City Council - Regular Meeting

Oh, you still got your flame. Light me up. Let me see your fire. Light me up. Let me see your fire. Light me up. Let me see your fire. Light me up. Let me see your fire. Light me up. Let me see your fire. Light me up. Let me see your fire. Good morning, Birmingham. Today is Tuesday, March 10, 2026. The time is now 9:36 a.m. I call to order the regular meeting of the Birmingham City Council. This morning's invocation will be led by Mr. Thomas Stone. Thank you so much. And I'll lead us in the pledge of allegiance. If you're willing and able, please stand and join us.

Morning, madame president, council, administration. Let us bow our heads. Father God, we come to you now bowed head, humble hearts, just giving thanks. Thanks for allowing us to come and fellowship this council meeting March 10th, 2026. Father God, bless the leadership. Bless this council. Watch over the decisions that they make each and every day. Father God, bless these local leaders, our state leaders, our national leaders. Lead us and guide us, Father God, in the way that you will have us to go. It's always in your son in Jesus name that we pray each and every day. Amen.

Amen. standy and justice for all. Thank you very much, Mr. Clerk. Good morning. If you will please call the role. Council member Gun. Good morning. Morning. Council member O'Quinn. Morning. Council member Smith. Good morning. Council member Smitherman. Good morning. Council member Vasa. Good morning, Council Member Williams. Council member Woods. Morning, Council President. Pro Tim Tate.

Good morning, Council President Alexander. Good morning, President. At this time, councilors, the minutes are not ready from the meetings of January 6, 2026 through March 3rd, 2026. At this time, we'll have communications from the mayor and his special guest

and special guest. Good morning, Madam President. Going into the queue. Good morning to the entire council. It's good to see everybody this morning. Good morning to the general public as well as those in the audience here in the chamber. I want to start out with a big congratulations to the Winona Dragons. Shout out a big shout out to them. 5A champs, boys basketball state champions. I got a chance to see that game in person. It was very very impressive the entire team. A huge shout out to the legendary head coach Cedric Lane for his leadership and his um entire team as they continue a proud tradition of excellence, discipline and determination. Also want to say I think that victory is a testament of the hard work of just the entire weoni community, the players, the coaches. I will say this, asking a few questions, I understand most of those young men will be returning next year, so I'm already ready for a repeat. But kudos to them, and I know the city and the school system will continue to celebrate their high achievement. Counselors, as you know, kids and jobs is around the corner. The City of Birmingham Department of Youth Services as well as WBR6 News are continuing their decadesl long partnership to provide meaningful summer employment opportunities for Birmingham Youth through Kids and Jobs program. For more than 30 years, the program has helped young people ages 14 to 24 gain valuable work experience as well as professional development. Participants can earn between 11 and $14 per hour while working four hours a day, five days a week over a fiveweek period. Applications will be accepted March 16th through April 17th, again starting next week for right at 30 days.

We will be accepting applications and DY is also offering a promotional tour for schools and youth groups interested in learning more about the program. And then for additional information for our parents, you can go to birmingham.govdys. Again, that's birmingham.govdys to learn more about the kids and jobs program this summer. Applications open next week, March 16th. We're really excited about today and council, if your schedule permits, hope you can drop in. The city of Birmingham will host a special screening and panel discussion of the Academy Award nominated documentary, The Alabama Solution. We'll be featuring this film at the historic Carver Theater. And this free event will take place at 2:30 p.m. today and includes a conversation led by award-winning journalist and film co-producer Bill Shelurn. If you were unaware, the documentary explores conditions within the Alabama's prison system and has sparked national conversations about criminal justice reform. At this time, I would like to invite up Carl Hicks, who is the associate commissioner for basketball of the American Athletic Conference, and any guests that um Commissioner Hicks has with him, please join me at the podium as well. I don't see anybody coming either. City of Birmingham is very, very proud to host the 2026 American Athletics Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championship at Legacy Arena from March 10th through March 15th. This is a big deal for our city. And a huge shout out to our very own who's in this conference, UAB, who I understand is the fourth seed.

That's correct. All right. So, one, go Blazers. But two, the tournament brings high level college basketball to the Magic City while keeping ticket prices affordable for families across our city and community. And so, I wanted Carl to share more just about this basketball championship in our city and the city of Birmingham is proud to host you. Good to see you.

Nice to meet you, Mayor. Uh special thanks to the mayor and members of the council and to his assistants uh Chaz especially. Uh we are going to be here. We start play today. The women's tournament starts today. Games are at 12 and two. Uh and it builds to a crescendo throughout the week with the women's championship game on uh Saturday evening at 8:30 um on ESPNU and the men's championship game at Sunday at 2 on ESPN. Uh obviously the UAB Blazers are a team that are particular entrance to the uh interest to the council here. Uh they played, I think I said 12:00 noon on Friday. Uh and as part of our partnership with the community, we're pleased to make tickets available uh for city employees. Uh we've dropped off some with Chaz here and Chaz is getting the uh link out to the public. Uh and we invite city employees to come out on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We really appreciate the partnership. The mayor has really done an excellent job of helping us pull this off. Uh and you know, UAB is had a good year being the number four seed, but you may also know the Memphis Tigers, which big rival to UAB. Uh our number one seed on the men's side is the South Florida Bulls and the number one seed on the women's side of the Rice Owls. So, come on out. We invite all of you to come out and enjoy some quality basketball in a great city, the Magic City. I used to live here back in 88, I mean 98 and 99, so I know the Magic City. So, we're really pleased to be here. We hope to come back. So, come on out and support us and enjoy some basketball. One other thing for the community, is a free event. We call it Hoops Village that'll be going on uh Saturday uh and Sunday. starts on Friday, but in earnest on Saturday with pep rallies, DJ big screen um dribble

jam for young kids, not as young as the mayor's friend there, but from kids from ages 5 to 14. Come on out. You can register on site uh and also get tickets to the games. So, we're really excited to be here. I'm excited and happy for the time in front of you. Uh and uh look forward to a great tournament. So, thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor Whitman, for uh announcing this and bring in guests this morning to talk about March Madness is upon us and so we're very excited. We always want to make Birmingham a destination city for sports and entertainment. So, thank you.

