Remarks by Stan Batemon
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Okay, we'll get started before we do. We've got the county attorney. Let's do that then. Before we get started, if you bow with me, I'll ask God to direct us this morning. Dear God, we come before you again just to humble, dear Lord, and thankful that you're our God and that you protect us and that we live under your grace. God, we first of all ask you to be with some families this week that's gone through the passing of some of their their special friends and family all together. It's just been so much of that this week, dear Lord. Be with those families and be with us that have lost friends…
OK. Come out there and hold her down. All right, moving on now into the regular meeting of the St. Clair County Commission. This meeting was changed from last Tuesday officially to today, and this will be the second required meeting of the month in the Pell City jurisdiction, which is where we are this morning. With that, I call this meeting to order officially. First item on this agenda is to approve the agenda and entertain a motion. Motion. Second? Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Next item. Approve the minutes…
Move on to number two if you wish to. DAVID BURRAGE- Yeah.
So be it. DAVID BURRAGE- Now, would most of us second? Second.
DAVID BURRAGE- You're not sure, but it could be a district vote. You never know. So I'm going to abstain. DAVID BURRAGE- I understand. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. DAVID BURRAGE- All opposed, no. Any abstentions? OK. Item 3. Senator requests St. Clair County to abandon the right-of-way at the end of Hearst Road in the Odenville area. Do I have a motion? So be it. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. I'll move to second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? No. Motion carries. Item 4. Consider approving an easement, Alabama Power Company, that…
That's the way you move right on through this. OK. Now, anything, anything the engineer want to add?
While we're on the road, any of the commissioners have any questions to publicly and officially in a business meeting ask Clay? No. All right. Thank you, Clay. Moving on now to Tina Morgan. I won't do her that way. Her report's a lot longer.
I think we were live in the work session and that was all listed. Any official business we take from the work session will be listed in this agenda, right?
Okay. Any of the commissioners have any questions for the county administrator? No, I don't. Well, Kirk gave us his report during the work session, and he's going to check up on the Amendment 909 or whatever it was and a few other items also listed in the work session. And you may want to note in your minutes what he said he would check on since he's not actually here.
All right, moving on down, reports. Stan Bacon, chairman. I've said as much as my reports I can think of, so I don't have anything. Moving on now to District 1, Commissioner Brown.
Very good. I think they have about 80 boats and two people. That's right. That's 160 people. That's always a pretty good-sized bass tournament, yeah.
Yep. All right, moving on now into old business. We have no old business listed under new business. Consider approval of the FY27 Alabama Department of Youth Services Agency grant that goes to the St. Clair County Day Program. The amount of the grant is $343,431. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion. Second. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item two. To the approval of a three-year memorandum of understanding between St. Clair County Commission and ALEA, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, for a Pell City location…
Property movement second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 9, consider request for Revenue Commissioner Ken Crowe to issue a formal cancellation letter to American Financial Credit Services. This request indicates the desire to terminate the county's existing agreement with AFCS for delinquent tax collection. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second? Second. Property movement second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 10. Consider request Revenue Chief Clerk Tony Ridge to pay GoDaddy in the amount of…
I'm going to put plus or minus 66,000. That'll give us an idea of what that is actually, what the NPG money is actually worth to our program. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 12, consider request Sheriff Murray to renew Randy Hurst's employment contract for one year. And you see the term there. Do I have a motion? Motion second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 13, consider request Sheriff Murray to let a bid for the remodel of the sheriff's office former bank building in…
Probably moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Also, I'd like to entertain a motion from one of the members to appoint Ashley Thompson from the extension office to serve on the M4A board of directors. Motion. I have a motion and a second. Probably moved and seconded. Any discussion? Thank Ashley and Theresa for their willingness to serve in these positions. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Consider payment of the regular bills. You got a copy of the bills in the files from our work session. There was a real…
Second? Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the end of the bills at this time? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carried. Item 19, entertain a motion to adjourn the regular meeting of the county commission. I have a motion and a second. Proper move to second the end of the discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion to adjourn. Stands. We stand adjourned. Thank the commissioners for their work.
We're going to have a few hours to do this. Lunchtime. Lunchtime. We're going from here to here.
between that and the I see some, I see a little green. We're good. That's what that little green thing. All right.
of course that's the bridge replacement in riverside and we have finally have that agreement and and i'll be bringing an agreement with the engineering firm before you uh by the end of the month we have discussed that that is the bridge replacement replacement project on depot street we also have a plan to address the bypass so the people will have to drive so far around during the construction correct okay once again how long do you expect the construction to last
After you stop traffic on it, I guess is what I'm wondering. How long will it be closed off to the regular traffic? Do you have an idea? Take three months to do that?
That is casting place cover? It is. Okay. Any more questions about that? Good. Okay.
I might mention too anytime that I've had people over the years mentioned it to me about I saw where y'all just about y'all paying for another study well believe it or not it's not just a study our studies so we can just gather more information. Many of these studies are required before we can apply for another project. So they're not just studies that we chose to do. It's required that we have a traffic study done at that interchange to help in the design phase and all that. And so it's a very important study. And the Regional Planning Commission is an entity that does a lot of our plans for…
No, they had a rural planning commission at one time.
Is that Hardwick Road? Hardwick Road, yes. Old Coast City Road? Where's the Old Coast City Road to citizens, for instance, would be at the red light at the steakhouse all the way to Highway 144? The whole thing? Yes.
And at some point we did something that the Hardwick Road as it connects to, it was Golf Course Road as it connected to Hardwick. That's right.