City Council - Regular Meeting

Yes, sir. Mayor and council members, if you'll look at your work session agenda, I've moved the Q3 goals up. I know that the next meeting is when we're going to start that goal setting process. But if you recall at the beginning of the year, we did our strategic planning meeting. So we had some goals in there for Q3 already. The ones that weren't accomplished in Q2, I shifted them down. The Parks and Rec maintenance facility, beginning the TAP project on Bellwood Avenue, divesting of certain city properties, surplus properties, and then the old Coppinville school agreement with Enterprise City Schools. Those are the ones that I shifted down. You can see that we're We're up on some of those, the budget for the HR system. We actually took care of that at a prior council meeting and engaged that contract with PACOM. That's complete. If you'll look in your packets, and I put this on for later in the agenda if you wanted to talk more about it, or I can do it now, Councilman Pageant. on the library study since it's on the Q3 goal sheet. If you look in your packets, Blake Moore delivered that to me at the end of last week from JML Architecture. I think the bottom line is on page 16 of that, or 14, I'm sorry, page 14 of that study. It's in the bottom left corner of the page numbers. Chapter 4 is the cost estimates. So if you'll look on that, option 1 or 2, which is either renovation or design and build a new library, are both significant capital expenditures based on the size of the current facility, which is 14,322 feet. or somewhere around 15,000 is what they said, 12,000 to 15,000 square feet if we designed and built a purpose-built library at $450 a square foot. So I think the purpose of this library study when we started out was to just assess the current situation that we're in. So now that we know... that were in the situation we're in, where the library, if we were to renovate it, would have a three and a half to 4.296 million dollar price tag on it. That option's gonna come back to the council to say what do we do, how do we budget for that, and when do we budget for that. My recommendation, all things being equal in the current constraints in our budget as we work through the next budget year as well would be to maybe ask city staff to look at options for the library to rent space until a programmed year where such funds might be available. I would not recommend initiating a new library next year in the budget. I don't know where we would get those funds from. But I do think something over the next few years needs to be done. The status quo at the current library, whether it's roof or other structural issues in the current space, are not sustainable for very long. So I don't know if that would be at a shopping center, but I think the number was somewhere between 8,000 to 10,000 square feet. We asked the architect in a separate email if we If we went back and found a space to rent for one year, five years, ten years for the library to be temporarily housed, 8,000 to 10,000 square feet would be the number that we'd be looking for. And then what does that cost? I have no idea. But we would need to do something to evaluate that cost versus borrowing to build or renovate. What are your thoughts on that as a council?

You and I have had a lot of conversations about this already, so I tend to be on an agreement with you that this capital outlay with all of the capital outlays that we've just recently had is probably not easily found in the budget. I feel like that our world is changing so rapidly right now that it might be good to look at leasing a space for a period of time and just see what libraries even look like four or five years from now. There's a lot of thought process about what libraries are going to look like. Not that they're going away, but what form they take in the future.

I mean, the truth is that even if we said we want to build a library and we move forward with it, say, in next budget year, we still have to identify a site. We still have to get an architect to design it. So we're several years out, and we have other looming priorities like a wastewater treatment plant potentially upgrade for capacity. As one example, we also have a fire study out. Until both of those studies come back, just my recommendation would be that I would not feel comfortable making a decision moving forward on new capital projects until we have the totality of those projects in hand as well so we can make a better informed recommendation to you.

Well, when it comes to budgets and dollar signs, I, anyway, depend heavily on you and Leanne to give us an honest assessment of the city finances. So if you guys are saying that we don't have the money for this, then I think we need to take a long, hard look at what alternatives we can do to kind of bridge the gap and give our city the library they need without spending $6 million.

Yeah.

I don't want to try to control this whole conversation.

No, I agree. I think, well, for me, I wasn't expecting a study and then getting one and expecting that this would be something that we would do in this budget year or maybe the next, but just to know what we're looking at, what's the cost, and how we can best proceed. We're saying we need some repairs. We're saying that the library is in need of repairs. a lot of things, and so this is a start. But, you know, again, we rely on who we have in place to tell us where we are financially. We recognize what other things we've got going on, so this is a good starting point to kind of see what direction we want to take. I'm not ready to just go any further with that tonight. You know, we haven't just not studied this in detail, but... I agree.

I definitely think we need to, in the budget meeting coming up, because I've got some ideas and you all know how I feel about money appropriations and things, so I think we need a little bit more discussion on it. Maybe not this year, but we need to take a hard look at some of the other stuff. Yes, sir. I'll leave it at that, but yeah.

Absolutely. And I'm in agreement with Scotty with that statement, but not just the library, but other things too, that we could take a very serious look at to see what changes, if any, that we need to make to help us in some areas to be able to accommodate some of our desires for the city.

That's right. Exactly. And I think we're very close to having that wastewater treatment and the fire study in prior, at least prior to the budget conversation. And I think my point is more broad in that until we really get that in, we can't have a serious discussion. We also have those letters for the appropriations process in, so we'll know what asks were being from other agencies in the community. And so in totality, then we'll have to figure out what we can afford and what we can't, as well as all your departments.

It'll give us a better idea of what's available and what we need to look at, where we need to go here and there. Perfect. Thank you.

Yeah, having a season of the new appropriations policy kind of under our belt would serve us well, I think, moving forward.

Okay. So those are for you to keep and peruse and certainly ask questions, but this, as I think a couple of you said, this is more to give you an idea of what we're up against, whether we renovate, we build new, we lease space. Any of those options are going to be a significant cost to the city.

So what's the cost of staying where we are?

Well, I think that would be option one under the renovation. I mean, certain things have to be done. Like I said, it may not be next year, but in very short order, some things like a new roof and some structural issues that are already plaguing the current library. need to be fixed. Even if we were economical and didn't repaint or put new floors down and just fix the bare minimum, I think you're easily looking at a seven-figure-plus number in the millions.

Option one shows three and a half to four.

Yeah, but I think that's a full renovation of the whole.

Well, just renovate the existing building.

Right. I was talking about just keeping it from falling apart.

I think with the roof, HVAC, security issues that need to be updated in there, it's It's like City Hall.

The reason I'm asking that is I think that when we do get to that point in our budget process or appropriations or whatever we're working on, if we know, like, at worst case scenario, if we decided to stay where we were and we were just trying to limit it to the bare minimums, what would that cost? So that we can compare that to what it would be to go lease another place. Absolutely. and not do that repair and maybe put that building up for sale or donate to some group that wants to come in and do something great for the city or whatever. I think just getting that full picture. I mean, I appreciate this study and that definitely gives us one direction to go.

I think I can get them to itemize that breakout on what those 3.5 to 4.2 million.