That is a big deal. Um Carl, thanks so much, Commissioner, and I hope your schedule permits um to see some of the games, especially our very own. So, let's cheer them on. One last note, and that includes you. So, Madame President, if you can come on down and as you come down, I would like to ask Aquula Steinbeck as well, deputy director of the Office of Public Affairs and any additional guests to join me for this next presentation. As Madame President comes down and Miss Stanbeck comes up, I wanted to share with the council that the city of Birmingham recognizes the importance of raising awareness about multiple sclerosis, which is a disease that affects nearly 1 million people across our country. During MS Awareness Week, we want to take the time to honor the work of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, as well as the advocates, the researchers, and especially the families, those family members affected by this of their loved one committed to finding a cure while supporting those living with the disease. At this time, I'll read a spe special proclamation and then I let Miss Stan Steinbeck speak, but want to close out with Madame President sharing some words. In the states, whereas multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable often disabling disease of the central nervous system affecting nearly 1 million people in the United States alone. And whereas most people are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis between the ages of 20 and 50 years of age, an estimated 10,000 children live with MS worldwide. The exact cause of MS is unknown and no cure currently exists. And whereas the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is committed to a world free of MS, raising public knowledge about the disease and

elevating the voices of those affected by it. And whereas the city of Birmingham recognizes the importance of finding the cause and cures for MS and expresses its appreciation for the dedication that the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana chapter has shown towards creating a world free of MS. Now therefore, I Randall L. Wooden, mayor of the city of Birmingham, along with this along with this Birmingham City Council, do hereby proclaim the week of March 8th through the 14th of 2026 as MS awareness week and do commend this observance to all of our citizens as well as encourage all in Birmingham to learn more about multiple sclerosis and what they can do to support people living with MS and their families. And at this time, we'll have our two speakers present some additional information.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As m as Mayor Woodin mentioned, this is multiple sclerosis awareness week. One of the themes for this year is the unseen uh circumstances people with MS face. There are symptoms like fatigue, cognitive issues that people living with MS face that you may look at them and say, "Oh, they're fine. There's nothing wrong." But you may know they may be having the worst day of their life battling fatigue. So, I would like to just thank you all for this recognition and also invite you all out to the MS Walk, which is Saturday, March 28th, 9:00 a.m. at Homewood Central Park. Again, thank you. Thank you so much. At this time, the city council, we do pause as well to recognize MS Week and the work that you and your organization do. We know how crippling this disease can be and as you can say, often it's unseen and people are uh have symptoms that we often don't know about. So, we also want to pause and take spee recognition to observe the work that you do and thank you so much for this service.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much. This time, this concludes the mayor's communications. Counselors, if I could have unanimous consent that we could um change the agenda to allow for the following presentations. At this time, I'd like to call up Mr. David Fleming, president CEO of Rev Birmingham, and he has a special presentation and introduction for us. Good morning, Mr. Fleming. Morning, council. I'm David Fleming, the president CEO of Rev Birmingham and and Councelor Alexander. Appreciate the invitation to present the newest member and leader of our team at REB, Brandon Cummings, who joins us as our vice president of economic development uh at Rev Birmingham. As you know, we're a nonprofit economic development organization that has a mission to align people and capital and place uh to drive growth in downtown Birmingham and in Woodlon. And with decades of history and impact, we really always seek to drive growth that's authentic, inclusive, and economically sustainable. uh and focus on place as you know requires us to do a lot of things from clean and safe programs to activation of place public realm quality but economic development classic business recruitment retention outreach is critical to growth and uh Brandon joins our senior leadership team at a key moment last year among all of our other work that we did we surveyed the community and we also worked with economic development uh professionals to really look to the 2030s and what kind of downtown do we want to have what kind of woodland on do we want to have and what do we need to do between now and then to actually

achieve that vision? And so with that, we've been working with Mayor Woodin's team and economic development partners and agencies across the city to start to align around this. And I look forward to, as I spoke to President Alexander in a few weeks, coming to you and speaking more specifically about what's in that plan. But that's why it's important to have Brandon on the team as our leader in economic development specifically. Um, I expect you to see a lot more of him and I hope that you do and I hope that you call on us in him with the expertise that he brings. I'm not ashamed to say I stole him from the city of Hoover. He was in the economic development team there trying to do some good things and um, but he has other background in business development and retail development and I wanted to give him just a minute to introduce himself to you before we conclude. Brandon.

All right. Thanks, David. Uh good morning council. Uh so so good to be with you all here today. U really excited to be in this position with Rev Birmingham and working with David and his team. Uh so I bring a a good bit of uh knowledge and expertise working in economic development having done that with uh consulting side working with municipalities and cities across the southeast. Um and then also have tying that with experience working in commercial real estate uh and construction uh here in Birmingham. And so, uh, really, you know, uh, Rev's mission, uh, really drew me in, uh, to this opportunity to work, uh, with David and, uh, really looking forward to, uh, putting the, uh, foot on the ground and getting to work and and in fact, we'll we'll actually be back here, uh, this afternoon, uh, meeting with IEO to to talk strategy. So, very excited and, uh, thank you and look forward to working with, uh, with you all.

Thank you. Thank you so much. We're glad to have you in Birmingham and we look forward to working with you. And as you said, David, he'd be meeting with us soon and so we look forward to those conversations. Thank you very much. Thank you, Madam President. I just want to say a few words.

Yes, I'm sorry. Brandon, it's good to see you. Uh um I'm not a member anymore, but Brandon was actually one of the past presidents for Rotorack. And so I had the pleasure of just working with him on different initiatives. So I know what he has taken with RORAK, he'll apply to the city of Birmingham. So, and thank you um David as well. You know, I think I saw a post someone was saying that, you know, Birmingham sometimes has a problem of gatekeeping positions and not really taking the younger generations and putting them in positions and mentoring them. And I love to see that because I think this is going to be a great partnership. I know Brandon has a lot of great ideas to bring to the table. So, thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. At this time, we have another presentation by Councelor Daryl O'Quinn. Good morning, council. Uh, as you know, we like to recognize our champions here in the city of Birmingham, especially when those champions are young people. Um, so today we have with us the AH Parker High School Thundering Herd cheer team who recently became grand champions of the large division in the Birmingham City Schools cheer competition. So we have with us u principal Hudson of course and um the head cheer coach Tatiana Lurry. And so um just wanted to take a a moment to uh salute them. And um for you guys um if you haven't been here before uh we like to have everybody come up and introduce themselves. Say say your name, say what grade you're in. And so, um, let's go ahead and do that. Please remember to speak into the mic and speak loudly and clearly. So, let's do that.

Um, good morning. My name is Jamaiah Parks and I'm currently in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Kennedy Atkins. I'm currently 12th grade. Good morning. My name Jamaya Andrews and I'm currently a 12th grader. Good morning. My name is Julia and I'm in the 12th grade.

