City Council - Regular Meeting

Hey, good morning everyone. It's good to see everybody this morning. One this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, we're now in the hands of our capable city clerk, Miss Lisa Carol.

This is the premeating of the Mobile City Council Tuesday, March the 31st. We have appeals a request for wave the noise ordinance on April the 4th through the 5th, 2:30 to 10 p.m. on Pallister Place. April 5th, 100 p.m. until 4, Bragg Avenue. May 16th from 6 p.m. until 11, Spring Hill Avenue. April 5th, 3:00 p.m. till 10:00 Charles Street, April 17th, from 2:00 p.m. until 10 Street. May 3rd from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at Marty Gro Park. May the 23rd from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 Dr. from Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.

Mr. President, yes. That will need to be changed to 10 p.m.

February 7, 2027, 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. on Broad Street and Canal. And and that one, sir, if we can uh pull or because of the time I need to follow back up with them or you can uh table it for now. You want to just lay it over two weeks? Yep. That'll be great. Thank you.

June 20 June 28th from 3 p.m. until 4:30 in Mel of Honor Park. Any issues? Ping and Woods. Um for the personal request on

Woods. Good. All right. M clerk. Public hearing today is a public hearing to declare the structure at 4720 Oxford Drive a public nuisance in order it demolished. Vice David's probably here, but yeah, he here. Yeah, I I read the information on this and um it doesn't appear that any of the heirs from this property are going to be coming forward to do anything with this property. and the and the pictures tell the story. So, yeah, that is correct. That the the structure is in pretty bad shape. We've got roof issues, exterior wall, the accessory structure on this side, the garage is collapsing,

and then we have trash, litter, debris in the yard. Yeah, there there is a lot of stuff on that property that's going to have to be moved out, hauled off. Oh, yeah. Yes, ma'am. And just to remind the council, the the scope of the project, if it goes to the point where the city is required to demolish, everything will be code compliant at the end. Yeah. If there's any requirement of back filling of material to level it, so there's no ponding of water, all of that's part of the project. So it' be a clear lot if we have to go to that point if the if the property owner does not step up. Well, it doesn't appear that that's going to happen. So I agree. So we're on the next step. If council decides to declare it a public nuisance, then we'll be happy to move forward. Okay, great. Thank you,

Madam Clerk.

Presentation of petitions and other communications to the council. Carolyn Harrove u comments regarding municipal offense tickets conflicting information in reference to policies. Reggie Hill rules economic development and public safety. Ordinances held over 09015. Ordinance to amend article 4 of chapter 15 Mobile city code relating to museum the city of Mobile. 34016 ordinance to amend chapter 34 licenses and taxation of Mobile City Code. 3617 ordinance to amend the city code to add chapter 36 consumable hemp products.

Mr. President,

Mr. I'm distributing to you all an or uh an amendment to this as introduced. It it looks more complicated than what it is. It's restating a lot of just the state law, some provisions with the state law, but the really the the purpose of it of the amendment is to just have us follow the same process that we follow for a liquor license. And then that's what the amendment we put forward does. Um and it and it changed the wording from a um a registration to a a license and that instead of calling it registration, it's now license just as the the liquor license would be done. So that's the intent of the ordinance.

Any questions? Council. All right, madam clerk. CI CIP resolutions held over 01307 authorized agreement with Kingdom Construction Group for Bolton Spray and Drainage Improvements. Resolutions held over 01308 authorized operating agreement Mobile Museum Board for operations and management of history museum of Mobile for Condi and Phoenix Fire Museum. Mr. President,

yes. Um, first of all, you know, I want to, you know, thank the the work that they've done with the Mobile Museum board. You know, you can see that and and it's definitely outstanding. I do want to um bring to the attention uh concerns and I should have done it on nine 09015 but as we move forward when you look at the um agreement you'll see that they have the agreement set up so that they they're paid uh quarterly they'll receive it quarterly but more importantly there's a report that comes with it. this model is exact you know it really allows us to be able to see what's happening um the progress that's been made so I commend them for this I guess my question is if we can move forward on others to to follow a similar path so that there is that accountability and we are aware it also goes on to specify that it's it's to come to the board I'm I'm sorry yeah to the council uh at the end so that we can see the great things that are happening so I'm asking administration if We could look at that model to look at that for other for performance contracts and others so that we are aware of what's happening and empowered so that we can share with the uh citizens how we're using taxpayers dollars.

