Good morning, everyone.

Good morning.

It's good to see your one this morning.

Ladies and gentlemen 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 anyway.

Okay.

Appeals, we have requests for a wave of the noise ordinance on May the 23rd from 3 p.m.

until 9 p.m.

on Saint Teresa Street.

And June the 6th from 12 p.m.

until 10 p.m.

on Apex Court.

Uh Ms.

President, yes.

I don't want to waive this noise ordinance for this this applicant application here.

You're denying it.

Yes.

Okay.

Public hearing today is the public hearing to consider the modification of a previously approved plan and 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 of way 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 an opened right of way adjacent property located at 6401 overlook road.

Mr.

President, 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 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 waived, 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 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 waive $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 waive it, other than they just want to try to save some money in building, I would say let's not waive this fee.

Okay.

Presentation of petitions and other communications to the council.

Carolyn Green, Alvin Garvin.

Uh want to thank the council for bringing Snazzy to 2026 Mardi Gras, Asia Staples provide information about Hope for All Gulf Coast inaugural, Miles of Hope 5K.

Williams simple tree care safety standards and arborist certification requirements, apostle green, velena green funds to assist citizens.

Estela Trida 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.

Yes.

Um 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?

Uh is there a portion of that getting contributed to this 11 million, or what is that kind of look like, I guess.

Could you rephrase the question?

So every every council district, um, obviously it's four million dollars um set aside for in CIP funds.

Yes.

Um, and the 11 million in total here, obviously it's a you know combination of every district with city.

Yeah, yeah.

This is yeah, a combination of all the the um yeah, CIP funds that were contributed by each individual district.

Okay, so there's not a match in per se administration or mayor's.

No, no, yeah, yeah.

This is strictly CIP.

Yeah, all right.

Thank you.

So there are seven of us.

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?

Well, what was no this contract amount is just for the construction.

Right, because the overall budget yeah includes the yeah the plan preparation, the design, you know, assessment, the construction inspection.

Because that's 238.

So add that to the 11th.

And so the um the 238 is more or less, it's not equally distributed.

It's just the 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 specific amount by district yeah, and kind of show music.

Well, we do where I have we do have an underrun 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 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 CIP.

I mean, it's a massive repayment contract.

Um, so I mean I'm very grateful and all your words about it.

So um, and I know um, and this was uh, and one more question, if I may.

Um, the obviously uh one contractor has acquired the 11 million contract.

Um that I mean that obviously that went through a competitive bid process.

Um we followed state bid law and yeah, we had multiple bidders 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 and Coney, they they redid the paygo um down Hillcrest and um and my district and uh superior contractor.

So I'm glad to see that they do excellent work and thank you.

And just one more follow-up, 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 the one for district six will be on the agenda next Tuesday.

Um and that's a different contractor.

And this is it's all competitively bid, and whoever happens to be a low bidder.

Yeah, I just know I I think maybe maybe we try to split it up to get things moving along a little quicker by splitting it up.

Well, yeah, just yeah, and yeah, so we're don't have just one massive project, and right we we try to split them up and and the and the and the pay as you go, we try to split it up by commission district, yeah.

Make it more streamlined.

Okay, all right.

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 Madam 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 okay.

The district six is a separate contract.

This is just the construction contract for the you know, six of the 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 um subcontractors, you know, to meet the DBE goals and 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, uh not by 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 it was four percent.

And then I'll I'll have to look into that exactly, but it may just be a devailability of all right, thank you.

Um Councilman Woods' question was I I believe that so for this budget cycle, we of the capital budget, the one cent sales tax essentially is totaled 45 million dollars.

Yeah, four million dollars for a council district, and then you have another four million of citywide capital, and then another four million for C D B G C BG eligible census tracts, then you have other capital expenses, economic incentive and economic center chamber of commerce.

I believe his question was is of the two categories of citywide capital and CBG eligible eligible census tracts.

Is any of that total eight million dollars being spent on resurfacing roads?

I'll bring you the list of how that's being allocated.

Okay.

I think that'll go.

Thank you, John.

All right, thank you.

Madam Clerk.

08491 approved purchase order to Museco Sports Lighting for Field Lights for Tremer Park Football Field.

21,492, authorized contract with geotechnical engineering testing for 2026 CIP resurfacing.

Resolutions held over 0146 authorized agreements with downtown mobile district management corporation for baseline services.

Mr.

President, yes.

I would like to offer an amendment for this particular resolution.

And it mainly deals with the monitoring of the baseline services.

I don't see Fred, but we have discussed.

Oh, yes.

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.

And of course, the comment council.

All right.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

01493, authorized foreign trade zone authority agreement with CMT 2.

01494, authorized agreement with Hunter Nichols for videography and photography services for National Maritime Museum.

01495 authorized agreement with agreement amendment number three with Macalaney Construction for 2024 City of Mobile Annual Storm Drainage Maintenance.

Ordinances being introduced, 64021 and 64022.

Uh 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 Camier, Michael Albanese to the improvement district of the city of Mobile.

We need to lay this one over.

CIP resolutions being introduced.57 cents.

Okay.

08524 through 529.

Approved purchase orders to Gotwin Land Solutions, JJ Quality Homes, Prime Professional Concrete Pumping and Finishing, Secure Land and Tree, LLC, Southern Realty Management, LLC, Thomas A.

Galloway for Storm Vegetation and Debree Removal.

08530, approved purchase order to Gray Bar Electric for Aluminum Light Polles.

Authorized change order number three to the contract with P.

L Russell for Mobile Riverfront redevelopment.

Cooper Riverside Park for restroom upgrades, 283,295.94 cents.

For fire station number 19, 50,045.

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.

$21,538, authorized contract or Tolo Consultants for facility ground maintenance services at various city facilities, $33,500, $21539, authorized contract amendment number two with vocabul for additional construction administration services for Hall of Fame Walk, 145,682 and 68 cents.

A non-exclusive utility easement agreement for Arlington Park.

And considering the vacation fee for the um property at the same location, $36,848.95 cents.

Serve a legitimate public and municipal purpose, $2,764.60 cents.

Announcements.

Tell us some good news or bad news or whatever.

All right.

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 gonna put on a night shift for the interior trades 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.

Um 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 tradesmen 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 end.

Uh, and then probably next week, 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 precast concrete seating sections, and then once those are set, then we can we can do the floor slab and the ice slab and continue on.

I mean, it's still you know, 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 Mardi Gras in January.

Okay, I just want to remind you of the friendly wager I have with some folks that we will be in the arena for Mardi Gras.

You're gonna split it with me.

No, no, it's just pride.

Yeah, no, that that that is the goal, and 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, thank you, Sam.

And 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, and then into CIP resolutions.

Then go down to resolutions being introduced.

Uh five thirty-three, five thirty-seven, five thirty-eight, and five forty-three.

Any issues anyway.

All right.

Anything from the administration.

All right, we'll see each other downstairs at ten thirty.