The Baldwin County Commission held a pre-meeting work session at 9:00 AM and a regular meeting at 10:00 AM on July 1, 2025, at the Baldwin County Administration Building in Bay Minette. All four commissioners were present: James E. Ball (District 1), Matthew P. McKenzie (District 2), Billie Jo Underwood (District 3), and Charles F. Gruber (District 4). The meeting covered a consent agenda of routine items, presentations, a public comment, and several resolutions, all approved unanimously.
The consent agenda, approved by a 4-0 vote, included the following routine items:
Work Session Discussions: During the pre-meeting work session (9:00-9:23 AM), the Commission discussed:
Regular Meeting Presentations:
Addendum:
Other Staff Recommendation:
Welcome to the Baldwin County work session. It's nine o'clock even. I've asked uh Commissioner Gruber to do the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm gonna do the invocation, so bow with me just for a few minutes. Dear Heavenly Father, we ask for your guidance as we begin our meeting. Help us to listen to each other and to find solutions that benefit everyone. We ask for your wisdom and your guidance as we work today to serve the citizens, and more importantly, you in Jesus' name. Amen. Please join me in a pledge. A pledge of the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. This should go pretty fast. It's not a lot on the agenda. So commissioners on the um consent, we got the administration. CA1 got one item. All right. All right. Archives and history. We got uh two items. Okay. All right. I think that was good. Um Baldwin Regional Um the Bratz. Got one item. I'm good. Go. All right. Five items. All right. Then grants. Uh you can see under CN1, it's approved by the county attorney already. We got uh three items. Good. There'd be good. And then highway, we've got uh three items. I'm good. I did have a question I've already asked Mark about it, and so I just it was the one about the CO3 Loxley City, um, the one we're doing it right there in front of Bucky's. Um I've already asked him the question, so it's I'm good with that one. Just wanted y'all to be aware that I did ask him. Um I just I'll comment. Um, there's been a lot of um back and forth with uh Lotsley and the county and with Buckeys trying to constantly figure out uh a way to um address the congestion in that area and um what's inside the property that belongs to Bucky's is under Bucky's uh control, but what we're trying to do is to keep what's under our authority, the best and safest as we can for the pedestrians who are the employees that cross the street there, and so this is part of an effort to um address situations that I receive constant concerns from that area. Concerns are complaints, but Mark and Frank and Mayor Teal and even the new management. There's some new management at Bucky's. So Loxley is kind of working with Buckies about their internal logistics of how that's going down, but we felt this would be a good move to help anything to do to help make it safer. That's good. Yes, that's anything you want to just uh the the improvements that we're proposing are all within the the county's maintained public right-of-way, and they're designed to both improve the driver's safety as well as the pedestrian safety. Yep, he can say it's so much more concise and better than me, so we should have just let him say. It's needed, but it it has been an ongoing situation, and you know, Bucky's was not there when the parking lot across the street came after.