So if it ends up coming in at 1.5 just to keep it from falling apart and keeping the books from getting wet in the next rainstorm, then we may say it's only going to cost a half a million to go renovate one of these other rental sites and over the next five years will still won't spend as much as we did to renovate this one building and then that gives us a better idea of what we might be able to to pull off that would enhance a library system for the city before we go spend six million dollars and have time to really there's this part of the whole conversation that when we get to that point I think would be good to have

To include annual maintenance, things like that. That would keep that HVAC working, the roof working. That's what it's going to take yearly to do those things. We can get that number.

I mean, if you came in and said it's only going to cost us $70,000 to fix the current building, that's a no-brainer. You stay where you are. But if it's going to be $2 million to fix the current building just to keep it from the roof caving in, well, then that changes the whole conversation.

Yes, sir. And like I said, I think I can get that number itemized. because they didn't just pull it from thin air. They looked at the deficiencies. That will be good. Yes, sir. So in saving some time here, those are the Q3 goals that we have. There's obviously a place at the end there for issues from Q1, Q2, or Q3 that aren't on there that you want to talk about or add at a future date. Again, tomorrow, tomorrow. The next meeting will be one of those opportunities to talk about future issues.

And speaking of next meeting, everyone remember we start at 4 o'clock. Next meeting is our quarterly review. Before I forget to say that, before we keep going.

Sure. In your package, you'll also see two other items. One is kind of a One should have a paper clip on it. It looks like an Excel spreadsheet with some pictures. So that is a first kind of draft of a cost summary. Very rough, like 30% evaluation from an architect from the college system about what an innovation-type center might look like. So as we look at programmable space that might be in there for incubator or specifically city space, you can see that is under regional municipalities. It'd be the third line in gray. That programmable space came back at about $3.8 million number. And it talks about what might be in there. And then down the road, obviously, or down the list, there are other things that would be in the building. Shared spaces for incubators, conference rooms, break rooms, wash rooms that aren't in the calculus of if the city were to partner or do some of those things. So this is just for you to look at. There are different designs based on the properties that the, the college currently owns. They are working to some end on acquiring additional parcels of property. If that were to happen, obviously those designs or layouts would change. And I think there would be some more information on that in an executive session should the city decide to move forward in some level of a partnership with the college. But the grading, the site work, all of that's not part of that number, which is a cost savings if the city were to go out and do that on its own or partner with other entities that would be in there, whether that's Economic Development, Chamber of Commerce, whoever that is. So look forward to talking to you more about that. But if you had any questions, I'd be happy to answer. I just thought this would be a helpful document for for you to see the work that the college system's doing on that space. What's the yellow highlighting on there indicate, Mr. Tullis? So I believe that some of those areas, to be honest with you, are just what the college was looking at in programmable space that needed to be explored more, whether or not that was accurate. So additional conversations with whether it's Fort Rucker or the shared service incubator. The architect, I think, had questions on if that was the right size or needed additional information to make a better calculated number. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. The other letter that you'll see in there, this was brought in from South Central Alabama Mental Health, and you can see it was addressed to me. Last year, as part of the appropriations process and funding was a program for a playground. I did want to make you all aware that I received this letter, and I told South Central Mental Health that I would bring this to you. They have not installed the playground at this point because they don't have people to do that. I guess that was not calculated in their cost. Subsequently, the request was that city resources be used to do that. One, I think that even if we could do it, I think that our Parks and Rec staff have enough on their plate currently, particularly in the growing season, to keep them occupied, but I also worry about liability issues if we assemble a playground or do something like that for somebody else and they get hurt on it. Just a lot of issues like that. At this point, my response back is going to be in the negative to the letter that was addressed to me unless you feel differently.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the new playground equipment that we are bringing in, the subcontractors are installing that. It's not city staff, correct? That's correct. So if we're not comfortable enough installing our own equipment, then I'm kind of in agreement with you in terms of liability and productivity spreading city personnel thin if we're not even putting our own stuff together.

I agree. And what did we tell them when we donated the equipment? Was it understood that we were not, or did we leave that out there? I'm just curious.

I didn't have those conversations. That was just a request that was made. If you recall, I think the request was significantly more. I think it was a quarter million dollars is what the request was. I think we found some playground equipment that would suit them, and I think we appropriated about 50,000 for that. So I'm not sure if the expectation was there, but no conversations that I had with them at that time led me to believe that we would be doing the installation. I can't speak to anybody else if somebody else had a conversation with them or not.

So have they submitted an appropriation request for... Not yet.

But I just wanted to make you aware of this letter prior to me responding because I wasn't sure if you were going to get calls about it or not. One, we didn't budget for it. Two, I think there's some real liability issues that, you know, and it takes away from our focus. I don't know, Blake hasn't really talked to me about it too much, but I would surmise that between all the ball fields that he's maintaining right now during growing season and public facilities that his staff is probably working pretty hard. And we'll have our own playground that we'll be doing an install of as well.

We're not putting our own again.

Just as a thought. I know there are several organizations that have done this around, several of the VSOs, veteran service organizations, do things like that. I can't speak for them all, but maybe that's something that we could give them to say there's folks out there that will do that. And, of course, they'll have to assume the liability, but I know that there are groups that are looking for that. Sure. Whether it's Lions, Rotaries, Pilot Club, veteran service organizations.

That's a great thought, and I'll be happy to... pass along some contact information for those various organizations just let me know and i can help too yes sir okay that's it for the quarterly goals um there's one other thing later on um that you've got a copy of but uh i can wait for that until you review the agenda okay then we will review the agenda

tonight's meeting. We'll begin with roll call. Opening prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the agenda. Then we will consider the consent agenda. Anybody has any questions about the consent agenda as I go through it, just stop me. Accounts payable A for $1,299,323.70. $943,000 is City of Enterprise Water Works Board $356,000. Contract Billings, S.A. Graham Construction, $149,976 for County Road 606 relocation at the airport. Ardura, $74,771 contract services for the wastewater treatment upgrades. Kimberly Horn and Associates, $15,000 contract services for the Main Street Signal Project. Polly Incorporated, $5,074, preliminary engineering for 2025 tap sidewalk project. Fine, Getty & Associates, two invoices, one for April, one for June. Were they late sending us an invoice? I don't guess there's anybody here to answer that question right now. Mr. Tullis, on this... Consent agenda here. Fine Getty, we have a contract invoice from April and then one from June.

Yes, sir. Did they skip one? I think one got skipped in the billing. Yes, sir.

