Council - Regular Meeting

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 very much. At this time, we'll get the approval of the agenda. However, we did remove item from the consent agenda, item E, if we can get an approval for the agenda as presented. Second. Motion by Mr. Spence. Second by Mr. Dixon. All in favor?

At this time, we will have a message from Mayor Tyler.

Thank you very much, Ms. Simmons. I have several things that I'd like to update the council on, one of which happens to be, this is one of the formalities, is a certificate of appointment to the Planning Commission, and I have appointed Ms. Emily Stutz to serve as a member of the Planning Commission, and her term will take effect immediately. So I have this for Ricky. I also have a few things that I'm going to give to the clerk's office, we talked a little bit about the Falcons against opioids during the work session, and I have a copy of that presentation and some comments about that, as well

Rachel's going to be able to do that. I would like to start sharing that and explaining that process.

Yes, because there's a lot of questions, particularly this time of year, and that's why we wanted to get that out. A couple of other updates that I want to pass on. First of all, about the animal shelter, there is not a... A resolution on the agenda tonight to start the 90 days to terminate that agreement. Lauderdale County has been requesting some information and some documents from the city. Our office has provided that for their review. We're giving them this opportunity to review all of those, prepare some thoughts, develop some questions, and I expect once they've had an opportunity to do

Thank you, Mayor Tyler. Do we have any reports from any department heads? Okay, standing committees. Okay, we do have one public hearing. Mr. Mason.

Okay. The floor is now open. Do we have any comments from anyone on my right? Want to speak for or against? In the middle? To my left? There be none?

Okay, thank you. All right, at this time, we will have business from the floor pertaining to the consent and the regular agenda items only with a five-minute time limit. If you will, you'll come to the podium, state your name and address. To my left, in the middle, to my right. Okay. There will be none. Mr. Williams, if you would go with the agenda.

Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? Second. Motion by Mr. Spence, second by Ms. King. All in favor of the motion?

Do you hear a motion for immediate consideration?

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

Do I hear a motion for immediate consideration?

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

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

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

Do you hear a motion for immediate consideration?

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

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

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

Do we have a motion for the adoption? Motion. Motion by Ms. Dixon, second by Mr. Hendricks. Any discussion? All in favor of the motion.

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

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

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

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

That was it. We had some board vacancy reappointments that we finished, we appointed. For the building and property maintenance of appeals, we had one alternate vacancy, and that was with Mr. Bill. Mr. Griffin, Bill Griffin. And on the Historical Preservation Commission, that was with Ms. Kelsey Dempsey. Ms. Kelsey Dempsey. And on the Board of Adjustments, we had two reappointments, and they were eligible to be reappointed, and they both wanted to be reappointed. In the Library Foundation Board, Council Representative Jackie Hendricks was appointed to that board. So that's it for the boards. E

Good evening, everyone. I want to thank everyone for being here tonight, those who've been in attendance and those who are watching. Yeah, you too. Also want to thank our city employees for all they do each and every day, continue to support them and, you know, and what they do for our city and to keep it going, serving and just putting out the fires. And we've had a lot of things happening lately. So we really appreciate you all. I want to say First Fridays was a great celebration. It was great from First Fridays to at McFarland. Great representation. I mean, First Fridays was awesome. It was

Thank you, Madam President. And with your permission, I may go a little long tonight, but I think it's to be under five minutes. But I do have written remarks, which usually I don't. I want to echo some of the things the mayor has talked about the last council meeting and again tonight. But the The first thing I want to point out to the general public that our city is in an excellent financial position. We are nowhere near our bonding capacity. We do not have a cash flow problem. We do not have an asset problem. That said, we are required to run a balanced budget, and the balanced budget, as y

Thank you very much. I believe you trumped Mr. Spence tonight. It was a joke.

Okay, Ms. Dixon. Okay, I'll make this quick because I know we've already talked about First Friday, but it really was great. And I especially loved... pictures of the history and the QR code and everything. So I did just want to say, give a big thank you and a shout out to all those who worked so hard on all of our celebrations this past weekend with First Friday and then Spirit of Freedom. I mean, I know a lot of time and effort goes into that. So thank you. Thank you for all those that were involved in that. Thank you for those who came out and and took part in it and celebrated with us. So

Thank you, Ms. Dixon. My comments, I want to thank everybody for being here, for tuning in online. I want to say, we did, we had a spectacular first Friday, so I want to say shout out to DFA and everybody involved who made that happen. The highlight of mine, of course, was you guys, was the community, all of the pictures, and I loved the parade. That was fabulous. And the weather was just fantastic. So thank you and kudos to everybody. You know, Chris Stengel and his team, they work very, very, very hard to make that happen. And so everyone can come out and enjoy throughout the Shoals area and

Let us pray. Father God, we love you, Father, and we just thank you for this time and just for the time that you've given us for our beautiful city to serve and to serve you, Lord Jesus. I just pray your wisdom, your discernment over the mayor, the council, and decisions that are made, Father God. That you lead us and you guide us and we just look to you vertically for your guidance, Lord Jesus. We give you all. Well, I'm going to also pray for Josh Bowling that's away from us in this meeting and serving and doing your mission work, Father God. We pray your protection over him, Lord Jesus. And