City Council - Regular Meeting

Morning. Good morning everyone. Good morning. It's good to see everyone this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, we're nine in the hands of our capable city clerk, Miss Lisa Carroll. This is the pre meeting of the Mobile City Council Tuesday, May the 12th. We have approval of minutes from May 5th. Any issues? Anyone? Okay. Appeals. We have request for a wave of the noise ordinance on May the 23rd from 3 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on St. Teresa Street. Uh, and June the 6th from 12:00 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Apex Court. Uh, Mr. President, yes. I don't want to wave this noise ordinance for this this application here. You denying it? Yes. Okay.

Public hearing today is the public hearing to consider the modification of a previously approved planning approval for property located at 65 Mobile Street. and public hearing to consider the modification of a previously approved plan unit development for property at 65 Mobile Street. Public hearing to consider the vacation of unused right ofway adjacent to property located at 64 Overlook Road and public hearing to consider vacation fee as a condition of the vacation of a portion of unopened rightway adjacent property located at 6401 Overlook Road. Mr. President as vice

on the vacation itself. Um I don't have a problem at all with that. This is a piece of property that has been vacant for a very long time. It's at Middle Ring and Overlook and it's actually across the street from those new senior apartments that were just opened. Um this is for a church. However, the uh vacation of the fee I think is an issue. I mean, if it was 5,000 or less, it's automatically waved. But this is nearly $37,000. And some years ago, we worked a long time to try to come up with something that would work for us because we kept having all of these requests to vacate fees. And we needed something to to go by. And while I might empathize with the idea that we're going to build this church and it's costing us all of this money, can't you wave $37,000 for us? Every other church, business or otherwise will be coming to us with the same request. And the reason we did the ordinance in the first place is to try to stop that. So I haven't spoken to anyone at this church. They haven't reached out to me requesting this. But unless there was a real good reason to wave it other than they just want to try to save some money in in building, I would say let's not wave this fee.

Okay. Clerk.

Presentation of petitions and other communications to the council. Carolyn Green, Alvin Garvin. I want to thank the council for bringing Snazzy um to 2026 Marty GR. Asia Staples provide information about hope for all Gulf Coast inaugural miles of hope 5K. William simple tree care safety standards and arborist certification requirements. Apostle Green Valina Green funds to assist citizens estatra taxpayers money is being spent on millions of dollars for severance packages and settlement agreements. CIP resolutions held over 01490 authorized agreement with Harwell and Company for 2026 CIP resurfacing.

Mr. President, yes. Um, do we have a breakdown? I know that uh $11 million. Um, I'm pretty sure that a lot of it or majority of that is coming from individual district CIPs. What's the city as far as city overall CIP? What's that? U is there a portion of that getting contributed to this 11 million or what does that kind of look like? I guess could you rephrase the question? So um every every council district um obviously it's $4 million um set aside for NCIP funds. Yes. Um and the 11 million in total here obviously it's a you know combination of of every district but six.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is a combination of all the the um CIP funds that were contributed by each individual district. Okay. So there's not a matching per se administration or mayor. No, this is strictly CIP. Gotcha. All right. Thank you. So there are seven of us. I'm sorry. There are seven of us each of us going in around a million plus or minus. So how does that does this do you add the geotechnical in with that to get the total amount? No, this contract amount is just for the construction, right? Because

but the overall budget Yeah. includes the the plan preparation, the design, you know, assessment, the construction inspection because that's 238. So add that to the 11 and so the um the 238 is more or less it's not equally distributed. is just, you know, certain districts have more work than other districts. So, what I'll do is I'll provide a breakdown for each one of you by district. The the specific amount by district. Yeah. And kind of show we do where have we do have an underfund. Yeah. Based on our budget.

Yeah. Because we know going in what we're allotting through our CIP for resurfacing. So, I was just trying to see how it all added up to to these amounts. I think that's why Josh was probably asking if there's not some generic city money going into some of this rather than just all CIB. I mean, it's a massive repaven contract. Um, so I mean, I'm very grateful and thank all your work. Um, and I know um and this was and one more question if I may. Um the obviously one contractor has acquired the 11 million contract. Um that I mean that obviously that went through a competitive bid process. Um and

yeah, we follow state bid law and we had multiple biders and all had the you know the same documents and they all bid on the same thing. Gotcha. I appreciate it. And I know um Harwell company, they they redid the PGO um down Hillrest and um in my district and a superior contractor. So I'm glad to see that they do excellent work in April. Thank you.

