City Council - Regular Meeting

I thought with a kind of lighter load today, we could expand on a few of these things that are coming up. So the first one I think in your packet, which I know many of you will be excited about, is you'll see on the agenda tonight there's an agreement for sale of property, which is the Coppinville Agreement, which we have talked about for many months. So a copy of that agreement is in your work session packet. I think it's also in your regular session packets as well. So I did want to point that out. The biggest point to that is we are capped. The city's exposure would be capped at $1.5 million. It's on a dollar-per-dollar basis. It's a partnership with the school system. At the end of the day, the intent is for the grounds that can be salvaged to be brought up to code, a portion of the property to be demolished, but the remaining facilities that house WRC and Boys and Girls Club would be brought up to code. It's bathrooms, windows, electrical, all those kind of things. Since we don't know a true cost, we had an estimate. That's why the cap at $1.5 million, the school has a $1.5 million cap. Ours can go down, but not up from there. So if it ends up being a $1 million project, half a million each. At the end of that time, the city would end up with the old Coppinville property, and then the school system would get the lot behind former College Street Elementary with the ECTC Center. So they would get that in addition to the $1.5 million or thereabouts. Are there any questions about that agreement?

Any discussion?

That lot that's behind the ECTC, TC, that lot. There's a couple of small buildings that the city owns. Are those buildings included in that?

They would be. And one of those is actually where the DAV is. Now, there's a lease on that that was established or renewed in 22. I think it's a 20-year lease. So that would go with the property. And we need to talk to the schools a little bit about that. But ultimately, they're on the hook to maintain the interior of the facility. But it's kind of like a triple net lease. Like if there's a roof that needs to be replaced on it or anything structurally wrong with the facility, that's on the city. And I would assume we would still maintain that lease with the DAB.

Okay, good. Thank you.

That was going to be my question.

For clarity, Mr. Tell, it's on the point C. So will it be an inspection of the whole building?

Yes, ma'am.

And then which, I know we've discussed before, which end is the suspected portion that's in the worst shape?

It would be the middle. So if you look at the building from the street, it kind of makes a U shape. Mm-hmm. No, ma'am. Kind of the middle section between the two ends, so where WRC is on one end, kind of the newer end of the facility where there was an addition on, that building's in pretty good shape. It's the part that adjoins it where there's classroom space up until sort of where the gym is. And that space is in pretty rough shape. And so it could be that the recommendation ends up being demolition of that part of the facility. The rest of the facility that's currently being occupied by Boys and Girls Club and WRC would be brought up to code, but I believe WRC is in reasonably good shape. I think it was built in the 90s, that addition. it's not quite in the same shape. The electrical, the windows, the bathrooms, if you've been through that facility recently, our electrical and plumbing are in need of repair.

In terms of grounds maintenance, at the time I assume the city school system's maintaining it, and then as soon as this is over, then we'll pick it up as far as the city's concerned?

Yeah, so the intent would be to reestablish the leases for the two tenants in there, And there would be a decision point from the city council. My recommendation, since there would be little to no lease paid to the city, that the tenants be responsible for grounds maintenance. But there could be an option if the city were inclined to look at doing some kind of a purchase agreement from one or both of the entities to purchase that property. That could be another way that you could go to make it clean and put the burden of maintenance on them. But I would think for a healthy organization, it would make a lot of sense for them and certainly make sense for the taxpayer to put the burden on maintenance on them and not our parks and rec or public works. They'd be responsible for the utility bills, et cetera.

Okay, thank you.

Any more questions or discussion? All right, thank you.

Yes, sir. Also in your packet, you know, one of our goals was to get an agreement for First Baptist Church. And so to elaborate on what that is, I know many of you do, but I know we've got members of the public and people online. So we have been working and we're approached by First Baptist Church about – some property that they currently have as parking, but expanding that so everyone knows where Adams Street is, and then kind of adjacent to sort of the strip on Main Street that encompasses Annie's and Sixtel. There's some parking there that the First Baptist already owns. And then they've just recently demolished, I think, three structures that the church owned there along Adams and... I don't know if that's Edward Street. Maybe that runs along the back. So the goal would be to basically from the corner lot on Main Street that the Baptist Church owns all the way back, make that a parking area. With that, with the church on both sides of the street for Adams Street, they've asked us to contemplate what it would look like if we vacated the road in that process. That would make it safer for their people when they're using the parking lot to traverse and get across and go to church. So there would be utility easements that would need to be worked out to maintain water, sewer, electrical, all that stuff. But if you look in your packets, there's a legal description and a resolution that's proposed at a future council meeting for vacating East Adams Street. But there's also a map. or a map, a drawing in here of the proposed parking lot. And this has been through North Star Engineering. The church is working on this. But at the end of the day, that agreement would allow those new 162 spots to be utilized as public parking in the downtown area on days that the church, obviously Sunday and Wednesday nights, similar to what we did with First Methodist in the parcel there on Easy Street. So we would be responsible to pave it and potentially relocate some of the utilities in the alleyway there. And then, you know, it would be prorated. So if the church ever wanted to end the agreement, it wasn't working out. We use a 15-year life cycle for the asphalt that we put down. So one-fifteenth a year they would owe to the city to make us whole for what we put down. So if it cost $150,000 to pave the parking lot and stripe it, every year it would be reduced by $10,000. So that's what the agreement we're working on contemplates. But really the purpose of talking to you about this is, you know, what is the propensity of the council to look at vacating the road?

