Liberty High School's band will be strutting in style with new uniforms.

Monday night the BASD School board approved a recommendation for the purchase of the uniforms be placed on the agenda for a vote at the Oct. 21 meeting. If the recommendation passes. LHS will have new uniforms for the first time in at least six years.

Back in 2008, Liberty put in a request for new uniforms for the entire band for a trip to Pearl Harbor Hawaii and received new uniforms for half of the band. Band uniforms were put on hold for several years, and an entire rotation circle that ensured band uniforms were distributed equally among the BASD schools passed prior to this resolution. Liberty would have been next in the six-year rotation to receive new band uniforms.

Bids were mailed to four companies and one was received by the district. The bid accepted for the uniforms was $ 139,000 to be completed by Kashket& Partners, a company based in London that makes uniforms for the Queens Guard.

District Superintendent Dr. Joseph Roy said this is a unique opportunity and that the company is willing to work with the district's budget. Kasheket& Partners are interested in making the uniforms because of the Grenadier Bands connection to England.

"If you know the intricacies of the uniforms, this is a great price," said board member Michele Cann.

In other news, the respectful address of board members in electronic communications was also brought up by Director Aurea Ortiz after she received the latest in a number of emails that were disrespectful and the sender did not sign a name.

Ortiz made a statement saying that she thought that in the four years that she has been on the board that the board had gotten past this and racism.

All of the board members got involved in a discussion on what type of action, if any, to take on this matter, as all have received these types of emails over the years.

President Michael Facinetto suggested not responding to anyone who sends an email without a name. This is what he does when he receives email with no signature.

It was suggested to create an answer button on the district website that would have required fields such as name, email, and question, to avoid this issue in the future.

"I think the lack of online civility is an issue, there is this general lack of civility," Roy said. "When our comments are clearly racist and any person can see these comments are racist we won't be reading or responding to them. Take the anti- racist view in not responding to them, there is only so much we can control, we can control our response."