City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Split. We'll go ahead. It's 5:00. Want to start our Enterprise City Council work session. Mr. Tollis.

Okay. Mayor, council members, if you'll look on your work session agenda. Um, I have taken the the work that we did at the strategic planning meeting and I've I've listed the Q1 through Q4 goals for 2026. You'll get another document um hopefully by the next time we meet that'll have our our vision over the next four years. uh summarized, but um figured we'd go ahead. So, I took the ones from Q4 that weren't finished and and distributed those in. So, if you look down on vision uh 2026 Q1, we have the uh feasibility of an innovation center partnership with Enterprise State Community College. Uh quarterly reports on nuisance properties and customer service experience. I would expect that to be for all the quarterly reports the last the last work session of the quarter. So probably in March second meeting in March um for first quarter. Um you've also requested that engineering come up with a report um that that council gets on a monthly basis for developments and things that are going on within the city whether that's new uh residential commercial um as well as nuisance properties. So I think we can do that we at least during the work session we committed to do that by the end of this quarter. Um develop a federal and state transportation plan. So, this this comes along with, as we've talked about, we've had a a significant number of uh requests from the council over the last few years, not just with our, you know, current infrastructure to make it safer. Um, a lot of that's owned by ALDOT. Um and so to to get our hands around um more succinctly what are our priorities within the city um for ALDOT and for

potential federal uh sources of funding for that um fund child care facility uh in a potential partnership with Enterprise YMCA and Pass for Success Foundation. I told you the first meeting in in February they were going to be here to to speak with you. Um we did budget funding for that. So assuming that their proposal comes within line in the budget. Um it's just a decision up to you if you want to fund what what they're asking for. Um Belwood Tap project, that was one of the Q4 goals that moved to the first quarter. Again, that's out of our hands. We applied for the TAP grant. Uh we were awarded it and at this point it's it's just going to be um when the contractor starts it. uh next round of dangerous building abatement. So, we're going to continue that process. Last year, we had over 80 properties that the council considered. Um we still have more and and continue to get more on our list every week. So, we're we're going to bring the next round to you this quarter uh to consider. Uh parks and wreck maintenance facility. Uh I don't know if Mr. Mott wants to give any update on that, but we do have that moved to a first quarter goal to complete. Again, the building is complete. We have some issues now. The fencing's up, but I think parking and some of the interior work. Is that something you can Yeah. [clears throat] So, uh, just a quick update on the maintenance building. We do have all the rear parking done like the rock has brought brought in, has been spread, has been compacted. Uh, we do have the fence up around the back for securing the back part of the property. The roadway coming up into the facility. The base is down. It's in good shape. The paving for that is part of paving project number five. So, we're coordinating with Glenn. Um he's working with a contractor now. Sometime after Monday of next week, they will give us a date when they can come and put that asphalt down. Um we just want to proof roll it right before they get ready to

do that. I anticipate that to be pretty straightforward to pave the entrance drive and that parking lot out front. The last thing that we will do after they do the paving on it is public works will come in there and cut that asphalt and we will pour a concrete um driveway stoop um to come up in there. It's easier to do that after the fact than it is to have somebody match to the concrete. We can mold the concrete to the asphalt and it'll look prettier when we're done. The only thing left at that point to be done for um for parks and wreck, we'll do the interior buildout stuff. So, we're working with an architect about what that might look like. But at least at this point, we'll get the paving down over the next couple weeks that they can use the building as it was intended at least for storage. It should have electricity and it should have everything set up for them. Okay.

Any questions for Mr. M? Thank you very

couple other things for um quarter two or later. Um, I'm hoping we can do some of these sooner, but old Coppenville agreement, again, that that agreement is with the school system. Uh, as soon as we hear back, if we hear back in the first quarter, obviously, we'll bring that agreement to the council for consideration. Uh, and then we're in the process of reviewing um I call them surplus or potential surplus properties, but properties that the city owns for whatever reason that we're not currently using. Um, once we get that list, we'll present that to the council. um potentially with some recommendations on um there there have been some interested parties on some of those um properties. Um if if we don't need them and we're not currently using them, it would certainly be a cost savings to the taxpayer because we are spending time and resources maintaining those properties. Um and if we can return them into some good and productive use for the community, uh that would seem to be a win-win. So,

does does that have to go out to to the community saying, "Hey, this property is going to be available so everybody has a chance or No, sir. Uh, really depends on what you what you want. But in in the past, if you recall, we've had um Turner Orthodontics as an example came to us or even um Goulby Plumbing and Electric.

There were properties that were identified um and they they brought those with the proposal. the only requirement would be that we we get um fair market value for the for the property um or in lie of fair market value some public good. So um in both of those instances the the um people that brought that to us uh got a independent appraisal of the property and so they they were willing to pay what the property appraised for. So, the taxpayer was was made good um and and they were they were going to use the property for a use that the council felt like would be good for the city.

Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, that that concludes our quarterly goal. Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. I have a question about or rather a comment or request about the um the agreement that's with Coinville. can either you or Ashley reach out to Zel. I spoke with him on the 8th of January and they were actually he stated they were he and the attorney were meeting that following day which would been of course the 9th to try to um finalize that. Yes, ma'am. So, I don't want to keep kicking this down till it doesn't you know till June and we still got that

I know sentenced the same that it's with their attorney. I met with our attorney with with Ashley this morning and I know she put in a call to to the school systems attorney, but I I'll call Zel directly. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

Any other questions? Thank you. Okay. Let's go ahead and uh review the agenda for this evening. Typical uh roll call, opening prayer and pledge of allegiance, approval of the agenda, and then consideration of the consent agenda. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the council for review or considered be routine and be enacted upon by a motion from the city council with no separate discussion. Okay, we'll go over the we have to consider the city council work session minutes from January 6th, January 14th. Contract billings in the amount of $81,49825 broken down through Vulker Incorporate for $36,76059 contract service bow weevil circle expansion barge design solutions $36,67359 contract services county road 606 relocation uh slash the airport out there Poly Inc. 1 million one. Yeah. 1,814,000 or excuse me, $1,8147 contract services. Wastewater treatment plants. Fine. Getty $6,250 contract services for January. As we see, there are some travel requests there from public works to attend technical training, police department, some other travel for additional training classes, fire department, winter conference for Chief Davis. All right, that's it for the consent agenda.

