Votes at a glance: Board hears a slate of recommended contracts, grants and purchases

The Shelby County Board of Education work session included a series of staff‑presented recommendations for memoranda of understanding, contracts, grants, purchase orders and other routine items (agenda items 9.1–9.18). The meeting recorded the board’s roll‑call approval of the meeting agenda; the transcript presents the remainder of these items as staff recommendations with brief descriptions but does not record individual roll‑call votes for each line item in the provided excerpt.

Early in the meeting the board approved the agenda by motion (moved by Board member Morgan McKissick, second by Board member Murphy) with a roll call in which members voted “Aye” and the chair announced the motion passed. The remainder of the items below were presented as recommended approvals (staff presenters prefaced each item with “Yes, madam chair, it’s recommended that…”). The transcript records brief discussion on some items (notably 7 Mindsets and budget items covered separately) but most items were presented with no extended Q&A in the provided excerpt.

Summary of staff‑presented items (from agenda numbering): - 9.1 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital MOU: support for STEMM (science,…