City Council - Regular Meeting

So, if you'll look there, uh, just a couple of quick additions, uh, under the vision 2026 Q2 goals. Um, one one note in there, and it's it's on the the agenda in the work session, but I can take care of it here. The chamber and WEDC contracts are in your packet. Um, don't expect you to do anything or have any robust conversation since you've it's probably been at least a year since you've you've seen those. So um I I give that to you that maybe at the next council meeting work session we can either talk about that or if you think it's pertinent in executive session but but in those two relationships since we are talking about appropriations um later uh in the work session those are more contract contractual obligations. So, we agree to do something uh which is fund the organization to a certain dollar figure in exchange for some of the things that they're willing to provide in a in a contract. So, those are a little different uh lever than than just the straight appropriation process that you normally would would have. Um and I can talk a little bit about that on some of the things you'll you'll have um you know places like Enterprise State or the SRO agreement with Enterprise City Schools. Those are mutually agreed upon obligations that can't be undone unilaterally. So those those would be different than you know if you decide you want to give X Y and Z agency an appropriation of some funding amount or they come and make a request that they need you know X amount of dollars for some project that they're working on. So uh just point of clarification with that um that that's also the the first goal there um which be talked about tonight. Um,

the the other thing that I wanted to say is on on your goals, I realized before I got here, you don't have some of the things we agreed to add in the last meeting. Um, I've added them to the one that I'm looking at, not to the one you're looking at. Just to refresh my memory and yours, uh, identification of local or potential locations for Rucker Boulevard Park. um I've added that under Q2 and then draft ordinance for modern IT you know solutions or some language therein something you've requested uh particularly Councilman Pageant but but as a body um I expect to have that here in Q2 a draft for you to look at and review. Um third thing is uh fix issues on Davville Avenue. So I when I say fix, I mean complete. And I I've added that to Q3. I think realistically that's what we're talking about with in conversations. We have to get a contractor to come back out and do the work. Councilwoman Rich. So that's something that you'll you'll you know we don't have a lot of control over. We are holding them accountable. Had some conversations with Glenn and and Barry Mott about that. Um they recognize the issues. Um, so I don't think we're going to have any issue getting them back to do the work other than just lining up the time and crews to do it. Um, and then the last thing, uh, I guess I I've lumped them into one thing, but they were a policy or recommendation on dirt roads in the city limits and then crosswalk plan. I pushed those into Q4. Um, the reason for that is I think we're going to need some time to, you know, I don't know if this is something we can do in house. I mean, we could certainly tell you how many m miles of of dirt roads we have or

suggested. I don't know if this is something we need to incorporate into a budget item if we're going to have to get an external party or not to come in and actually review this. We we have some, you know, city planner and some good engineers on staff, but we don't have anybody necessarily that's a transportation engineer. Um, some of these involve ALDOT roads. So, trying to give us enough wiggle room to work within those confines. If we do need it in the budget, we can obviously have enough plan, but in order to get you a plan, I think it's safe to put that Q4. Yeah. Uh, the the initial ask there was just for identifying where they are. so that we're aware of it in case someone from our district we can get that done this

that was really just the the initial ask. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's that won't be an issue. Um but how how to address them? What's the cost? Um you know if we were to go all the way to pave them that those kind of things are going to be may take a little longer. Okay. That and that that's pretty much all I've got on the Q2 goals. The rest are either next next meeting or in June to address. All right. Then we will review the agenda. Yes.

And the the the goals. Um I know sometimes we're in meeting we have a chance to kind of think later, but I I made some notes about I've noticed that Mr. tell us had added about the Rooker Rucker Boulevard park. So, we really haven't as a body of said we wanted a park. We only thing we asked for was them to go out. Well, I think it was asked did anybody mind if they kind of looked and they said they could go out and look. So, one of the things that our last council was very good at was staying on task with our goals that we established in January, right? And so, I say that to say we used to always use the phrase don't load their wagons up anymore, right? So, just in thinking when we talk about the Fort Rucker um red whatever that plan

Boulevard plan. Yes, ma'am. Right. We haven't we haven't received those plans. No, you you have a I think at at best you have a draft, right? So KPI just finished that um I think last month, right? I know I just signed the final invoice for like $781 for that today. M

um so you at at best you have a draft plan and so you know that's something that as a as a body if you um if you don't have that that one I guess I should apologize but I I thought we had sent that out as a draft I would I would suggest as a body if if there's any edits to it we make those if not then you formally adopt that plan similar to how you adopt to the comprehensive plan. Um, and then perhaps, you know, prioritize,

right? That and that's where I was going with that. So that we don't load them up with stuff that we don't even know if we're going to do or not because we first of all, we haven't approved the plan. And if let's say the plan we asked and I know we heard people say about green space, we've already identified, let's just use that as an example, like green spaces and parks and we've done that. We've added that. So we get the plan and we approve the plan, then we would need to prioritize the plan. So who's to say that a park would necessarily take precedence over maybe a safety issue, you know, like we talked about safety in the area. No, that's true. But I think the the ask was just to identify potential places that we could maybe just

and that was part of the um our quarterly that and that quarterly meeting is where we will see if those can fit within. Right. I guess I was just going where if it's something that's not like we were consistent with that last time, not we have to do that this time, but it worked, you know, like if it's something that's just not urgent that if it can wait till we have our actual strategic planning in January, that keeps us on task, too. That's true. So that doesn't keep adding.

I I just would like to remind you that we did the we do the January one and then we have quarterly meetings. In those quarterly meetings, we have that extra hour and that's for the purpose of adding on anything that we might want to. And so the the ask was just to identify, not to buy, not to purchase, not just identify. And that's what I was bringing to note that it was just that. Yep. That's all it is. Yep. Any I'm sorry I I kind of interrupted you. Did you have anything else? Okay, I'm good.

All right. Anything else? Anybody else? All right. Let's move into the um agenda. So um we'll begin with roll call and then opening prayer and pledge of allegiance and then approval of agenda. And then the key consent agenda we have accounts payable for April amount of $1,378,685.64 64 cents. That includes both City of Enterprise and Waterworks Board. Contract billings um Kimley Horn and Associates $5,80 for Main Street Signal Project. SA Graham Company 79,650 108,715 and 151,489. all contract services for County Road 606 Relocation Airport. Then we have some travel requests and um does anyone have any questions on the consent agenda? All right. And then we have a permit request for Parks and Recreation Hometown Heroes 5K fun run um closure area East College Street from 7 to 12 a.m. on Saturday, June 6th. Do we have any issues with this? All right. Privilege of the floor staff reports. Then we'll review and consider bid recommendations for the 2025 tap sidewalk project. Is there anything we need to know about that other than what's already been discussed on this uh council of uh I'll just give you a