Next item is presentation of extra mile award. We'll recognize Mayor Cooper and Christopher Davis, Enterprise Fire Chief, who will present firefighter Nathan Peterman with the extra mile award. And then we'll have privilege of the floor and then staff reports. Old business review and consider bid recommendation 2025-10 demolition of clearance of public nuisance property phase one introducing call for consideration the recommendation from Barry Mont city engineer public works director toward the bid for the 2025-10 de demolation and clearance of public nuisance property phase one toerson construction LL for 66,000 $31263. Lewis Incorporate was the only other bidder for $85,515. Anything, Barry, on that?

Yes, sir. So, as you remember, we went out for bids uh sometime in calendar year 2025, and we were not able to secure bids. We we took a different approach and put out phase one and phase two. Phase two is the second item on the agenda after this one, but this is for phase one. The low bid was Tison. Um, just for your memory, there's there's 12 actual units in phase one. So, this is the city's initiative on demo projects. Um, we feel like the bids were a good bid on that and and would ask your um approval to allow us to move forward with that. Now, this is this is Ben Goldman's program as we talked about. So, this is allowing um us to execute a contract with the mayor to um to go ahead and demo to to demo those properties that are listed in phase one. Then after they're demoed, we would bring them back to the next phase in this process. Bring it back to this to this body.

Okay. Any discussion or questions? All right. Thank you very Next one's probably yours too. Review and consider bid recommendation 2025-10 demolition and clearance of public news and property phase two. Introducing call for consideration of a recommendation Barry Mont city engineer public works director to award the bid for the 2025-10 demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties phase 2 to Lewis Inc. for $88,548.50 toerson construction LLC was the only other bidder for $103,8655.

Yes sir. So this one uh is the phase two of that same program and there's a total of eight units in that um in that demolition initiative. So it's the same story as before, but this is phase two and we'll be bringing you phase three when those are ready.

Okay. Thank you. Any questions? Okay. All right. Thank you. Um then we'll go into new business. Review and consider to accept Firehouse Subs grant fire department. Introduce and call for consideration of a request from the Enterprise Fire Department to accept the Firehouse Subs public safety foundation board of directors grant a proposed award valued at up to $30,925 is for the requested TNT spreader, cutter, ram, and accessories from the Enterprise Fire Department. Chief,

uh it's it it's as simple as how it reads. We were able to get a grant. is the full amount. This will uh finalize the last piece of uh battery powered education equipment we've been looking for. Um which you know we've been working on that for quite some time. So I ask that you accept.

All right. Any questions? All right. Next item is to authorize the mayor and the fire chief to execute the memorandum of agreement severe weather MOA between the First Methodist Church Enterprise and the city of Enterprise. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor and the fire chief to execute a memorandum of agreement between First Methodist Church Enterprise and the City Enterprise for the use of the church facility as a safer place for severe weather events. Chief and I see Pastor Jordan here too and got our county EMA grant lines out there too. They're all here for questions.

Okay, don't limit to me. Um this is uh this is initiative that they have had we've worked on together to see if there's anything we can do just to improve the ability for citizens to be safer. That's what this is located or called and you'll see safer place. This isn't saying that this is a tornado shelter. Um this is just something that we can support um times like now when it's very cold outside uh or even storms uh when they set that up. it is ultimately up to them and we uh we support them however we can. I think it's an important uh important thing for us to have.

So would this function as a a warming station along with like tornado or it can be you know obviously tornadoes are are a little more random. This is more for uh if there is severe weather uh that can be a part of it. cooling, warming station, just a place for our citizens to be safer than they might be either outside or say in a mobile home. Hey Matt, uh what part of the facility is this the family life center or the

Yes. So this will be in the family life center uh which is our church gym. Uh and we've we've [clears throat] utilized it uh last year during the snow as a warming center and have an MOA in place with the EMA. Uh if the mission reaches capacity or we feel like there's a need for a second warming shelter to be uh set up for that. Um but in conversations with Chief Davis and with Grant, uh the goal is really to make it a safer place where folks that are um generally walking distance or are able to to get there uh with enough notice uh that we can provide kind of a safer space for them uh to keep them safe and um you know have a place that's warm or a place to cool them off or uh a place that's safer than the the place they reside uh to stay for a temporary amount of time. You know, like Chief said, it's not a shelter like a tornado shelter. Um uh Scotty was with us on the night um of the uh uh the Veterans Home fire. Uh there for a minute. We thought we were going to be getting some residents and uh it it proved to be kind of a central place uh in town and just a way that our church can help support um the safety of our citizens.

All right. Thanks. Thank you very much for doing that.

Yeah, Grant. Oh, go ahead. I was gonna say, Grant, do you have anything you'd like to add? [clears throat] Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Nothing else to add other than this initiative came about a few years ago with state EMA. U the state of Alabama had looked throughout the state at starting to initiate the discussion about safer places and so that's trickled out to the counties and the state is looking at each county that's interested in operating these safer places. So, we're thankful for Enterprise and and the partnership opportunity with F First First Methodist, of course, but uh this will be something that we'll maintain the database as well locally, but we'll let the state know when we utilize it. So, they'll be able to have a count on the people that are using the uh the facility and if there's any issues or things like that as well. It's honestly a good thing for the governor for her awareness too with our the way we report up to the state. She has visibility as well.