Contract services for them. And then... Main Street, 2026 Main Street. Oh, this is a travel request. Main Street, estimated cost $2,428 for destination downtown conference. Police department has training class requests for $1,755. Gracie's survival tactics level one course for $1,310. Real-time crime center observation, $860. And then tourism, Alabama Governor's Tourism Conference, $1,813. Any questions on the consent agenda? All right, and then Mayor Cooper and Blake Moore will give out some certificates of achievement. Then we will consider a permit request for the Girls' Night Out Roundup. And for September, this is an annual event. So let's see. Is there going to be East College Street closure? Chief Moore, any issues with this College Street closure for the Girls Not Out? I know that's an annual event we do every year.

Yes, sir. That's just a normal event we do. We're ready to do what we need to do every year.

Yes, sir. I figured that was the case. Just wanted to verify we're all on the same page here. Then we will have privilege of the floor and staff reports. We'll move into old business. We have a public hearing for enterprise metals and recycling. We discussed this last council meeting that we're being asked to give a conditional business license so that they can operate for a period of 90 days to move towards compliance. because they kind of need to stay in business to be able to do the things that create the result we're looking for. So, any questions on that? All right. And then we have a public hearing and consideration of ABC license requests for Eagle Liquor at 1110 Bowieville Circle Suite C. And then we have an under new business, public hearing consideration, development agreement, M&S construction, LLC, and M&S development. We talked about this development on Lee Street. Any questions on that? This is the one we talked about doing some work for them. And then Polly Incorporated authorized the mayor to execute an agreement on behalf of the City of Enterprise for general engineering, planning, and consulting services on an ongoing and on-call basis for miscellaneous tasks and projects assigned. Polly will receive monthly compensation of $6,000 starting on the day of the agreement, continuing through the current fiscal year, which ends September 30, 2026. Beginning October 1st, 2026, the monthly compensation will increase to $7,600 for the fiscal year 2027. And starting October 1st, 2027, on each subsequent October 1st, the compensation amount will increase by 3% for the remainder of the four-year agreement. Do we have any questions on that? All right. Then we have a request to authorize the mayor to execute a federal aviation administration grant offer. The total of $7,178,443 for the runway extension project. The city's required match contribution will not exceed $180,000. Yeah.

I just wanted to highlight a couple of things about that. So, um, Under the last administration, there were some land acquisitions that had to happen, and there was a big impact by Senator Britt securing some CDS funding for the airport to allow that to happen. I'll let Barry talk about the details of how it came to be, but I did want to pat Barry and his staff on the back for getting this project done. Um, obviously the county road that's relocated was the first step of that. This is the next phase to, uh, add 500 feet onto the runway towards bull. We will circle. There'll be another phase after that, that adds 400 feet, but all of this getting done at one time, um, was no small feet. And it's been something that, that the city has been working on for well over 20 years. But I did want to make sure that the council was aware this was something that would not have been possible if it wasn't for Senator Britt's office stepping in and getting involved with the FAA to get that funding plussed up so that we could move forward with it in one budget cycle. So if you do speak to her or her staff, please acknowledge that.

will stand before your days of a long time come and be honest with you two careers ago it seems like uh... so yet jonathan said we've been doing this for twenty something years and we're back in and i think of this is my twenty third year that i've been trying to get a runway extension project on for the city of enterprise and started that job as an engineer working for a consulting firm and to see it from the owner side as your city engineers of is a true pleasure for me and so i'm happy to not to bring to you Um, that I got word yesterday from the FAA that there are three grant offers and confirmed they are in our inbox for approval contingent that y'all approve it tonight for the city to enter into a grant agreement for a runway extension on the airport. So the grant that we currently have right now is to relocate County road six Oh six. And the reason we have to do that is because when we do the extension on that end, the county road is going to lay within the safety area of the runway, and you can't do that. So the grant that we currently are doing and closing out over the next 30 to 60 days includes the relocation of 606 and the utilities for that. The next part of that would be to actually build the runway extension, and that's what we have on the plate for discussion for tonight. The runway extension is done in two parts. The consultant looked at that with the FAA and looked and said, what is the length of the runway need to be? and that was determined to be 6,000 feet, currently at 5,100 feet, so basically doing a 900 foot extension. We could put all that on one end, we could do one on the other end, or we could do a mixture, some on each end. It was determined the most feasible option was to do 500 feet towards the bypass and 400 feet away from the bypass. And so this is the first phase of that, which is to go 500 feet towards the bypass. So when we talk about doing a 500 foot extension, The safety area also grows because we're going to be a bigger runway. We're doing this to accommodate larger aircraft that are currently going to the airport now. The safety areas go from 300 feet long to 1,000 feet long. So in essence, we're building a 1,500-foot extension on the end of the runway, but only 500 foot of that will be asphalt.

So when you say larger aircraft, you're not talking about like a Delta airplane or anything here?

The goal here, and the FAA calls it your critical design aircraft is the term they use, and what they've determined based upon what we have to do is have 500 operations per year of a certain type of aircraft, the largest aircraft, that we have 500 operations per year, and that's determined to be Class D aircraft, which makes us a Class C airport. We're currently Class B, go to Class C. What that does, it accommodates wingspan, it accommodates lengths of aircraft. So currently what that means is any, when we get through with both ends of the runway at 6,000 feet, any business jet basically flying, G5s, G6s, Hawker 800s, the large business aircraft, we will accommodate those. It's not designed to handle a 737 or a Delta Air type jet, but the regional jets we could accommodate if we were. That's not our intention. Our intention is not to be an air carrier service where you go get a ticket, you get on an airplane, you fly out. The FAA has that at Dothan, and they would not put another 139 airport or air carrier airport that close to another one. It just costs so much money to install and to maintain. And so if the residents say, well, we'll be able to fly to here and fly to whatever, the FAA is not going to pay for that. We're talking probably... millions and millions per year just to get it built and maintain it every year for the city. And without the FAA support, that's typically not going to happen. So the purpose of this is to be able to accommodate aircraft that's currently landing on the airport now. And we have G5s and G6s out there now. But they have a penalized operation. And what that means is they can't take full passengers or they can't take full fuel to go to where they're going. So when they file a flight plan, they have to stop somewhere. If they're flying to California, they may have to stop halfway and get more fuel to make the rest of the trip. The FAA doesn't like that. They like once they get up in the air, they want them to stay in the air until they land to wherever their destination is. So this is a, to get to 6,000 feet is a huge feat. It'll help our residents that are currently coming here, but it also will accommodate people that want to come to Enterprise and look at what we have here. And I'm going to tell you, I showed the mayor today some data off of our FlightAware software that we have. It's amazing when you look at over the year of how much our outreach is across the nation. And I'll be glad to share you with that in a staff report in the future if y'all are interested in seeing that data. But unbelievable. And so a lot of work and a lot of effort to get us to today. We have three grants, basically, that are coming to us. The total for that is roughly $7.2 million. And the match from that from the city is 2.5%. So the number of that is less than $180,000. I just rounded up to 180 tonight for proposal. And what I'm asking from the council is to authorize the mayor to execute those three grant agreements, not to exceed $180,000 as our local match for $7.2 million worth of improvements at the airport. And it's more than just the asphalt. We're replacing lights, runway identifier lights, PAPIs, striping. We're going to do a complete overlay asphalt on the entire runway. We're correcting some on-site issues that are out there on the current runway to meet standards and to take us to a Class C airport. So this is a huge win. I'm super excited to present that to you tonight. And like Jonathan said, we started this process way back when and gotten some land acquisition issues and the project halted and we were able to kickstart that again. And, um, thank you to the FAA, the Aldot and, and to Senator Britt's office for helping us get it to where we are tonight. So I'll answer any questions that you might have.