little scope review. is for the Bailwood Road tap sidewalk project which is an ALDOT funded project at 8020 is the funding breakdown. The scope sidewalk starts at Geneva Highway runs all along Bellwood Road all out all the way out to basically to the rightway of Bow Wheel Circle and it also extends on Georgia Wallace Drive a short amount goes to the existing sidewalk at the multi-purpose wreck complex that was stubbed out by the parking lot. Um that's basically the scope of the project. Bids were received on April the 21st. Uh, two bids were received, Wiregrass Construction and Lewis Incorporated. There's a copy of the bid recommendation and the bid tabulation in your packet. The lowest bid received was from Wiregrass Construction in the amount of $654,95810. U, we recommend award to Wiregrass Construction in the in that amount. The original letter says based on concurrence by ALDOT. We sub when we when I submitted the letter to Beverly for the council consideration, we also submitted it to ALD DOT and since we submitted it, ALD DOT has also in a letter. It should be in your packet as well where they concur in the award as well. So, um that's good. The just some information, the original application construction budget for this project when this application was filed with ALDOT was $883,325. We updated that estimate when we did the 100% submitt and we revised it to $814,855. So, as you can see, this bid was a very good bid and we had based our estimate on projects that we recently had seen and within the last year or so. So, um, both of these bids were very good bids in my opinion and, uh, Wiregrass Construction, obviously the city and we

are very familiar with them and have no problem recommending award to Wiregrass. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. President. One one thing I want to add to that, Glenn did a good job of explaining it. Uh both those contractors that we got were good qualified contractors and and Lewis was one that did some work on us also downtown for some of the sidewalks. So both of them do great great work. Um which is nice uh to have people that that have have good performance um and uh report card on previous jobs when they finish them up. They they finish them well. They finish strong. There's some things that we will do. Uh I was talking to Jonathan about it on the future projects including our paving project coming forward, but in particular this tap grant project, our sidewalk. Um Jonathan Lucas, the assistant director for engineering. Uh he and I will both be overseeing this project as well through all the way through construction and helping uh plan ahead for punch list items. So when the end of the project comes around, it won't be a walking through and trying to get everybody comfortable with what we got during the construction phase. So um just like we had um I was mentioning to to to someone the other day that like when you got through you got to the ribbon cutting at PV park phase two. Um when you got there it looked nice, it looked clean, it looked professional, looked ready, it looked ready for ribbon cutting. That's what my expectations are on this tap grant when it comes to Billwood. we get through with it, it'll it'll meet my standards of what I think you would expect for a project to be done in the city and a sidewalk project. The previous job we had, you know, we had an engineer that started the plans and then we had someone else to try to finish it and then um it was a little bit of a of a frustration on everybody's part, but um I have high expectations for this project and I expect this one to go a lot smoother than the one that we just finished up on Delville Avenue.

Any questions? No. All right. Thank you. All right. New business. Uh, review and consider resolution 050526. Introducing call consideration resolution 050526 for municipal water pollution prevention annual report for NPDES permit. You can explain that. I guess

I will. Um, most of you, Councilman Mack, may not be that familiar with it, but this is an annual thing that that basically ADM requires every administration that operates wastewater treatment plants to do. And it's the purpose of it basically is to evaluate each of the treatment plants and then give the administration some feedback on that. You kind of it's a pointsbased system. So, you go through a bunch of parameters and you give you assign points. Some of those points are based on uh sanitary sewer overflows that may have occurred during the year, the age of the plant, if the plant exceeded some of the permit limits during the year, uh uncorrected sanitary sewer overflows. So, there's several factors that that play into this. And the rating scale goes from zero points to 783 points. And it's got some brackets in there. 0 to 70 is actions as appropriate which is very good nothing really required 70 to 120 gets in the range of where things need to be maybe something needs to be looked at and then 120 to 783 is an action range so if you get in that range and something's gone wrong at the plant or there's issues so it's a way Adam I think uses to make sure that the administrations are aware of what's going on at the treatment plants um just to summarize the plants the college street wastewater water treatment plant had a total of 71 points assigned to it this year. Um, which puts it slightly over that first bracket, but as you know, there's some planning that's in process that's already been initiated for that basin and that plant. So, that's perfect. It falls right in line with that. Uh, basically, it was age points and there was some times during the year that the plan exceeded the organic design capacity that we're looking into that a little bit. Uh but other than that there were no real issues. The northeast plant had a total

of 26 points and most of those were were strictly age points. But basically to summarize performance of both of the plants as far as the effluent and outfall really is great uh with no real issues. Um regarding the collection system, just a few quick notes uh and sanitary sewer overflows are usually something that's looked at obviously in the MWPP. And just to give you some idea, in 2011 there were 29 sanitary sewer overflows reported in the collection system. In 2025, there was only one sanitary sewer overflow reported in the entire system. And I think it was at the headworks of the plant. Um, and really that speaks volumes to the efforts the city's done to to work on the collection systems and remedy some issues that that contributed to to the overflows. Um overall both plants really is excellent scores again this year. Uh it speaks to Barry's team and particularly Tony McKe who took Clay's place at the treatment plants and just the way they're they're operating the plants and and looking after the things for the city. So both both plants scored very well.

Any questions? I think that covers both of these resolutions right here. So

Mr. President, can I add one thing to that? So, we do currently have an SRF project working at both plants and and one of those is at um of course at the College Street plant and we're upgrading all the electrical and part of that plant as part of that SRF program. So, some of the age points and some of the stuff that I saw like to get to that 71 points at college, I'm expecting those numbers to come down a little bit next year after we complete the SRF project. So, I did talk to the contractor uh today actually. uh they're telling us that they should be through sometime Julyish. So, we're a couple months off from them being complete on that work. We've got a couple things to get worked out to get it complete, but we'll do it this fiscal year. So, I'm anticipating that we keep doing the things we're doing and we'll keep driving those points down that will keep us in good faith and in good status with with ADM.

All right. Yes, sir. Any questions for Barry? Thank you. All right. Then we will uh vote to authorize mayor to execute use and easement agreement uh between the city of Enterprise and Enterprise Janitorial on paper.

Yes sir. So over with the new parking area is at um at the rec center off of Airport Boulevard airport drive. Um there is a portion of that parking lot that is actually uh is being was being utilized by Enterprise Jantorial owned by Enterprise Janitorial. uh to make it the most efficient and best use of that, we decided to ask them if they want to participate with us like we did at uh at Cuts Restaurant, like we did at several other parking lots in the area and and they agreed to that. So, we incorporated that their portion of that into the parking lot and they can use it when they need it during business hours. We could use it when we need it on weekends at nighttime. It's a win-win situation. Um and the agreement you have before you basically says that we will build the parking lot and we will maintain it and they give us the rights to do so. So, I think it was a it was a good deal for the city if you'all agree to to execute this agreement.

Any questions? All right, sounds good. Thank you. And then we will vote to accept grant funds totaling $15,600 from Alabama Tourism Department to assist with expenses involved with the Festival in the Park Whoville Celebration Spring Showcase at the Monument State volleyball tournament, state track and field tournament. Yes, sir. I don't know where Tammy went, but uh these are grants that Tammy puts in from the tourism department each year. Uh nothing nothing really off key. She gets, you know, awarded these and you know tries to divvy them up amongst the events that we have here in the city and then uh we just need the mayor's approval and council's approval to accept these these funds that go to these events.

Any questions? And then we have a motion to accept grant funds of 2500 from the Alabama USA semiquincentennial commission. Whoever made up that word, I don't know, but that's a long one. Uh for the commemorative challenge coin project. Yes, sir. This is um a grant that we have received from the semiquincentennial commission to um promote practiced that word a few times

just a few to promote America's 250th. We have um those coins that is an opportunity to help promote the city and the 250th anniversary uh celebration of America. We have those available for you all council as well for you to pass out to your constituents and help spread the good news and celebrate this for our country and for our city. Any questions?