And and how does our community know that this place is going to be open? Good question. So, we'll use all our normal methods that we push out uh information. We'll work with the city, our social media. We also have mass notification system that we can utilize if we decide to do that. Um but primarily this is going to be trying to do outreach with people that don't have a a safer place to go. Mobile homes, as Chief Davis mentioned, that's a big concern of ours. Um we just want to have a place where people can go to get a better situation. It's not a shelter. We already mentioned that. This is not advertised as a as a storm shelter. Uh but it is a place that may be safer than where they're currently at.

And and Reverend Jordan, um the church, you and the church kind of determine it's no set time. So I just wanted you to emphasize that for the public necessarily about you all. It's at your discretion as to when Yeah, that that's right. So it could be random just depending on what's going on in the community. is

yeah it's a it's about a about a 6 hour window before it's what we have written up and uh the way we typically work even if we have to open for a warming shelter is is grant and the EMA reach out to us and say hey we're going to need this extra space um and if I remember correctly in MOA it's it's laid out pretty clear of what that window is um and so we would be able to to get notification out well before a danger time of travel would be um and it would be you know the way the way we try to operate is to not hinder our first responders So, uh, we rely on Grant and and Chief Davis and them to relay information to say, "Hey, this would be a great time to to open this space up. Is it okay to advertise it?" And we'll we'll push it out through our social media, too. But, um, we try to operate under their discretion of of this is the good time to open it and and leave enough window of time for safe travel for folks to get there.

It's a good partnership and resource for our city.

Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Thank you. and and this is this is a good place or good time when our our Coffee County Community Emergency Response Team gets notified the search team that helps them out. Now, they have volunteers. We're trying to get more volunteers and this is a great opportunity for me to just give a shameless plug of at the end of this month in 30 31st we have our first of the year training program coming up. So, you can contact me Grant Chief and and we'll let you know about it. But it's a great way to volunteer to help out because they can't do it themselves just at the church with with what who they have. So it's it's good to have other volunteers to come out. Any other questions? Everybody's good.

Just see where Ashley has already had an opportunity to to look at adjust and uh approved. And I think we all got a copy of that. Okay. Thank you. Oh, Grant. I I was going to say too, Scotty, you mentioned it, but uh about the C team. A lot of times in these situations with safer places or warming stations, we rely on volunteers to help man that. And so, a word of thanks to not only First Methodists and and our partnership here tonight, but also to anybody that volunteers because they're taking time away from their families to come out and help others. So, we certainly appreciate that and we appreciate uh any any of those volunteers because when we open this thing up, and we stand it up, it's going to be volunteer-led. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. All right. We'll go on further under uh new business. We will consider nominations to the Main Street Board. We're going to call for nominations for a three-year term to Main Street Enterprise Board of Directors to fill the expiring board seats of Sheila Harris, Shirley Skinner, and Justin Robertson. Lily, do you have anything you want to add to that? Good evening.

Good evening. Um, very quickly, so we will be replacing those three board members. Um, our nominating committee went through um some community members that we thought would be fit for the role and we have decided on Garrick Vest, Julie Ayer, and um Justin Robertson to return for his second term. Um this is what our nominating committee decided upon and this is what our board has agreed on as well. Okay. Any questions for Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. And then we're going to authorize the uh assistant public works director to execute an agreement with Thompson Power System. We'll call for a motion to authorize the assistant public works director to execute a three-year agreement with the city of Enterprise and Thompson Power Systems for generator service and maintenance. This service will be used to citywide on 17 city-owned generators. Co total contract price is 172,000 $660.13 and was approved in the FY26 public works budget cycle. Mary.

Yes, sir, Mr. President. So, um, this came back in budget discussions last year about what are some of the things that we should be looking at across the city that we currently were not doing. And uh Shane and I realized that while we were testing the generators weekly, turning them on and make sure they will come on when the power was off, there has been no real evaluation of the efficiency of those generators. And the only way to do that is to put them under a load test. So we started reaching out about who could do that. And we got this proposal um from Caterpillar. And and what the proposal says is for a three-year duration for twice a year they come in. the first time they come in, they will load test every one of the generators and make sure that they're outputting the wattage that they should be putting out. And the whole idea there is to identify if a generator is starting to decline, we catch it at a point before it fails. So when we don't absolutely need it, you know, we have time to work on it. Currently, the city was cranking those things up every week. uh we were doing the oil changes on them and we were doing the general maintenance, but we do not have the equipment for the ability to load test these things and to make sure they're doing what they should be doing. So, this was a recommendation that we did at budget season last for this budget year. This is a budgeted item. It is under budget and I think this is real important for us to be prepared for the times that we really need these generators to come on to keep our our facilities up and running. So, I'll answer any questions you have about it. anyone? No,

it sounds like a great plan to make sure you don't want to do it when we have a disaster. So, it's it's really amazing when you start seeing the number of facilities that the city has and how many of those have generators there, whether that be at a pump station or, you [clears throat] know, at the at the civic center or at, you know, wherever that is, farmers market, to make sure those things not only do they come on, but they are operating efficiently and doing what they should be doing. So, um I think this is a good idea if y'all are on board with approving that tonight. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right, then we'll close with uh mayor's report, council member comments, and then we'll do an adjournment. Okay, back to our work session agenda. That seems to be the only items unless someone has something they would like to bring up or discuss.

