001we are asked our chaplain if he would uh lead us in prayer and our pledge please ask everyone to stand our heavenly father we thank you today for our opportunity to meet in this meeting we thank you also for the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us in this community and our school system our heavenly father we also pray for the many people that have been sick and that have lost their lives in recent months we pray that you put your arms around them and help them through this troubling period we also pray for our teachers and our staff and our superintendent and everyone who works with kids in our system please help them as we try to work through the problems that we have we also pray for our first responders and the
002actions that they take to protect us both at home and abroad we pray all of these things in thy name amen amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to be the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay this time we have the approval of minutes so get a second second move proper second approved amendments from previous meeting and readiness all in favor by sign of i i opposed motion carried agenda adoption the second second will probably second order that we adopted jenna for this eden and unreadiness all unfavorable by sign of i i propose emotional care announcements an announcement um stringfellow dr foster yeah no sir all right mr superintendent let the record flame miss mcdade is out she
003had a previous engagement uh for today okay um reports of recognition all right no proportional recognition requests mr superintendent who do we have yes sir we have several the first group i think there will be two representatives so first would be dr bucknell and his representative as well did you let them know of the minute stipulation yes they understand the minutes okay superintendent thread gilliam members of the board i'm dr michael bucknell 17-year doctor of chiropractic impairment of three we met september 15th with miss with red gill in which he said he would look at the rest of the september regarding ending the mass mandate daily new cases peaked august 24th just over 6 000 to under 600 yesterday in this state with a population of roughly 4.9 million people considering baldwin county gulf shores
004and sarah land have already dropped their mass mandates i fully expected to come to this meeting and hear a vote to do the same today looking forward i feel it's a waste of time to try to win a war of so-called research against institutions with endless cash and connections to legitimize anything they want instead let's consider the record according to the american academy of pediatrics children have represented 15.7 percent of all cases with less than two percent resulting in hospitalization though every death obviously is a concern less than 0.03 of all child coveted cases has resulted in death there is simply no sense in the data that children are an at-risk population and therefore deserve to be practically the last segment of our society still in lockdown if it's not the children we're protecting then
005let adults choose what they want to do as they feel fit we were all told that two weeks of lockdown would flatten the curve we were told to wear mass in social distance that would end it we lock down beaches in the middle of summer figure that one out then we expected we were told the vaccine would end the pandemic now we'll see they've changed the script because the vaccines don't actually stop infection or transmission but only lessen symptoms nonetheless we have to stay mass until everyone including children are forced to take it anyways now you need booster shots apparently forever just last week a cdc advisory panel refused to endorse these boosters just to be unusually overruled by the cdc director states including alabama have preemptively banned vaccine passports yet all you have to
006do is look at the headlines to see that the numbers no longer matter only that everyone takes a vaccine that won't keep you from getting sick or transmitting what it was originally promised to make you immune from their goal is digital passports if you don't comply you can't fly go to sporting events concerts amusement parks or your children go to school now ask yourself are you okay with parents being forced to comply making their children take whatever they decide in order to maintain entry into basic functions of society like receiving an education are you really okay with every single teacher and employee being forced to take another shot every six to nine months in order to keep their jobs like our military now is most everyone including yourselves are going to work out to dinner
007packing football stadiums and rarely practicing the measures our kids still are it is our duty to these children to realize that this path is not okay and give them their educational and social lives back not being trained in a perpetual state of fear of others i leave you with this question what happens with endless spikes or variants in the future do we go back to masking our school closures despite ample evidence of the past behind us we can't keep acting like vaccine compliance is going to end this when they've already admitted they can't if your advisors are unanimous despite what we've all experienced maybe it's time for different opinions thank you [Applause] so you guys seen us here last month last month protesting mass mandates our sign says parents choice after multiple emails phone calls