All right. Thank you. And then we have uh designate implementing transit provider. Uh motion to designate southeast Alabama regional planning and development commission DBH Wiregrass Transit Authority the city's local implementing transit provider for section 5311 program. I guess this is just a renewal of what we're already doing. Who's going to answer this one?

Is there anyone that knows anything about this program that like is it working? That's it.

So, I I believe that our um regional planning commission and wiregrass transit authority um representative is planning to be here at the council meeting, not the work session.

Okay. Um, you know what I can tell you about it is, um, on most months we continue to have somewhere north of 600 people that utilize the the transit system. Um, we provide roughly um between $120,000 and $150,000 a year based on their their pr-rated amount of rent that they get to use our facility. We we deduct that from the $150,000 a year. Um it's a I I don't know if all of you know that, but it's a it's a one-way pay. I think it's $3 per ride, and they schedule it out. Um last I checked, they had six buses. The predominant use that that they see riders when they ask, you know, where they're going is to get to and from work. um medical appointments uh is like number two, education to go to class. Um and in like the grocery store or other merkantile type operations are kind of in the top four. Um that's where about 85 to 90% of of the riders utilize the services for. So if if you ask for my you know probably unqualified opinion on it, I think the system's working. Um whether or not you think that that is a a good value for the dollars that are being spent on it, um I would tell you that for us to replicate that system, um it would be a lot more than $150,000 a year to hire the dispatchers and bus drivers and buy the equipment and then maintain the vehicles. All of which is done through an 8020 grant process. So basically our money goes into the 20% match for um for equipment. So um I think we're getting

good return on investment um based on what I've seen, but uh you know it's been several months since I've talked to Wiregrass Transit about those numbers. I I don't know if they've gone up or down, but it it was somewhere in the 650 people a month range that that were utilizing the the system. All right. Does anyone have any comments or questions on this? Thank you. Yes, sir. Uh request to hold Young Eagle Flight V uh rally uh at the Enterprise Municipal Airport.

Yes, sir. So, we do this every single year and it's put on by the EAA chapter and and we don't take it lightly. This is an opportunity for the local pilots there as part of the chapter to get out there and talk to young people about general aviation and being a pilot and hopefully stir up some interest in their soul to to be a future pilot and in many cases take these these children up and give them their first flight and uh in their personal aircraft. Uh one of the requirements is that they carry insurance from behalf of the of the city and and covers the city and the airport. Um, and everything is, this is something we've done for many, many years. Um, it's been very successful in the past and I bring it to you for for your authorization to move forward again with it this year.

Any questions? No. I recommend everybody if you haven't been out there, go there and see it. You'll see the little kids. There'll be lines of folks coming out there and that's our future pilots, future military folks. But it's it's awesome to see if you never done it. Yeah. And and Mr. Scotty, you know, we see a lot of times like daddy is a a helicopter pilot is in the army or whatever and it gives a chance for their child to actually go up and fly for the first time. Um, it's very rewarding if you've not done that to see that to to maybe foster the next generation and that same family.

Yeah. And those groups out there volunteer their time and their airplane fuel and everything else to do that. It's a great cause. This has been reviewed by the city attorney also and um all the insurance requirements have to be met like they do in all other years, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir.

All right. And so we have a we're going to introduce and call for consideration request to hold the May 19th work session and council meeting municipal courtroom at city hall. Um, I know there's potential that that could be postponed. I don't know where we at with that statewide, but we just go ahead and make that motion to move it just in case it stays on May 19th. Yes, sir. Um, I I I don't know, Beverly, from your perspective, if if if they make the motion and and go ahead with it tonight. Um, I mean, we can just keep it there regardless

be the way that I' I'd say to plan it. And if the election does change or we need to go around, then we we can do it again. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Any questions on that?

I haven't kept up enough with that. I know where that's really headed, but I just heard a blurb about it yesterday. Um then we will have the E911 board meeting, review minutes, approve accounts payable and adjourn, reconvene regular session, mayor's report and council member comments. Any questions on the agenda? All right, then we will move into the next portion of our work session for the appropriations process. So, council members, you uh you had a goal, I think a Q2 goal to to look at our appropriations policy, which frankly didn't exist. Um, so now we have a draft and you'll see that in your packets. I think Leanne, our CFO, has emailed that to to each one of you um for your input. So over the last five years, I think you uh those of you that were in the last administration had requested, you know, doing things a little better. So full full um transparency, I think we we it was just kind of a handshake agreement or somebody asked or maybe there was a policy or or an agreement with somebody somewhere along the way. you asked over a certain dollar figure for them to agencies that received I think it was over $5,000 from the city to start coming to our annual budget meetings to explain that it still didn't really probably wasn't a best business practice from both an auditing and accountability standpoint but a lot of you um expressed interest like if if we gave money to X um and then you know did they do X and a lot of times we didn't have a good answer for

um we'd have to go chase it down. So I think from from both a fiscally responsible point of view and a um best business practice and also some accountability for the dollars that you appropriate out. That's the message I got. You wanted a policy that kind of addressed that. And so Leanne worked with with her staff and I think you I don't know how many cities you looked at, but you looked at several municipalities that had more formal appropriations, processes, and procedures um and and came up with what you see before you. So, this is a a draft and the discussion tonight is just based around do you like it, do you not like it? Are there things you you have questions about, want to see taken out, added to this policy with the goal that this quarter we bring you back something that that is kind of a final draft for submission um for you to vote on. Um you'll also see there's an Excel spreadsheet that that Leanne had sent. I made it really tiny so that you'd have trouble reading it. So, um, but if you do look on it, there's, um, the far right column, something I added. I went down the list and really, as I talked about earlier in the work session, there's some things on here that aren't true appropriations. Like, we can't undo that. Um, so SRO agreement with the school systems, one of those. In 2018, there was an agreement signed off on by the school board and the city council. Um, we we can't undo that without the school board undoing it as well. So, we we can't unilaterally decide to not not provide those funds. Um, others are are contractual agreement. So, um, while it's true we appropriate money in the budget for like the chamber and wiregrass economic development, there's also a contract that is signed

off on by the council. So, you know, whether you want them to be a part of that, you know, appropriations process where they do all the things that are in there or not, you're also covered by by the contractual obligation if you choose not to require that for those those entities. And there there may be others, but I I just wanted to kind of bring that up some and and then uh right yeah sponsorships advertisement. So, in some instances, the city may take out an ad recognizing say our queens, right? That's something if you approved it in say the tourism budget um and our our tourism director decides to approve, you know, a quarter page or a half page ad or a billboard, whatever it is, as long as it's in their tourism budget and they plan to do that, um you know, our CFO will get a PO. That's not what we're talking about here. Um this is somebody some some entity and we've defined what entities are allowed to submit um to this to the city and basically have a request for some amount of funding for some project. That's also something that was missing in in years past. It wasn't really a defined project like what are you using the money for. A lot of times it's just we need x amount of dollars and that was it. You don't know if they used it for for something in Enterprise or Coffee County. And I think that that was some discussion we had at the last uh budget meeting when I think our mental health uh department requested some funding. Um I think we wrote in there in the agreement with them that it needed to be used in enterprise and not because they represent Southeast Mental Health represents like I think eight or 10 counties in in Southeast Alabama. And so th those are just some of the things we saw as as problematic that you saw as problematic and kind of gave to us as

some of the issues you'd like to see resolved. So um you know I I don't know Leanne's here um to talk technical stuff. I start seeing uh GAP and uh you know reporting standards under GFOA and and I knew I needed a lot of help on that. So she's here to stand by if you got any questions. I was about to say obviously maybe the cliff notes version.