Councilman Johnson, I want to ask uh Chief Moore, see you have quite a few of your guys and uh ladies who are doing these trainings. I'm not questioning the validity of it. I was just wondering you do these trainings go towards like professional development credentials? I'm not sure. I was looking at the same thing and I don't know why they didn't whoever didn't put it. It's not a big secret and I was looking that's weird. The we've got two sergeant or two narcotics going to narcotic school to

a conference that we go to every year. Um part of networking and part of how are y'all doing it better than us. Um and that's we send somebody to that one every year. Um, Captain Hagglin, a couple others are going to SRT, uh, advanced school to learn more breaching to more operations and everything else. Um, um, trying to think, uh, Captain uh, Kent is actually he found a leadership through FBI that I try to send all my folks to. Um, he found that it's a trilogy, so three and they're about two weeks a piece. He found one in Texas. There's no lodging involved because he's staying with his daughter. So, saves us money. Win-win. Um, but he'll go to that and finish his his trilogy, which is good stuff, too. So, yes, sir.

I'm I'm glad you're providing those opportunities for them. Um, um, so yeah, the the classes are just u just all over the state or southeast. Does it help them in the future with like rankings and improvement, you know, as far as uh job promotional opportunities and things of that nature?

It helps me. Uh some of the captains uh Captain Kent is I've only got, you know, only have three captains. It helps me because again, I'm big on prior, you know, still military networking is is very important to me. Um, just to give you a head, you know, backtrack on leadership and and networking, 2019, I attended FBI National Academy through the police department when Chief Jones was still here. It was a three month three-month course in um, Quantico, Virginia by the FBI. The classes there were nothing more than just junior or just just college courses, right? Not they were nice. They were great. you got to talk to professionals, but it was nothing compared to uh 237 law enforcement agents throughout the nation uh and then 37 throughout the world coming together and saying what's your problem and how do you fix it? So that's what these leadership courses are all designed about. Uh we have some in in um Dothan, but as as you get higher in the Lita course, the harder it gets. Uh so he saw this opportunity and it absolutely helps me. Uh Lieutenant Below absolutely helps with their promotion process um uh to include getting those leadership to prepare them to go to um uh to go up the ranks and possibly hopefully take my place one day. So

that's great. Thanks. That's awesome. Yes, sir. I'm sorry. The other one I just remembered the other one is what we talked about before is defensive tactics. That's GSTs. Um, and that's the two young officers that will go to learn how to to do defensive tactics. Less uh less injury on the officer, less injury on the uh the the combatant and less dependence on on weapons and more on your ability to grapple. So, does does that make them a train of trainer or will they be able to do Okay,

it'll be trained the trainer. I'm trying to get more of that. Two reasons. One, the police department absolutely needs it. We're not dependent on other people. to uh Wiregrass Academy where I send most of my officers. Now, some of my officers, they also need instructors. So, it opens the door also to officers getting them out of just the mundane police officer thing and actually get to teach younger officers. So, thanks. Okay. Anything else, Mr. Tollis?

Yes, sir. Mayor and Council, I thought since we had a little bit of time, if you'll permit, um two things. one. Um Barry Mott has two new employees uh with the engineering department. I thought it'd be a good time to introduce those. Um and then also Glenn Morgan. I know Councilwoman Rich had requested an update on Daleville Avenue and what the water um uh reservicing plan was for the work that they had done there. So Glenn could give you an update on that if if you would permit it.

Sounds Sounds great. Y [clears throat] council, you know, I stand here today excited. Um, I'm approaching my 5-y year anniversary with the city and, you know, when I came in the door, I knew the city was growing and we've done nothing but continue to grow. Um, and the challenges keep what they say, you create a good mouse trap and they get a better mouse, right? So, our problems keep getting more sophisticated, they get better, and we um as we're growing, um the challenges keep coming at us and and part of that is to is evolving as a city is to make sure we're prepared and staffed to handle the issues that keep coming at us and and particularly the engineering department. Um you know, public works with Shannon there. You know, Shannon is a staple of the city. I think, you know, everybody that's been here in the city of Enterprise knows Shannon Roberts and and I had to fill in for him. you know, Shannon was sick tonight and he didn't feel good. And um when Shannon's sick, we all know Shannon must be sick. But um I I wanted to take the opportunity for the engineering department because part of the plan for this year was to restructure the engineering department. And and with that was to basically create two new positions. And one position was the assistant engineering um assistant city engineers position which will help with uh engineering projects but get more focused on storm water and and development plans and capital projects um that we are we're constantly undertaking and as well as creating a position for city planner which is a dedicated city planning position. Um so what I have here tonight is two people and I'd like to introduce them formally to you. the assistant city engineer um is Jonathan Lucas. We now have two Jonathans in the city. So um we're we're struggling right now. How do you call which Jonathan what and we we've come up with a list of nicknames for Jonathan Lucas and I don't think any of them stuck yet. We're real happy to have

Jonathan. Jonathan comes to us from the city of Dothan. Um he and I worked together 10 plus years when I was a consultant. He worked for the city and he was my my client back in the day. and um I I held him in very very high esteem and when this position came available um it was somebody that when I saw his name come in that um I thought was a great opportunity for us. Jonathan comes to us with over 10 years of engineering experience in municipal government with the city of Dothan. City of Dothan's MS4 which means under the storm water regulations. They have a lot of storm water regulations. He's a certified flood plane manager. He's familiar with where the city of Enterprise is heading when it comes to storm water and what the requirements will be. so we can get ahead of those now. Um that will help the city develop the correct way. Um he's also familiar with um with with systems that we currently do not have in place, but we ought to be looking at uh as we develop our our subdivision regulations, as we develop our reviews for construction permits, as we review our subdivision plans that come to the department. this gives us another person, another set of eyes, another engineers looking at that to make sure we're doing everything we can to protect the interest of the public. Um so with that, I'm gonna give Jonathan a chance to to say something here and then I'll introduce um Tim.