Looking at the drawing here, we're not vacating the entirety of the road, just I guess the bottom half that would tie into Edwards Street so they can expand that parking lot footprint, right?

Well, it would be the entirety of the road. The entryway... for what's currently Adams Street would still exist and serve as an entryway into the parking lot, but it would no longer be a public street. Okay, I got you.

I was just looking at the map here and saw there was still a roadway, but it just wouldn't be a city-owned property. That's correct. Gotcha.

And typically when we look at vacating a road, you've got multiple property owners that adjoin the road. In this case, the road runs through parcels of property that the same property owner owns. So if it serves their best interest for the church, the way we're looking at it is it would ultimately in the long run be better for the community to have the parking in the downtown area than have a street.

And that's accessible, it looks like it'll be accessible from East Lee Street as well?

It would, so there's an alleyway that currently runs by there. We acquired an extra 10-foot of right-of-way for the alleyway, so we've expanded that. We need to relocate the utilities along that, and in that proposal, we're proposing burying the utilities along the alleyway, but it would be a one-way in. It would not be... You couldn't exit from the parking lot onto... Lee Street. Gotcha.

Okay. So you would end up, if we did this, the city would end up with signage that says parking where the current parking is right off of Easy and then a sign that says additional parking and it would lead to this larger parking off of Lee Street and then off of Main.

That's right. And I think the initial plan, I don't know if it's changed, but I think it contemplates about 162 parking spots, plus or minus. There would also be a spot there for... a dumpster to be located in there that the businesses along that portion of Main Street could kind of use currently, that doesn't exist. So that would be another added benefit for the business owners in that area.

with closing down Adams, then that's going to affect E911 changing, right? We've got to think about that. I don't know, Chief.

I don't think it will be a big thing. I don't know. Okay.

But it won't be called Adams, right?

It will not. It won't be a public. You won't be able to traverse the street. You'll just be able to basically go into a parking lot.

Yeah. It's just something to think about.

Chief, do you have anything to add about how that might impact E911 or rescue services?

As far as impact and rescue service, probably not because they don't use that road. If they go to the hospital, they go down to Brunson.

If you're talking about like E911 numbering and names of it, on Adams, there's... Yeah, I was talking about if somebody inside the church, they needed response there, you know.

I guess it would depend on where it's at, but we would make our way around, and we certainly could make a way into it if needed. So, yeah, I don't think it's going to affect that much.

Just a question. Yes, sir. Thank you.

Wouldn't the church's official address be Main Street? Yeah.

Right. So that's what it is.

Okay.

If they say something, yes. Okay.

Any other questions or thoughts on what we're working on? Looks plausible. All right.

Thank you.

The beauty of being able to partner with some of these churches or other property owners is that the city is afforded use of the property without having to acquire the property. So there's a definite upfront cost. And I'm sure many of you hear the same calls that we get at the mayor's office with we need more parking in the downtown area. So this would certainly address that by 162 spots. And frankly, it would make the flow of traffic a little bit better and not so disjointed. If you go there on a typical evening or a lunch hour, you'll see the people now parking along the dirt or areas over there now so it's kind of being used as public parking but it's kind of a free-for-all there's no directional where to go where to get in and out so it would clean it up should make it a little bit nicer for for everyone Um, we have a few budgeted items, uh, that, that it talks about in our key three goals. Those are contemplated in, in the budget, which you, um, I think all of you have a copy of those Leanne and her team work really hard to get those budget books together for you. They're, they're fairly thick. I'm sure you'll have them memorized by the end of the night, but, um, we are planning on our September 8th budget meeting, um, going over those in detail. Um, should have a lot of these things that you've asked us to contemplate in that. And some justification as well as at the back of the book, the appropriations request that we received. There'll be some information from each of those. If you do find yourself with any questions, please email Leanne or myself, both of us, and ask them. If you see somebody requested money for something with the brief narrative that we have in the budget books if you have questions about that since we're not inviting you know every agency that requested money to come and speak at the budget hearing i know that that was a big concern in in prior years i know councilwoman rich talked to me about that seemed like that it was just trying to to funnel a lot of information and be respectful of people's time. And it always kind of, if we scheduled them for 15 or 30 minutes, it always took a little bit longer. So the entirety of the day kind of kept shifting. So we've tried to streamline that, get their request in, ask them to write a little bit of a narrative about how they would use the funds. And then obviously our staff has gone through to make sure that those agencies that have requested funding are in good physical shape. and that they're a growing concern for the community. So any questions about the budget books? Any questions, folks? A lot of reading.