Well, obviously this is for discussion purposes, right? So, we're not not asking you to to make any final decisions or or anything like that tonight. Nothing's getting voted on. It really is a conver I mean I mean we've started the conversation previously. So, this kind of puts it down in writing. Um, the information that I had taken and heard from conversations with council um and best practices from GFOA from there's, you know, state regulations too on on how our funds can be can be spent and allowable um uses of our of the funding, right? because ultimately everything that comes in is a taxpayer dollar to the general fund. Um so we need to be good stewards of that funding and you know ensure that we're applying it appropriately. Um so considering you know all of those already mandated regulations um then it's up to council on what you decide is best use of the funding to be used here in Enterprise for our citizens. Um, so this really was kind of to get to get something started, to get a conversation um going on how you wanted to formalize that process. Uh, the way the way that I have it in here and in the way that it is in numerous other cities that I've reviewed is to have essentially like an an open application time. It kind of helps um the agency, but it also helps the city because it allows us then to appropriately budget for the following year because we know who we've approved for funding and who we've uh denied. And then that allows us to integrate that uh better into our budget. It also allows them to know then instead of for instance if if you have something that that comes up in May trying to come in

here in in April and and ask for additional funding that we back in September October didn't plan for right so um it allows the agency to plan ahead allows them to understand where their funding is coming from for the year uh allows the city to plan and properly budget for that and Uh it also allows for specific timing during the year so that when we do our budget process, we can have have already allocated the amount of money that we're willing to send out in appropriations for the year. We open the portal. People can apply during that time. They submit the information that's required in order to apply. And then once that time frame for that closes, then council can go back, review the applications, take recommendations from staff, uh look those over, and make a final determination on who they would like to send appropriations to. Uh and then again instead of having necessarily random requests for funding throughout the year, people can be directed to a a time frame and say this is the time each year when we will accept those applications, review those, take in your information, um and prepare them for the next for the next budget year,

which is really not very different than what you see in most grants that any other government agency would be giving out. That is correct. Yes. Yes. Two things I I would like to mention. One, I don't want to get nitpicking in the weeds on department heads like you mentioned earlier. Uh so if we can avoid that. And number two, there was something on here. I read this the other day and you highlighted it uh regarding uh citywide sponsored events that may be generating revenue. Um what type of events could can you name one potentially

those scholarships?

So uh dancing for scholarships would be one. So, uh, in instances like that, um, the community college, um, asked the mayor if if he could wave the the fee for utilizing the facility. A lot of times we do that, um, if if it's another governmental entity. Um, and and in this case, you know, uh, let's say it was $1,800 to to rent the facility and and space for that amount of time. their their fundraising was going to support scholarships for the college. Whatever proceeds they took in um out out of their their net would have had to go to pay this instead of another scholarship or two scholarships for Enterprise State. So that would be an example where the mayor made a judgment call in accordance with the policies in authorization that that you've afforded him to allow a facility to be used uh in lie of rent. Gotcha. This one says,

and you're talking about the um the 10% profit if it's a forit waving. That's what I was I was trying to figure out what all we were sponsoring that was. We're not talking about uh inind by allowing allin credit union car sale to try to lop 10% off top of all the car sales revenue. No sir. No sir. No, not that. Yeah. I appreciate you putting all this together. I think it's a lot of great information for us to consider and identifying the sources of where we are sending the money to and uh I appreciate it.

Well, and and again, these are, you know, these are options. So, I mean, like for for example, you know, I I put in there basically a 30-day application proc open time for applications to be received. So, you know, if we opened it on June 1st and had everything, everybody had to apply, we closed it on July 1st. And then that still allows us time to go through some additional work on the back side. Um, presenting everything, organizing everything, getting it to council so that you can you all can review those requests. If you want to make it 60 days, we can make it 60 days or, you know, if you wanted to change the the time frame in there. I mean that of course is all up up to council. So

on the performance report 90 that that's just ahead of our budget meeting. Well the n the oh on the performance that's on them getting back to us after the after the event. So I mean depending that would just vary throughout the year on when the actual event or what they're using utilizing the funding for happens. Okay, I'm looking in the wrong area. I'm I'm trying to Oh, I'm sorry. Um, we want them to be able to provide to us what they're using the appropriation for. Yes. They need to do that when within 90 days within the 90 days

after they've accomplished. Okay. Or if it's an event, if they've held the event or if it was like a cap, you know, maybe it's a capital per like Miss Jonathan mentioned the playground equipment. Um you know so just once that's installed like within 90 days getting a report back to us saying hey you know everything's installed everything's working um it was a success the event was a success you know well it definitely covers one of the things we discussed about having some feedback to

these appropriations so we can ensure that they're using it for the purpose in which it was in given when is the city looking to have this policy completed and put in place? So, that that's a good good question. So, if if we follow what's here, I mean, you know, the next council meeting um now that that's because it says July 1st. That's right. Um and you have a 30-day window. So, um that's if you want to keep that date. Would that give these organizations enough time to Yeah. know about this and then get the information back to us in a I mean is that a realistic timeline

a 30-day window should um you know so if we go down if you look under article 4 so one if you approved it May 19th would be the next council meeting just walk that through we would have essentially two weeks to notify all these agencies we could do the 20th right like send an email make a phone call let them know what's going on send them a copy of what we need but eligibility and documentation ation requirements is really what you're you're looking at. So, you know, in 30 days, are they able to disclose the five most highly compensated employees in their percentage of total payroll? Provide an annual budget. Um, identify the five largest sources sources of operational funding. Um, specify purpose and measurable outcome for requested funds. So, what are we using it for? What do we think? What do we hope to achieve with it? Um, list all officers and board members, noting any relationships to city employees or officials. Provide first and third quarter financial statements showing year-to- date budgets and actuals. Require board members to sign annual conflict of interest disclosure. Respond to city requests for additional documentation within another 30 calendar days. Disclose rules and requests that may be changed or modified. Um, so I if you see something in there that you don't think within 30 days, I think 30 days is more than reasonable um to provide that um you know unless you unless you feel otherwise.

Okay. And the intent is that because we have um a set of agencies that we know routinely will come to the city um seeking funding. Our intent is to reach out in to each one of those agencies. And this is a comprehensive list. This is a 100% of the the affected agencies on this who we we gave money to last year. Okay.