Yeah, it's it's uh it's pretty cool. I've uh like Barry said, I was with the city of Dothan for 10 years. I I was kind of, you know, down the road seeing everything going on here in Enterprise and and everything. Um it looked very exciting. So, when I saw the opportunity come up, I talked to my wife. I was like, you know, um they're doing some really cool stuff in Enterprise. I'd really love to, you know, jump on board. Um and I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to um to to help, you know, leadership help you guys achieve your goals of of what you want to do um here in the city of Enterprise. Maybe bring my expertise and just be a part of everything that's going on um here. Like I said, it's just from the outside looking in, it looks like there's so much going on. It's an exciting place to be right now, and I look forward to the opportunity to to work with you guys and work with the city.

So, we're happy to have Jonathan. Um the second thing that I realized is uh we needed a person dedicated to planning just pure pure planner um that wasn't um watered down in all the other the other activities that that we had on our um assistant director at the time. Um so as Jonathan brought a school a skill set to the city that um will definitely aid us in our development to do it the correct way. Um, so we wrote a job description for our city planner and uh who who we selected and who was first day on the job today. Um, I'll introduce to you Tim Milstead. Tim [clears throat] comes to us from the city of Milton, Florida. Um, a lot of similarities there. I'll let him talk a little bit about what those are. Um they uh Tim's got a great wealth of of knowledge and a skill set that that we have not had honestly in the city for for some time. So with that, I'm going to let let Tim kind of introduce himself, but we're real excited to have Tim here. So Tim,

good evening, Mayor Council. Great to be here tonight. I'm excited to for my first day here to be able to work with the city of of Enterprise. Um, yesterday was the fourth time I've ever been to Enterprise and the previous three were to actually come up here to talk about this particular position. And I tell you what, I'm really, really excited at what I have seen so far at just how wonderful this community is, how much this community is progressing. As Barry mentioned, I come from City of Milton, Florida, about two hours away, a suburb of Pensacola, and worked there for about 19 years uh before I came here in city planning in their planning department. uh served the last uh a little over four years as their planning director and uh Barry mentioned a lot of similarities between the two communities. Um and I'm excited to uh explore some of those similarities especially some of the military influence that's very very similar between both communities and the effects on both communities. Uh, so I'm excited to be able to bring some of that expertise from Milton and uh, be able to listen to some of the concerns that you have as well, some of the concerns the citizens may have. How can we make Enterprise an even better place? How can we make it continue to thrive and grow and be able to serve the citizens uh, the way that they deserve to be served? I'm here to help in any way that I can. If you have any questions, let me know. Thank you for the opportunity to be able to be here and serve this community.

Thank you, Tim. Anybody have any questions for Tim or Jonathan at all? Any discussion? Tim, I'm on the city planning commission. I'm looking forward to [clears throat] working with you. Great.

So, as you can see, we um we've attracted some really, really nice talent and um I can definitely honestly I know I know some of you um sometimes it's long to get replies back from me and get things back. So, this will help increase our bandwidth and to help us be more efficient. But I just wanted to to take a minute to introduce those guys to you. Feel free to reach out them directly if you'd like to. Um and and we keep each other in loop. So we we've introduced um Tim's first day is today and he's been introduced to the to the engineering staff. So we are right now we are at fullboat. We we have all our positions full in engineering and I am really really excited about what that means to start off 2026 on the right path and um I expect good things to go as as as we have on the council tonight. We have phase one and phase two for those demo initiatives and we've been talking for the last couple days about what that means and how he could help us with that with the blight initiative. So um that he has some ideas and some things that he has has undertaken in his career over the last 20 years. So you know everybody has has a different walk in life and we all have something that we can bring to the table. So um what I intend to do is to harness everybody's experiences and and make the best that we can for the city of Enterprise. So um I thank you very much for the opportunity to introduce those guys to you tonight.

Thank you. And I know I can speak for the council. Please let us know, gentlemen, what we can do to help you the job here to help our community. Thank you, Barry. Yes, sir.

Appreciate that. All right, Mr. Tullus. Anything else? Oh. Oh, Glenn, excuse me. I even wrote it down. Council, uh, the mayor had asked me, I mean, Jonathan and the mayor and I discussed it this morning just to give you a brief update on the water project. Obviously, the water board's in the process of sort of the final phases of this this uh ADM SRF water replacement project. They're in the Kelly Ree Woodland area right now. That's the last area that's left for water mane replacement, service replacement. I think they're about 65% done there. Obviously, the project is not closed out, but it's getting closer to that point. Um Miss Rich asked about Devil Avenue because there's some patches there, particularly a linear patch that's not a good patch. is considered in my opinion a temporary patch. We pressed the contractor to get back do some work and they matter of fact I just text and they text me back and said possibly the end of this week or next week there's patching crews going to be back to try to get caught up on some of those areas including replacement of that patch uh patches on Devil Avenue to get that cleaned up because it's rough and and we've known it and the contractor knows it as well. And what drew um some things to my attention um Glenn, I just wanted to mention, you know, we were very proud to um have that sidewalk installed there. And then the water mane project happened and we we're we're proud of that, too. We know we need those things. Um but I I talked with Mr. M about it. I talked with you, but I just want to go on record to say that there's a horrible job done. Um when the sidewalk was installed, um with that sidewalk came some um I I kind of liken it to like a cross crosswalk, you know, the white stripes connecting like from one side of the street to the next. So, in some areas where they had striped that area and that's dug up, that really

needs to be replaced cuz that was somebody else's work that they did and did a quite good job of doing that and that's been disrupted and just left there. Um, along with some other things that I thought that they really should have cleaned the area up. Um, I had to ask was the project done because I couldn't tell cuz like obviously it didn't look like it was done but it's been months. You don't see anybody out there. So that you know I just wanted the rest of the council to know why I was being so particular about that you know because of the condition that it was the the project was left in. So that's why that he's actually just coming back. He's trying to make sure everybody knows

that's right. That's right. Just so the public as well as the council understand the project's not closed out. There will be a substantial completion inspection done on the whole project. Punch list will be developed and those things that Miss Rich would be will definitely be addressed and be on the punch list. No question about that. Okay. Thank you, Barry. Say something. [clears throat]

Just um Miss Rich, one thing that just to add on to that is currently we do not have a permitting process for anybody does work in our rideways. while we're working on what that might look like to give it to you for consideration. I did talk to um to Glenn today and Alan Maym with water department. While they while they are a separate entity and they have the right to do their project, we do have the right to do the inspection after this project is complete and we've all agreed the three of us agreed that after they they have they say is complete that we will do a final walkthrough and make sure that public works is on board and concurs that everything is done to our satisfaction. And so we're going to work together to make sure

I appreciate and that's not just for that particular street. I just happen to see that on the lot, but that's for anywhere that we get work done in our city. We want those, you know, projects completed nicely.