Good morning. My name is Camille Woods and I'm currently in the 12th grade. Good morning. My name is Bailey Faith and I'm in the 12th grade. Good morning. My name is Chakira Jones and I'm in the 11th grade. Good morning. My name is Tamaya Brown and I'm in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Kayla Cooper and I'm in 11th grade. Good morning. My name is Taylor Witherspoon and I'm in 11th grade. Good morning. My name is Kelsey Thomas and I'm in the 10th grade.

Good morning. My name is Chelin Lad and I'm in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Kamaya Madison and I'm in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Mackenzie Hurst and I'm in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Brianna Eds and I'm in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Mackenzie McTary and I'm in 11th grade. Good morning. My name is Autumn Craig and I'm in the 10th grade. Good morning. My name is Paris Nelson and I'm in the 10th grade.

Good morning. My name is Haley Lumsy and I'm in the 12th grade. Good morning. My name is Dia Maze and I'm in the 12th grade. Okay. So, we also have with us Principal Hudson and uh Coach Larry. So, um, you guys come forward and tell us about the competition and, uh, these students.

All right. Madame President, uh, President Pro Tim, and all of Birmingham City Councils, we're so delighted to be here this morning, uh, with our championship leaders from Age Parker High School. I'm a proud principal. Uh, these young ladies are a prime example that hard work does pay off. Uh, they've come close the last couple of years. They didn't give up and I am so elated that they are the grand champions for Birmingham City Schools cheerleader the competition. Good morning everyone. Um I'm coach Lori and it has been an honor coaching parker these past three years going into the fourth year. I am just pleased that these girls actually did hard work and dedication, blood, sweat, and tears and definitely a lot of tears. We came through and we brought home the championship.

And last but not least, I just want to say that each day I have a front row seat uh to see the best that we have to offer in Birmingham City Schools. And we have the ACT on tomorrow for all of our juniors. And I tell our scholars, we can compete with anyone anywhere. And a special thanks to Mr. Herman Lumsy for making this possible and thank each of you for allowing us to be part of your agenda this morning.

Um, want to take a moment to also uh recognize the parents of all of these young people. I don't know if we have any of them here with us in the chambers, but they'll probably be watching the video at some point. Um so thank you parents. Um we also want to recognize uh these uh students as as athletes. Um anyone who's familiar with uh cheering, modern-day cheering knows that it's a competitive sport. Um there are scholarship opportunities at the collegiate level and even professional opportunities. So, um, you know, this is, uh, these are athletes. Anyone who's been to a sporting event and watched, uh, cheer squad squads perform, know that they, you know, are, um, doing things that most of us only dream about. So, I just wanted to recognize that. And um you know this is the council's way of cheering you on, you know, but sometimes you know we need some encouragement too. So coach, I don't know if you're prepared to do this, but uh you got to cheer for us.

There you are.

I like you guys. Let me let me get out your way. Okay. P H S P IT UP. PUMP IT UP. H. YOU GOT IT. H. LET'S HEAR IT LOUD. P. H S P H. B. PUMP IT UP. PUMP IT UP. H. YOU GOT IT. H. LET'S HEAR IT LOUD. P. H. S. H. P. PUMP IT UP. PUMP IT UP. H. YOU GOT IT. H. LET'S HEAR IT LOUD. P. H. S. H.

ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO. THANK you so much. Thank you. That's really pumped us up today. Go ahead, counselor Gun. Thank you all so much for that cheer. That was awesome. Um I get to live vicariously through my dad who is a Thunder and Herd uh graduate. So, thank you all. And I want to give a shout out to my cousin, Mackenzie Hurst. Good to see y'all. Y'all are the future. Keep doing the good work. Thank you so much.

All right, council. We'll return back to our agenda. And at this time, I'll read our statement of conduct considering the consent agenda. All items designated as consent are considered to be routine and non-controversial and will be approved by one motion. No separate discussion of these items will be permitted unless a council member, the mayor or citizen interested in a public hearing so request. If so, such items will revert to its normal place on the agenda order of business. All matters of permanent operation which are indicated with a capital P will be read. All other matters will be announced by reading the item number only. All public hearings will be announced. Mr. Kirk clerk if you'll uh provide us with the items that are being considered for consent.

Yes, ma'am. Consent agenda starts on page two with item one. Page six we have items two, three and four on consent. Page seven, items five, six, seven, and eight are on consent. Page eight, items 9, 10, 11, and 12 on consent. Page nine, items 13, 14, and 15 are on consent. Page 10, items 16, 17, 18, and 19 are on consent. Page 11, items 20, 21, 22, and 23 are on consent. Page 12, items 24, 25, and 26 are on consent. Page 13, items 27, and 28 are on consent. Page 14, items 31, and 32 are on consent. Page 15, items 33, 34, and 35 are on consent. Please note that item 33 was recommended by the economic development and tourism committee. Page 16, items 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41 are on consent. Page 17, items 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, and 47 are on consent. Page 18, items 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, and 53 are on consent. Page 19, items 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 59 are on consent. Page 20, items 60, 61, 62, 63, and 64 on consent. Page 21, items 65, 66, and 67 are on consent. Page 22, items 68, 69, 70, and 70 are on consent. Page 23, items 71, 72, 73, and

74 on consent. Page 24, items 75, 76, 77, and 78 on consent. On page 25, items 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, and 84 on consent. And on page 26, item number 85 is on consent. That concludes the consent agenda. We have one agenda item.

Thank you, Mr. Clerk. At this time, counselors, are there any items you'd like to add or remove from the consent agenda? None. All right. Uh, if there's no objection, can we add item 86, the addendum? There no objection. We can add item 86 to consent. Thank you. All right, council. So we entertain a motion and a second for the consent agenda. Second. You ready for the vote?

Voting should be open about now. Council Williams, how would you like to vote? I hear you ask. Thank you, sir. And I'm I as well. That vote should be up. It's unanimous. All right. Thank you. The items that were considered for consent have been approved. At this time, we'll go to our next item on the agenda.

I think it should be item 29. Item 29, an ordinance pursuant to section 23-1-12, code of Alabama, the Alabama Act 1969-916. authorizing the mayor to execute an interlocal cooperation agreement between the Alabama Department of Transportation and the city of Birmingham for a term of up to one year for installation, operation, maintaining and maintenance of uh lighting on Bush Boulevard with LDOT rightway underneath I20 number 120 and authorized the mayor to spend an amount which should not exceed $200,000 pursuant to set agreement except as expressly provided in agreement. No party to the contract. She'll have any power to incur any debt which shall become the responsibility of other contracting party of the other contracting party. Motion please.

What number is that? It was also recommended by transportation infrastructure committee. All right. We have before us an ordinance authorizing the mayor to execute an interlocal cooperation agreement with ALDOT for maintenance um installation operation and maintenance and lighting on Blush Boulevard. Any questions about this item? Yes, councelor Williams.