That's wild. The two, a 2% match.

Talking about persistence on a project. I think this one, um, I said, I cannot wait for the data to cut the ribbon on this runway extension. I think Beverly and I've been talking about this forever. Um, so, um, I'm, I'm looking forward to that day and, and, and happy to get that 6 0 6 finished with the county's approval. You'll have that on your next council meeting for, um, abatement of some of the, the right away and stuff on the road. You'll have that on next council meeting, but we're wrapping that project up and we'll be moving right into the first runway extension. And with the second extension we're anticipating, FA asked me to set up for three years before we really asked for the second half of the runway extension to give them time to roll up their money for that. So it would be sometime three years from now, four years from now, before we see the second extension on the other end. So I'm excited for the city. I hope you are too.

And so the next item on the agenda is the barge design solutions for that same project.

Yes sir, so part of the deal with FAA, it's a little different from most grants. We can't apply for a grant application until we actually have bid prices from contractors. We can't do it off estimates, we can't anticipate what the cost is. We have to do the design, go out for bid, actually get a low bid from a qualified contractor and use those bid prices to apply for the grant. So the consultant basically does all that design work on the front end, and then once they get that stuff done, then they send us a contract. Their contract is included into the grant, so we're paying two and a half percent of that fee, but their contract is reviewed by ALDOT and the FAA to make sure that it is fair and reasonable and includes everything it should be, and it's gone through that process. So I have for you for consideration to execute their contract for design, bid, and construction fee services for this project.

Any questions?

And you said that amount is included into the, that's included in the total grants at $7.2 million. That's includes the engineering costs.

Okay. All right. Thank you very much.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you.

Good job.

Exciting.

Then we will recess into our recess, our regular session and convene into E911 board meeting. We'll review the minutes and then approve accounts payable, adjourn, reconvene in regular session, and we'll have mayor's report and council comments, and then we will adjourn until 4 o'clock on July 21st. Any questions on the agenda? All right, Mr. Tullis, you want to talk about this ordinance here?

Yes, sir. Mayor and council, I put a copy of a draft ordinance on top of your work session packets before the meeting. Really, our city attorney and city engineer have reviewed this draft. Several council meetings ago, you can recall we had several members from the public here talking about our franchise agreements and particularly companies that were doing broadband activity tearing up yards. There's been some social media activity over that. While our franchise agreements, a lot of them were predating that, whether that's with Alabama Power or Bright Speed or CenturyLink before that. We did have some provisions in there, and one of them said that we could adopt new ordinances or resolutions as we saw fit that would help guide those. And so we tried to put some thought into what that would look like to give the city more teeth and visibility over the work that was being done. Right now, there's no permit that needs to be filed. There's minor penalties, if any, if work's not done properly. And so this ordinance expands the authority of the city over those entities that are doing work in our rights-of-way. They're also getting more constricted in space. The rights-of-way haven't grown, but the number of providers that are utilizing the rights-of-way have. And so it's creating problems, whether that's for people here or for our utilities that the city owns or the water department owns. These missile crews that they send in at times, have very little regard and they're not the company themselves their subcontractor from the company and they do the work and their you know I think they call them missile crews because they come in and do the work as fast as they can and get out and when they do that sometimes they hit water lines sometimes they hit sewer lines and wreak havoc and have unintended consequences because of the haste of their work and so this is ordinances in an effort to tighten the requirements on those contractors as they come in to do work in the city to give advance notice and to have punitive action that the city can hold them accountable for that we currently can't under the current franchise agreements and city ordinances. I don't know if Barry, if you have something to add to that. Yeah.

I'll just add two things to Jonathan's comments, and those two things are, number one, a lot of times people come in here, we don't know they're here. And the intent of this is to give some kind of a notice, a written notice, in plenty of time, but here's who they're going to be. And it also talks about notifying the property owners that will be affected and giving them notice there that they would be sent a letter there with contact information. In other words, if you have questions, here's a person to call. So I think that's part of it is to notify the public, notify us that they're going to be here doing what kind of work. It gives us some teeth, like Jonathan said about, gives us some, hey, the city engineer does have the authority, I guess, to say we have too many utilities in this right of way or we need to coordinate with you about, you know, just not to let them go do whatever they want to do in the right of way. But the other second point I want to make to you is closure when they get through, to have some kind of means to say when they're done, they put it back to as good or better condition than it was. So giving us a chance on the front end before they get there to photograph or videography what that right away looked like. So when a property owner comes in and says, hey, my yard was pristine before this happened, we'd have some photographs and say, this is what we expect when you get through with this project to put it back as good or better condition than what it was before. So that was two added things I just wanted to add to what Jonathan said.

Just breezing through this ordinance, I was looking for something related to these companies as far as their license and bonding agreements, insurance and whatnot. I just see language that lays out the scope of the project, but not really any background information as far as the company's concerned. Is that a concern for us here in this?

Well, Ashley, I don't know if that's something you want to speak to, but in general, I think anybody that we have a franchise agreement or that does work in the right way would be covered in this. The intent of bringing it for you tonight in the work session is for you to have visibility and look at it. I would like all these questions vetted and answered. I think Councilman Pageant, before I got it on the agenda, sent a couple of suggestions that he would like to see. I would encourage you all to do that so that My intent would be at the next council meeting to introduce some version of this that has broad buy-in. If you want us to move forward, if tonight you say, hey, you're on the wrong track, this ordinance is garbage, we'll throw it in the trash and won't pursue it. But if you like the direction this is headed and have some additions or some questions about if you want to see something changed or legalities or if it's harsh enough or broad enough, then this is the time and exactly why I want to have this dialogue so that we can make it where when we introduce it, it's something everybody is comfortable with and wants to vote in favor of. Go ahead.