My position is since the public works maintains the rideways and maintains the roads, we should have a say so in the way that it's left after these projects are complete. And everybody concurs. There's there's no ill will there in any way. Just want to let you know that we will follow through with them and we will do the walkthroughs and make sure that it's done to our satisfaction because it will be our responsibility in public works to maintain those roads, those rideaways and those those easements after the contractor is gone. It'll be ours to keep up from that point on. So, uh we will do that not just for this project and not just for Delville Avenue, but for the entire entire water project and any other projects it's done in the in the in the rightway of the city. Appreciate

Thank you, ma'am. And Chief Moore. Yes. So this is like to introduce those who don't know him, Captain Daryl Griswall. He's patrol captain. Been working for the city of Enterprise since 1996.

1996. If anybody could do this job better than me, it's a lot of people, but anybody can do a better job than Daryl, there's very, very few. However, he does, you can see, he loves the the public light. He does not, but he does a phenomenal job. I say all this to say this. Uh February 1st, prior to that, I'm still in the National Guard. I'm I'm ranked captain in the Air National Guard. Our commander, it's a full-time position, was offered to me numerous times. I choose not to take it. Uh I recently found out that our current commander has uh taken a leave. He he has turned down his command. Doesn't want to be there anymore. He's found another position. In the light of that, they've asked me to take over command yet again. And I've again told them no, I will not. However, um I did offer and well, they did ask and I did apply. I did tell them that I would come out there to keep consistency at the guard unit for period of 45 days. In that time from February 1st to March 20th when I come off of orders, uh, Captain Griswald will be um in charge of the daily operations and everything else to include attending counsel to include u answering questions or anything else, any issues or whatever else. That doesn't mean that I'm going to be a complete different part of it. I have my cell phones. I have my uh uh computer. I can certainly answer anything that needs to be done, but he will take care of the day in and day out operations in my absence. So, uh, any questions?

Thank you for your service. Well, thank you. Uh, I will send out his contact information, uh, to y'all, uh, through email to to let y'all know in case there's something needs to be done. So, he loves dog calls. He loves um abandoned vehicles, speeding. Yes. So, all right. Thank you. Thank you. And he smiles often. All right. Mr. Tus, any anything else? No, sir. All right. I see Barry. Just for the sake that we have a minute, can I do something I would normally do in staff reports during this time, sir? Yes, sir.

Um, as uh you may or may not know, we are uh still behind when it comes to bulk garbage in the city of Enterprise. And it it's not that the cans are being picked up daily as they should on the regular schedule. The two areas that we have fallen behind on are the county, what we pick up in bulk that goes to the county landfill and what we pick up in bulk which goes to the grinding site. That is 100% uh responsible for um the reason for that is because we've had a a lot of illness and um people that have been out sick with what's going on currently across the city. Um as many know that that the flu and other things are going rampant. Um, we lost a large portion of our staff over the last week and a half and we've done everything we can to keep everything up. We did keep cans, the garbage cans, the green cans are being picked up daily and are on schedule, but we are currently uh we're picking up Friday's route today. So, we are two to two two and a half days behind on schedule on that. Um, and and I'm gonna get something out to Emily to put out on social media, but we're asking everybody just keep

Did I was going to say, did everybody see what was out today about that? What the She already got out. She's ahead. Got it out. So, I just want to at least bring that up, bring it up to you that that we we're doing everything we can. We brought everybody's got CDL licenses to get on those trucks and do the things that need to be done. Um, but we're we're working as best we can. I just want to keep you informed of what we're doing. Um, and we're we'll get back on schedule as quick as we can. Thank you. Any of the council members have CDL's? [laughter] Okay. All right. Thank you, John. All right. Well, that's the end of the work session agenda. We'll go ahead and adjourn to our regular meeting, which will start in about 15 minutes, 6 p.m. This meeting is adjourned.

the outreach and missions First Baptist Church Enterprise and then our pledge of allegiance after that. Please stand with me. Let's pray. Dear Jesus, we thank you uh for the blessings you've given us to be able to live in America, to live in Alabama, and particularly Enterprise and the city that you have given us. You have blessed us beyond what we actually deserve. And so we thank you for that. I pray tonight for this body of policy makers and for the city council, for the mayor, for the staff, for this meeting tonight. I I pray that these men and women would uh you'd give them wisdom. I pray you give them patience. Give us give them unity. Uh that we would be unified. I pray for our town, for our first responders, our schools and churches, our elected officials. Be with us. Help us to follow Jesus's model to not look to to serve, not look to be served, but to serve. Jesus, we give you this meeting. We we pray all these things in your name. Amen.

Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Pastor Smith. I call for a motion to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. Move to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. I.

All oppose and like sign. Okay. Agenda's been approved. Consideration of the consent agenda. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the council for review are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion of the city council with no separate discussion. If a separate discussion is desired on an item, that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request of a member of the city council. I now call for a motion to approve the consent agenda as pre present. Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Okay. All in favor say I.