Thank you.

Okay. Probably in October, I know Barry has asked, aside from the nuisance properties, He wants to go over, he won't be at the first meeting I think in October, but he would like to go over the Rucker Boulevard plan when it gets on the agenda. So be able to be here for that. So that's when we plan to introduce that, the second meeting in October. Has everyone had an opportunity to review the final draft for the Rucker Boulevard plan? Okay. So that's what we're planning there. Chief Moore has a couple of things. And Chief, I don't know when you're looking to brief the council, but particularly on technology solutions, I know that's something that you've contemplated in your budget. That might be a good time to brief it maybe on the 8th during the budget meeting. And then obviously our nuisance properties and public service. All of you did get a link, I think, this morning with that Gantt chart that you can go to, and it should be an active link. So next week sometime, if you decide to check on the progress of some of those critical paths, you can do that, and it should update. And then with that, we have phase two of the health care study. And I did put on the fire station study, talking to Chief Davis, that that's one that I'm already identifying that we might need to push into the fourth quarter. Nothing that he's doing wrong, but once we've engaged the firm, you know, based on, you know, their deliverables, when they can get us the information and finish it, I think that's likely to creep into the fourth quarter. Any other questions on our Q3 goals?

Anybody? Any questions? No, I think that's it. Thank you very much.

Just as a note, I know the library study is on here, but there's a final sheet in your work session packet. It's a memorandum from our chief building inspector. He went through the subject property that you authorized at the last council meeting for us to look at purchasing and That's the report on it. It's probably, I think when I talked to Barry Mott today, somewhere we're estimating in the neighborhood of maybe $10,000, you know, plus or minus of minor repair work that would need to be done on the facility. So in reasonable shape and good enough to use if we decide to pursue that. probably another two weeks, maybe three, waiting on an appraisal on the property. And then with that, I'll be able to get that information back to you to decide what the city might want to do. Are we going to attempt to negotiate any of these items in the purchase? If you would like us to. I mean, we're not going to do anything until we get an appraisal. The appraisal is either going to come in high or it'll come in, you know, under that amount. And so we've agreed to pay the amount, the asking price as part of the contract should the appraisal come in, you know, at or over. And so that was the kind of the tradeoff there was if the appraisal comes in and it's over what the asking price was, obviously we're getting a value add If it comes in under, then absolutely we'll have some negotiating room about what needs to be done. But if it comes in at or over, we won't have a lot of negotiating room at that point. Understood. Okay. I was just curious.

Good point. All right.

Thank you. Yes, sir.

I want to ask one question. Well, not maybe a question, but a comment about I know we're getting the quarterly nuisance property reports. I've gotten a few calls about recognizing that we are addressing the nuisance from the standpoint of the homes and the overgrown vegetation or whatever, but are we looking at nuisance properties like with vehicles? I've gotten like two calls in a week about yards with multiple vehicles that's not looking operable or not having car tags, how are we addressing those? Are we identifying a lot of those properties?

Yes, ma'am. So if we have those, if you'll forward those to me or to the engineering department, we'll be glad to look into that. We do have two police officers that are working code enforcement. to work those in the field. If the cars are on the street and they do not have tags and all, they can enforce that in the right of way. If they're currently not on the street, like they're in the yard, we do not have something on the books now, but we're looking at that as a possible code update change for you, ordinance change to bring to you for your review and approval.

I think that's what the question really was about us addressing those homes with multiple vehicles.

