The Birmingham City Council met in regular session on May 26, 2026, at 9:30 AM in the Council Chambers. All nine council members were present. The meeting included a pre-council at 9:00 AM and opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. The council considered a consent agenda with routine items, held a public hearing on a business license revocation, debated two parking fine ordinances that failed on first reading, and approved several resolutions including a micro shelter agreement for unhoused residents.
Stan, are we ready in the back? Be okay. You might have fallen down, but nothing else. Today is Tuesday, May twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six. The time is now nine forty A. M. I call to order the regular meeting of the Birmingham City Council. I hope everyone had a great weekend. At this time, we'll have our invocation will be led by Carl Max Kathy Anthony, Pastor of the Birmingham International Seventh Day Adventist Church in Birmingham, and the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Counselor Brian Gunn. If you're willing and able, please stand and join us. We come before you this morning on behalf of the people and the residents of Birmingham, Alabama. We come with thanksgiving in our hearts. We thank you for waking each and every one of us this morning. We thank you for the clothes on our back shoes on our feet. Lord, we thank you for a roof over our heads. Lord, we thank you for our families and for our friends. We thank you for the gift of service to the people of Birmingham. We thank you for each and every one of the leaders present in this very place. Men and women who carry the weight of decision, the hopes of our community and the responsibility of service. We thank you for each and every one of them, for you are the God who has called them into leadership. So today, as we ask for one more thing, not just for routine, but Lord, we are praying and asking for courage. Give them ears that they hear the cry of the forgotten. Give them eyes that they may see beyond the political lines to see the needs of the human. Give them hearts that beat the compassion and box strong enough to stand for what is right, and even when it is most difficult. Inspire them to build not just roads and budgets, but trust, integrity, and unity. Remind them that every vote that is cast, every word that is spoken, every policy shape touches real lives, real families, and real futures. Father, I thank you. I pray that as each one of them leave this room today, not burdened, but bold, not weak, but strong, not divided, but determined to seek the good of all the people of Birmingham. And when the work feels heavy, when the work feels so overwhelming, may each one of them remember that they do not labor alone. You will always be with them, for you promise I will never leave you nor forsake you. And so, Lord, I pray that as you be with them, be with the people of Birmingham that they serve. And we ask all this, believing and trusting in that powerful name that is above every name, the name Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Pastor, for that very inspirational prayer. And we appreciate your congregation that has come with you today. Thank you so much. Thank you, Councillor Gunn, for leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Good morning, Mr. Clerk. We'll call the role, please. Good morning. Uh Councilmember Gunn. Morning. Good morning, sir. Councilmember O'Quinn. Good morning, Councilmember Smith. Good morning. Good morning, Councilmember Smillman. Good morning, Councilmember Vasa. Morning.