Okay. All right. Madam clerk,

08314, approve purchase order to GS for body armor protective vest for MPD. 08316, approve purchase order to MHCO for knuckleboom trash loader for trash department. 08318 approved purchase order to Sunbilt Fire for fire bunker coats, boots, pants, and helmets. 09319 transfer funds from capital project convention center capital to convention center exterior painting for extended construction administration services consent resolutions being introduced 03324 point Vincent Robinson to the water and sewer board of commissioners 37325 recommend approval to the ABC board for issuance of a lounge retail liquor license class two to Cynthia's Package Store on Dolphin Island Parkway, unit G. 40 326. Declare the structure at 4720 Oxford Drive a public nuisance in order it demolished. 6327 determine an appropriation to the fuse project serve a public purpose and approve payment. CIP resolutions being introduced 08328 approve purchase order to dog with deductions for city website software and ADA web accessibility requirements $47,785 resolutions being introduced 01329 authorized cooperative maintenance agreement of public rightway with ALDOT for route number US98 mile post 18.82 82.

Mr. President, yes.

Is John here? John Forester, if you wouldn't mind, John, just uh providing some more information about exactly what this is and what the impact is on on what this is there. There's a residential subdivision being built off McIntyre between Overlook and um Moffett Road. And and this is a property is adjacent to Moffett Road. And we're just what this is is allowing the installation of a sidewalk and so Aldot doesn't maintain it and through our ordinance you know the maintenance will fall to the um HOA and so on on the next one um on the service road for I65 origin bank it's the same situation the bank's being constructed and they're building a sidewalk on on the ALDOT right away and then maintenance responsibility will be of that property owner.

Okay. But but the other one but the the one above that you're saying that the HOA is responsible for Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The property owner will be responsible for the maintenance of of that sidewalk. The property owner but not the HOA. Well, it will be the HOA because the um there there was a partial that was on Moffett Road that was absorbed in a subdivision. And part of this, you know, there'll be some residential lots backing up to that, but is the HOA aware that they are going to be responsible? They will be the subdivision isn't complete yet. So, the subdivision hasn't been accepted yet.

The these are not the apartments that are being built over there, are they? I'll get you the exact is a residential development going on there. Are these the ones that are going in off of Oxford? I mean off of Overlook. No, no, not off overlook. Yeah, this the entrance is off Moffett. This is in know there's McIntyre. This off Mississippi Street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I can get you the details on that. Yeah. I just want to make sure that if we're saying the HOA is going to be responsible that there is an HOA and that they are aware of it. Well, this subdivision has not been accepted yet, so it's Yeah, it would be the HOA of the subdivision coming in, not Okay. Okay. Yes. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's just go over it. It's going to be clear. Okay. Clearly stated in in the covenant. So, okay, Mr. President, maybe on their their plaque and a note on their plat, could it be added in there that Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm you know it it'll be clearly stated you know who's you know maintenance responsibility will be of the budding property owner. Yeah it may be on the plant and you may say property owners you may say HOA but it doesn't always happen. Yeah that's the problem. Okay.

01330 authorized cooperative maintenance agreement with public right ofway with ALDOT for route number West I65 Service Road North Mile Post 4.58. Okay. 08331 approved purchase order to convergent technologies for security cameras mobile museum of art $61,36047 08332 approved purchase order emergency equipment professional for repair parts for collision damage to enforcer fire pumper truck $17,522.98 08 33 333 and 334 are approving purch purchase ours communications international for portable radios for public services storm water and that's $24,9140 and $49,800 $82.8035 80 cents 08335 approved purchase order to classic paint and body for repair services for collision damage to enforcer fire pumper truck $17,531.75 08336 approve purchase artic gladiator forensics for annual renewal of location and analytics software for GF Coast Technology Center $23,675 08337 38 and 39 are approving purchase orders to secure land and tree safe haven company invasive management services for storm drainage vegetation and debris removal 08340 approved purchase order to Dahu Chevrolet for Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs 1,283,337.501342 50 08341