Yes, ma'am. We're looking at that with the city attorney, too, and the police chief to figure out what that needs to look like to get it to you for your approval. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Just as a reminder, I think there were nine code changes that I brought to you all two council meetings back, I believe. We're currently working on those now. Um, after y'all gave us a thumbs up to move forward with it, a couple of those do have to go to planning commission. So, um, it needs to go through planning commission with a vote to recommend to approve or not approve to this body. So those will be on planning commission. I believe planning commission meets next week. So, um, we do have it on the agenda for those code. code and ordinance of changes that affects Planning Commission. So once it goes through Planning Commission, it'll be on your next council agenda for y'all's review and hopefully approval. But like I said, I think we have nine is what I remember as far as code and ordinance changes that will give us, I think, better tools as we plan our growth in the engineering department. This is not one of those nine, to be clear. The ones for that, we still have some more work to do on that one, so the one for the cars that are not in the right of way is not in the nine, but I'll get that in the very next batch, man.

Anything else? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Okay, let's review the agenda. We'll go over roll call, opening prayer and pledge of allegiance, approval of the agenda. And then we'll move into consideration of the consent agenda. Right now we've got contract billings of $117,353.93. Donald Smith Company for Irrigation Well Multi-Purpose Recreational Complex of $51,300. Paula Inc. Invoice for Design Bid Service Multi-Purpose Recreational Complex, Phase 2, $10,114.04, Barge Design Solutions. $28,397.79 for contract services, and the Kimberly Horne Associates for contract services, Main Street Signal Project, and that's $27,542.10. Two travel requests there, and then we'll go into privilege to the floor, and then staff reports if we have anything else during that time. Under old business, We're going to review and consider bid recommendations for the FY26 resurfacing improvements phase six. Barry, Mr. Mott, excuse me, or John, do you have anything on that?

Yeah, I just, I wanted to point out the, if you look at the bids that were submitted, many of them were significantly lower rates. on a square yard basis than what we have seen in the past. So, you know, I wanted to highlight that and also say that I think we budgeted somewhere in the neighborhood of about 1.5 million. So one of the things that Barry and I have discussed with Glenn Morgan and our city attorney is using some of the contingency funds in that to bring in at least one more street, potentially two. that would have been on Phase 7. So the street that we're recommending to pull forward right now is Daleville Avenue. And then subsequently, we have a grant out right now for a Rebuild Alabama Act grant for Alberta Street. If we don't receive that grant here in the month of September, we didn't get it for the year. But it's on Phase 7. So we would also recommend bringing that street if we could. So those would be the two streets in that order. And I can let Barry talk about this, but we're checking on the legality and what wiggle room we have to go above the contract bid amount and the contingencies. I think there's a 10% to 15%, but there may be a little wiggle room with that. So that's what we're checking on. And if we're able to, we would like to add Alberta Street and Daleville Avenue. If we can't, just Elville Avenue would be brought forward.

I may have it, but is there a map that shows the streets, or do you have a map that you can send us? We do. Okay.

We do have a map I can share with you if you'd like me to send that to you. Thank you. What Jonathan's mentioned, though, just to be clear, is we based our design off of a budget amount based upon what we'd seen bids on in the last couple of paving projects. However, we got such good prices this year The bids came in significantly lower than what they did. So these additional two streets, I would have asked them to be put into this project, but I really thought that they would be out of our reach, and I didn't want to, number one, pay the design to have them done and not be able to award them. But if we can pull this off with legality of what the state will allow us to do to add these two as a change order to the contract, it would be a really good deal for the city while we have good per square yard asphalt prices on these roads. I think it's something we can pretty quickly add into if our city attorney says that we can do that, legally add those as a changeover. We do have $200,000 worth of contingency in there, so adding those roads will be on top of that $200,000, but there is a possibility that we could do that.

It's good to have those in our hip pocket where we can pull them forward and do it.

Absolutely.

Any other questions?

Hey, Barry, just for my knowledge, for a street like Daleville Avenue where it's concrete or, you know, College Street, some of those older roads, is there a different process for resurfacing those? I've seen, you know, us roto-grade, the typical asphalt road, but is there a different process for those?