Yes. So we would reach out directly to them, provide them the information, provide them a copy of any policy that the council chooses to pass. um the application, let them know what will need to occur then for the next year. Um I it it's going to be it's a new process, right? So we want to make sure that we communicate that out to the people who are accustomed to maybe if they come in at the at the last minute or they come in, you know, maybe a month or two before an event and asking for it. We want to make sure that we do communicate with them that we're going to do this on an annual basis and this is the time frame and starting this year, you know, or moving forward, this will be the the new routine for for an annual appropriation. So, but we would we would again we would want to reach out to them individually. the ones that we know of for sure that that come to us and have a relationship with us already, we would have a conversation with them and let them know that this is a change.

Yeah, I like the policy. I think the only reservation I have is with the the window being July uh 1st that they've got to have everything submitted. I'd hate for somebody to get cut out of an appropriation that they're used to or depend on out of that tight timeline. So I think this everything else right now looks fine except for that maybe. So I I would I would just say that the the application is um you know July 1st whether or not the documentations in there 100% to our standards or not. You know it does say an additional 30 days if if we have

questions about what they submitted. I think we can administratively be fairly flexible in in dealing with that especially during the first year. Does number 16 prevent you from having that flexibility? No. Number 14 gives an extra 30 days to ask for if if we have if we have a if we have any clarification during that 30-day window as I read this, we could go back and and request additional information. They would have another 30 days from the time we asked for it to to provide it. And and I think if they really want the money, they're going to have this stuff. They're going to get it. they're going to have it in on time to make sure that they get they really want it.

And and frankly, you know, you know, this is not I I don't know how to say this kindly, but a lot of a lot of organizations um you know, may not may see this and look at like um you know, five years of uh of fin or three fin years of most recent financial statements and have have a unqualified audit. um uh prepared. Some of these organizations may it may come out that they don't have an audit prepared. Um, part of that is, you know, ultimately it'll be back on on your discretion, but from a best business practice and fiscal stewardship for tax dollars, you know, that you I I believe that, you know, at least I would want to know where how these organizations are set up, how they're funded, and how they're utilizing the funds that the city chooses to give them, which is something that we we don't require currently. Well, no doubt there's a lot of fraud that's going on with government dollars, and I appreciate you guys trying to get on top of it and our community and making sure that we're we have a process in place to try to prevent that. So,

so when when do we have our budget meeting? You haven't said it yet. So, I mean, typically, yeah, typically sometime in August. August. So, if you guys don't have this in July and then have that 30-day window to ask for additional information, there's no way it's going to hit us in time for an August budget meeting then. That's correct. So, it pretty much has to be Yeah.

If if if you want to adopt some I mean, you could easily take that July 1st and make it, you know, August 1st or whatever it is that makes you comfortable. Like the again, this was a Q2 goal. We set it as a Q2 goal so that we would have it in time for the budget. Everything that's written on this piece of paper is subject to your your guidance. This is um our offering based on, you know, some research and what we felt would be a good business practice.

Leanne, if we if we wait till August, that gives your time hard your people hard time for to do it, right? Well, the the issue with that though is is that even if we if we left it open and to take applications through August 1, you the city can still go through will still go through it its budget process and determine how much it's willing to set aside for appropriations and then you can make a decision on the recipients a after the fact. Kind of what we did before.

And so then you're you're saying this is this is out of our budget. This this is what we are willing with everything else that we've got to take care of for the next 12 months. We're willing to set this amount aside for the appropriations and then after that then you go you through the applications go through all the detailed information about what people are requesting for I think do that.

I think the one July just helps out better smoother and can make my decision easier. I would just offer as well that whenever we get the applications in, whatever deadline you set, it doesn't mean that we're that that the council's going to fund every dollar that was requested, right? I would I would be shocked if that were the case. Um for a myriad of reasons, um you know, whether they were all qualified and all had great purposes, at some point there's just so much money um that the city could authorize out out the door to support those projects. So really from a timing standpoint, I think it's less about the that the requests come in and more about that you as a governing body have enough time to evaluate the merits and prioritize which dollars and which projects and which agencies you would like to allocate those funds to if that makes sense.

Yeah. And July gives us that more time.

That was my opinion. That was my next question which you kind of answered that is you know we get the applications obviously there's time for review but this doesn't supplant their need to come before the council. I wasn't elected last uh financial review in August but I was here and sat through it just so I could understand what I was about to get myself into. And we did have different agencies and uh organizations come and present their need and what they were going to use it for. But hopefully that that will kind of condense that process and we'll have something concrete in front of us when we're having those back and forth discussions. Is that what we're hoping for here?

Yes. And it gives you an opportunity because those applications and that documentation can be sent out to to you all so that you can preview it or or may perhaps have some questions already in your mind about what you would like to ask them. Absolutely. And then that I hope that helps you in that process to be able to review that information before you're actually in the meeting. That that would be ideal other than just trying to guess and come up with questions to ask them. It could be something very uh direct if we need to be.

Yes, sir. You you could also eliminate. So if you if you saw an application and you said, "Hey, we really don't like what you know, organization X is proposing here to do, don't don't bother inviting them to the but like you could rule out some things ahead of time as well." Um I I think it would it would certainly speed up that process and be more to the point um about about specifically what they're doing. And I mean that's something that we haven't asked before is what are you doing with this money and what what you know how did you spend the money we g we have but you know you get a a packet from them and it's really more of about what what they did over the last year comprehensively as an organization or and it it it tells you very little about where your dollars went within the overall budget for for that organization. Does that if that makes sense?

Yes. And this gives us a mechanism to uh review more succinctly. Um as far as the time frame for those reviews later, um what do you anticipate for that as far as them coming back with evidence? They're presenting what they want to do, but now what did you do? Is that is do we have a time frame for that? That's that 90 days at the end of the Yes, that that would be the 90 days at the at the end of their event or at the end of their, you know, capital capital project if it's, you know, to purchase something or to to add something onto a facility or things like that. Um, it's just

okay. Whenever that is, it's 90 days out. We we've got less than five minutes till the council meeting starts. How would if anyone has further questions, how just email you. Yep. Okay. So, we um need to remind everyone to be ready for your board appointments next council meeting May 19th if you have one. If you um please have those ready so that we can make those um in the next council session. And do you have anything to add to that?

Just if anybody has I think I gave each one of you a a sheet in an Excel spreadsheet with you know what which uh nominations you'd be responsible for at the last meeting. If you have any questions about that, if you don't have contact information, uh if if you you can call me, text me, email me, but if you can't get me, um our city clerk's office um has those contacts as well. Um I think most of them, like 90% of them ought to be on the website anyway. Um so if you look under the boards and commissions, it'll tell you, you know, I think I put who was serving in the seat, but I think it's got that person's like contact information as well on it. Um, but if you can't find it, if you have trouble finding somebody and you need to be reminded who submitted, you know, um, requests through the mayor's office about they'd like to serve on a board, any of that stuff, we'd be more than happy to.

Where where do we have where the job description or what those are? I've been trying to find them to give them to folks. So, you know, we don't really we have um you know, articles of of incorporation or council minutes from when the boards were established. Um that's a that's a good point. Um on some of the the websites, you know, like it might have a mission statement for like Enterprise Public Library and tells you what what that is and and what the duties are. Um and that's where I've been sending some folks because mine's a library. So, I'm trying to Yes, sir. Okay. Here's what you're going to do. But I thought also talk to the folks out there. Beverly, we don't have anything published like if we wanted to say here's

here's what you're getting into if you serve on the planning commission. Yeah, we can probably make something like that. That would be great because I've had people say, "Hey, I'd like to do this or that." I agree. That's I'll take that as a doout. Thank you. Yes, sir.