Um in this topic overall um are we do we have the ability to get some sort of comprehensive plan when it comes to interstate lighting? I know that we have a um a large need for that. That's something we've talked about a long time and we have a governor candidate that that been vocal about it. So yeah, madam president and we'll hold up. We did really took this out of order because I believe it's permanent operation, right? I need to get UC first. I apologize for that. Council member Gun Motion for Motion for UC. Council member Gun. Council member O'Quinn. Hi, Council Member Smith. Hi, Council Member Smith.

Hi, Council Member Vasa. Hi, Council Member Williams. Hi, Council Member Woods. Hi, Council President Pro Tim Tate. Hi, Council President Alexander. I Thank you, Madam President. All right. Thank you. Now the discussion. I'm sorry, Madam President. Yes, Chief.

So, council Williams. So, M. So, what's before the council? Because this is Al Dot's property. We kind of try and do these things and I hate to say it in a silo as these are raised up to us because it's their property. But we will try and reach out to the leadership of ALDA to see if they have some type of comprehensive plan for under the interstate lighting because that is their property. But in this this instance and the last instance under 7th Avenue South, the city took it upon itself to put their own funding in place for this so we can kind of rush it to the top of the list knowing that it's a public safety hazard. Sir,

thank you councelor Williams. I thank you for asking that question and um thank you chief for keeping us aware. I know that in I believe our last committee the whole we did have uh B do staff and they came and gave us some information regarding lighting. Often we get the conversation all the time from residents and I think all of us would really like to see all of those lights and um those areas lit. So, we would hope uh chief that we can get that communication going so that we can get at least we'll be able to tell our residents what that plan is. So, thank you very much. All right. At this time, I believe we're ready for the vote.

That vote should be up. All right. Thank you. Item 29 passes. Next item

should be item 30. An ordinance authorizing the mayor upon receipt of payment in the amount of $7,83 to execute a quick claim deed to 3D properties of Alabama incorporated for the sale of property legally described as the west 20 ft of lot 11 and the east 30 ft of lot 12 block 19 according to the map of Birmingham building company's addition to number four is recorded in mapbook 9 page 14 the office of the judge of probate of Jefferson County Alabama portion number 2244840000 and located at 1528 33rd Street North Birmingham, Alabama 35234, which was required by the city upon foreclosure of municipal improvement leans in accordance with section 3-1-4 C of the general code of the city of Birmingham. I need you see to pass today,

Council Member Gun. Hi, Council Member O'Quinn. Hi, Council Member Smith. Hi, Council Member Smitherman. Hi, Council Member Vasa. Hi, Council Member Williams. Hi, Council Member Woods. Hi, Council President Proim Tate. Hi, Council President Alexander. I motion on second. Item is before you. All right, councilors. This is a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement between the city of to execute the payment in the amount of $7,083 to execute a quick claim deed to 3D Properties. Any questions about this item? Any discussion? I have a question. Yes, councelor Williams

on this contract. Do we actually have who what the ownership makeup is of 3D properties? I can get Attorney Ritch to come down. Yeah, I know. We, you know, we have certain folks that like to get a bunch of city property and sit on it and then let the city then tear it down at our taxpayers's expense. So, I want to make sure we're not about to do that.

Motion to table item. Second. I oppose. All right. I think you will. We'll table this item until the attorney can make his way down. Next item. Uh that should be all I think that's it. I just m we'll go ahead and take Yes. Council gun. I know the owners of 3D Properties. They actually live in Norwood. Uh Robin, Shann, and Malcolm. They renovated about 30 properties in Norwood. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Now, we'll take this item back up. Do we need a motion to put this? So, move.

Second. Okay. All in favor, let it be known by saying I. I. I'll post items back before you. All right. Counselors, any other questions? Believe we're ready for the vote. All right.

Council President and I'm I got it. All right. Thank you. Item 30 passes. Next. And we That concludes our agenda. Correct, Mr. Mr. Clerk. Yes, ma'am. All right. At this time, we'll entertain updates from each of our districts. And Council B, sir, you're ready. Thank you, Madame President. Uh, I'll be brief this time. The only announcement is our neighborhood association meeting tonight. It's for Highland Park. Uh, and it will be at 6 p.m. um at Episcopal Place. That concludes my announcements. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Smith. Thank you, Madam President. As far as neighborhood meetings, tonight we have South Tidisville at 5:30 p.m. at Holy Family Crystal Ray High School. And then we have Arlington uh West End neighborhood meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at the West End Library. Uh I wanted to give a shout out to um Madame Pro Tim for a very successful event last week, 205 in Park. It was uh I really enjoyed myself from the dancing to the poetry to the conversations. I even loved our t-shirt. Somebody tried to take my t-shirt by the way. But I really like that. I think that's just a testament to her uplifting youth voice. Um, and then I was also I I missed this panel, but I heard that you've had a lot of questions about mental health and that's very encouraging because you know that's a very sensitive topic and so um kudos to you. That was year three, correct? Year three. So, um, I was really happy to support. Also lastly, um the Birmingham City Schools, they will be having their soccer tournament this week. Uh and that will be J Ramsay. We now know Woodlon, Huffman, and Parker will all be playing. Uh the first game is tonight at 5:30. Uh this is the boys bracket, but it's J versus Ramsey at J. Weona versus Woodline at Winona. And then Huffman versus Parker at Parker at 7:30. And then for the girls, uh they also will be playing at various schools uh throughout the week. And then the championship it will be this Friday at 5:30 and 7:30 at Legion Field. So, thank you. Thank you very much, William.

Thank you. Robuck Springs neighborhood will be this Thursday, March the 12th at 7 o'clock. Um I'm sure after a long committee of the whole uh there are three board vacancies on the industrial development board and if applicants could have their resumes to india.bailey at birminghamal.gov by Monday the 6th we'd appreciate it as well as two vacancies on the downtown redevelopment authority. And if we could have those applicants at the same email address and same date that would be great. Uh Children's India of Alabama Grand Prix is back. They're going to do it early this year, March 27th and 20th the 29th uh Barber Motorsports and uh we're excited about uh that economic impact as well. So get your tickets. Also excited to see the godmother of the city council in the audience. Welcome.

Always good to see your face. Thank you councelor Quinn.

