The Huntsville City Council held its regular meeting on January 26, 2023, at 5:30 PM in the City Council Chambers. The meeting included recognitions, public hearings, multiple contract approvals, and discussions on parks and transportation. Councilmember Bill Kling was absent. All votes were unanimous (4-0) unless noted.
All right, it is 5 30 p.m. on January the 26th of 2023, and we are meeting in the City Council Chambers of Huntsville, Alabama. Thanks to all of you who are with us and also to those watching online. Please note for the record that all council members, with the exception of Councilman Kling are in attendance. We are convening this session of the Huntsville City Council, and the meeting will be called to order. We will begin our meeting tonight with an invocation led by Minister Laverne Spearman of the Body of Christ Ministries. That will be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Mr. Martin McDonald with the Boy Scouts of America Troops 70 at the First Presbyterian Church. Please stand for the invocation and pledge. Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you, Father, because this for all of us is a day we've never seen before. Some of us father have seen more than others, but this day, none of us have ever seen before. We pray, Father, that your presence will fill the atmosphere of this chamber. Lord, with your wisdom, your knowledge as we come as leaders of this city to discuss and to deliberate and approve business of our city. Look up every department head, Father, every worker. Lift him up, President Joe Biden and his family, and his wife Jill in the presidency, our vice president Cameron Harris and her family, and our husband Doug Emphoff, our Congress father. Below up every representative and their families. Every senator, Lord, and their families. Our Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and his family. Father Governor Ivy and her family. Follow our schools, our assistant school superintendent, Board of Education, Lord, colleges and universities and professors that you obey the atmosphere of every school, campus, father, each and every day with your presence. Lord, we pray for our military, every soldier, Lord, around the world. We lift them up to unite and pray your protection over them. And Lord, we love you and we bless you, and we give you all the glory, all the honor, and all the praise. We pray in a name that's above every name, the name of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord and our Savior. And everybody said Amen. Thank you, Minister Spearman, Mr. McDonald. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Two. Thank you, Mr. McDonald. Thank you all. Council members, you have the agenda before you for this regular meeting of the City Council on January 26, 2023. I'd like to point out that tonight we will be taking items 6A and 8A out of order, and items 18A and 20U have been deleted. Are there any other changes or additions to be made to the agenda? If there is a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Some move. Motion by Dr. Robinson. Second. Second by uh Mr. Little. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. Hearing none, this agenda will stand approved and accepted as presented. Council members, you have a copy of the minutes of the regular meeting of the Huntsville City Council held on January 12th, 2023 before you. Are there any changes or additions to be made to the minutes that you have received?