008conversations and valuable time we realized that there are multiple issues affecting our children across all schools in our county none of which involved us parents lack of communication regarding bus routes that are doubled and tripled without notifying parents requiring some student's mind to sit on the floor massive irregularities across all schools in addressing positive covet 19 cases among students lack of instruction and our guidance to students that are out due to coven 19 leaving students to perform and score poorly once they return options for school lunches are the lack thereof lack of communication between the school board of education schools and parents that we know of to date neither the board of education superintendent nor schools have made an official announcement regarding the homecoming dances leaving parents to scramble with limited options to provide their
009children with a sense of normalcy amid unnecessary covet 19 restrictions the most recent example of these most recent example of many of these there has been no goal set by the mobile county public school board to reach in order to for the math mandate to be lifted despite the total percentage of school students right now today as of 9 23 to be .03 percent there is a lack of urgency to replace multiple dilapidated roofs but we're going to build five brand new football stadiums causey middle school literally has an obstacle course of buckets in his gym have you all been there we are we are the largest school system in the state of alabama yet we have the most restrictive policies and procedures when it comes to participating in these board meetings even when we
010do participate in these board meetings our voices and concerns fall on deaf ears there is no resolution there is not even a follow-up we want more involvement in the choices and decisions that directly affect our children we want more transparency and information when it comes to our children and their day-to-day activities we want answers and consistency regarding covet 19 measures we want more communication with the school board members that we elected and that we can replace we want communication accountability and transparency after inquiring with multiple departments across mobile county public school system we find we find answers to some of these questions we are ultimately told that we to receive these answers we have to submit a form a formal request for information i'm sure that you guys are aware in the state of alabama
011that there is no time frame legally placed on the recipient of the formal request to provide the information however as notified in the letter that you received from us we strongly believe that 30 days is ample time to fulfill this request should this request go unfulfilled without any communications from mobile county public school board further legal action will be taken in the following months you guys are on the clock if there's anybody that wants to join we have a facebook page mobile county mobile county public school parents for choice please join our fight [Applause] mr superintendent you have anyone else yes we have one more dr campinosa here thank you for having me dr lou campanosi president of the common sense campaign tea party i've passed out the handout for each of you take a
012quick look at it my remarks will be at the front i've offered a letter from congressman michael walls retired green beret who sent a letter about this question of critical race theory to the commandant of west point and i will read from that in a second and then i've offered this from christopher ruffo one of these individuals who's written extensively about this and i think it's important for you to have some background information be beyond what i'm going to give you in three minutes um so why am i here first of all the question of critical race theory is is important for us going down the road it's also important to understand that common sense along with other conservative groups in the state are trying to defuse this we don't want to see this as
013a political issue between republicans democrats we don't want to make it a racial issue our approach has been to have teams go to various boards of education in the state in a bi-racial manner unfortunately today my biracial partner is selling his house in florida and so he couldn't be here today his name is george williams some of you may know george long time mobilian number two man in the album gop hierarchy at any rate george and i have been to baldwin county we've been to places in birmingham and i think what we're trying to establish is like i said this is an issue that should be approached by in a bi-racial manner now the superintendent and i had a good hour-long conversation six weeks or so ago talking about this we had agreement on some
