Council - Regular Meeting

The meeting is officially now called to order. If everyone would please stand. We have an invocation. We'd ask Mark Linder if he would come lead us in the invocation. Followed by the pledge of allegiance.

Mr. Williams, if you'll call the roll, please.

Thank you very much. At this time we will get approval of the consent agenda. Approval of the agenda. Second. Motion by Mr. Hendrick. I'm sorry, motion by Mr. Spence, second by Ms. King. All in favor, motion. All right. At this time, we'll have a message from Mayor Tyler.

Thank you very much. Miss Simmons, I'll be very brief today. Obviously, I want to express my thoughts and prayers for those employees affected by Dow Tile closing down. I do want to draw everyone's attention to the job fair that is coming up this week. This job fair is preferably reserved for those affected employees so we can try to find them a job. a new place to call home very quickly. I will add that within the next month, I think it's another 27 or 28 days, there's going to be a second job fair for the entire community that the Chamber of Commerce is helping us with. So there will be two

Thank you. Do we have any reports from the department heads? Standing committees? There'll be no public hearings. At this time, we'll have business from the board pertaining to the items on the consent and the regular agenda for the five minute time limit. Anyone to my right? To my left? There'll be none. Mr. Williams, sign the agenda, please.

There's a motion. Motion. Second. Motion by Mr. Revolving, second by Ms. Dixon. All in favor give the motion.

Do you hear a motion for the adoption? Motion. Motion by Mr. Bowen, second by Mr. Spence. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Second. Motion by Ms. Dixon, second by Ms. King. All in favor of the motion?

Motion by Mr. Spence, second by Mr. Bowling. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Motion. Second. Motion by Mr. Bowling, second by Ms. Dixon. All in favor of the motion?

Motion by Mr. Spence. Who seconded? Second. Second by Ms. Dixon. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Motion by Mr. Bolling, second by Ms. King. All in favor of the motion?

Second. Motion by Ms. Dixon, second by Mr. Bolling. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Is there a motion for immediate consideration? Second. Motion by Mr. Hendricks, second by Ms. King. All in favor of the motion? Chair, a motion for the adoption? Motion. Second. Motion by Ms. Dixon, second by Mr. Bolling. Any discussion?

Ms. Simmons, I would like to repeat what you stated in the work session so that business owners will understand that they can continue to use their blue cups until they exhaust their inventory and then switch to the purple cups. So there's no misunderstanding on that. And hopefully if there's an article in the newspaper, they'll put that in there too.

Okay. Any other discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Juror, a motion for immediate consideration?

Motion by Mr. Spence, second by Mr. Hendricks. All in favor of the motion? Do you hear a motion for the adoption? Motion. Motion by Ms. King, second by Ms. Dixon. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Motion by Mr. Bolling, second by Mr. Hendricks. All in favor?

Do I hear a motion for immediate consideration? Motion. Second. Motion by Ms. King, second by Mr. Bolling. All in favor of the motion?

Motion by Mr. Hendricks, second by Mr. Bolling. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

Do I hear a motion for immediate consideration? Motion.

Motion by Mr. Bolling, second by Mr. Hendricks. All in favor, motion. Do you hear a motion for the adoption? Motion. Second. Motion by Ms. King, second by Mr. Foley. Any discussion?

Do you hear a motion for immediate consideration? Motion. Second. Motion by Ms. King, second by Mr. Hendricks. All in favor of the motion?

Motion by Mr. Bolling, second by Mr. Hendricks. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion?

At this time, we'll have business from the public with a five-minute time limit. Anyone to my right? To my left? There will be none. At this time, we will have council members report comments with five-minute time limit. We'll start with Ms. Dixon.

I actually have some Something prepared. I have three things I wanted to bring up, so sorry, y'all. Take your breath. Here we go. Okay, I had the opportunity to tour the local food bank and learn more about how they operate, how they receive donations and funding, which thank you to our local grocery stores that participate, local organizations, churches, and even individual members of the community. Your generosity is so appreciated. But even more informative was learning how they serve the community right here in Florence. I learned of the organizations they partner with to provide food for

Well, thank you all that are here tonight to celebrate my birthday. And those that are watching from home, we appreciate you. I have exciting news. After several months and a lot of anticipation, we have two blinking lights down Grisham Road that are working, thanks to our street department and electricity department. I tell you, that has been a job to get that going. I think it's probably the first set of blinking lights like that in the city. we're excited to have that. So if you come down Gresham Road and the lights are blinking, just know that there's a car sitting at the end of Seville St

I remember an economics professor telling me once that a recession is when your neighbor loses their job and a depression is when you lose yours. And we've got 144 people experiencing a depression right now. They're frightened. They're nervous, they're depressed, they don't know what's gonna happen. So these job fairs are huge, impacts these families greatly. My hope is that with unemployment in the shows below 4%, that they'll be back to work very, very soon. So let's hope that that happens. Moving on to some more positive news, I want to remind everyone of Renaissance Fair this weekend. We a

Thank you, Mr. Hendrix. I want to thank everyone for being here. I want to say thank you to Mr. Bowling. Thank you for stepping up on Sunday and filling in for me that I could not be there because I was hosting an event. That's called Rock the Block. This is the second time that we're having this. And it was in conjunction with bringing breast cancer awareness as well as honoring all cancer ribbons. And so I want to say thank you so much to the Shoals community, to the Florence community, to all of our amazing sponsors. It's because of our amazing sponsors that this was able to happen. And I j

Let us pray. Father God, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for your many blessings. Father God, I just pray a blessing over our city. Father God, I pray. a hedge of protection around our city lord jesus and i just pray for the direction of our city and the progression of our city and where we are going lord god and i just pray for the mayor and i pray for this council and the decisions that are made father god and i just pray for for insight i just pray for for wisdom for each and every one of us lord jesus and we just pray for our community lord god and what we're going through rig