And um you going to be able to cover these contracts in two minutes? I just wanted to make you aware is what I said earlier in the meeting that they're in your folders. Take a look at them. Um this is something that again this quarter in preparation for the budget next year. I think it's healthy to review what we we are asking those agencies to do. Um if we're are they doing what we're asking them to do um are we getting value for the dollars? And this was something that came out of the last budget meeting. So we, you know, and we'll get a a call about, you know, who's responsible for the Christmas parade. Well, it says in that contract for the Chamber of Commerce, who's responsible for it, but we we've had questions over that time period, and that was just an easy one because it it was an easy answer. But um you know some some of you um have asked you know well I thought that so and so did this or so and so did that. So this is this is what we're asking them to do what they've agreed to do. Um and I think the the purpose of that being in the quarterly goal was to review it so that you were knowledgeable of it. We had two new council members in preparation for the for the next budget year. So

Okay. All right. Thank you. at six o'clock. All members of the council are here and present. Um, Mayor Cooper is not able to be here tonight. So, we will now have our opening prayer and pledge of allegiance. Opening prayer will be offered by Mr. Glenn Morgan. You would stand, please. Let's pray. Lord, we stand before you tonight. We acknowledge Lord your position. Lord, you are great, mighty. Lord, you are a creator and sustainer. We also acknowledge our position in you. And Lord, we approach you humbly tonight. We thank you for your many blessings, Lord. Your mercy, your grace, your love. I thank you for your blessings upon this city and upon this administration. Lord, I ask you to continue to guide this council, guide their decisions, Lord, as they uh seek your will. Keep your hedge of protection around them and their families, Lord. the mayor and I pray Lord you just continue to bless this city and bless the proceedings of this meeting tonight Lord in your name I pray. Amen.

Please join me in the pledgece to the flag of United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Call for a motion to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. I move to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. Second. All in favor say I. I. All post same sign.

Motion carries. Right. Now we will move to the consideration of 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 to the city council with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired on an item, that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular session by request of a member of the city council. I call for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Right. Call for a motion to approve the following permit request as submitted. Hometown Heroes 5K and fun run. Event time and date 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 6, 2026. Street closure from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Closure area East College Street. And we confirmed with Chief Moore that everything was good on that during the work session. So, uh, do I have a motion? I move to approve the permit request as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Right. Now is the time of the meeting for the privilege of the floor. Anyone in attendance tonight who wishes to address the council may do so for three minutes. If there's a public hearing on the agenda for the topic you're concerned with, please wait until that public hearing opens to address the council. If they choose, staff, mayor, and council will respond to your comments during the appointed times later in the meeting. Repetitive, disruptive, and disparaging comments will not be tolerated. If you're found out of order, your privileges can and will be revoked. Does anyone wish to address the council at this time? Seeing none, we'll move into staff reports. Is there any staff that needs to give a report that was unable during work session? Mr. Mott, are you coming to give a Yes, sir. Um, last council meeting you, I think Miss Rich asked me to give an update on Daleville Avenue for getting those projects completed and I told you I'd have it at this council meeting. So, was hoping to do that at work session, but we ran out of time. Um, uh, Road Deville Avenue with Miss Rich recently, and there are still several items that need to be completed. Um, and I just want to revocalize that to this group that we have two separate projects that happened on Delville Avenue. One, we did a sidewalk project that was a TAP grant that included putting sidewalks up uh along primarily on the north side of the road or on the right side coming into downtown. Um, that project for the most part is is is fairly in good shape. The the sidewalks are in good shape. They they they finished that project up very well. Um there's a it jogs in and out.

You can argue whether or not you like it or don't like it, but it functions well and it meets all the ADA requirements and it m mastered everything that ALDOT wanted it to accomplish. And it was a it was a 8020 type grant that we received on that sidewalk project. Behind that project though came a waterline project that while we reviewed plans and all some things changed during construction and uh because of that some of the water lines that were supposed to be behind the curb in the grass areas are now in the road which requires more patches or or repair work to existing roads. Um and also there was uh some tie-in points that come across the road to to tie in which is is is important to do right. We we want good water. We want good quality water and we need to let the water department do what they need to do to provide that for our citizens. Um in the meantime though, when we get through with that, we get through with the project, it needs to be put back in a condition that's as good or better than it was when the project started. So there were several things um myself and Jonathan Lucas has met with with with Glenn and his representative Zali to tell them our concerns with the patches that are there. the some of the work that's done is primarily with the waterline work which they they are the engineer as well for the for the water department and that project. So, um knowing that Glenn and his company has the sidewalk project and the waterline project and he could oversee both of those, we're leaning very heavily on him to get that across the finish line and to get that complete. um we've we've we've shown him those concerns and he he voices the same concerns him and and some of his staff about getting those things done and there's some punch list items that were there. So, um I'm going to turn over to Glenn and let him talk to you for just a minute about things that he saw and what they're doing to get those rectified with you, but there are some areas um Miss Rich and I I looked at those together. I'd be glad to ride with any of you that want to look at Delville Avenue and show me the concerns that you have as well to make

sure that we get those done. Um, but there are there are areas where the the roadway patches are in very rough condition. If you drive down through it, it feels like almost like a a washboard. Uh, if you drive down through it, um, there's areas where the patches have sunk, not just on Delville Avenue, but in other places of the city as well. And we we voiced those concerns to them and they're working with a contractor to get those fixed. um as well as things where they had to cut a curb and they had to put concrete back to make sure they backfilled those back and get grass growing back like it was, you know, as good or better than what it was when they started this project. So, um I want to turn over if I can just for a minute and let Glenn talk to you since he and his firm are the engineer on both of those projects just to make sure that we're meeting your goals and the objectives that y'all have on both those projects to get that project complete. CL.

Um, I'm not going to try to get in a whole lot of detail, but I will tell you a couple of things that are important. Uh, obviously the sidewalk project is closed out. The uh water main project, however, is not closed out. It's not uh haven't even advertised for completion yet. There are punch list items that remain. A few some of those are on Devil Avenue. One of one of the probably the primary concerns on Devil Avenue is a patch that the long linear patch that's there at Weed District. Um when the contractor did that patch originally, he was told that it wasn't acceptable and the contractor did not argue that. Um the fact that it has taken this long to get addressed is probably the biggest issue I have. The contractor proposed to do a remediation of that patch. He started that last week. uh we we didn't feel real comfortable with that. He started it. We didn't think it was on the right path. So, we stopped that and made him come back and he proposed another remedy, something that we had talked to Barry and Jonathan about more detail. And that includes total milling out that whole patch section which is about 500 feet long. Uh and milling it out, meaning he's removing asphalt about 11 ft wide and come back and replacing that whole lane with new paving. The contractor considered it. He came back this week, end of last week, gave us uh his uh gave us a proposal to do that because it is a little more than what probably would have been expected by the water project. We've worked through that with him. I've talked to the mayor this morning about it. I've also talked to Allan and there's money that's left over in the water project to handle that. Uh so we're going to authorize the contract to go ahead and proceed with that. I think that will remedy. I think that's something that Barry and Jonathan both are comfortable with. So we told them we're going to tell them to proceed with fixing that. He did say and and it was something to note. He's using a subcontractor. That's not something that this uh utility contractor paving is not