342 approved purchase orders Danish safety supply for patrol unit upfitting of Chevrolet Taho and SUVs $374,1866 and $48,5003 approved purchase order to truck equipment sales for Ford crew cab truck with nap hide body $80,372. 08344 approved purchase order to Harold's fertilizer herbicide for Aelia City Golf Course $17,70. 08345 approved purchase order to Robin Sports Surfaces for basketball floor storage carts transition ramps mobile arena $238,495. 08346 approve item based bid for police vehicle graphics production installation and removal services. 09347 and 348 are transferring funds from general fund transit system to capital project fund transit fleet and equipment for purchase of fleet vehicles and equipment for mobile transit system 500 thou 500,000 and $258,711.

Mr. President, Mr. When is this review that's taking place by the new operator going to be produced for us to see in the public at large? They're doing their assessment. I think we set aside making any changes for six months, something to that effect while they could do this study.

You turned it off. Is that better? Okay. So, ultimately, uh, VIA is in the process of its rebranding. We should have the the final naming convention identified sometime this month, uh, for release as I think it's intended to be in April. Uh, the route study is in its preliminary review. We should have that information to council I would say within the next 30 days so that we can move towards a July relaunch of the entire system with the brand name and with the new routes in place and apparently new assets, right? I mean that's what this is about.

Uh yes. So, uh, we have an existing fleet and in order to purchase new vehicles, the FTA requires that the city of Mobile front the entire amount of money and then are reimbursed at an 8020 split. So, the city will receive 80% of this funding back to it. Everything that is here that is listed is not new money. The $500,000 was part of the $12 million uh budgeted allocation for transit. The $258 uh $58,711 was actually money that was reimbursed from the previous operator when that contract was cancelled and the account that they held for payroll was closed. And the $140,000 is in fact fairbox revenue. So it's via produced revenue over the past couple of months. So we're moving it. So none of this is additional money to the budget. This is all just moving it into the correct places so that we can order these vehicles. Uh currently there are six transit vehicles that need to be replaced that we are putting into the application for federal formula funding. Those are all related to paratransit and the goal is to maintain the certain level of service that we have already by doing it. So we need basically the $840,000 upfront for transit vehicle purchases to maintain the state of good repair that the FTA requires.

And so the you guys have access to information that we don't. So I I would imagine that you you're in discussions with VIA and y'all have looked at the balance sheet of all the assets there and you have an asset sort of plan going forward. That is correct. Yes, I can share that spreadsheet with you and it's by year, by mileage, by make, model. You tell me what you need and we can get that to you without

I really want to know the plan. That's what I want. I just I mean, you know, my thought was when we started this that we were going to see this great change in productivity and ridership and we're going to be more cost effective when we do it. We're likely going to offload some of these bigger assets that we have that are riding around empty and then we're going to, you know, supplement routes with smaller vehicles. I don't know what vehicles are being purchased here.

Okay. So I I I just want to know the overall plan before we and and get our input on it and our constituents input on it before we start diving into buying new assets when a plan may be different at the end bring it forward to us.

Understood. So uh the system is running as it was intended in the contract for the first nine months as is so that they can do their analysis of what's going on. July is the ninemonth mark when we're supposed to launch the renewed transit system. Uh this funding is being stockpiled as an effort to be prepared to purchase the new first six vehicles. What size class that is has not been determined. We're doing it based on what is rolling off at this time for the purposes of making sure that we at least have the federal government's approval to replace six vehicles. Each vehicle for the city of Mobile is an asset that has a lifespan between 7 and 12 years and some of them are going to be good through 2036. So we know that those assets are in fact a part of the fleet for us to sell those vehicles and downsize them. Uh is a possibility. However, what that requires is because it has not reached its useful life, a certain portion of that money has to be paid back to the federal government in order for us to retain the other pieces of that to purchase new equipment, which is completely acceptable, but we don't want to get into a huge habit of doing that right off the bat before we identify ones that we know have reached their useful life and we can purchase at the level that it needs to be as far as size, class, the need, that is going on through the uh the routes that are being redeveloped.