For concrete streets? Yes, sir. So, you know, asphalt's pretty straightforward. There is the possibility on an asphalt street that we could come in and, clean it, tack it, and just put it right on top of the existing asphalt. If the road buildup is so much that the storm drains and stuff don't work, we have to mill that surface down, or if we don't think we get good bonding of asphalt to asphalt. So asphalt's a completely different process than concrete. On concrete, you have a choice. The choice being that we could go in there and put asphalt over concrete. It's been done. People that have even concrete pavers in old city streets, they put asphalt on top of it. The problem with asphalt over concrete or over pavers, which are nothing but basically smaller concrete pads, is the reflectivity cracking that comes back through it. So if you went down, let's say College Street to the north up towards the airport, we could just pave it and for a short period of time it would be smooth and silk and everybody would love it. And it will not matter, just a short period of time you'd start to see the cracking come back from where the joints are and it will come all the way through the asphalt and the asphalt will start pulling apart at those cracks. Because what happens, those big slabs, they don't compress and contract. They work independently. So as they move back and forth, as it gets colder and hotter, it'll do the same thing to the asphalt. So the asphalt will pull right apart in a short period of time. So that's one choice, put asphalt on top of it. The other choice that you could do is full-depth remediation, which means you basically either take the concrete up or they rublize it. They have a machine that'll actually beat the concrete down into smaller pieces and make the old concrete be the roadbed, and then you put asphalt on top of that. That's the best solution, but it comes with some cost. Some cost of the construction, of course, and then the other cost is, as you're beating the ground and we're beating that concrete, if there's old water lines, if there's utilities under there, you run the risk of possibly breaking those utilities or causing stress fractures in those utilities. There's really not, concrete is a completely different animal. I think my recommendation right now is we have areas where the concrete is buckled to go in there and either cut those joints out and just repave that section with concrete back to smooth out those transition points or just try to remediate the openings, the cracks that are there. Because a lot of the slabs are in really good shape. The problem that we're having is in the joints that are there, the joints of people buckled up or they pulled apart. So I think that's my recommendation in what we do moving forward.

Thanks for the explanation. I just had people ask my district, and they ask questions, and I'm smart enough not to answer things I don't understand. So I was like, let me ask the experts. So thanks for the explanation.

Yeah, there are some areas in town around Main Street. Jonathan was pointing out that we had some paving, some pavers that were there that we did asphalt on top, and you're seeing those reflectivity cracks coming back to the surface now. So we currently do have that. The concern that I have, of course, is like on College and Rawls and some of those areas where we have some very old sections of concrete that are very, very hard. There's not going to be a simple solution other than either take it all up or try to rubbleize it in place. and both of those would be timely and expensive.

For the record, I wasn't asking for any special treatment or those roads to be done. I was just wondering about the process because I just didn't know.

We did the PCI index. This is before your time. We did the PCI index. We looked at those roads, and there was a PCI put on them, but we did the resurfacing plan. We took those concrete roads off the table because there was so much regular asphalt roads that had to be done, But now that we're kind of catching up on some of the worst of the asphalt, we are looking at those concrete sections now and figuring out how do we need to remediate that. Some we're doing in-house. We've done a couple of those in-house with our public works crew. And there may be a point that we have to go out and bid some of those to get ahead of it. There is one section that we looked at where We did asphalt on top of concrete over near, I'm trying to remember the street. I don't know, College Street's one where there are some areas of College Street if you've driven down there where you see that there are asphalt patches in the middle of a concrete section of road. So all concrete but it seems like there's a random patch in the middle of the road and that patch has either sunk or bowed up and it's rough. In my opinion, that was not a good solution at the time. The best solution that you'd come in on those concrete sections, that concrete road is pretty thick, is to come in and cut out those sections of asphalt that are there and dial in with, basically drill in greased steel rods, dials, rebar, every so often rebar. They're smooth rebar, but rebar, and then when you pour your concrete back, it locks those two pieces of concrete together, and it becomes like a flex design type concrete pad. Purpose of being is when you do that, now you have concrete on concrete. You do have joints, but they're locked together, and you don't have it where it bows up or down or sinks or concaves. So that's something that we're currently doing. We've done a couple patches, and it's come out pretty well. And as we have our crews available in public works and the street department, we're going to tackle more of those. I do want to put in, we put in, I think, $100,000 in our budget for next year for concrete work, such as that. So we'll have some money there to do that if I can free the labor up to do it. If we can do it with our own staff, we can go a lot farther using our public works staff to do those projects. The project will go a lot farther than if we had a contractor come in and do that work. So that is my goal, is to see if we can do it in-house, to get as much of that done as we can. Thanks for the info. Yes, sir.

All right. Next one is review and consider bid recommendations and demolition of the public nuisance properties phase three. Mr. Mott.

So as a city initiative, this is not CDBG. This is the city initiative demo. We had, I believe there were eight properties there that we went out for prices on demolition of those structures. And we got really, really good bid prices. You can see the bids that we've got there. It was a big gap or gap. difference, delta in those numbers, our recommendation at this point is to move forward with that low bid at $31,173 to the low bid to take those buildings down.

Thank you. Any questions? All right. Next one's review and consider bid recommendation, PV Park, phase two lighting improvements.

