Unidentified Speaker 1 read a series of agenda items and funding requests during the Nov. 23 conference.

Appointments and administrative items: Item 4 proposed the reappointment of Keith Wise to the board of directors of the Industrial Development Authority of Mobile County for a six-year term.

Appropriations and community support: Item 7 proposed amending an annual appropriation contract with the Center for the Living Arts (doing business as Alabama Contemporary Arts Center) to add $21,900 from District 1 commission funds for the Avenue Black Party Healing Festival. Item 8 proposed $8,000 from District 1 education funds to Blue Sleigh for a 'Letters to Santa' Christmas program. Item 9 proposed $5,000 from District 1 commission funds to Bay Area Women Coalition for the Trinity Gardens parade. Item 10 proposed $6,500 from District 1 education funds for Murphy High School alumni boosters to assist with the high school tennis program. Item 11 proposed $20,000 from District 1 education funds to the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County for auditorium lighting and sound upgrades and student teacher awards at 'Centranet' High School (as read in the transcript).

Intergovernmental agreement: Item 12 proposed an agreement for the City of Sims to assume maintenance of Fire Tower Road (from U.S. Highway 98 to Howells Ferry Road) for a three-year term. Unidentified Speaker 3 asked whether three years was the full term the city wanted or whether any prohibition existed against a longer term; Unidentified Speaker 2 replied that three-year terms are typical for municipalities. Unidentified Speaker 3 also referenced attorney-general opinions that such agreements should be limited to three years.

Environment and monitoring: Item 14 included amendment No. 1 to a subrecipient agreement with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab for USGS stream gauge reinstatement in the amount of $50,000, and a U.S. Department of the Interior/USGS joint funding agreement for $59,190 to operate real-time discharge and water-quality stations at several local sites; the transcript notes $50,000 will be reimbursed by the USGS stream gauge reinstatement grant with the Mobile Bay National Estuary.

The transcript records the items and amounts as part of the conference agenda; it does not, in the provided segments, include formal roll-call votes or final adoption language for these items.

Next steps: these items were placed on the agenda for action; the transcript does not record final approval in the conference segments provided.