So we know what assets are going to we have identified we have identified six assets that need to be replaced. Everything else needs to be replaced but are we know that we're going to use those six asset types in a new yes route. Yes, we have to because of the level of service. We know that those six going out because of them being paratransit, if we were not to replace them for paratransit or ondemand response services, uh we would have a deficiency in a lack of services that would then trigger a title six uh review by the federal government.

Okay. And then this is just transferring the money. This is just transferring the money and it's going to sit in this capital account. When should we expect to see the contract for the purchase of these vehicles? Our goal is not to uh do any purchases probably before September to make sure that we can get through the first few months of the transit system operating so that we make these purchases in FY25 for receipt. I'm sorry, FY26 for receipt in FY27 probably around March. Okay, that's totally acceptable, especially if you're not adding to this budget.

None of this is new money, let me assure you. $500,000 off of the $12 million that was put into general fund for operating. This is just capitalizing it. The 258,000 that was a reimbursement from the previous operator and 140 from the uh revenue that has been received so far. in that in that agreement with VIA, we did we commit ourselves to to making a capital investment at any rate? I don't think that we did.

We never said that there was a particular rate that we would do it, but in keeping with the fleet that is necessary to run the transit system after running the numbers, we know that we're $840,000 in as a front upfront cost. again that 80% will be reimbursed so long as the federal formula funding application is awarded by the federal government. Thank you very much, Mr. P. Mr. President, I will. Okay, Miss Anger, um as a followup to the question um that Councilman um

Reynolds asked, um the 758,000 I just want to confirm. You're saying like that's going to go in a reserve. You're just requesting that ahead of time to use that to purchase uh uh fleet for later.

That is correct. So, right now, uh the $500,000 is that cost savings in the contract. We wrote it that cost savings would come back to the city. So, we know that we're not going to use all $12 million this year uh that was previously budgeted. So, all we're doing is capitalizing that half a million dollars. so that when the time comes to purchase these pieces of equipment, the city is ready to do so and expedite those purchases. Of course, with some oversight and discussions with you all to say, "Hey, this is what we're trying to do. This is what we're going to purchase." Okay.

Uh the 258 is the same. Again, it was just a reimbursement. It was put into miscellaneous revenues in the transit system uh operating. So when we go to look at it, we can track it specifically, but again, it just rolls right over into it. There will still need to be money that's added to it to reach $840,000, but at this time, we were trying to be very conservative in the measure to make sure that this was nothing new and nothing requested additionally by the council. So the six transit vehicles that need to be purchased, yes, that's not coming out of this 758.

Eventually, it will be. Right now, all we're doing is creating the capital account so that we can purchase the vehicles. The reason we're not doing this out of operating is because of the fact that the timing of the purchase would put the purchase in FY26, but to pay out in 27. This would allow us to bridge the gap between those two fiscal years to make sure that that money didn't disappear. So, and and you've within the plan that you all have developed, those six transit vehicles are already identified in the new plan as a continuation of need.

Yes. Okay. And every year we need to normalize this conversation because our fleet has a certain amount of age on it at certain areas. So, if you're in uh like the vehicles that we're talking about purchasing here, the six were purchased in 2018. They've reached their useful life and they have surpassed their useful life at this point in both years and in miles by one calendar year and by 200,000 miles. A state of good repair at the federal government does not allow us to continue to use those for two more years.

Okay. And and and in closing, you shared with Mr. Reynolds that you will be providing uh a plan so that we can see the type of where we're headed in terms of the transit vehicles. Is is that what I heard? Yes, I can provide you a spreadsheet of the existing fleet. I have that easily done. Uh pass that along to you today. Uh when we identify and come to you all to purchase the fleet again before we make that request of the council, I will personally make sure that each of you are able to see what it is that we're talking about with cut sheets, prices, so on and so forth.

