Council - Regular Meeting

0:17 – 0:42•JAJennifer Andress

okay thank you so much everybody and welcome to the city council meeting for august 24th we are going to begin tonight's meeting with a presentation from homewood's own jim coker and jefferson county ema i know you've got someone with you as well You will introduce your guest as well, please.

5:59 – 9:41•JAJennifer Andress

Okay, I'm just gonna stay down here, and I'm gonna ask Laura and Will and Sarah to come join me at the podium. So, Homewood lost a giant, figuratively, of course. Last week, it was just, anyway, just a shock, and I can't tell you how much we love Trisha Kirk, and how much we've loved her in this community for so long, and so, you know, I was mentioning to you the first time I ever met her, Who is this person? She is just, you know, a firecracker and just the most delightful person. And just I want you to know how much we treasure everything that she's brought to our community. It would not be

10:26 – 10:46•JAJennifer Andress

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. Okay, roll call vote, Mr. Searest.

10:56 – 11:07•JAJennifer Andress

Here. All right, we have a full house. All right, you should have received your copy of the minutes from our meeting on August the 10th. I would entertain a motion and a second for approval.

11:11 – 11:55•JAJennifer Andress

All right. I have a motion from Councilor Armstead with a second from Councilor Simmons. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. And that passes five to zero. All right. Talk about board vacancies. A reminder that we have openings for the abatement board for Ward 1, Ward 2, and a supernumerary position. Those will be open until our next meeting on September the 14th. And I do think we've got some applications, but we do still need them from Ward 2. Is that right, Mr. Segrist? Yes, ma'am. All right. So anyone know anyone in Ward 2, let them know. We do have that position open. I'm also

13:17 – 13:31•JAJennifer Andress

So to recap, Mr. Seegers, we have openings for the Home and Historic Preservation Commission for all the wards plus three at-large positions. Okay, all right. You guys know what to do. And how long are we opening this until?

13:42 – 17:49•JAJennifer Andress

Okay, perfect. Awesome, thank you. We'll get Brian to shout that out as well on social media. Okay, we have one addition to the agenda from our pre-council meeting, and that item is 2008-26, a request for consideration of a temporary construction easement at 173 Oxmoor Road, brought to us from Amy Zerri, our city engineer. With that, I would entertain a motion and a second to approve the amended agenda. second any discussion before we vote on that okay all those in favor five to zero okay I have a whole lot of reading to do so bear with me we've got a slew of public hearings on September the 1

21:45 – 22:16•JAJennifer Andress

okay thank you so we will carry this one over to our next meeting which is september 14th without objection all right moving on to resolutions i like our new format of our agenda mr segrist and jay and keith i like the way we have it laid out Next item is 030826, a request for consideration of 1512 Grove Place Indemnification Agreement brought to us from Amy Zerry. Report from Mr. Segrist.

22:35•JAJennifer Andress

All right. And before we have any discussion, I have a motion and a second to approve.

22:42 – 23:32•JAJennifer Andress

Second. All right. I have a motion from Councillor Simmons and a second from Councillor Sims. Any discussion on this item? Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, that passes five to zero and that becomes resolution 2687. All right, next item 2308.26, a request for consideration of approval of vouchers for a period of August 10th, 2026 through August 24th, brought to us by Mr. Bischoff and Kelly Lee and Aspen Collins. Aspen in the audience, yay. That's the first time your names appeared on an agenda. We're so happy to have you. Okay, before we discuss, do I have a motion and a s

23:34•JAJennifer Andress

All right, I have a motion from Councilor Sims and a second from Councilor Simmons. Any discussion on this item?

23:53 – 24:41•JAJennifer Andress

All right, seeing no discussion, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, that passes five to zero and becomes resolution 2688. Next item, 240826, a request for consideration of an ABC 160 special retail more than 30 days license for local link BHAM. LLC Tina's market at 3027 Central Avenue, Rochester, mr. Seagrass mr. Seagrass any thing we need to know about this and the objections from police and fire no ma'am Is there a motion and a second for approval Motion to approve second. All right. I have a motion from councillor Sims with a second from councillor Lane any discussion on this

25:15 – 25:46•JAJennifer Andress

All right. Oh, good. I didn't realize that. Okay, great. Okay. Well, I have got a motion from Councilor Sims and a second from Councilor Lane. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. And that passes 5-0. And this is the item that we added from pre-council. This is item 2008-26, a request for consideration of a temporary construction easement at 173 Oxmoor Road, Amy Zerry brought to us from Amy Zerry, aka this is the Waffle House parcel. Mr. Segrist, any other update you want to give us on this item before we vote?

26:02 – 26:31•JAJennifer Andress

Thank you. Do I have a motion and a second for approval before we discuss? All right. I have a motion from Councilor Simmons and a second from Councilor Armstead. Any discussion on this item? All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That passes 5-0, and that is Resolution 2689. How about that, guys? All right. We did pretty good. All right. Before I toss it over to Ward 1, I'm going to toss it to the City Manager.

29:13•JAJennifer Andress

Excellent. Thank you so much. All right. What's going on in Ward 2, Councilor Simmons?

33:06•JAJennifer Andress

Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, Council Lane, what's going on in Ward 3?

37:13•JAJennifer Andress

All right, thank you so much. All right, Councilor Armstead, what's going on with word four?

38:30 – 41:41•JAJennifer Andress

Alright guys I got a story it's a good one I won't cry I promise I cried earlier I already cried once but it really is a sweet story last week I got to go to a conference for two days called Design Alabama where they select five cities from across the state and do kind of a deep dive with this really great design panel and I knew several people actually Andrew Bryant was there so Andrew worked on both mine and Winslow's house Coincidentally, but, and so just Cheryl Morgan, the amazing Cheryl Morgan was the facilitator, and Ben Weisman, who's a good friend of mine, was in Leadership Birmingham