Mobile County Public Schools staff presented a series of vendor contracts, construction change orders and procurement awards during a board meeting where several large capital and service items were described for action.

The most expensive award described was the districtwide generators project (phase 2), which staff said was split into three bid groups. The board went with the lowest bidder for each group; staff identified Bagby and Russell as the successful contractor. Staff reported the contract amounts as $906,700 for the first group (31–40), $827,900 for the second (41–50) and $851,777 for the third (51–60), for a combined total of $2,586,377 to be paid from ESSER III funds.

Staff also reported a timber sale for the Catawba track involving clear-cutting approximately 200 acres. Two offers were received and staff said they accepted the higher lump-sum bid of $326,326 from CSP Services.

Two construction change orders were described as decreases: a Caslin Elementary roofing change order reduced the contract by $159,540 to a new total of $1,486,460 paid from PSCA funds; a change order for BC Rain school security camera upgrades reduced that contract by $20,000 to a new total of $430,556 paid from local funds. Nixon Power Service was listed for preventive maintenance on generators at various schools for $15,000 from local funds.

Other purchases and agreements presented by staff included: interpreting services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals (state funds) for $118,150; a Frontline Education agreement (local funds) for $57,464.30; Power Up Education interactive playground software for Craighead Elementary (21st Century grant) for $37,515; and a Dave & Buster’s contract for Beiger High School’s junior-class event (local school funds) for $5,317.54. Several smaller professional-development contracts and site licenses for individual schools and programs were also listed.

Staff said action item C18, a renewal with UKG Kronos for annual software licenses and services (local funds, $31,470.05), was pulled from the agenda for further review. Staff indicated additional property-related items that did not make the work session would be circulated and added to the Monday agenda once attorney paperwork is complete.

The transcript records staff moving the meeting to the consent agenda after questions were invited; the transcript does not record roll-call vote tallies for the individual consent items or explicit mover/second at the time the items were presented.

Why this matters: the items described commit district funds across federal (ESSER III, Title I/II), state, county and local school accounts and affect facility maintenance, classroom software and student services across the district.

Among the immediate implications are major ESSER-funded infrastructure expenditures, a large timber-sale transaction involving district property, and the postponement of a software renewal while staff review ethical/contract concerns.

Background and details: staff said the generators contracts are part of a multi-phase, districtwide program that had three groups of bids in the second phase and the district selected the lowest bidders. The timber sale was described as a lump-sum award for clear-cutting approximately 200 acres at the Catawba track. Funding sources were reported on an item-by-item basis in the staff presentation and include ESSER III, PSCA, Title I and Title II grants, state funds and local school and county commission funds.

The meeting transcript records no public debate of the substantive merits of these contracts and no recorded vote counts for the consent items in the portions of the meeting provided.