So the first item you brought up was licensing. So theoretically that should be covered under other ordinances that require business license because anybody that comes into the city should get licensed. So that is something definitely we can add to this provision as well if that's what you're interested in. Bonding and insurance, we so far have been handling that through the franchise agreement itself. Those agreements do have requirements for bonding and insurance into it, but we can definitely look into it, and if that's something you want into the ordinance, we can do that as well. I will, to do that, I do want to go run through and check and see what everybody else is doing in the state to make sure that is something we can do, but we can definitely do that and look into it.

I've already sent my list of questions, so...

I received them.

Councilman Johnson or Councilwoman Rich is this I mean I just mean in terms of the the direction is this The subject matter that we talked about what the ordinance is trying to do in general. Are you in favor of? Pursuing some ordinance that addresses those issues. Yes Okay Well, I'll I'll anticipate getting some feedback from both of you and then I trying to get that draft back to our council president to review prior to the meeting. And then if you like it, we'll try to plan on introducing it. Sounds great.

One of the things Councilman Mack mentioned about that businesses, I would like to see something like if we could put it in there to add the provision and maybe say as noted in ordinance. So we don't want to, this is part of the problem with some of these companies is too many assumptions.

So cross-reference the ordinances that we're referring to. Okay.

I think lately we've had just as much a problem with one particular company and their solicitation more than we have them digging up things. So I don't know if that's – I did not put that in my email, but that might be something to look into as well.

Yeah.

Mr. President, one thing I'd just add to you is even though we have franchise agreements with certain companies, we're finding in the field, because my office gets the calls of, hey, someone's in my yard digging, who is it? And if I don't know, then I start a chase trying to find out who it is. What I'll find a lot of times is companies come in that we may have a franchise agreement with, but they have a contract with multiple directional drillers, installation crews, And one of the things I wanted to offer to you as part of the intent of this resolution is for them to notify us exactly who's going to be here, exactly where they're going to be, and exactly when they're going to do it. So, you know, like we talked about, you know, a Gantt chart, a scope, a timeline, and a contact information so we know we get the phone calls. You know, it shouldn't have to come all the way to me personally to figure out who that is. Our permit techs and the engineering office should be able to receive that phone call say we know exactly who that is uh... this is who it is here's the contact information or would you like to have somebody from our office respond to you it is just a to basically absorb who is doing work in our city where they're doing the work and making sure they're putting it back and we're finding things months after the fact people come in and do the work we didn't know they were there they were having a they they were bored through someone's four inch lateral line from the house to the line to the street causes backup into the house, but we don't find it to three months, four months later, then we're trying to document back. Who was it? Who did the work is, is, and you could do both. You could do a work permit in the city. This was an effort in my, in my, in my perspective to say, at least let's document who's doing work in here. And at least we can say, do they have city permits? Are they bonded? Who's the company? What are they doing? Um, cause right now it's very frustrating. And from staff level, when it seems like it's almost wild, wild west, and you can try to stay on top of it, but it's nearly impossible. This would give us some teeth to know what's going on and to be able to answer your questions or the customer's questions, the citizens that are here. by who's in my front yard, they would have to be, as part of this, the way it's written, if y'all like that, is for the people to actually notify the citizens that will be affected. And I thought that was a, it was a step in the right direction if y'all are on board with what we proposed.

For sure.

Thank you. Yes, sir. All right. I guess we all have our homework to look that over. Anything else from staff? All right. Well, then we will take an 11-minute break and reconvene at 6 o'clock. Unless one of you guys had something else.

Mm-mm.

Thank you. One for you.

Well, once you finish that, I just congratulate you. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Let me turn it off. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. One, two, three. Thank you. All right, I'm just looking at all this. Woo! You a kid. Yup.

I've never seen a crowd like this.

That's what I'm saying. Okay, let's go. Let's see the thing. Thank you.

Okay, boys, you'll do the same thing. After the girls are done, your team will be called. I'm going to march you up. I'll come right there.

We'll come up here. We'll line up. Coaches, you'll stay in line.

This is the second team. This is the win. You'll stay in line, and then they'll go to you. You can't shake your feet. Make sure you're small. Look down at the back.

Look down at the back.

I mean, yeah, he, look, I think, you know, he's running. Thank you.

All right.

Alright ladies, you're going to have to show all the boys up. Well, I'm...

Thank you.

We'll now call this meeting of the Enterprise City Council to order. Let's all stand for the opening prayer and pledge of allegiance.

May we pray. Most gracious and heavenly Father, we want to thank thee for this day. Thank thee for the many blessings that thou hast bestowed upon us. As we go into this meeting, as we move about trying to do what's best for our city, give us grace, knowledge, and understanding. And Lord, also these children that we have here tonight, what a blessing it is to have such, for our city, them going out and winning and coming, and we are going to reward them. So we are so thankful, dear Lord, for this day and all the blessings that have been stored upon us. And we've done all we could on this side. Give us a home so in the kingdom where we can praise our name forever. And everybody said amen. Amen.

Please join me for the pledge of allegiance.

Pledge of allegiance 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.

I 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. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. All right, we will now consider 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 discussions. If separate discussion is desired on an item, that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by the request of a member of the city council. I call for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented.

I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. I now recognize Mayor Cooper and Blake Moore, Director of Community Services and Recreation, and Landon Adams, Parks and Recreation Superintendent, who will present certificates of achievement tonight.