Do you want to do that or Blake? Let's Blake. Blake and our contact team on this together. We did do a PO a while back to purchase the material for that through Musco Lighting. And that was material only. And this portion is to do the installation of the lights itself. So we did take bids on that. And we received, I think, three bids on that. And the low bid was $254,000 and change. It was recommendation from my office to Blake to accept that bid as is and for the installation of the lights.

Yeah, we had budgeted this. But this is, I think we were projecting around $300,000. So it hit around that number and actually came in under that. So we do have bond money set apart for this, too. So talking to Leanne, we're good and ready to roll. So with your approval, we can look to have lights and, you know, be ready for spring of 27 with everything.

That'd be great. And thank you for that information day on Henderson Park with the pictures. Yes, sir. I mean, that was awesome.

Yes, sir.

Okay. Next is to authorize the mayor to execute real estate purchase agreement. The former Coffinville Junior High north of Weeda Street. Anything... More you want to talk about? Yes, sir.

This is what we talked about a little bit ago, but any other questions or concerns with that? Any? Okay. Just so you know, one of the reasons I put it on the agenda tonight is the school system didn't make any substantive changes to the agreement we sent them. So after our city attorney looked at it, realizing there weren't any changes, it seemed like it was a good idea to go ahead and get in front of you since we've been waiting on it for so long.

That's good.

So, yeah. All right. Any questions?

Okay, good. All right, then we'll go into new business. Authorize the mayor to execute a contract, large design solutions, the new corporate hangar out at the airport. Mr. Mott.

Yes, sir. So this is a hangar that we actually moved forward. We had a design on the project with Enterprise Rescue and PHI with a medical air med helicopter. The original design had a living quarters and such into a hangar. The hangar was an 80 by 80 hangar plus a lot of amenities. The project came in above what the budget amount was for them to pay the lease. We've gone back and talked to Aldot about rebidding this project as a bare bones hangar, taking out the living quarters and such and reducing the price down by estimate of the engineer about half of that. So get it back within the million dollars. And why the million dollars is important is because we've got a five hundred thousand dollar grant. It's a 50 50 grant. So for every dollar of the project cost up to a million dollars, we get half of that by grant. Half of it is local match. So currently this contract is under review by Aldot. They're they're working through some stuff with a consultant. But I want to go ahead and get authorization from this body to allow the mayor to execute that contract. with bars to move forward with the redesign of that hanger. And that would be contingent upon Enterprise Rescue signing a lease agreement with the city that they would pick up the difference, the lease agreement, moving forward with the hanger as well. So this is the same hanger we talked about, but it's a reduced scope of the building back into just bare essentials. Personally, I like this in the event that they didn't want the hanger, they defaulted on the lease, anything like that. Now we end up with a hanger, an 80 by 80 hanger that's very marketable in the market, and there's a lot of people that would love to have an 80 by 80 hanger at the airport.

Thank you. Any questions or discussion? All right. Then we'll recess our regular session. We'll convene into E911 board meeting. uh roll call review of the minutes for august 4th 2026 meeting there's no old business the new business will be the accounts payable a august 2026 of uh ask for a motion for eighteen thousand four hundred fifty four twenty six cents and then we'll have the adjournment and then we come back and reconvene the regular session mayor's report council member comments And then we'll adjourn, and then we'll mention that our next get-together will be 8 a.m. Tuesday, September the 8th, 2026 for our budget work session. Anybody have anything else for it? Okay. Well. Is there anything else, Mr. Tullis, or something before we adjourn to our general meeting? Anybody else? All right. Well, let's go ahead and adjourn work session. We'll be back for a regular meeting in about 20 minutes at 6 p.m. Thank you.

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Let me follow the leader.

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Thank you. All right.

All right, we'll go ahead and convene our regular session of our city council meeting. Let the record show that all our city council members are here except for Mr. Pageant. I call for a motion to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. Or excuse me, let's do our opening prayer and pledge of allegiance. Mr. Sonny Moore, Chaplain Sonny Moore, please.

Hey, do we pray first or have the page? You're going to pray. Okay, let's bow together and pray. Heavenly Father, we're grateful for at the beginning of this meeting, we recognize the one who's above all things, our creator, our redeemer, and our best friend. Thank you, God, for the sunshine today and for the blessings of this life. Thank you for living in a town like the City of Progress, Enterprise, Alabama. Thank you, Father, for your manifold blessings upon our city. And we thank you, God, for our mayor, Mayor Cooper, and for each council member, each department head that are devoted servants. We remember that the greatest man that ever lived was a servant. And that is our purpose, God, to serve you and to serve our fellow man. So help us to let our light shine and help us to make a difference every day that we live on this planet. God, we pray you'll bless this council tonight as they discuss the important business of this city. God, give them help from heaven. Give them divine wisdom to do the things that need to be done. We love Enterprise. And, God, I know it takes leadership, and we've got it right here. And that's why people want to come to Enterprise. We love it. So continue to bless Enterprise and Coffey County. God, we love you. We thank you. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's say it, please.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much. Thank you, Chuck. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Okay, now the next is the approval of our agenda. I'll call for a motion to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted.