Thank you madam president. uh East Avenue neighborhood will meet tonight via conference call at 6 pm. If you would like to join that conversation, please contact my office for the call-in information. Smithfield meets on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Smithfield Court Community Center. Um because we won't will not be meeting uh the council won't be meeting next week. Um you want to include our transportation infrastructure committee announcement. Um, that meeting, the next meeting is Monday, March 23rd at 2 PM here in the council chambers. If you have agenda items, please submit those to my office. Um, parents um are probably thinking about summer camps for their kids. Uh, so want to let you know that Jones Valley Teaching Farm is uh that has registration open now for their camp grow. Uh the camps are available for youth rising 2 grade through 8th grade and um you can look at their website jbtf.org for more information. Also encourage you to keep an eye on uh CityWalk uh for summer camp opportunities. They offer a pickle ball summer camp currently and there's a forthcoming announcement um that I'm really excited about. Um so keep an eye on their socials u for that announcement. Um but couple of good summer camp opportunities there as well. Um the uh Gate City neighborhood will be having a cleanup on Saturday, March 14th. And um it's a collaboration between Oak Tree Ministries based there

in Gate City and Black Warrioreper. That cleanup will start at 10:00 a.m. and volunteers can register at oaktreeministries.org. Um, Councelor Smith is probably going to um also announce this, but every year uh Birmingham Park and Wreck uh puts out a big effort to hire lifeguards for our pools. So, if you're interested in being a lifeguard, uh, we have to have lifeguards to open our pools and the contact information for inquiring about that is 2052542189. And couple more. Um the gift shop at the AG Gaston Hotel uh their hours um have changed and it's now open uh until April 12th, Thursday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. of course at the historic AG Gaston Hotel. Uh the merchandise is inspired by the hotel landmark and the events that occurred there. And then finally uh want to encourage you to participate in Birmingham's multimodal transportation uh plan. Um that is that we're calling GOB BHM. You can find more information on the city's website birmingham.gov gov/ggohm um to participate in that. There are several community engagement opportunities um around the city. Uh

ne next week on Thursday evening they um some of the folks involved in that planning process will be joining the red redemptive cycles weekly group ride that they call the trample. Um that group ride starts from redemptive cycles downtown um and goes out and does a loop. But anyway, some of the staff and uh consultants will be joining in on that ride and uh I might just be out there too. So, um in any case, um that concludes my announcements. Thank you, Dr. O'Quinn. Council Woods.

Uh thank you, Madam President. Uh quickly few announcements. Do want to give a reminder. Our next uh district 1 cleanup will take place on Sunday, March 15th at 1 pm. We will be at Tom Bradford Park uh continuing our partnership with Black Warrior Riverkeeper and uh identifying and removing litter from some key areas and keeping that out of the waterways. And so excited about that. Everyone is invited to come out and join the fun. Uh the Kell Springs Neighborhood Association will meet tonight at 6 PM. That meeting is at Smith Middle School. and want to give a shout out to uh councelor Pro Tim Tate. I think she had a wonderful event last week and uh really enjoyed it, man. It's good to see the the young people come out and be able to uh listen to them and kind of hear from them, hear what they want to say and just share back some uh information. So, it was excited to do that and that was uh felt a little stronger this year. So, keep keep up the good work. Uh, also want to shout out uh Miles College and I see Me Incorporated for hosting the 16th annual uh Real Men Read initiative uh this past Thursday. So, uh basically picture just men coming in from all over the place to uh spend a morning just reading to to young uh young men uh at the Miles College gym. And so just a tremendous partnership and just happy to be a part of that. uh just excited to really push and and uh spread the word of literacy. Man, we can teach uh young people to one uh love to read, love to learn. It's really going to set them up for anything they want to do in life. So, keep up the good work. Thank you.

Thank you, Councelor Gun.

Thank you, Madam President. Uh here are my announcements. Last week, we had a office hours over in the Brownsville Heights community. Um it was very well attended. uh we got had a chance to listen to residents and hear their concerns about uh district 4. But not only that, I had an opportunity to share my vision uh for district 4 and move the community into resolution instead of complaints. So, I'm very excited about that and uh looking forward to the next uh office hours that we host in the community. Uh this Saturday, Cool Green Trees will be hosting a tree planting at Greenwood Park from 9:00 am to 11:00 a.m. Uh First Memorial Baptist Church is hosting a health fair over in the Norwood community uh from March on March 21st from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And lastly, I want to recognize uh Councelor Proh Prom Tate on her 205 and Park uh event last week. Like all of my colleagues have said already, this was a phenomenal event and it really gave a chance for uh the youth to hear hear their concerns and speak of their voices to action. So, thank you for leading that conversation and inspiring the next generation of leaders. Uh for community uh meetings tonight, tonight we have the Kilo Springs Neighborhood Association meeting at 6 p.m. at Smith Middle School. Uh Northeast Lake is at 6 p.m. tonight at Southern Museum of Flight. And lastly, Penfield Park is tonight at 6 PM at the Brownsville Heights Community Center. And that concludes my announcements.

Thank you, Councelor Smith.

All right. Thank you. So, first I want to acknowledge the many district 8 neighborhood officers that are in in the audience. We have Miss Strader, Miss Sims, Miss Pearson. So, welcome. Thank you for being here today. Um, also this past Sunday, I had the opportunity to attend to deliver greetings at the International Women's Day event hosted by Ella, which is a Latina group. It was an honor to spend time with these amazing ladies and learn more about the work that they're doing to support Birmingham's Latina community. Um, next on this upcoming Saturday, March 14th, Bare Hands is hosting the event Fabric of Our Lives and that's going to be from 11 to 3 at the Woodlon Theater. That's an opportunity to make art using everyday items. So please if you can attend that event. Also on Saturday, March 21st, Botanical Gardens is hosting their annual Cherry Blossom Festival. So everyone is invited to come out and enjoy a great time. The library board is receiving nominations um applicants for to serve on the board. If you're interested, please send your resume and letter of interest to dhelp at birmingham.gov gov like Tuesday, March 31st at 5:00 p.m. Likewise, library board is meeting today at 4:30 at the central branch. Parks and Rec is meeting on Wednesday, March 18th at 9:00 a.m. at the Oxmore Community Center, which is a difference from Legion Field. Museum of Art Board is meeting Thursday, March 19th at 9:00 a.m. Sloth Furnace is meeting on Thursday, March 19th, also um but at 12 at Sloth Furnace. And then as far as our neighborhood meetings, the Belleview Heights Neighborhood Association is meeting today at 6:30 at Brown Elementary School. Tuxedo Heights is meeting tomorrow, March 11th, at 4:30 at the Pratt City Library. Central Park Neighborhood is meeting this Thursday, March 12th, at 6 p.m. at the Five Points

West Branch Library. And because we're not meeting um because also on that day we have the Greymont Greymont neighborhood uh meeting at 4:30 and my colleague has already mentioned that we're hiring lifeguards. So thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you Madam Pro.