And lastly, if you can just ensure that the wrership is included in that. So for the for the vehicles that we will continue with like the the the um the trend data the h the history of ridership for the ones we're going to continue with. Does that make sense? Uh it does not. What I can tell you is the purpose of these six vehicles is for paratransit uh demand response they will be used for paratransit demand response. Okay. So let me say it this way. You said you're going to bring share with us the plan of how we're going to be moving forward in in in terms of vehicles that we're going to be using. Correct. July. In right in July.

Uh I can provide you the spreadsheet today so that you can see the existing fleet and it has a breakdown of the exact number of years that we have to retain them as useful life. Uh the date that we need to take them out of service. Again, it's all right there. it's already formulated and I'm happy to share that with you including the highlighted vehicles that we have set up for uh replacement in this fiscal year.

Okay. And my question is are you able to provide the ridership that shows um the number of of uh passengers that are taking advantage of that particular? Yes, I I get a monthly report that we track uh so that we can look at the trends month over month as to where ridership is and it is divided out by uh fixed route and by demand response which right now is the paratransit. Come July that ridership will increase because of course mo will come under uh the umbrella of this contract and you will see increased ridership through demand response. Okay, great. If you could supply that that would be helpful. Thank you. You're very welcome.

Anyone else? Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. My question I have a question for you. Um I'm just want to make sure um I'm understanding this correctly is July we're going to release the new routes and all that in the month of July. That's the plan. We would like to enact them in July. But prior to that, we will have the review and disseminate it to the administration who will be heavily involved in it in the next couple of weeks and then of course to the council before it goes live.

Okay. Um that's the that's my my question is just want to make sure that as a council member that we we see those routes before it going public and live because I think it's very important. Uh we we was at a meeting last yesterday yesterday and and and just talks about how um people can't get to work and we just want to make sure that our community is being served properly and those routes are not being cut to areas that need us the most. Um so I'll, you know, as soon as that information is received, um I just request that this council be able to see that information um so we can just get feedback also from our constituents.

Absolutely. My understanding is that the mayor and his staff will get that to you. I believe it would be appropriate for administrative services to pass that to the administration and the administration to pass that to you all. All right. Thank you,

Mr. Woods. And then uh Jacob, thanks again for uh the work that you do. I know that you've been delegated to being the VIA transit uh uh designate. So um but just a reminder I guess kind of everybody I mean coming out of April I mean obviously we had two I mean one we I mean we literally took over or VIA took over right at October 1st they had basically two weeks to try to onboard. So taking that October month to try to get operations settled and up to speed. Um it always has been the plan that coming out of April we would have the the factf finding mission kind of done. Um and I know they've been doing community meetings meeting with meeting certain criteria. So, we are on track for coming out of the end of April of having that stuff and then uh with the with the relaunch coming in July hitting that 9month mark and then um that's kind of where that's the history of where we came. And as far as what the system looks like, obviously that's to be determined, but we do know that there's going to basically be a mainline uh there's still going to be mainline transit. Uh but then also too that LA first and last mile is going to be serviced more on the the fact of an on demand or a microtransit is what we were kind of originally planned to kind of do. And then fitting into that is the on demand and and the microtransit um is the par is the paratransit which that's something that's uh traditionally from my understanding is it's it's on demand or or pres-scheduled just due to the complexity of transporting u you know the the rider. Um, so, uh, you know, coming into July, we'd probably be looking at some changes on routes, going to the mainline services, relying more on the microtransit. Apparently, we're getting some sort of, uh, trolleys. So, I guess

so. Uh, just to reiterate all of this for everybody's uh, complete transparency here. Uh, fixed route will change slightly and then we will have incremental change days. We don't want to change the system so heavily right off the bat that number one we throw the wrership into disarray or number two trigger a title uh six review. We want to make sure that everything that we do is incremental in its approach so that we preserve as much writership and accessibility as possible for paratransit. That's a complimentary uh service that requires a diagnosis and to Mr. Woods's point a pre-booking. So if you have dialysis and you have it every Wednesday, you know that you're going to be picked up. You're going to be dropped off at your dialysis and then you will be taken back to your residence. In addition to all of that, by bringing MOO, which is the microtransit, uh underneath this contract, then we're able to expand beyond the points where fixed route ends so that we can capture 3/4 of a mile beyond that as well. And then that's very much like an Uber service except much more affordable. So, uh you can call it ride share, you can call it microransit, but basically it's a smaller vehicle class that can go to very direct locations, get people to fix lines if it's the more economical way or get them directly to a destination if again it finds that that is more economical for the system to run.