And just one more followup, John, talking about that. I know I think last time, didn't we split up the contracts between um the road work? It wasn't all one company that got the actual construction. Seemed like we had at least two. Well, well, just like the one for district six will be on the agenda next Tuesday. Um, and and that's a different contractor. It's all competitively bid and whoever happens to be the low bidder. Yeah, I just know I I think maybe we tried to split it up to get things moving along a little quicker by splitting it up. Well, yeah, just Yeah. And so we don't have just one massive project and

Right. We we try to split them up and in and in the in the pay as you go. We try to split it up by commission district. Yeah. Make it more streamlined. Okay. Mr. President, um John, I'm sorry again. Um thank you again. I'm excited about this and it's definitely needed, but I want to follow back up to Madame Vice President's question. So for this particular contract here, I noticed that it has subcontractors underneath it. When she's asking if it was split, are you telling us that the one that's going to come for district six is a part of this? But

it's the district six is a separate contract. This is just a construction contract for the, you know, six of council districts excluding district six. Okay. And so this contract, this 11 million is solely under Hartwell and company. Yes. Okay. So it's not a split on this one. No. No. No. Yeah. Harwell's he's covering all these districts and that includes any of the concrete work and stuff like that. Yeah. And and he has you subcontractors, you know, to meet the DB goals and

I I I do want to um bring this to your attention and if you can just follow up. I I appreciate uh the effort that was placed in meeting the DBE goal. They fell short not by a large percentage but a small percentage. Um I I just want some clarity because um as a new person I'm told that one of the challenges is the fact that um you know it slows the work down you know in that in not meeting that small percentage. Was it due to the fact that um they were concerned about slowing the work down or was it due to the fact that they strictly could not find someone for the other I think was 4%

I I'll have to look into that exactly but it may just be an availability of of All right. Thank you.

Uh, Councilman Woods's question was I believe that so for this budget cycle we of the capital budget, the one cent sales tax essentially is totaled $45 million. You have $4 million for a council district and then you have another four million of citywide capital and then another four million for CDBG CBG eligible census tracks then you have other capital expenses economic incentive and econom incentive chamber of commerce. So I believe his question was is of the two categories of citywide capital and CBG elible eligible census tracks is any of that total $8 million being spent on resurfacing roads.

I'll bring you the list how that's okay. Thank you John. All right. Thank you madam clerk. 08491 approve purchase order to Museo Sports Lighting for Field Lights for Treair Park Football Field. 21492 authorized contract with geotechnical engineering testing for 2026 CIP resurfacing resolutions held over 01466 authorized agreement with Downtown Mobile District Management Corporation for baseline services. Mr. President. Yes.

I would like to offer an amendment um for this particular resolution and it mainly deals with um the monitoring of the baseline services. I don't see Fred but we have discussed Oh, he is okay. We have discussed this um and the amendment is just allowing for monitoring of baseline services in terms of performance that that they would provide back to the city. And so um I have provided a copy to each of the um members and then I have a copy here for administration.

All right. And there's some technical issues with the numbering and so we'll make sure that we have that corrected.

Okay. Any questions or comment council? All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. 01493 authorized foreign trade zone operating agreement with CMT2. 01494 authorized agreement with Hunter Nichols for videography and photography services for National Maritime Museum. 01495 authorized agreement with a agreement amendment number three with Macain construction for 2024 city of Mobile annual storm drainage maintenance. 08496 approve purchase order to Cad Media for exhibit media research and editing services from Maritime Museum. 08501 approved purchase order to GF Coast Truck and Equipment for fire pumper truck engine replacement. 60507 and 508 are authorizing settlement agreement and release of claims. Ordinances being introduced 64021 and 64022 are the modifications for planning approval and plan unit development at 65 Mobile Street. Consent resolutions being introduced. 03512 accept resignations of former board members and appoint Clinton Mitchell, Thomas Kier, Michael Albanese to the improvement district of the city of Mobile. We need to lay this one over. 37513 recommend approval to the ABC board for issuance of retail beer table wine off premises only license to Casey's at um Chillinger Road South 58514 declare we noxious group 1677 60 515 through 521 are determined oh 515 and 516 are approved and award a special

bonus to The Billmobile employee of the month and officer of the month 6517 through 521 are determined appropriations to Florida Carson Visual and Performing Arts Academy Mobile Alumni Chapter Kappa Alphasai Energy Dance Experience and PL Wilson Detachment of the Marine Corps League serve a public purpose and approve payment. CIP resolutions being introduced. 08522 approved purchase order to A andd remodeling for Figure Spark entrance improvements $24,62057. Resolutions being introduced 08523 approve purchase order to Crowd Control Industries for galvanized steel crowd control barricades for traffic engineer $104,000.