Thank you madam president. I want to just thank you all for your support on the 205 and park. Um, you know, the vision was to make sure that we give the young people a voice and those that are familiar with 106 and park, it was a replication, but we just used the zip code instead of a I mean the area code instead of a street. But again, thank you all and I got councelor Williams a shirt coming and councelor Smith and um so we're getting y'all some shirts, but thank you all for your support. Um D1 thanks you all as well and as councelor Smithman said it was a great need. A lot of people wanted that mental health portion of that to continue. So I got another vision you know for that as well and we're going to keep it you know going. But I want to recognize uh Miss Cora Williams some of the residents from uh the Westchester community. I see Denise uh from the Jury Hill community. I see Miss Anna Brown from North Birmingham and Secretary and Anthony Douglas who's the president of um Cooper City. So, thank you all for coming to city hall today. Uh taking time out your busy schedule to spend the morning with us. Sanduski neighborhood meeting is tonight at 6 p.m. and they meet on conference call. You can dial in by calling 3195279642. North Pratt neighborhood meeting will be held tonight at 5:00 pm at the Pratt Library and that's at 5 o'clock and that's 509 Dugan Avenue. Oakidge neighborhood will be meeting Thursday and they meet on conference call at 4:00. You can dial in by calling 9522064918. The code is 223418. Hooper City Neighborhood Association meeting will be held on Thursday at 6 o'clock. They meet at the Hooper City Rec Center located at 39014th Street West. Nick's public safety meeting will be held today right here in the chamber. Also, I want to highlight, madame

president, that Trs Works is doing their open house on Finley Avenue. So, if you want to come out to the facility, it's located at 2242 24th Street North. It's from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. It's open to the public and they are going to be serving lunch. So, come on out and get to, you know, know who the truck's worth. um company is they bought their headquarters over on Finley. So also Cherry Fest and that's Thursday, March the 12th, spring information fair for residents who live at Cherrywoods Cherry Ridge Village, Cherry Ridge Independent and Dugan Singer Senior Facility. They're going to be highlighting public and governmental services and getting to know their government officials. And that's um that's going to be on the 12th from 10:30 to 3:00 p.m. at Cherry Woods Apartments, 11:01 Jeff Germany Parkway. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. These are announcements for District 7. We do want to congratulate the Winona High School Dragons. I know the mayor has already mentioned, but they are the um 5A regional champions and they won the 5A championship and we're so excited for all of the student athletes, Coach Lane, all of his staff and just the um alumni and fans of Winona High and District 7. It was truly an exciting moment. And so um they called me yesterday. So there will be a parade. will talk about it, but we're very excited. Um, the following meetings will take place this week. This afternoon at 5:00 p.m. The East Brownville Neighborhood will meet at 5:00 p.m. via conference call. On Thursday, the West Brownsville Neighborhood Association will meet at 11:00 a.m. and they also meet via conference call. And then the Roosevelt City Neighborhood Association, we meet at 5:30 at the Roosevelt Community Center. I'm excited as well to

see all the neighborhood leaders that are here today, old um neighbors of mines. Very happy to see you all and um so just very excited to see everyone here today. Um I do want to take just a moment. I do want to thank you, President Proim, for just um the uh 205 and park and it was just so exciting to see the youth that were involved and I believe they planned it all. They took took the reigns. you had the inspiration and the idea and it was just very encouraging to see the youth take the stage, take the reigns and um just really represent themselves in the city of Birmingham. Well, as you can see also today with our cheerleaders that were present, our youth in Birmingham are on the move and um we want to just congratulate them for the work that they're doing and I really thank you and thank each of you for pouring into them through that um particular event. So, thank you so much. Also, we just want to remind you that if you have to um have missed trash pickup or want to report illegal dumping, you can call 2052546314 or the best way to report this is using my BAM 311. They will automatically enter your issue, then it gets triaged and immediately gets to the right department. And um then that way we can be able to keep up and track these issues for you. At this time, Mr. Clerk, I believe,

I'm so sorry. I need to um offer a resolution of sympathy for Cleo Van. He turned 99 next month and passed away this past Friday. He was a longtime resident to this field, retired educator, and member of Kappa Alphasai. Oh, van. Yeah. Oh, sorry to hear about that. All right. So, you want to make a resolution? Move. Um, so move. Second. All in favor, let it be known by saying I. I. All oppose. Now I move for the resolution. Second. All in favor, let it be known by saying I. I. Oppose. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you for acknowledging that. I know Mr. Van was a longtime educator and so we had to um hear that news. Thank you. At this time, Mr. Clerk, I believe you had to bring back an item.

Yes, ma'am. Um legal has noted that a item 86 should be an item of permanent operation. So, we need to reconsider the consent agenda and remove 86 and adopt it separately. Okay. So, first we need a motion to reconsider the consent agenda. Second. All in favor, let it be known by saying I. I. All oppose. All right. Motion on the consent agenda. Second. Uh, absent item 86. All in favor? I. All oppose. Okay. So, item 86, I need um UC for it to be permanent operation. I move for you. Council member Gun. Hi. Council member O'Quinn. Hi. Council member Smith. Hi. Council member Smitheran. Hi. Council member Basa. Hi. Council member Williams. Hi. Council member Woods.

Hi. President Pro Tim Tate. Hi. Council President Alexander. I. All right. Now just motion on 86. So move. All right. Item is back. All right. Council, any questions about the ordinance that we're amending the general code item 86. Any questions? Yes, counselor. Since it's back, I'll go ahead and ask. Um, when we met last week, there was a question about which committee this would fall under. Was that ever determined?

Madam President, would it be public safety? That's what we were thinking. But they were going to Madam President, that's what was initially presented, but then there was a question about whether it would actually have to go there. So, I was just trying to get confirmation. So, Madam President, we technically don't have an answer to that. We kind of lean on the the council administrator to direct us what committees items go to. Um don't really have a solid answer for you on that one. So your question council is that we need to send you want to send this back to a committee. Oh no, no, you just want to know this process in the process. Exactly. All right. Thank you.

So m we'll lean with Mr. McDaniels, but I think for all intents and purposes, this might have went to public safety. Okay, thank you. That answers our question. And now we're ready for the vote on the item.

Remember Williams. All right, that vote should be up. All right, thank you. Item 86 passes. Sorry, didn't have them there. Okay, it's unanimous. That item passes at this time. Mr. Clerk, we're ready to entertain our speakers list.

Valerie Abbott. Councelor Valerie.