First, I would like to say good evening to everyone. At this time, we are proud to recognize three outstanding Enterprise Park and Recreation All-Star teams. The six and under softball, the seven and under baseball, and the eight and under baseball. These young athletes have represented our community with hard work, teamwork and sportsmanship. And their accomplishments are a great testament to the strength of our parks and recreation program. We congratulate not only the players and coaches, but we also congratulate the parents, families and supporters who have encouraged them every step of the way. I would now like to invite Blake Moore and his staff to join me as we present these certificates of achievements to these students.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Man, I'm excited. I tell you what, I was going to be short, but I may not be now after looking at everybody in here. If you didn't know, the month of July is Parks and Recreation Month, and we're centered around a theme this year, from the National Parks and Rec Association, and it's the power of dot, dot, dot. So you fill in what the dot, dot, dot is. And one thing I've challenged my staff and what we're going to center around is community. Parks and Rec is building community, and I can't think of a better picture tonight than to look around this room and see community. When you think about youth sports, you think about bringing people together, and that's what we're doing here tonight. is the power of community through parks and recreation in our youth sports. And I tell you what, tonight I'm joined by our superintendent Landon Adams and our athletic coordinator Ian Theriault. Ian went with all of these teams from all over. Tonight we're gonna honor three champions. One couldn't be with us tonight, our 10U team, baseball team, but they're also a state champion, so I wanna recognize them tonight as well. But we're gonna start with our 6U girls. So 6U girls, if you'll come up here and coach us, Our six you girls traveled over to our neighbors in Dothan and wound up winning the first ever for our city, Alabama Recreation and Parks Association State Championship. And I tell you what, yeah, absolutely. I tell you what, there's nothing sweeter than going over to Dothan and winning a championship. So let me call their names out. Ladies, they're going to come down and pass your certificate to you, and then Mayor's going to follow and greet each of you with a handshake. We got Ellis Bumhard. Kyla Croft. Olivia Cruz. Mia Frazier. Henley Grantham. Piper Hunley. Ellie Ivey. I'm gonna butcher this, I'm sorry, I'm gonna get it right though. Jasina Lee, is that right? Jasania Lee. Giselle Mitchell. Zoe Stanley. Reagan Thomas. And Naja Zelinski. Naja Zelinski, thank you. Our head coaches, Alan Croft. Assistant coach, Josh Cruz. Assistant coach, Jonathan Zelinski. And assistant coach, John Ethan Stanley. Ladies, we're so proud of you. Coaches, we're so proud of you for bringing home the first ever ARPA State Softball Championship to the city of Enterprise. And at this time, I'd like to get a picture with the mayor and city council if you will rise as we recognize and honor these girls with a photo.

If I look straight up, big smile. All right, parents, anybody need to get a shot? I promise you'd get in there. Oh, hold your certificate. Remember, hold it out, big smiles. Straight ahead, straight ahead. All right, ladies and gentlemen, whoop.

Next, we're going to go into our baseball state champions. I would like to invite the 7U Enterprise All-Stars up and their coaches. And this team battled hard, went undefeated, and wound up winning the USSSA Rec Baseball 5A Silver State Champion in Oxford, Alabama. We will recognize each participant. We'll hand you a certificate, and then the mayor will come by and congratulate each one of you. William Berry. Mason Bryant. Whitaker Goodson. Isaiah Grigley. Deacon Johnson. Tucker Johnson. Marshall McAllister. Legend McMahon. Jonah Parker. Jace Slingerland. Gage Weeks. Owen Wimberly, head coach Lance McMahon, assistant coach Steven Bryant, assistant coach Max Johnson, assistant coach Garrett Weeks, and assistant coach Jason Slingerland. Again, we'd like to honor and recognize our 7U team. So with a picture with the mayor and council, please, as we center here and take another picture. Two hands on your certificate and big smiles.

Big smiles. Keep smiling. Keep smiling. You're famous. Parents, peel in. Keep smiling. Straight forward. There we go. Keep smiling. Keep smiling. Doing great. Keep smiling. Oh, yeah. Down behind.

Oh, not right face. Okay.

Big smiles. Keep going, parents. Cheese. Cheese. Cheese. We're getting it. A couple more. Remember today. This is why I became famous.

Keep smiling. Cheese. Cheese.

We also want to wish our 7U team good luck as they head to Baton Rouge tomorrow morning to compete in the U-triple-SA World Series. Also, now I'd like to bring up our 8U All-Star team to be recognized. Again, this 8U team traveled with Ian up to Oxford, Alabama, went undefeated, and became the USSSA Rec Baseball 7A Gold State Champions. And as we call your name, we'll pass out a certificate to you, and the mayor will follow with a greeting and handshake and congratulations to you. Sean Ammer. Jackson Danner. Tate Elliott. Malachi Johnson. Logan Landry. Bruin Lawrence. Vince Magnuson. James Parker McQueen. Anderson Meek. Slade Reeder. Nathan Scherer. Harrison Yarbrough, head coach Lance Yarbrough, assistant coach Mitchell McQueen, assistant coach Chris Reeder, and assistant coach Anthony Scherer. And again, at this time, I'd ask if we'd center up with the council and have a picture with our mayor.

Ready, smile.

Look up, smile. You got it, keep smiling, smile. Okay, moms and dads, keep smiling. Same place, certificates right under your name.

Here we go, keep smiling. Straight ahead, straight ahead.

Doing good.

Keep smiling, gotta work it.

We also want to wish our 8U team good luck and safe travel and mercies along with our 7U and 10U as they travel to Baton Rouge tomorrow to compete in the U-Trip World Series. Again, I want to congratulate our 6U girls, our 7U boys, our 8U boys, and our 10U boys on your state championships. Parents, I want to congratulate you as well. Thank you for your investment in Enterprise Parks and Recreation. Thank you for believing in our system. Thank you for participating with us and thank you for building the power of community through Enterprise Parks and Recreation and the City of Enterprise. Thank you very much.

Again, we would like to say thank you to the children for what they have done and to the parents and to others who have supported our program. You know, Enterprise, when it comes down to sports, athletes, band, or whatever, we always place ourselves as number one. So again, we are proud. So I'm gonna ask everyone if you would stand up and let us applaud these children. Thank you very much, and to the team that's going to be going to another tournament, may God's richest blessings be upon you, and do bring a V-Bank, which means victory.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

All right, we will continue with our meeting now and consider a permit request for Girls' Night Out Roundup, D.B.A. Friends of Main Street. Is there anyone here representing Downtown Enterprise Business Association?

Hi, y'all. It's Allie McQuitt from D.B.A.

All right. We have a request before the council to obtain a permit for the following event, Girls' Night Out Roundup for Breast Cancer Awareness, 2 o'clock p.m. to 7 o'clock p.m. Saturday, September 26th. Street closure, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. And the closure area east of College Street between Main Street and Edward Street. And we know this is an annual event. We've already, in work session, cleared it with Chief Moore from the police side of things. So is there anything that you want to say to us? No. All right. Any questions from the council? No. All right. Then do I have a motion? I'll move to approve the permit request as submitted.

Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Good to go.

Thank you, guys.

All right, this is the part of the meeting where 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? All right, seeing none, we'll move into staff reports. Is there any staff that needs to make a report tonight?

Yeah, I just wanted to let you guys know I've got word earlier today about the Lee Street resurfacing that Aldot is going to be doing. It is tentatively scheduled for the end of this month. Now, it is a state road, state project, state schedule. I wanted to bring it to you guys. There's a possibility that you may start seeing signs going up before the next council meeting, so I wanted to go ahead and make you guys aware, as well as if I get any more information, I'll be sure to pass that along between now and then.

Which part of Lee Street is this going to be?

This is inside the circle. from Bowieville Circle up Lee Street, and then I think it goes over to Geneva Highway, and then where it ties back into the Bowieville Circle.

Okay.