I guess the point And I was trying to make is we're hitting all these benchmarks. We're on time for for a complete roll out like as of last week during the meeting that we had with VIA. We are on track as of this date.

Yeah, just just one more followup, Jacob, and I appreciate what you're saying, especially about the incremental changes. You know, anything that's a big change all at once will lead to a lot of trouble as as we all know. uh talking about July and when we really want to kick things off, is there a way for us to get an update prior to July because when we come in and we look at the plan with the administration, a lot of times it's okay, you got to get it done like today, now immediately, we would like a little bit of lead time so that we can see what it is we're going to be looking at. It might be just here are the numbers that we have now. Here's what we're looking at now. It's not anything in cement, but this is what we're looking at presenting to you so that we are more familiar with exactly what those changes are going to be and how many vehicles there will be, how many riders, you know, all all of the things you've mentioned. That way, we will be more prepared to say, "Yeah, these are my questions. This is what we'd like to see." And we can be better prepared, I think, to make a decision in a timely manner.

We can certainly do that. In addition to that, we've asked VIA to uh reach out to you all about uh the public services subcommittee to make sure that they are here to also brief you guys on any questions, comments, concerns that you might have as far as what the future of transit looks like. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. M cl

09349 transfer funds from general fund transit revenue to capital project fund transit restroom and plumbing for repairs and renovations to the restrooms and plumbing at the mobile metro transit facility 140,000 21350 authorized contract with sane associates for Americans with disabilities act transition plan update 150,000 21350 51 authorized contract with Goodwin Mills in Kwood for improvements to the master plan for the Mobile Civic Center Arena. 100,122.50. Mr. President, Mr. Reynolds,

what are Goodman Goodwin Mills and Kwood going to be doing with the master plan?

Good morning. So, uh, first off, this is not a new contract. It's an amendment to their existing design contract. Uh, and it's got, uh, two components to it. One is we, uh, we had to do some redesign on the site infrastructure utilities, uh, to to upsize them to accommodate the rest of the future development to avoid tear out of the new work for the arena. uh cuz those utilities go under the new roads and if we waited till future development to upsize those utilities then we'd have to tear out the roads we're putting in with the arena. So part of this 20 approximately 27,000 is for redesign of that utility work. And then the remainder 72,000 that's uh for uh additional design work on the murals. Once we uh started getting into those to try to figure out how we're going to reh hang them, we discovered that I mean with the the mural team that uh they're not structurally sound enough to hang as is. So, we're going to have to construct new frames on and back on a backing system for them as well as re uh redesign the wall that they hang on in the uh Grand Hall. So, that that's additional design work to to come up with that that plan. None of this is additional funding. It's all it's all covered in the current budget. We just uh we have to do some some extra work there to ensure public safety and integrity of the artwork that it doesn't crumble once we get it up in the air.

Thank you, Sam. I appreciate that explanation. When this is all said and done, I want to know how much these murals cost. I mean, I'm just very interested what that total cost and all. Yeah, I do. Mr. President. Yes. Uh Sam, thank you for the explanation. Can you when you said that you had to do the amendment um for the future development, so in other words, in the master plan um they didn't consider some things that are going to be coming uh for the future.

Well, when we when we did the master plan, we we did the layout, you know, based on the future development. So we get everything under the roads and off the development areas. But you know following up later in that process when we started calculating the flows for like water and sewer we discovered that one the sewer line is questionable. There's a 12-in sewer line and it's like very very old. It's an old clay pipe. Uh so it's just not prudent to leave that in place and maybe have to come and tear. I mean, while we got the site tore up, let's, you know, let's do that now, not come back in, tear our roads out later.

I appreciate that. Thank you, Sam, for that explanation. Thank you. Anyone else? All right. Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. 21352 authorized contract with Bimbo Construction Services for gangway repairs at the Mobile Cruise Terminal, $234,255. Mr. President, yes. Is this the new gang way that we uh for these repairs?