I. I.

And then all oppose like sign. Okay. Consent agenda is approved. I'd like to recognize Mayor Cooper and Christopher Davis, Enterprise Fire Chief, who will present firefighter Nathan Peterman with the extra mile award. Gentlemen, First, I would like to say good evening to everyone. At this time, I would like to recognize an outstanding member of the Enterprise Fire Department who truly exemplifies what it means to go the extra mile in service to others. uh to assist with tonight's presentation. I would like to ask Enterprise Fire Chief Christopher Davis to please come forward. I'd also like to ask our award recipient firefighter Nate Nathan Peterman to come to the front and join us.

He was already halfway up here by the time you get there. Tonight, we're proud to recognize senior firefighter Nathan Peterman with an extra mile award. I believe 22 years next month. 21. All right. I'm going to need you around for an extra year. Back in December, Peterman was on shift when a call came in for a motor vehicle accident. Following that incident, the woman involved took the time to share the impact of his actions. She wrote comments like, "Comfort me comforted me beyond his protocol. Kind, caring, and so patient." As firefighters and first responders, we do not always get to see the outcomes of our work or hear how much a single moment of compassion can mean to someone. Going the extra mile is not an exception within the Enterprise Fire Department. It is the standard of care we strive to provide every day. While public recognition is appreciated, it is never the reason our firefighters do what they do. Peterman's actions serve as a reminder that professionalism, empathy, and service go hand in hand. His compassion reflects the values of this department and the city as a whole. Nathan, thank you for your dedication, your character, and for representing the Enterprise Fire Department with excellence. It is an honor to present you with this extra mile award there.

[applause]

And congratulations Nathan. It's outstanding. [clears throat] Okay. This is the pledge of the floor. This is the part of the meeting where anyone in attendance today who wishes to address the council may do so for three minutes. If there is a public hearing on the agenda for the topic that you are concerned with, please wait until that public hearing opens to address the council. If they choose, staff, mayor, and council will rep respond to your comments during the appointed time later in the meeting. Repetitive, disruptive, and disparaging comments will not be tolerated. If you are found out of order, your privileges can and will be revoked. Does anybody wish to address the council at this time? Okay, seeing no one, uh, next item is staff reports. Do we have any staff reports that we didn't get earlier? None. Okay, thank you. All right, we'll go into old business review and consideration bid recommendation 2025-10, demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties phase one. Introducing call for consideration of a recommendation from Barry Mont, city engineer public works director to award the bid for the 202510 demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties phase one to Terson Construction LL for $66,31263. Lewis Incorporated was the only other bidder for $85,515. Do I hear a motion? Move to award the bid as recommended.

Second. [clears throat] Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? Single saying I. I.

And those opposed? Same sign. Motions pass. Review and consider bid recommendation 2025-10 demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties phase two. Introduce and call for the consideration of a recommendation from Barry Mott, city engineer, public works director to award the bid for the 2025-10 demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties phase 2 to Lewis, Inc. for $88,548.50. Talison Construction LLC was the only other bidder for $103,86955. Do I hear a motion? Move to award the bid as recommended.

Second. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? Semly. I I.

All opposed. Same sign. Okay. All right. We're going to new business. Review and consider to accept Firehouse Subs grant fire department. Introducing call for consideration of a request from the Enterprise Fire Department to accept the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Board of Directors Grant. The proposed awarded value at up to $30,925 is for the requested TNT spreader, cutter, ram, and accessories for the Enterprise Fire Department. We got a discussion on this from the chief earlier. It's on the budget. U do I hear a motion? Move to accept the firehouse subs grant.

Second. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed, same sign.

Okay. Motions pass. Next one is authorize the mayor and the fire chief to execute memorandum of agreement severe weather MOA between First Methodist Church Enterprise, City of Enterprise. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor and the fire chief to execute a memorandum of agreement between First Methodist Church Enterprise and the City of Enterprise for the use of the church facility as a safer place for severe weather events. Uh Chief, would uh you or Matt like to expound any more on this? Are we good from the work session? Maybe for those who just came in venue

u briefly this is obviously the church's safer place right so it's their ability to put on not a shelter but a safer place in times where there may be severe weather um hot cold areas where we need either a warming or cooling shelter um thisou simply provides additional assistance from us uh where we can uh we offered things like education, classes, anything that we can do to assist in that matter. And obviously this is a big benefit for our citizens that may be uh either homeless, don't have a place to go, or the location that they're staying doesn't have heating, cooling, or may not be safe during severe weather. Uh it's basically just a a um city community agreement that can do nothing but benefit our citizens.

Thank you, Keith.

Yeah. And on [clears throat] behalf of First Methodist Church, just want to say, you know, it's a it's a a privilege and a pleasure for us and we think a great responsibility of our church to utilize our resources both for the the betterment of our city uh and for our first responders and and local officials that are trying to help keep our citizens safe. And so, uh, being able to open a space like our church gym, uh, as a safer place is a a great way for us to achieve the mission of Christ as well as, uh, support the citizens of our city, uh, by helping provide a space that may be safer than where they're residing in severe weather of hot and cold or storms, whatever that may be. So, uh, we look forward to being able to serve uh, together continually in those ways.

Thank you, sir. Okay. I'd like to call for a motion for this uh MOA. I move to authorize the mayor and fire chief to execute the memorandum and of agreement as presented. Second. Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

All those opposed and like sign. Motion pass. Consider nominations to the Main Street Board. We call for nominations for a three-year term to the Main Street Enterprise Board of Directors to fill the expiring seats of Sheila Harris, Shirley Skinner, and Justin Robertson. Do I hear a motion for nomination? Move to nominate Justin Robertson, Garrick Vest, and Julie Heir to the Main Street Enterprise Board of Directors for a three-year term ending February 2029. Second.

Okay. And any other discussion? During the meeting, Miss Lily told us that uh this are recommendations from the board of the main street for these nominations. Okay. All in favor for these nominations signify by saying I. I. All oppose. I like sign.