I wanted to give you a quick update on the new apparatus that was approved. You can see on your screens the first unit is a FC94E1 pumper. This has the same capabilities as our previous unit. It will be stationed at Central. Its unit number will be 209, but its radio contact will be Engine 1. The next one is, or excuse me, it costs $790,370. It was originally requested $980,000. And again, it'll be a primary engine responding out of Central's territory for any and all calls inside of that. 24-7-365. The new ladder truck, it'll go by the cosign of ladder 1. whatever unit whatever station it's coming out of is the number that it will uh... it will hold so it'll run out of central uh... this is the second ladder truck that we have the other one will be put uh... at east side fire station uh... give it a bit of a rest after twenty five years this one cost one point one five four million dollars technically it's a quint i don't want to get in the weeds i don't know how many people would be interested in that that just means that Instead of just a ladder, it is not just a platform or a ladder. It has a waterway, a master stream. It has a tank on it, so it carries its own water. It has a pump, hoses, ground ladders, and the ladder that you see on top. That's what makes it different. So it could technically be used as a pumper. You don't want to, but you could. The ladder truck was covered by the fire protection fee. And then, obviously, you guys know what transpired at the beginning of the year, which allowed us to move forward getting the pumper early. And that's very much appreciated. These aren't just pieces of equipment. They're investments in the safety and protection of the citizens of Enterprise. And I, for myself and on behalf of the Fire Department, would like to say thank you. And I appreciate you focusing on equipment. so that the firefighters can do their jobs effectively and efficiently. Any questions?

No. And I encourage my council members to go down and take a look at them. The firefighters are beaming. They gave me a great tour on all of them, and they'll do the same for you. They are just so proud as peacocks because of the new equipment, and it's going to really help our city.

We will have a push-in ceremony, too, coming up. We have training on the new ladder, the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. It might seem like the exact same thing as we had before, but electronics change a lot, so how they operate changes a little bit. So we'll have the training then, and then after that, everything will officially be put in service after a push-in ceremony. I think most of you have been a part of that in the past. The last one, 208, that we had, which is just... In the old days, when it was a horse-drawn carriage or a horse-drawn pumper, when we got back from a call, you couldn't back the horses in. So you had to disengage the horses and push the apparatus back into the bay. This just symbolizes that, putting it back into service or being ready to serve the community. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other staff reports? We will move into old business. We have a public hearing concerning enterprise metals and recycling. I call for a public hearing on the matter of issuing a temporary business license for enterprise metals and recycling located at 930 Bellwood Road. This public hearing is now open. Is there anyone from the city that's going to speak on?

So as far as the code enforcement side, I talked to Corporal Sweeney, and he advised that he is slowly doing what is asked of him. He's had no complaints and no issues with the process that the recycling plant has been taking. So I think it's his recommendation, his mind, is allow him to continue another 90 days. Okay.

All right, anyone from Enterprise Metals and Recycling?

Again, as was stated by the officer, good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, President, and council members. Again, we just comply with what the city has requested and kind of make the improvements that we can kind of do business. So we just request another license be granted again. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there any interested parties from the public that want to have a say pro or against? All right, seeing none, this hearing is now closed. Do I have a motion?

I move to approve a conditional business license for a period of 90 days for enterprise metals and recycling as long as the business continues to move towards compliance, which means no stacks of debris higher than six feet, no business operations conducted outside the fence line and continuing to work with code enforcement.

Second.

All right, any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. All right, now we'll have a public hearing in consideration of ABC license requests. Call for a public hearing prior to consideration of a request from Eagle Club LLC, doing business as Eagle Liquor, for a retail alcohol package store, lounge retail liquor class two package, License located at 1110 Bolivar Circle, Suite C. This hearing is now open. Does the applicant have any... Is the applicant here? Anyone wish to speak on behalf or against this liquor license? Seeing none, this hearing is now closed. I'll call for a motion.

I move to approve the ABC license request as submitted. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. We'll move into new business. Public hearing and consideration of resolution 070726. A call for a public hearing is advertised prior to consideration of resolution 070726 regarding the consideration and approval of certain economic development incentives to be granted by the city to M&S Construction LLC and M&S Development LLC. The public benefits sought to be achieved by such incentives are the economic growth and anticipated increase in new employment, tax revenues, and other benefits which will directly benefit the city and serve a valid and sufficient public purpose. This hearing is now open. Is there anyone from the city that's going to speak on this?

Sorry, council, I was back there talking to someone about a different project there. Where are we on the agenda?

Public hearing. We have the public hearing open for the development agreement with M&S Construction.

So if you recall, I think two council meetings ago, we introduced this. We had M&S Development looking at doing a project that bordered Lee and Glover Streets. Proposing a development, I think there's signs up there now that what the development may look like. You've seen the plans. It involved a fitness facility that would allegedly train different sports, basketball, baseball, volleyball, whatever that is, have some fitness space, and then a retail corridor along the Lee Street side that faces the rec and aquatic center. These incentives are performance based in two parts. The first incentive would be performance based in that the project would be built. So there would be some sales tax dollars that would be initiated from roughly a $5 million project that would be generated for the project. Upon completion of the project build out, they'd be eligible for approximately $100,000 of rebate to those taxes that were generated. The other part of that would be another half a million dollars over a period of five years based on half of the sales tax is received. So in other words, if the retail corridor had no occupants or produced no sales taxes to the city, they'd get zero dollars. If they were occupied and generated some amount of sales tax, they'd be eligible for an amount basically on their pro forma that generated $100,000 a year in sales tax back to them, $100,000 of sales tax to the city. If they exceeded that, they could get it quicker. If they were lower than that, they would get the lower amount, but it would strictly be based on a 50-50 split of sales taxes generated by the project over a period of five years, up to half a million dollars, whichever comes first. It does improve a corridor adjacent to our main street, which are the three problem areas that the council focused on economic development. Those would be the Southern Bypass, Rucker Boulevard, and our main street. So it does fix an otherwise blighted area, causes for investment into the city for things that are not currently here. Um, one advantageous thing that the mayor, uh, and I, and some of the council have talked about is this, this is an example of doing a seven, seven, two for a local entity, a local developer. Um, whereas in the past, most of them have done, um, development agreements from entities that were developers outside of the city limits. Um, so this is a local project and, and able to use that authority, um, to benefit a project that, uh, you know, it does some good for the city as well.

Okay.

Any questions? Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Is there anyone from the M&S construction or development that would like to speak?

Sir, I believe the developer sent an email last week that he would be out of town. But you all have the performa and have seen an executive session that the site renders. Again, if the project never matures, they never get anything. Only upon completion for the $100,000, and that's generated off of the sales taxes produced from the project, the construction only, And then the retail sales piece is if they occupy it with retailers, if they're non-revenue generated, sales tax generated tenants that are occupied in their professional services or a dance or a yoga studio or something like that, they would receive no impact.