Madame President, with your permission, I would just ask all the other people who are here for this same topic to come and stand. It'll save time. Okay. Are all of them going to speak or just you? There are there are a there are a few speakers. Okay. Every single person who comes up here is not going to speak and I know that will make you very happy. Thank you. Come on y'all. Don't be shy. I'm going to go ahead and begin my presentation in the interest of time.

Madam President, do you mind? My name is Valerie Abbott and I have lived at 15 Glen Iris Park here in Birmingham for over 50 years. I'm here to speak with you today regarding short-term rentals in our residential neighborhoods. One of our primary concerns about short-term rentals is the fact that Birmingham is a city in decline. Our population has been dropping steadily since 1960. I'm not going to tell you how old I was in 1960, but it's a long time. The Birmingham Business Journal now says that we are the fourth largest city in the state of Alabama. Tuscaloosa is nipping at our heels. Even with all the improvements we've made to Birmingham, our population continues to drop. And we believe that part of the reason is because so many of our residences have been snapped up by investors and turned into short-term rentals. The problem is that when you take housing out of the picture, you also take families and children out of the picture. And then we're faced with things like school closings. Now, y'all weren't here, I think, for most of the school closings. Well, Councelor Alexander, you experienced it firsthand, but we don't want to see any more of our schools close. especially not for a shortage of children. After having scraped the internet for STRs, we now know that there are between 1,500 and 2,000 operating in the city in all of your districts. They're not

concentrated in one area. And fewer residents equal declining businesses and closing schools. We don't want that. The street committee, with whom you're all familiar, is saying that the realtors brag that they have the city council because of the $10,000 campaign donations they made to eight of nine of the counselors. I don't believe that because I've served with most of y'all for a number of years. I know that you care about your constituents. You know who they are and you know who you owe your allegiance to. The realtors couldn't vote you into office anyway because most of them don't live in Birmingham. A realtor told me one time that Birmingham was not a place to live. It was a place to make money. Well, that might be true, but I still live here. Y'all still live here and your constituents still live here. So, some of us think that Birmingham's a good place to live and we want to live in neighborhoods with neighbors. I thank you very much for your time today. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, Mr. Clerk, your call.

He's not here. Okay. Go ahead. We

Anna Brown. Good morning, council. My name is Anna Brown. I reside in North Birmingham neighborhood. I'm the secretary there and I'm chairperson of our framework plan. I am here today because I am totally against uh short-term rentals in single family residential areas. I have one right next door to me and it's been hail since it's been there. Some people have been good, but a lot of them we've had parties. We had one party that was about 70 or 80 young people who had just graduated from high school to the point that when I called on the noise complaint, it got louder and the police had to go get the owner to bring her there to get him out of the building, out of the house. On top of that, when they have parties and stuff there, they park on both sides of the street. On 24th Street, that is the street that uh fire trucks from station 13 use if they have a call that they have to go north. When you have events there, that fire truck can't get down that street and that could cause somebody to have a loss of property and even worse life. It is a public safety issue. When you have a house full of young people and somebody decides to bring alcohol there with these young people, it is a problem. My parents moved in that neighborhood where I live now years ago except for two months of my life in the city of Birmingham when I came back here. I've

always lived in North Birmingham. Yeah, we have some issues, but we also have some beautiful neighbors there. And that's what we would like to have to have neighbors. We can no longer have these short-term rental places coming in using our resources from public safety such as police officers having to monitor these uh Airbnbs when there may be other crime going on that they need to be there. And so for the sake of safety and the sanity of the people in my neighborhood, including the three 90 year olds that I have that's my direct neighbors and several 80 year olds, we don't need them in a single family residential area. People move there to have a neighborhood, not to have somebody uh making money at our expense. Thank you. Thank you,

Lee Zawa. Thank you. Lee Wallal, 10143rd Street South, Forest Park. I reside in Forest Park, but I'm a citizen of the city of Birmingham. I just echo what uh Valerie Abbott said. If you have short-term rental properties, you take away children. If you take away children, you take away schools. If you take away schools, soon you take away neighborhoods and soon you take away the city. I just think uh short-term rentals and residential neighborhoods is wrong. Thank you.

Thank you. I think this was Wadine Streeter.

Good morning. Thank you all for giving us an opportunity to say a few words. I live in the Bush Hills neighborhood and I'm the president of the neighborhood association. I just want you all to know of your 99 neighborhoods. Your leaders and the residents wants to keep a neighborhood. They're already trying to give us the title of a hood and we bringing back the title of a neighborhood. So we asking you all to consider strongly to protect us to continue to be a neighborhood and not an Airbnb resident area. Thank you.

Thank you. And I know I didn't hear the signing, but just from Bushill's neighborhood currently right now, right behind me, we are sort of dealing with a situation that we did report this morning. We hope they're going to investigate that to see what's going on. But uh we have a lot of um trucks and things coming out that are just parked there. And I had to blow this morning to get that alley free for me to get out. So, we're just looking for that to be investigated to see because we certainly don't want our neighborhood to turn into a business section with a short-term rental. Thank you. All right. Please call the next speaker. John and Susan Bourne Castle.

Okay.

Good morning. Good to see you all again. I feel like we have a permanent relationship with the youth in our neighborhood, but it's nice to see you. Um, we have ex I'm in Redmont Park. I live at 20 44 20th Avenue South and have been a resident for 43 years. When I move built when we built our home on the street, we had people that were the original residents on the street. Nine different families that had built those homes and lived there. We also are part of Diaper Row, which is famous was famous for starter homes. By the purchase of these homes by investors, not only have we uh suffered the consequences of gunshots and parties and limited parking, we have turned over homes that originally young people bought. Since July of 2024, when we had the incidences with parties and gunshots, five of our families with children, three with children moved. Not only did they move out of our neighborhood, which prompted this, they moved out of Birmingham. And one of the families had been there for 12 years, and this was going to be a home for them. So, we have been drastically affected by zoning ordinances. We also have had the car wash built at the end of our culde-sac, which we now look like the zoning of Panama City with no ocean. So, we are asking that you do vote for the greater good. And the greater good are the residents, not the people that are to make money. It's our neighborhood. When we have short-term rentals, it erodess the character of our neighborhood. We no longer have a

community. We are wondering who's spending the night next door to us at night. And it is not what a neighborhood city is known for. When you go into a neighborhood, you know if there's zoning. And when you come down our street and there's 10 and it's a culde-sac with narrow narrow road and there's 15 cars parked on the road, you know that there is uh not a zoning that is friendly to the rest of us. So we ask that you really consider the greater good and for all of us. I don't want to be the hall monitor of the neighborhood and calling the city all the time and saying, "Did you know we have another short-term rental?" because there's no way the police and the city can monitor and keep up with what's there unless all of the residents get involved and we don't want to do that. I thank you for your time and I hope that you do decide to support the single family residences. Thank you.