Thanks. It is the fixed gang way. So, the one that doesn't move back and forth and it connects the boarding bridges. So, they're redoing the metal, um, framing, some of the, you know, roof parts, and then replacing the rollup doors with motorized rollup doors. And all this is going to be done while the cruise ship is gone for 6 months. So,

thank you. 5353 authorize amendment to resolution 50 1111 which authorized the municipal sales and use tax exemption certificate for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project 01354 authorized cooperative agreement with friends of municipal park 250,000 announcements

Mr. president on this one. 354. This is money coming out of my CIP account. It's very similar to what we did close to two years ago, I think, with the same group. Um, this money will be used for various updates, but primarily right now the big cost is replacing the lights. uh we have to put in some new lights as well as poles because the poles that are out there are so old that we cannot put the new light bulbs on the old poles. So there's just a lot of work going on out at municipal and the work is being being spearheaded by the friends of municipal but of course under the guidance of Shondaanda Smith and her crew in parks and wreck. So, I just want to commend the the friends of municipal baseball and football for stepping up to the plate as it were with baseball to to do the work and to raise money to go on top of what we are providing through my CIP account. So, it's it's a win-win for all of us, a great role model uh for other groups, you know, in the city to to follow, but um this is just another u way to work with the private sector to help us make improvements on city properties. So this is a first read. So we will vote on it next week.

Mr. President, Mr. Wes, uh if possible with your consent to add to the consent agenda today, uh with the changes that we've were making with the history museum uh today, uh I do I think uh exiting this morning or exiting after council, we'll probably have, you know, at the time we have three board seats open, one being my seat. Uh with with your consent and your permission, I'd like to um nominate or put on the agenda uh Peter Susman to fill the district six seat if possible today. So with everyone's permission, obviously. Miss Anger.

Oh, Mr. President, uh, I want to thank you for last week, um, trying to schedule time for us to hear from the Mobile Airport Authority in terms of the changes, but due to technical issues, we were not able to hear anything or to hear what was happening. And so, um, I would like to know if it's possible for us to get some information just in totality, um, of what's being spent in terms of the settlement agreements, like the totality of it and any changes that are going to be impacted because of the change in personnel. For example, if we're going to have to bring in um additional support for the new executive, uh, it could be in the terms of of executive coaching or whatever that might be. if we can get the total uh expense of those things.

Yes. Okay. Thank you. And my last one, I'm sorry, Mr. President, the mayor's breakfast. Um again, um that overview to see all the great things that are happening in downtown was just so exciting. Uh, one of the follow-up questions that I've received from uh, several residents was related to um, the information that's happening with the task force and it was shared that the task force is now working with our atrisisk youth and placing them into services and so forth. if we can get an update um in terms of what's happening with the task force and specifically around the youth um um and the services that they're providing.

We can certainly provide you some updates. Um a lot of that is being driven internally from the city. Uh you know, I commend Dr. Tate and uh public safety director Curtis um for really driving this and seeing a need and addressing it quickly. We've been discussing, you know, really how to expand what the city is doing through the safer communities task force. Um, continuing to build upon the progress that we've already experienced, frankly, from both of those, uh, two members of our team. We can certainly give you those updates and and try and give you some points that we're headed to as well. Thank you. And other council members, Mr. President,

Mr. Okay. Um, most of y'all know we host Combo with Corey on Tuesdays. We invite young people and we have Vamari Chambers. Can you stand up, Vamari? Um, thank you so much. They can give him a big hand, young man doing some amazing things in the city of Mobile. He just recently um hosted voter engagement. Then he did something with the Mobile Education um foundation. He's just a young man that's about to graduate May the 11th. Um so I just commend him to want to be active and engaged in our government process. Thank you, Mr. President. Vice President.

Okay. To look at um the various items for waving the rules under CIP resolutions. 08328. Then go down to resolutions being introduced. Um 08332 333 334 335 336 337 uh 338 339 342 344 and that uh looks like all of them. Any questions anymore?

Anything from the miners? All right, we'll see each other downstairs at 10:30.