Okay. Are there any members of the general public that would like to speak on behalf or against this project? Seeing none, this hearing is now closed. Any further discussion from the council? I need a motion, I guess.

I move to adopt Resolution 070726. Second.

Now, is there any further discussion from the council? No. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. All right. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute an agreement on behalf of the city of Enterprise. with Paul Incorporated for general engineering, planning, and consulting services on an ongoing and on-call basis for miscellaneous tasks and projects as assigned. Under the terms of the agreement, Paul Incorporated will receive monthly compensation of $6,000 starting on the date of the agreement and continuing through the current fiscal year, which ends on September 30th, 2026. Beginning October 1st, 2026, the monthly compensation will increase to $7,600 for fiscal year 2027, starting on October 1st, 2027, and on each subsequent October 1st, the compensation amount will increase by 3% through the remainder of the four-year agreement. Do I have a motion?

I move to authorize the mayor to execute the agreement as submitted.

Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute Federal Aviation Administration FAA grant offers in the total amount of $7,178,443 for the runway extension project Enterprise Municipal Airport. The city's required match contribution will not exceed $180,000. Do I have a motion?

I move to authorize the mayor to execute the FAA grant offers as requested. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Introduce and call for consideration of barge design solutions work authorization number 2026-01 for project development survey geotechnical design bidding and construction phase services associated with the airport runway extension project at Enterprise Municipal Airport at a total cost not to exceed $525,361. Do I have a motion?

Move to authorize barge design solutions work authorization number 2026-01 as submitted.

Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. I now recess this regular session of the Enterprise City Council and convene into the E911 board meeting. Let the record show that all members of the board are present. Except Todd Walls, who is not here tonight. All right, we'll review the minutes for June 2nd, 2026. I call for a motion to approve the June 2nd, 2026 E911 board meeting minutes as written.

I move to approve the June 2nd, 2026 E911 board meeting minutes as written.

Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. We have no old business, new business. We have accounts payable A, June 2026. Call for a motion to approve accounts payable A for June 2026 in the amount of $17,605.03. Do I have a motion?

Move to approve accounts payable A for June 2026 in the amount of $17,605.03. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Do you have anything for us? No, sir. All right. The E911 board meeting is now adjourned and we will reconvene into our

Regular session from the Enterprise City Council.

And that reminds me, I never did roll call for the council meeting. So Todd Walls is also absent for that. Did you get that?

All right.

All right, Mayor, do you have a report for us?

Thank you, Mr. President. I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Independence Day weekend. As we begin America's 250th anniversary celebration, I want to thank everyone who participated in the local events over the past couple of weeks, including Freedom Fest at Fort Rucker, the Fourth of July festivities, and all of the communities of celebration that made the holiday memorial. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our nation's history and the strong partnership in our community that shares with Fort Rucker. I also want to thank everyone who has supported our Parks and Recreation Department's Sound of Summer concert series. We've enjoyed great crowds each week, and there's still one more opportunity to join us. The final concert will be this Thursday from 5.30 to 7.30 at Johnny Henderson Family Park. We invite everyone to bring a chair enjoy the music, and spend an evening with the family and friends. This Saturday is Watermelon Day at the Enterprise Farmer's Market, sponsored by the Altruza Club of Enterprise. The event will feature watermelon themed activities, local vendors, and fun for all ages. We encourage everyone to come downtown and support our local growers and businesses. As families began preparing for the new school year, I would also like to remind everyone that Alabama's bike to school sales tax holiday began at 12.01 a.m. on Friday, July 17th, and continues throughout midnight on Sunday, July 19th. It's a great opportunity to save on eligible school supplies, clothing, computers, and other items while shopping locally. Finally, I want to thank our city employees for everything they do each day to serve our community, especially those who work throughout the holiday weekend to keep our residents safe and our services operating smoothly. Thank you all for being here tonight, and I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful week.

Ms. Rich.

For those who are in the room and for listening on air, I do want to announce that there's going to be the fifth annual back-to-school jamboree that's held at the Junior College, University Community College, and that is going to be on July 18th at 9 a.m., and they're asking that all kids are present with their parents. So they give out lots of school supplies. It's an awesome opportunity to come and take advantage of um of that i want to say additionally i don't know that i've seen a grant as large as what we voted on tonight um with that two percent match that's pretty exciting i called mr mock today to ask him about something and I guess he answered it barely because he was chomping at the bit to talk about this FAA grant and well-deserved, Barry, and your staff. That's awesome. I think when I joined on the council, the land acquisition issue was on the table, and I hadn't realized even at that time that it was something as long as you highlighted on tonight in our work session. So great job for that. You can find one for any other project. Have at it. Thank you all for coming.

Mr. Mack? I'd like to congratulate all the ball teams that were here. It's great to see that many kids in the room. That's probably the best pledge of allegiance we've had since I've been on the council. It was positive, so that was great. So thanks to all the coaches who instill a lot of time and effort, the parents too. I've coached teams for the rec center, been to state title games in Oxford and these other places, and it's a handful, so they're taking time off work to do those things and pour into the kids and the community, and that's great, so we appreciate that. Thank you to the different departments and staff members for the city, whether they're forethought to provide public safety or quality of life to the residents, and it doesn't go unnoticed, so thank you from the council.

Yeah, thank you everyone for coming tonight. Thank you for all those who are watching TV, and I told Warren, I'd just say, hello, Warren. I'm going to put in a cheap plug. Thursday night, you want to come to the concert. in the park because the Lions Club are going to have some great food out there. Hot dogs, chili dogs, nachos, you name it, they're going to have it. And a great snow cone and icy truck out there, too. But please come on out. Congratulations to our teams. I've had a couple of great grandkids playing the ball, and it's great to see all these young folks out there playing and their smiles.

No, I'll mention that later.

But thank you so very much. God bless everyone. Well, I should say, Barry, you know how excited I've been for the airport and we've been working on it. So we'll get that airport authority going, and this is awesome for our city, for our community. Just imagine the other airplanes that can come in with businesses and folks coming to our great city. So God bless everyone. Have a great night. Thank you.

Thanks everyone for coming. Just to echo pretty much what everyone else has said, congratulations to all the ball teams, congratulations to Parks and Rec for all the hard work you've put in, and definitely congratulations to Barry and his team and all those involved for the work on the airport. And for that grant, we definitely owe Senator Britt quite a bit of thanks for her assistance in helping that as well. And we are adjourned until 4 o'clock on July 21st.

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