Good morning. I'm John Barnacle. I'm her husband. Many of you, many of you know us and have heard of us and I live also at 2044 20th Avenue. Just just so you know that I want to speak because all of you counselors that know me have heard me have hollered all these people. I want to speak to the new counselors, councelor Gun, counselor Smith, and councelor Vasa has heard from us already um a lot. And I want to speak to you about this. We've all spoken. You've heard all kinds of things. You've had emails. The new counselors, please talk with your colleagues about what has been sent. What has been said? um don't know if you had a chance to review any of when you before you took office your previous uh persons. So anyway, that's what I want I I I request um we don't want short-term rentals. I'm not going to belabor the point all the reasons uh they have they have said um I'm not against short-term rentals but just not in single family zones districts um and I'll agree not all short-term rentals create problems but as you've heard all it takes is one all it takes is a 100 gunshots in July all it takes is a homicide which has happened and speaking for and I can't speak for but all of the neighborhoods. This just isn't our neighborhood Redmont. This is all the neighborhoods in Birmingham. So I I ask you that uh you you strongly consider

previous previous objections. And one more thing she my wife mentioned the car wash at the end of our street culdeac. I my wife and I attended the January 20th hearing and I have to give a shout out and our attorneys Abrams, Miss Gang, you need to hear this. Did a fantastic job. The city attorneys that represented us were fantastic. They were prepared. They did very well. So, I just wanted to share that with you. We haven't heard anything from court, but hopefully we will. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Joseph Jenkins. Good morning. Good morning.

I guess I'm your last speaker for today. Uh, Madame President Alexander, to Pro Tim Tate, my representative, and to the council. Uh, my name is Joseph J. Jenkins. I live at 1305 W Clemen Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35214-0910 last 4. I've been a resident of the Smithfield, Westchester subdivision for over 28 years. And when I purchased that home or had that home built, uh, I was under the notion that it was single dwelling. Now, my children have grown, got grown, but I stand as I echo what all of these speakers have said as I seek to appeal to your heart and your soul that you would consider uh uh voting against. Uh I'm not against people making money, but it's a procedure in a proper way. And in the district where the ordinance uh allows that in single family dwelling, it does not allow people to make money off their homes. And so I pray that you all will consider as I participated in the committees that gather all of this information. And it's no secret you the pros and the cons, but I survive war and I don't I'm living. I'm alive. And of course, when you allow these things to happen, it can cause war zone within our neighborhoods. I've had a man come on my property as I'm seeing him take a leak in the community, pull out and take a leak. houses all around and they come on my property. Only thing I could say to him is that I was just glad that I'm

saved. Amen. Cuz he came on my uh property. He threatened me. But I am a man of peace. Uh uh I am a man of peace. So I thank you. I did know what all of the speaker, Miss Abbott, uh certainly I seek to not have a hotel next to me because what happens when the house catch on fire and the person doesn't have a business license, don't have insurance and their neighbor house catch on fire, they will be responsible for it. And so all of this information I pray and hope that you all consider as a committee have gathered this information to present to you all that y'all may vote and I pray that y'all vote against uh uh uh short-term rental in family dwelling places uh communities so that I may continue to reside. I'm a I'm proud to live in Birmingham and so I want to stay in Birmingham and I want to live in a uh community uh neighborhood where their short-term rental. God bless you. Thank you.

Thank you. That concludes our speakers list. Miss Brown, just one request before we sit down. Can we get everybody to announce their neighborhoods? Because we want you to see that this problem is not just in one area or one neighborhood. You got this problem in 99 neighborhoods. And unfortunately, some of our people didn't make it this morning, but we going to be here and stand instead. So, I'd like for you to hear the neighborhood and the district in which we are in. and I'll start off. North Birmingham District 9 Pro Tim Tate is my council person. Thank you.

Good morning. My name is Leon White and I live in Engle Nook area. Mr. Gun is and I have a just give us the name of your just Leon White and your neighborhood Engle Nook. Okay. Thank you. Do we have another neighborhood? But I think we have Westchester and that's District Nine. Another neighborhood. You're just going to give us the neighborhood. I'm uh Druid Hills, District Nine. Thank you. I'm Denise Mason in Druid Hills. Thank you. District nine. Thank you. Adrienne Pearson, College Hills.

Thank you. Virginia Scruggs Forest Park district three. Thank you. Thank you. I think that's everybody all the neighborhoods and we know Miss Strea Bush Hills District 8. All right. Thank you all so much. That concludes our speakers list. We appreciate you sharing your views. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. At this time, counselors, we do want to thank our officers on duty. Officer Taran, don't know if I saw Officer Pinkert, but Officer Taran and Pinker and Inspector Snow uh was our fire inspector on duty. At this time, we'll entertain a motion. Second.

All those in favor, please say I. I. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned. on the way. As an alum just seeing this over the years, knowing our FELLOW ALUMS HAVE FOLLOWED Winona High for all these years, I'm so excited again as a graduate of Winona High School and as a representative of District 7. This is the most ecstatic moment for me. 23.

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I'm so excited. We just saw the Winona Dragons become the 5A state boys champion. I'm so grateful to Coach Lane and the students and the athletes, teachers, the principal. This was such an exciting moment for district 7 and all of the city of Birmingham. Go Dragon. Hey, it's Councilwoman Pro team Latana Tate. I'm in the heart of District 9 at the Fountain Height Rec. We are here today for um Reform Fitness is doing a big old boot camp here. All right.

Good morning. Good morning. I am president for city council. Welcome to district 9. This center 6 in our district. So, welcome to district 9. I want to thank Justin, Tasman who invited us out. Notice we got people here from Atlanta. So, welcome our members of ATL. All the group members are here. Donna do what? Booty booty count. Booty camp. But challenged me to just give y'all a little. I'm going do a little

I'm also here with a vendor Nadia modern holistic and I have some of her seamos elimination seamos shop. So let's let's try it. Oh yes buttons. It started out with just buttons and the name C A stands for cute as a button. And I'm all about empowering the culture. So, this is a culture brand that started me, like she said, Jess Button. And the vision grew and got bigger. Now, this is called Tweety. Tweety. This is Tweety, y'all. What's your name?

Chris is the husband to joy and their business is called Jing. Jing and Juicing. What's this called? Tweet. Let's see what tweet is. I like to do that. Look at that.

And so come out and support these ladies. I mean, we love it to see our, you know, the culture just doing things and just how we just loving on each other. So, I'm council woman protein Latona T. Don't miss coming to this event. So, come out. I'm about to get my shopping on. Peace. You don't miss you.