Okay. Nominations. And that motion's passed. We call uh this is to authorize the assistant public works director to execute an agreement Thomas Thomasson Power System. Call for a motion to authorize the assistant public works director to execute a three-year agreement between the city of Enterprise and Thompson Power Systems for generator service and maintenance. This service will be used to citywide on 17 city-owned generators. The total contract price is $172,660.13 and was previously approved in the FY26 public works budget cycle. I'd like to entertain a motion.

I move to authorize the assistant public works director to execute the agreement with Thompson Power System as presented. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion there? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed like sign. Okay. Motion pass. Mayor, would we like to hear your report, please, sir? I want to take a moment to reflect on the work

we have accomplished this evening. This was a full and productive agenda from recognizing dedicated employees to accepting grants, making board nominations, and approving agreements related to severe weather and preparedness, among other important items. I appreciate the council's diligence and thoughtful consideration of each matter. Just last week, we met to discuss our strategic plan. And tonight's meeting is a good example of how busy this council will be moving forward. As we work through the year ahead, the four years of this council's term and our vision for enterprise 10 years from now and beyond, I'm confident that we will continue working together to live up to our nickname, the city of progress. I also want to briefly acknowledge the winter weather we experienced over the weekend. While the snowfall was short-lived, it was a reminder how quickly conditions can change. Looking ahead, there's the potential for more severe weather next week. C city leadership is monitoring the forecast closely and coordinating as needed to ensure our citizens and our community remain safe and prepared. We encourage residents to stay informed and make appropriate uh precautions. As always, I encourage everyone to stay connected by following the city of Enterprise on Facebook and by visiting our website at enterpris.gov. Go. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Rich. [clears throat] Want to say congratulations to firefighter Peterman. Um it's always good when we have um um some such complimentary um comments from our um citizens um on our staff. So, um, congratulations to him and I want to say thank you to U. Reverend Jordan and and First Methodist and and everybody that has that's collaborating with you on that effort. Um, that's good to know that our we have something extra in place for our citizens to feel safe and cared for. So, we thank you for that partnership and um, glad to see everyone tonight. Thanks for coming.

Mr. for me. I'd like to uh second Sonia as far as what she mentioned regarding First Methodist and Matt uh their willingness to open the facilities for our citizens if we need them. Uh congratulate Barry and the rest of the engineering staff uh being kind of fully aligned. Look forward to working with you guys in the future as we build this city uh even better hopefully. Uh, you know, the agenda, like the mayor said, wasn't flashy, but there's a lot of important things going on here. Um, so I appreciate all the department heads and the things that y'all are doing to put your staff in uh positions to win. So, thank you for your time being here,

Mr. Walt.

Uh, yep. Same. Uh, welcome to the city of Enterprise to assistant city engineer Jonathan Lucas. Um, all the way from Dothan. Welcome to the winning city, the winning team. Um, and then, uh, city planner, um, Tim Milstead. Um, I'm a disc golfer, so got a great disc golf course down in Milton down there. So, um, awesome, awesome place to be. Be been there. Um, thank you, Chief Davis, for bringing, uh, the tools to help your fire department. And most of all, my favorite part, you did it through a grant. Um, so you're bringing money back to the city of Alabama that that's left and doing that through a grant. So, thank you for your work in grant writing and getting the things you need in that method. Uh thank you to Pastor Jordan uh for opening up uh your your church and and your congregation, opening up your facility and uh the money they put in uh to that facility, giving back to the citizens and enterprise that are in need. Thank you all for doing that. That's awesome. Um and all just like they said, thank you to uh Nathan Peterman. uh in government sometimes we think that hey I'm a government employee and customer service is not a part of it but our police officers our fire department uh water everybody here they care about the citizens and uh that award is a way to show that they care and uh they're not just doing the bare minimum they're they really have a heart to serve and appreciate that the last thing I want to say is um thank you to this council um thank you to our city leaders and thank you to our mayor uh we met for a 10 year strategic plan meeting. Uh it was a full day. Um and uh I went to learn. I learned a lot. Obviously I I'm a talker as you can see. So I did talk a lot.

Um but um I'm excited for the direction that this city's going and I'm excited to uh work with these council members. I'm excited to work with John Jonathan uh and all the city department heads. They've got a great uh vision and um I'm excited for the direction we're going. Is that it? Okay. Do y'all want y'all want more? I can I can give more.

Thank you. I'd like to thank everyone for coming tonight. Thank you for all our community uh citizens out there watching on YouTube. And uh Don, I'm also excited to work with you all. Welcome. And uh that strategic planning meeting. We've got some great items and some projects coming up for the city. Uh Tim, Jonathan, welcome to the to our team. Look forward, as I said earlier, Tim, working with you on the city planning. I found out he likes sitewalks, too. So, and we need those nicknames. Yes. As soon as possible.

I I was going to say Jonathan Square, but you know. Oh, and and Matt, Pastor Matt, thank you so very much. Safer. I've been down there. None of you have been down to the place down there. You need to go down to First Methodist and take a look at the facility and what they offer. Uh the time when we were going to do the uh when we had the fire, their people stepped up. There was a bunch in there and then they changed at the last minute said no everybody's going to go to the rehab center but they they took the time they got out there. So thank you so very much and thank you to all our churches that open up their um facilities for us. Firefighter Peterman uh I see him couple times a week and uh he doesn't smile much like the chief said but he is he's great firefighter like all the rest of those folks out there. Uh I'm just so happy with our our first responders, police, fire. I get to work with them as a coordinator for the Coffee County SER program and I couldn't do it without all these folks helping us with their training. Will anybody have anything else? If not, I'll go ahead and journ this meeting. Our next meeting will be February 3rd at 5:00 PM for our council work session. Y'all have a good night. God bless. Thank you. My We didn't