something they do. They do patches. They've got a small patching machine, but they don't have anything that would do anything on this magnitude. So, he had to go to a subcontractor. He happened to go to the one that just got through with the paving project uh that the city had. So, the phase five. So, he's going to use that contractor to come in and do this work. Scheduling of that work, he told us yesterday, would be about the 1st of June. So, hopefully that will address the patch. There's some markings that were taken up uh on Hull Street, Larkin Street, I think are two of them. And it's I think it's my opinion to address those in the phase six paving project. We can put that back in there and clean all those dropping markings up. It's better to do it there than probably to get the utility contractor to try to replace some markings. Um so, and there's some other cleanup things and things that the contractor still got to do on Delville Avenue. I know that doesn't answer a whole lot of detail, but hopefully let you know that project's not closed out and we are doing all our diligence to stay on the contractor to get this completed and get it addressed back.

Thank you. Any questions?

I just want to iterate to to the whole to the whole body that um that the engineering department takes our projects very seriously. We want to turn over a project that number one uses public money and and and lends up with a project that that is well suited for the city of Enterprise and and and we're very committed to doing that. And and Glenn and Paulie Engineering, they they're committed to that same thing as well. And I wanted you to hear it directly from the engineer that that's overseas both of those projects and both of these efforts that we're committed to get this thing across the finish line in a way that it should be. Um, I think both of us share the frustration of it dragging out longer than than what we anticipated it to be, but we uh we both of us will work diligently to get that across the finish line and something that that this panel and the city should be proud of. So, I just want to bring that back as as I promised you last council meeting as a report and to give you an update on that and answer any questions you might have.

Any further questions? Thank you very much.

Thank you. Any other staff reports? All right, seeing none, we'll move to old business. Introduce and call for consideration of a recommendation from consulting engineer Glenn Morgan to award the bill bid for the construction of sidewalks along Bellwood Road, George C. Wallace Drive project number T A P U C-TA25 parenthesis 923 closed parenthesis to Wiregrass Construction Company Incorporated in the amount of $654,95810 subject to concurrence of the Alabama Department of Transportation. Other builds bids received are as follows. Loose Incorporated $732,288. Do we have a motion? I move to a award the bid for the 2025 TAP sidewalk project to Wiregrass Construction Company Incorporated in the amount of $654,95810.

Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Right. Now we'll move to new business. Review and consider resolution 050526. Introduce and call for consideration of resolution 05526 providing for the adoption of the municipal water pollution prevention annual report for MPDES permit AL00200061 for the Northeast water wastewater treatment facility. The report set forth the actions and schedule necessary to maintain affluent requirements contained in the permit and to prevent the bypass and overflow of raw sewage within the collection system or treatment plant. Do we have a motion?

Move to adopt resolution 050526. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Review and consider resolution 050526A. Introduce and call for consideration of resolution 050526A providing for the adoption of the municipal water pollution prevention annual report for NPDES permit AL00200036 for the College Street wastewater and treatment facility. The report sets forth the actions and schedule necessary to maintain affluent requirements contained in the permit to prevent the bypass and overflow of raw sewage within the collection system or treatment plant. Do I have a motion? I move to adopt resolution 0505268.

Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute a use and easement agreement between the city of Enterprise and Enterprise Janitor and Paper Incorporated as per the terms of the agreement. Do I have a motion? Move to authorize the mayor to execute the agreement with Enterprise janitorial on paper as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept grant funds totaling $15,600 from the Alabama Tourism Department to assist with expenses involved in the festival in the parkville celebration, spring showcase at the monument, state volleyball tournament, and state track and field tournament. No city match is required. Do I have a motion? I move to accept the Alabama Tourism Department grant funds in the amount of $15,600. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. I call for a motion to accept grant funds of $2,500 from the Alabama USA semiquincentennial commission A250 for the commemorative challenge coin project. No city match is required. Do have a motion. Move to accept the Alabama USA Semiquentennial Commission grant funds in the amount of $2,500. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to designate Southeast Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission, DBA Wiregrass Transit Authority, as the city's local implementing transit provider for the section 5311 program. Go ahead. Go ahead, sir. Yes.

Good afternoon, y'all. Um, my name is Mike Kritten with Wiregrass Transit and uh, I'm I'm here today just to speak briefly on how Wiregrass Transit is doing here in Enterprise. uh as the the request is the designation letter that that that designates Wiregrass Transit as your transit provider. And that request is actually for be the beginning of the next fiscal year for for FY27. When we first started the program, we said that we're going to look at it for three years and see how well it did. We're into our third year now. So service began in October of 2023 and for that fiscal year the total wrership for that year was 6,495 trips which averaged about 26 trips a day. For FY25 there was 9,562 trips which averaged about 39 trips a day. For the current fiscal year from October through the end of April, you're already at 7,182 trips a day, which if it stays on track, it will be over 12,000 by the end of the fiscal year. So from the beginning of the program until now, we for this third year, we expect your ridership to double. We started with four buses, we're up to six at this point. And um that's pretty much it. Quick update unless y'all have any questions. Any questions?

What is uh what would you say that the Go ahead.

Oh, the Well, the the the primary use right now in the high uh approximately uh better than 45% of usage is for workrelated trips. Then there's uh uh health care, medical healthc care related. Uh then there's uh just shopping and recre recreation and shopping, recreation and education are probably about the same. And then just a small percentage of just other but again primarily it's for people getting back and forth to work and uh the healthc care trips, diialysis trips, things of that nature.

All right. And the uh cost of the ride each way, the cost is still $3 one way anywhere within the city limits of Enterprise. Okay. How does somebody how does somebody request a ride?

We have uh we we have a dispatch number and they call that number and basically how we operate what's called a demand response system. You call today for a ride tomorrow. There's there's not really any same day trips. All trips are scheduled. drivers receive a manifest uh the morning of their trips and then they just go out and do all the and do all their trips. Um people can call in, make a reservation. One of the things that we're working on it it it's just uh it's in its infant infant stages right now is being able to book their trips online or via their phone through an app. That's something we're still working on and we're just trying to work the bugs out of that. Um people can schedule up to two week up to two weeks in advance. So while you call today for a ride tomorrow I for uh if I want to schedule I can begin scheduling rides two weeks from today if someone want to go that far out. Do you anticipate ever getting to a point that if someone had a an urgent need that came up in a same day that they would be able to get a same day appointment?

Right now we don't do that and we but we do we do uh recommend other agencies like non-emergency medical transportation or those agencies that can do that same day emergency type service. Our our role is general public transportation, which by federal law, we're not supposed to prioritize trips based on purpose or destination. They just tell us where they're going. We take them and actually it's a first come, first- serve system. Okay. Any further questions, thank you very much. Okay. Thank you.