014portions of it we had disagreement on other portions of it one thing that you all have to accept at this particular juncture is that the stoop the school board the state school board has already passed something along the lines of banning critical race theory so since i only have a minute left to go all i would ask you to do is take a look at the information that i've provided you think carefully about the the destructive nature of what is being told okay let me just read this from my what walt sletter okay dr anderson is a controversial bipartisan academic who has made no secret where she stands in her book she mentions the trigger for white rage inevitably is black advancement it is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem
015it is the blackness with ambition ambition drive person aspirations okay if you buy that then everything that we've seen for the last 55 years after the dr king revolution which brought about social and political change of an order that most of us who are here like i'm in my mid 70s it was a revolution if we go back to what this lady said we're going in the wrong direction thank you for your time and thank you for letting me have it [Applause] mr tim do you have anybody else okay we approve to the agenda oh we ready yes sir okay uh action item first let me go to action item 60. we will pull action item 60. all right so action item g1 what's going on with 60 you just want to make some changes
016we don't have any yeah we don't have any names for okay yes okay action item g1 is the approval of the 2022 budget i asked that the board approved action item g1 approval of the 2022 budget what's the pleasure the book okay okay we'll we'll leave action item g60 in all right let the breaker reflect that item g60 is included in today's agenda all right what's the place of the board on action item one mr chairman i move for approval of the 2022 budget that's submitted all right get a second second move proper second approval action item one which is approval of 2022 budget internal readiness all favorable by sign of i motion care okay action item g2 is a general liability and auto lab liability our liability insurance will expire september the 30th so
017i ask that we approve the renewal of our general liability and auto liability mr president mr chairman dr foster move approval of number two agenda item two you're the second second moving probably second that we approve extra item uh two and unreadiness all the favor by sign of i i i oppose motion care okay action item three resolution to have a line of credit of 36 million dollars just in case of a potential shortfall or delay with the state or local revenue or potential proration i ask the board to approve the line of credit of 36 million dollars mr chairman dr foster move approval of agenda item number three you guys all right move prop second we approve action gender item number three inner readiness all in favor of our sign of i i oppose
018motion care okay action item g4 the approval of 2021 2022 salary schedule that will take place october the 1st i ask that you approve action item g for approval of 2021-22 salary schedule it's pleasure to board mr chairman i move for approval of the 2021-22 salary schedule you get a second second property second we approve action item for the approval of 2021-22 cyrus okay general readiness all are favorable by sign of i i impose motion care action item g5 the approval of changes to the 2021-22 policy handbook we had several policy changes that you were aware of i asked that we approve action item g5 approval of changes of the policy hand handbook what's pleasure to board move for approval get a second second move proper second but approve the uh changes to 2122 possible
019handbag can earn readiness all in favor by sign of i pose motion care action item g6 edge annuity to provide instructional services for fall and spring semester of 2022 for 400 kindergarteners through fifth grade and also 56th graders to enroll in mobile county's virtual learning school that's not to exceed 1.4 million dollars and it's coming out of essa funds i ask that you approve action item g6 from edge annuity mr president mr chairman since we have vetted these in a work session and most of this is contracts uh spending that s for money as the superintendent had addressed i've moved for approval action items 6 through 20. all right we get a second second moving proper secondary approval action items 6 through 20. in our readiness as dr mr strength said all of these items
020have been vetted in our previous work session uh questions and additional information have been provided to the board so that's when we take them okay any further on awareness all available by signing by proposal motion care okay action item g21 is without a point health system with pathway elementary and pathway middle to provide two mental health therapists for the pathway elementary and middle school these are four-time therapists that's coming out of federal funds for seventy five thousand seven hundred and ninety seven dollars and fifty cents what's pleasure to vote mr chairman dr foster move approval of items 21 these are all contracts for the most part with health care systems and with point academy items 21 through 28. all right get a second second move prop second we approved action night of 21 through 20.