I move to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. Second.

Okay, all in favor, sign by aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Okay, motion approved. Consideration of the consent agenda, excuse me. All matters listed within the consent agenda has been distributed to each member of the council for review are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion of the city council with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired on an item, that item can be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda. by request of a member of the City Council. I call for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented.

I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second.

Okay, I have motion and second. All those approve by saying aye.

Aye.

And those that oppose, same sign. Okay, motion approved. All right, privilege of the floor. This is the part of the meeting where anyone in attendance tonight who wishes to address the council may do so for three minutes. If there is a public hearing on the agenda for the topic you are concerned with, please wait until that public hearing opens to address the council. If they choose, staff, mayor, and council will respond to your comments during the appointed times later in the meeting. Repetitive, disruptive, and disparaging comments will not be tolerated. If you are found out of order, your privileges can and will be revoked. Does anyone wish to address the council at this time? Okay, seeing no one, we'll close privilege on the floor. Staff reports. Any staff report that we didn't get in work session? Thank you. All right, old business. I'd like to introduce and call for consideration of a recommendation from consulting engineer Glenn Morgan to reward the bid for the FY26 Resurfacing Improvements Phase 6 to the Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc. in the amount of $998,173.85 and further authorize the Mayor to execute all contract documents associated with the project. Other bids received are as follows. Southeast Construction Company LLC, $1,159,733. Lewis Incorporated, $1,352,800. And APAC Alabama Inc., $1,435,574. I have a motion.

I move to award the bid for FY26 resurfacing improvements, phase six to Wiregrass Construction Company Incorporated in the amount of $998,173.85 and authorize the mayor to execute all contract documents associated with the project.

Second. Okay, any further discussion? Okay, I have a motion and a second. All those approved by signifying with aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign. Hearing none, motion to pass. I'd like to introduce and call for consideration of a recommendation from City Engineer and Public Works Director Barry Mott to award bid requisition number 202606 for the demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties Phase 3 to Lewis, Inc. in the amount of $31,173 and further authorize the Mayor to execute all contract documents associated with the project. Other bids received are as follows. Tolleson Construction, $63,700.02. Do I have a motion?

Move to award the bid number 2026-06 for the demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties, Phase 3, to Lewis, Inc., in the amount of $31,173.00, and authorize the mayor to execute all contract documents associated with the project.

Second. Okay, I have a motion and a second. All those for the motion. By signifying with aye.

Aye.

All those opposed? Okay, motion approved. Next one is the introduce and call for consideration of a recommendation from City Engineer and Public Works Director Barry Mott to award bid requisition number 202610 for PV Park Phase II lighting improvements to south electrical contractors in the amount of $254,000 $377, and further authorized the mayor to execute all contract associates with the project. Other bids received are as follows. Herndon Electric, Inc., $279,805, and Thorne Electric Company, $310,000. Do I have a motion?

I move to award the bid number 2026-10 for PV Park Phase 2 lighting and improvements to S Electrical Contractors in the amount of $254,377 and authorize the mayor to execute all contract documents associated with the project.

Second.

Okay, motion second. All those for? Signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, same sign. Okay, motion passed. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor in consultation with the city attorney to execute an agreement and closing documents for the purchase of the former Coppinville Junior High School property located on North Weeda Street as presented. Do I have a motion?

I move to authorize the mayor in consultation with the city attorney to execute an agreement and closing documents for the purchase of the former Coppinville Junior High School property located on North Weeda Street as presented.

Second.

Okay, do we have any further discussion? Okay, all those approved, I signify with aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign. Okay, motion passed. All right, we're going to new business. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute a contract with Barge Design Solutions for redesigned bidding and construction phase services associated with a new corporate hangar at the Enterprise Municipal Airport, subject to review with approval of the contract by the Alabama Department of Transportation. The project will be funded through a 50-50 state grant of up to $500,000. Do I have a motion?

Move to authorize the mayor to execute the contract with Bars Design Solutions as submitted, contingent upon the approval from the Alabama Department of Transportation.

