in the FCCLA National cooking competition these three young ladies qualified by winning the state star cooking event from Davidson High School Emily Carter won first place in culinary for her blackened catfish with crawfish etou over parmesan grits with an apple Crain COA and then in the baking and pastry category Ella McCarthy from Davidson one first place and Kaylee rivers from citronel 13 they had two and a half hours to cook a lemon zucchini blueberry muffin brown sugar butter pecan cookies pateso with chantilli cream and meanwhile they had to decorate a cake so they also received thousands of dollars in scholarships so their teachers are Rachel Baxter of Davidson and Casey shiny from citronel congratulations
007well I I I don't know about everybody in the room here today but all of a sudden I got hungry listening to that and we I eat simple foods but when you start talking about all of these different things I need to be talking to y'all like that so anyway I'm I'm very happy to congratulate the two students for all three of you Mr Parsons will do c now uh Miss Baxter uh I see you yeah there you are down there miss ba runs a wonderful culinary program at Davidson High School their students are always very competitive and more importantly it gives them an opportunity to see what might be a future employment opportunity like that so I'm very proud of what the uh they're doing and I'm very proud of the students for the
008efforts that they made so uh all I want to say is that Miss Baxter next time you have food ready for the board we'll be more than happy to take advantage okay all right I have two certificates here certificate of recognition for Ella McCarthy Ella and recogn thank you Mr string Feller um I basically same thing that he said our congratulations uh it's tough I had a son actually a son that uh went through this and whenever you get you can taste each ingredient in a food that's pretty strong I mean uh it's it's really fascinating to me and I just want to thank y'all for y'all's work and again it will could lead to a lot more larger things so thank you and I have a certificate here from Miss Kay [Music] rivers and
009we do I know we have some proud parents in the audience I hope they're cooking at home just like they did there right so congratulations I know they have to head back to class so y'all can go ahead and leave thank you congratulations and we have principles and teachers if you're from those schools just wave your hand and we'll acknowledge you good job all right and next I'll call forward Dr kensaw and our guest from Viger high school you can come up Viger High School come on up yeah if you could stand here and face the audience perect okay so ladies and gentlemen we'd like to introduce you to the 5A Alabama basketball champions the vi [Applause] wolves so led by Coach Lee Riley and assistant coaches James McKinnis Jr Darren Williams and jamilia McKinnis
010Riley the Wolfpack defeated silaga 59-49 in the state championship game this is their first State title and it's also worth noting that the lady Viger wolves made it to the final four so congratulations we're very proud of wolves um also uh on the floor and academically uh we you have represented VGA High School very well and uh we appreciate what you all have done for the city I'd like to S the certif certificate to the coach and he give them out of the school I W to shake each one a hand also our um lustrous board member uh Mr Parson is a graduate of via High School stand them up time he he played point [Applause] guard Coach Riley can you introduce us to your team hey hey good morning how's everybody doing uh he's
011not here with us right now but uh Deon bar hill Gregory Davis Takis hin Parker Holly jais boin Asen Jones konio Kelly Jr Colin Bryant gas Malone jarian Osborne Kobe skiwi Germaine Tate Devin Whit jacobe Williams levette Jones jacobe Dickerson [Music] all right uh first off we just want to thank you all for having us out uh it's a blessing to be here thank you for honoring us today we want to thank uh Dr kensaw Mr thre Grill the board um our Administration Miss do Miss Miss Buchanan Tiffany Buchanan um and just want to say that we're thankful to be in this position we really appreciate everything that you guys do for us uh have a great day we're going to get a picture we get a picture with the board member Dr Mr Big
012counton let somewhere I take the picture you have to squeeze in get no there get L made the team I can shoot a left-handed layup only reason all right congratulations you can go back to class if you want to thank you congratulations and now I'm going to hand the microphone over to a former board member megson and Dr Mary Michael Campbell and Mr Hatcher if you could come up please I'm myday everybody out saw today from my wife this morning to when they have pH Up said again yes ma'am keep it short so I got to keep it short I even made me some notes of what to say right so here you go first of all thank you all for having us Mr President thank you for having us board members thank you for
013having us Mr superintendent always a pleasure so thank youall for having us here we deeply appreciate it I like this little book right here look at this little book this little book right here is really a good little book they haven't feel ever does that really a nice little book when we had Co you remember when we had Co I I had a great time at home watching television for months and months it seemed like but one I enjoyed the most was about the school system and this young man right here from Bon Academy good old David I never knew him when he came on to I'm not a man person but he got me interested in math and it get me interested in math was a slap miracle and for me to sit on
014the floor and watch him talk about M that's a miracle the hand of the Lord came down after everything cleared up I said I got to go to Bar Academy and meet this young man and I did he's not the only impressive teacher in Mobile County Public School we have a lot W this young man right here and I want y'all to know you be very very TR of what we have and when you leave this building tell others about what all is going on in mville County Public School it's more than just basketball although my Albert Tigers when they win the national championship but it's amazing so Renee and others superintendent board members so much to be thankful for so much to be thankful for one of the things that I'm most thankful for
015is back in 1986 I'm B retired started a scholarship program for young people who wanted to be teachers there's not a whole lot of people in this pack tell us about it there's not a whole lot of people stand in line to be teachers as a matter of fact if you are a male and you stand in line to want to be a teacher you're probably the only one and that's s y'all we men have a responsibility and at the present time I don't we think we're living up to that responsibility there's nothing more more impressive me they seen a young man teaching elementary school that's impressive and to have that young man said no I want to be in the classroom that's impressive so in 1986 first scholarship giv out was $500 you know