Any questions or comments on one?

Okay. 08524 through 529 approve purchase orders to Gwin Land Solutions JJ Quality Homes Prime Professional Concrete Pumping and Finishing Secure Land and Tree LLC Southern Realy Management LLC Thomas A. Galloway for storm vegetation and debris removal. 08530 approved purchase order to Greybar Electric for aluminum light poles $33,900.60 08531 approved purchase order sunb belt fire for breathing air trailer with air compressor and fuel stations. $139,39.38 08533 approve purchase order vulk and construction materials for limestone type A $45,000 13534 authorized change order number three to the contract with PL Russell for Mobile Riverfront redevelopment Koopa Riverside Park for restroom upgrades $283,295.94 21535 authorized Amendment to contract with Forest Daniel and Associates for professional design services for fire station number 19 $50,45. 21536 authorized contract of Gibson Construction Services for upgrades to the mounted unit in Grand Bay $149,687. 21537 authorized contract with Hughes 360 services for facility ground maintenance services 104 South Lawrence Street $7,600 per year 21538 authorized contract Rotolo consultants for facility ground maintenance services

at various city facilities $33,500 21539 authorized contract amendment number two with foc addition Construction Administration services for Hall of Fame walk $145,68268 25540 accept easement from Mobile Airport Authority for an a non-exclusive utility easement agreement for Arlington Park 47541 for 47542 are considered vacation of unused rightway adjacent to property located at 6401 Overlook Road and considering the vacation fee for the um property at the same location. 36,848.95 6543 declare the mayor's cut puzzle challenge and associated purchase of city branded recognition items serve a legitimate public and municipal purpose $2,764.60. Announcements.

Mr. rentals. We got Sam Matheni here and we haven't heard from him in a little while about the arena project. So maybe he can give us an update, tell us some good news or bad news or whatever.

All right. Uh so good news is, you know, we're still on schedule. We're still on budget. We are struggling on the schedule. So, uh, once we get dried in completely, we're probably going to put on a night shift for the interior trades to to recover some of that time that we've lost due to weather. Uh, just for instance, last week on Thursday when it came that that heavy thunderstorm, we got four inches of rain over there in an hour. So, it caused some damage. So, there's a little bit of rework that we have to do. Uh so once that uh once we get dried in, we'll put probably put on a second shift. Uh right now we're you know working all the trades on the interior. We've got about two 200 or so tradesman working in there. The uh the exterior skin is almost complete. The back section that we left out for the cranes, the the large cranes have finished their work on the roof trusses. So they've been demobilized. We're now closing the back in. Uh, and then probably next week, not not probably, next week, we'll start setting uh curtain wall, glass curtain wall on the grand hall and putting windows in. Um, and then also next week, we'll move a small crane back into the bowl. And they'll they'll set the remainder of the uh the low pre-cast concrete seating sections. And then once those are set, then we can we can do the floor slab and the ice slab and and continue on. I mean, it's still we're still fighting schedule and we will all the way through, but I think we'll we'll we'll be where we need to be when we get to the end,

which is completed by December or January. We we are planning to be open for Marty Gro in January. Can I just want to remind you of the friendly wager I have with some folks that we will be in the arena for Marty Gro? You going to split it with me? No. No. It's just pride and ego. No money. Yeah. No, that that that is the goal and right now contractor and we believe that you know we'll we'll get there. We'll be ready. All right. Thank you, Sam. And if and if and if you do come up with an issue or whatever, you'll let us know. Is that right? Absolutely. Yes, sir.

All right. Thanks, Sam. Any other council members, vice president? Yeah. Let's look at um

which items we can lay over today. If you all agree, of course, consent, then into CIP resolutions 08522. Then go down to resolutions being introduced. 08524 25 26 27 28 29 30 uh 533 537 538 and 543. Okay. Any issues in the one? All right. Anything from administration? Yes, sir.

All right. We'll see each other downstairs at 10:30. parking man. I got to pay all that money.