Do I have a motion? I move to designate Southeast Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission doing business as wiregrass transit authority as the city's local implementing transit provider for the section 5311 program. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I. All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a request from city engineer public works director Barry Mott on behalf of EAA chapter 351 to hold the Young Eagle Flight Rally at the Enterprise Municipal Airport on Saturday, May 16th, 2026 contingent upon the submitt of the required insurance certificate before the event and review by the city attorney. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the request contingent upon the submitt of the required insurance certificate before the event and review by the city attorney. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Introduce and call for consideration of a request to hold the May 19th, 2026 work session and council meeting in the municipal courtroom at city hall due to the Coffee County's use of the Enterprise Civic Center as a polling location on the same date. Do I have a motion? Move to hold the May 19th, 2026 work session and council meeting in the municipal courtroom at city hall as requested. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. We'll now recess our regular session and convene into the E911 board meeting. All members of the E911 board are here and present. We will now um call for a motion to approve the April 7th, 2026 E911 board meeting minutes as written. I move to approve the April 7th, 2026 E91 board meeting minutes as written. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to approve accounts payable A for April 2026 in the amount of $16,490.78. Move to approve the accounts payable A for April 2026 in the amount of $16,490.78. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Chief Morton, do you have anything? No, sir. Just making sure there weren't any questions. All right. Any questions?

All right. Thank you very much. This A911 board meeting is adjourned. We will now reconvene in our regular session. And um Mayor Cooper is unable to be here tonight. So I am going to read his um report that he sent. Mayor Cooper sends his cards and regrets that he is unable to attend tonight's meeting. He asked that I share the following remarks. We had a great turnout this past weekend for Festival in the Park. After a rainy start to the day, the weather cleared and we were un we were able to enjoy a full slate of activities, live music, and fireworks. It was an excellent example of our city departments working together to support a large community event. I am proud of our parks and recreation team and all of the staff who contributed to its success. I want to remind everyone that applications remain open for the small box shop in downtown Enterprise. This is a great opportunity for small business owners to test their concept in the heart of our community. I encourage anyone interested to visit the downtown Enterprise Facebook page for more information. This Thursday is the National Day of Prayer scheduled to begin at noon at the Enterprise Farmers Market. We're keeping a close eye on the weather and any updates or changes will be shared through our city social media channels. Also on Thursday evening from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. here at the Civic Center, ALD DOT will host a public involvement meeting regarding proposed improvements to traffic flow and safety along a portion of Bulville Circle. There will be no formal presentation, so this is a dropin opportunity for citizens to come by and share their input. I want to emphasize that comments shared on social media do not count as official feedback. So we encourage anyone interested to attend and provide their input directly to ALDOT. Finally, as we recognize that day is Cinco de Mayo, I encourage everyone to celebrate responsibly. As our district attorney shared on Facebook, if you intend to celebrate today at one of the many fine Mexican restaurants throughout

the 12th Judicial Circuit, please do do so responsibly. or you could wake up on the SAS de Mayo wearing some stylish steel bracelets in one of our three jail facilities in the area. Additionally, many of our enterprise students and their families will be celebrating graduations in the coming weeks and we wish them a safe and memorial time as they mark these important milestones. All right, Miss Rich.

Thank you everyone for coming tonight and thank you Mr. Kitten for updating us on our transportation. Um I see its use highly increasing in our service um departments using their programs are using the transit for clients getting to and from um interviews is is a great tool for us. So appreciate having that here in our city. Um want to thank Mr. Ma, Mr. Lucas and and Mr. Morgan for um their patience um concerning the Deva Avenue project. Um, I am hard about that project because the reason why we set out to do that sidewalk, if you recall, is not just to put a sidewalk there, right? It was a method that we came up with to try to beautify some older areas um that's going to connect to some some newer, nicer um areas. So, in order for that to happen, that's got to take place. So, I appreciate you all um with your commitment to making sure that that project wraps up and looks pretty at the end. So, thank you,

Mr. May.

Yeah. Uh I was actually at the farmers market when y'all gave a presentation on the transit authority not too far ago and uh glad to hear that it's growing and it's valuable service to our city and community members. Thank you to all the staff who are uh doing their diligence getting us the information to help us do our jobs. Uh it helps us in the long run to make, you know, important decisions for the city. So, we appreciate that and all the hard work that goes into that. Um Enterprise baseball has playoffs this weekend. So, if you're in town and want to support the Wildcats, we always like to do that. And they're taking on Auburn and the second round of the baseball playoffs. We We made it to the championship game last year. Let's see if we can do it again.

Mr. Johnson.

Yes. Thank you everyone for coming tonight. Thank you for all our citizens that are watching online. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to all our city workers. We couldn't have a beautiful progressive city if we didn't have our workers out there each and every day. And I tell everybody if you see somebody waving at you go by in a garbage truck or whatever it might be, it's me because I I really appreciate that. And please uh keep our first responders in your prayers uh for what they do each and every day and what they are are doing now. I'll just leave it at that. But God bless them and watch over everybody. God bless you all. Thank you. Um shout out to um the reason why I was late today um for our work session. The EHS um girls golf team uh won today or they came in second. So, they're progressing to uh the state finals, first time since 2019. So, my daughter, she plays on the golf team, and so I was in Auburn today watching uh watching that. So, uh big congratulations to them and um the work that they put in. Um thank you to Wiregrass Transit Authority. Um we are in a car ccentric city where if you don't have a car uh or a way of getting around in a vehicle, you are at a disadvantage. and I appreciate the service that you provide to our city to make sure that people have a way to get to work or get to a doctor's appointment. Um, and appreciate the work that you guys are doing for our city. Thank you so much. Um, and great work to Blake Moore, uh, Tammy Doer, everybody that was at Festival and Park. I talked to fire department there, talked to, uh, Tammy, I talked to, um, somebody from the police, Hagglin, um, with the police department. So, I just got to go and talk to so many people that work for our city that was given their heart uh to that event and appreciate the hard work there and um all the planning and um so many people came from not Enterprise to be there. I know friends that came from Dothan uh

people came off base on Fort Rucker. Um so, it's a big event for just more than the city of Enterprise. I appreciate the hard work that goes into that. Thank you all for being here. And I'd also like to um say thanks to all the city workers for all the hard work you do. So many for so many things that are go unseen and those that do that are seen. Um thanks to those that have been working on this appropriations. I know Leanne has spearheaded it, but there's probably others that's been involved in it. something that for a couple years that we have discussed trying to get in place and I'm really hoping that it does what it looks like it's going to accomplish. And then thanks for the update on the Wiregrass Transit Authority. I can speak to that being a successful endeavor just from employees of my own who started working for me with no transportation. Only way that they would be able to get to work was uh because of a system like that. and after a few months of working for me were able to then afford to provide their own transportation. But it was a good hand up getting them where they were trying to get to from where they were at. And so I see it as a uh a great a great thing. And uh we definitely have an an aging society. U and so many of them are getting uncomfortable driving at certain times of the day or even driving at all and are able to start utilizing that. and I've um I've heard some good feedback from those that have been able to use the the uh facility or use use the bus buses. So, thank you for all the hard work you've done that and I'm I'm glad that we made that decision a few years ago to implement that that system and glad to see it continuing to go forward. Thank you so much for being here tonight and we will adjourn and the next meeting will be May 19th at the Enterprise City

Hall in the uh municipal courtroom. Thank you.