016what you can do with $500 any nothing maybe a ring paper that's on sale at store somewhere but it's not very little long so we've given out 109 scholarships 109 scholar throw $90,000 so thank you re educated very much I like the rain by the way when I was a little boy when I was a little boy my day when I was a little big I was only 5 years old my mom just had a little baby so in the afternoon when I came home from school she would have me a crackers that was my after school T then I would take my dick and James remember and I sit under tree and swing and read dick and James then my grandmother would come out and she would sit with me Miss Anderson Miss Anderson
017left the Anderson mother was my pict and I always wonder what was it that this lady had impressed me so much to make me want to read Jane and other books she taught she Tau not so much from here as she did from her heart I want y'all to know that mobille County Public Schools have teachers that teach from the heart not only do they teach from the heart they leave part of that heart with the children when they leave so today we have a young we have three all together was able to make it today and Mary Michael Campbell she's our chairperson and she's going to tell you about this young lady who going to be one of [Music] those thank you good morning uh I'm going to introduce to you it's an honor
018to introduce to you the two people the two young ladies from Mobile County Schools who are recipients of the scholarships that the retired Educators group is uh presenting uh one of them could not be here she texted me last night at 11:00 and she was just very sick so she is not able to be here but um I'm just but I just want to mention her name anyway because she deserves that um her name is zelli Ortiz and she's a student at Baker High School thank you um she has lots and lots of activities as you can imagine you don't you you're not a scholarship recipient if you don't do extra things so she has a lot of activities at Baker and a lot of activities in her church Since U most of what she
019does in her church is all in Spanish I'm not going to read it to you although I did take two years of Spanish at Murphy High School thank you very much um zanelli uh Ortiz is this young lady's name she's a student at Baker and she will be attending uh the University of mobile majoring in early childhood education Christy would you come up and receive the Christy Matthews is the counselor senior counselor at Baker High School and without whom we could not do a lot of our work thank you you might as well I'm sure when she comes back to school Miss Matthews and Mr Peru will make a big deal out of this at the school I wish she could be here today thank you for doing this our other recip recipient from Mobile
020County Schools is Lillian Sigler Lillian if you would come up Lan is a student at Baker High School and she is the recipient of the Ivon Graham scholarship for 2025 I since she's here I am going to tell you a little bit about her because it's pretty astonishing um she has a weighted GPA of 4.76 at Baker uh she has an ATC score of 33 all right and a SAT score super score of 35 her class rank at Baker is six out of 545 she has numerous honors and activities she's a member of the National Honor Society an AP scholar with distinction and the AP Capstone diploma I'm not going to go through all of her pages of activities but just trust me that they are very impressive Lan will be attending Mississippi State University
021oh wait you know what I am going to read you one thing one of the things that they have to do uh or asked to do when they are doing their application is to write a little thing about why want to be a teacher and I just want to read y'all this because this is really unusual this is what she wrote part of her essay ever since I started school math has always been my favorite subject did you hear that Ken math not your favorite her favorite as the years have gone by my love for the subject has only grown I have such an excitement for sharing my love and knowledge of math with any of my peers and with many of my peers and helping out those who do not enjoy math as much
022as I do my experiences tutoring in muala Theta and outside of school have only reinforced that teaching is what I am meant to do I am looking forward to obtaining a degree in secondary education with the concentration in mathematics and I hope to become a pre-calculus teacher we are so proud of you thank you so much for being here and I would ask her parents to come up as well I know you don't want to but would you and Marie Sigler and Matthew Sigler have a tutorial in using a cell phone will text you thank you all very much we look forward to hiring Miss Ziggler in four years so come back all right that's all we have okay thank you let's give another round of appuse at this time we U have anzen request
023no sir okay action item uh yes sir uh action item G1 is our board policy manual ual addition uh it is 7.47 a um School related organization PTO PTA uh this board action item was vetted for a month tabled for a month uh so I ask that you approve action item G1 board policy Manual aition of 7.47 Mr President yes since we've already beted the action items for the agenda I ask that this board approve action items 1 through 20 okay second all right move to problem second uh we approve action item 1 through 20 all on in favor say I oppos motion car 17 and 19 have not been vetted they're added to the agenda okay you did that yeah we we added we added it to the agenda okay okay okay next item
024um action item g21 through G30 is uh listed under separate cover it's Personnel items uh I ask that you approve action items g21 through G30 Mr President yes move for approval of action items g21 through G30 get a favor I make second second all in favor say I iOS motion car all right on to the consent agenda H1 it's with the Mobile County Commission uh for Palmer pillin Middle School it is to provide funds for campus upgrades uh coming out of the County Commission funds for $5,000 uh what's the pleasure award Mr President since we've already vetted again the consent agenda with the addition of consent item item number 15 I ask that we approve those consent all right get it second all right moveing proper second 15 and six and six yeah approve all
025items all in favor say I I opposes motion Carri all right on to the flow through items um as you know these are our private school items that we vessel the um federal funds through uh that uh flow through items 1 through six that was vetted at our work session I ask that you approve I flow through items 1 through six what's the pleasure of the board Mr President yes move for approval uh flow through items one through six second second second uh all un favor I I OPP a motion car um there are no student expulsions and on to the information items K1 our monthly Financial and K2 purchase orders over 5,000 okay uh attorney clein PR priv first of all we have eight counting count them eight employment agreements the subject of uh
026my emails to the board of two of them on 226 one on 227 one on 313 two on 317 one on 319 one of them last Friday 3:21 okay uh as the Board review those items yes sir okay what's uh what's the pleasure board Mr President I move for approval of uh the settlements in the by the attorneys in these um eight cases we get a second second all in favor say I I motion Carri secondly my partner Paul carbo is here he would like to address the board an executive session about some pending litigation all right what's this pleasure of the board Mr President I move that we go executive session get a second second all right all in favor say I iOS motion carry we'll be about uh 15 minutes 20 minutes yeah
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