Second. Okay, a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Okay, all those approved by signifying by saying aye. Aye. And all those opposed, same sign. Motion passed. Okay, I'd like to go ahead and recess in a regular session. We'll convene into our E911 board. Let the record show that all council members are here except for Mr. Padgett. We'll review the minutes for August 4th, 2026 meeting. I call for a motion to approve the 4th of August, 2026 E911 board meeting minutes as written.

Move to approve the August 4th, 2026 E911 board meeting minutes as written.

Second. Second.

Okay, motion second. Any further discussion? Okay, all those approve, I signify saying aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, same sign. Okay, motion passed. There is no new businesses accounts payable A, August 2026. Call for a motion to approve accounts payable A of August 2026 in the amount of $18,454.26.

I'll move to approve the accounts payable for August 2026 in the amount of $18,454.26. Second. Okay.

I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Okay. All those approved, I signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, same sign. Okay. Motion passed. All right. We'll adjourn our E911 board meeting and reconvene the regular session.

Mayor, it's time for your report, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. As we begin the month of September, I want to take a few minutes tonight to recognize some of the work taking place across our community and to look ahead for what is coming. September is National Preparedness Month, and this year's theme is America Stands Ready. Emergencies and disasters can happen anywhere and at any time, and preparedness is something that involves all of us. I encourage our residents to take some time this month to make sure that the families are prepared to review their emergency plans and to know where they can turn for information when an emergency occurs. Preparedness is not just about what happens during a disaster. It is about taking steps now that can help protect our families and neighborhoods and our community when it needs it most. As we continue to experience extreme heat, I also want to remind everyone to look out for one another, be a good neighbor, check on those around you, especially those who will be more vulnerable to the heat and make sure they are doing okay. The school back in session, I would like to remind everyone to use extra caution on our roads. Please be aware of the school zones, watch for children and buses. Slow down and give yourself plenty of time to get where you're going safely. And while we're talking about safety, I want to remind everyone to be respectful of our emergency vehicles, the men and women who operate them. When you see an emergency vehicle responding to a call, get out of the way, give them room to work, and give them the time and space they need to do their job safely. A few seconds can make a difference when someone needs help. We also continue to see progress on projects that will have a lasting impact on enterprise. On the Bellwood Road sidewalk, projects is moving forward, providing new pedestrian connections along the Bellwood Road and George C. Wallace Drive. We also continue our investment in our streets and infrastructure as we move forward with the next phase of our resurfacing program. We know there is still more work to do, and we will continue working to address our streets and infrastructure as resources allow. September also marks the beginning of a very busy season for our community. Over the next several months, We will have numerous events and activities taking place throughout Enterprise, bringing residents together and welcoming visitors to our community. These events are an important part of what makes Enterprise a great place to live, work and visit. I want to encourage our citizens to get involved, support our local businesses and take advantage of the many opportunities our community has to offer. There's a great deal happening in enterprise and much of it happens because people are willing to work together. I want to thank our city employees, our department heads, our council, our business community, our community organizations, and our residents for the part each of you play in moving this city forward. We have much to be proud of, but we also have much more to accomplish. Thank you for being here tonight. May God bless each of you, and may he continue to bless the city of Enterprise.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Ms. Rich?

I want to say thanks to our administration and our financial teams and all our department heads for all the hard work you have put into getting us prepared for next week. I know that takes a lot, so that's greatly appreciated. I want to congratulate you, Lily, on your amazing, I guess I want to say debut last week with Main Street, Alabama. She racked up two awards. And her team, Barry. It was another war. I know one was about the lighting improvements for downtown. So people were really impressed by the banquet that you helped put together. So congratulations to you.

Mr. Mack? Thank you, everyone, for attending this evening. I'd also like to piggyback on what Ms. Sonja said about the budget. I know it's a lot of work for everyone to come together and work on it. As you can see, it's four or five inches thick, so we've got a lot of studying to do between now and next Tuesday. But thank you for all the city staff who helped take part in that.

Mr. Walton.

Yeah, I will echo everything they said. So I don't have much to say because I have a lot to read. So I'm going to hold it short, go home, do my homework. So thank you, guys.

Thank you. Thank you for everyone coming tonight. Thank you for all our citizens that are watching online. And thank you, Mr. Mayor, for mentioning disaster preparedness. If anybody has any questions on the community emergency response team, please call me. My number's on the site there. Thank you, and we're going to adjourn this meeting. Our next get-together for the council will be at 8 a.m. Tuesday, September the 8th, 2026, for our budget work session right here. Thank you, and God bless. Good night.

Thank you.