021and on readiness all in favor by sign of i all right motion care okay action item excuse me g29 is the agreement between the county commissions with big brother big sister of south alabama to provide mentoring services to ensure a well-rounded education and to improve the health and safety of students under title iv this is also coming out of title iv budget for forty five thousand dollars i ask that you approve action item g29 with big brothers big sisters what's pleasure to board mr chairman i've moved for approval action items 29 through 40 please all right get a second second move and proper second we approve excellent action action item 29 do 40 am readiness all in favor by sign of i pose motion care action item g41 the bridge to provide supplemental tutoring supplies
022and staff professional development to assist and serve delinquent and neglect or at risk students that's coming out of n d funds for twelve thousand dollars i actually to approve action item 41 with the bridge what's the pleasure the board mr chairman uh move approval of 41 through 49 all right we got a motion to get a second so that's it that we approve action item 41 through 49. yes okay enter readiness all in favor by sign of i all right close motion care all right action item g50 is the timber sale of the grand bay track it's approximately 79 acres we had one bidder the we went with the hodge bidder which was the only one with csp services for one hundred and seventy one thousand one hundred and seventy one dollars which is a
023revenue so i ask that you approve action item g50 timber sale of the grand bay track what's the pleasure the board well mr chairman i move for approval of action i'm 50 and 51 they both are involved with the timber sale as uh the superintendent is mentioned so i'll move for approval of those two items all right get a second second we'll probably second that we approve action item 50 and 51 in our readiness all available by sign of i propose motion care action item g52 is the lease agreement between us and w-h-o weaver and sun for mcdonald road they're requesting the use of point four acre plot of undeveloped land adjacent to mcdonald road near haskew to use as a construction staging and material storage site that agreement is to be rented for fifteen
024hundred dollars per year i ask that you approve action item g52 the lease agreement between weaver and son what's the pleasure of the board chairman dr foster move approval of the two leases 52 and 53 and the personnel items 54 through 64. get a second second we'll probably secondly approve the action items as stated by dr foster in our readiness all in favor by sign of i i oppose motion care okay on to the consent agenda h1 was with bishop state community college to contract with bishop state to provide sponsorship funding for tv broadcasting and regular high school football games that agreement is with bishop state community college the amount is for four thousand dollars to be applied to the mcpss tv station mr chairman dr foster move approval of the consent agenda item one
025all right get a second second all right move proper second approval action item one uh in on readiness all in favor vote by sign of i i let the record show that i um recuse myself involved from action item one as much as i got four to five years at bishop state all right h2 is with hmh for spencer westlawn to provide the mirror assessment program for the faculty and students of spencer westlawn this will help with the reading assistant that listens to and assess and coach coaches k3 students using speech recognitions to grow vocabulary fluency and comprehension that's coming out of title one fund for four thousand dollars pleasure to board mr chairman the movement approval uh consent agenda items h2 through 13. all right get a second second move proper second we approve
026uh consider general action 2 through 13 and unreadiness all in favor by sign of i oppose motion care all right h13 is various bids along with h is that it just approved 13. okay i'm sorry student explosions all right on to the student expulsions i i think you have two student expulsions is that is that correct that's correct i asked you to approve okay student expulsions what's the pleasure board mr chairman uh move approval of student expulsions one and two i'll get a second second oh all right any readiness all in favor of our sign of i i pose motion care or the next is go ahead mr superintendent um j1 is informational is our monthly financial statements and j2 is purchase orders 5000 and over okay let me make those a matter of record
027we have an attorney client privileges no sir okay uh any schedule of meetings mr hat uh every every wednesday end of october so we're gonna schedule winston starting at nine or eight-thirty nine okay all right beginning next week all right not this week we have one that's beginning this week then okay okay all right we would all boil metals to be present foster myself i'll be here will you be president for the hearing yes sir okay all right so we'll be here for you okay um doctor mr stringfellow you have anything further no sir i do not not foster i'd just like to uh once again say that um you know the board is is uh is missing uh lavon manzi just as the rest of our our community is he was a significant other
028on this board for for the six years that he served on this board and more so than anyone else i think that was on the board at that time he was the first to reach out to me after i was elected and maintain contact with him even after he has been on the and on the other side as well even after he's been on the city council and uh we want the public to know that we certainly miss our friend and we were certainly praying for the family okay mr hardwell no sir mr uh superintendent you have anything okay let me just echo the comments of dr foster uh it was to my surprise believe it or not that i didn't find out that he was only 38 years old after serving next to him
029that was a testament to his level maturity um he was a great young man he he uh endured a lot on his health and he's going to be truly missed and i've expressed those concerns in the um on behalf of the board at the funeral there okay here no further i really have a motion to adjourn so one second move proper circuit with adjourning meeting all in favor say aye hi paul's motion cap john