February 23, 2017 MOBILE COUNTY COMMISSION the Mobile County Commission Met in Regular Session in the Government Plaza Auditoriu
February 23, 2017 MOBILE COUNTY COMMISSION The Mobile County Commission met in regular session in the Government Plaza Auditorium, in the City of Mobile, Alabama, on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at 10:00 A. M. The following members of the Commission were present: Merceria Ludgood, President, Connie Hudson and Jerry L. Carl, Members. Also present were John F. Pafenbach, County Administrator/Clerk of the Commission, Jay Ross, County Attorney, and W. Bryan Kegley II, Assistant County Engineer. President Ludgood chaired the meeting. __________________________________________________ INVOCATION The invocation was given by Reverend Chester Battles, Associate Minister, Lily Baptist Church, 358 Kennedy Street, Mobile, Alabama 36603. __________________________________________________ PRESENT RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE LIFE & LEGACY OF MR. ISAAC WHITE, SR. WHEREAS, Mr. Isaac White, Sr., founder of White’s Barber College, is a beloved community icon, who is being honored during Black History Month by Allstate Insurance Company as part of its “Worth Telling” campaign, which is featured on digital, social media and radio. We want to take a moment to applaud him and recognize his many accomplishments; and WHEREAS, born to sharecroppers in Wilkerson County, Mississippi in 1919, Mr. White, Sr., moved to Mobile in 1942 and worked at Brookley Air Force Base as a truck driver, while working at a barbershop on the side. A few years later, he opened his own barber shop with only one chair, and that business which was started more than half a century ago, is still open in the same location today; and WHEREAS, in 1960, Mr. White, Sr., opened a barber’s college intent on fulfilling a promise to God to “serve him until I die.” His college offers tuition-free barber training to any applicant who completes their coursework and secures a job, thus providing a significant impact on numerous of people; and February 23, 2017 WHEREAS, today at age 97, Mr.
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