Mr.

President.

Yes.

As far as this request, I'm having a hard time a little bit on this.

Obviously, heard a lot from the neighbors on about three neighborhoods right around there.

At this point in time, I from my understanding of what's occurring here is there's no real plan or you know, no real need to take this to a B1 at this point in time.

Um, I kind of consider this a little bit of speculative zoning.

So um I'm just want to note that I'm I'm not in favor of this one.

Still the public hearing, so we just still have to plumb hearing and vote next week.

Okay.

Madam Clerk.

Presentation of petitions and other communications to the council, Sue Saviac, um, tourism in mobile, apostle valuing agreement, request revocation of cotton state barns business license due to consumer fraud.

Ordinance is held over 64028, consider the proposed rezoning of the property located at 2609 2026 51 Spring Hill Avenue, 152, 157, 159, Mobile Street, and 144 Highland Avenue from R1 and B3 to B1.

Ms.

President.

Yes, Mr.

Perry.

Yeah, this is this uh property they're owned by uh Covenant Presbyterian Church.

Um they provide a lot of services to the city.

They're gonna be establishing a parking lot um to their their growing church, growing ministry in district one.

Um so um and then they're gonna be um also uh renovating on their building.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Okay.

640 come back to the um at the bottom in my district on Moffat Road.

Sorry, what?

She haven't read them yet.

Oh, I thought you went through more.

Okay, never mind.

Getting ahead of things.

64029 considered a rezoning of property located at 4630, 4749, 60 Dauphin Island Parkway from B3 to B3 to remove previous conditional rezoning.

That's fine.

64030 and 031 are the applications for rezoning property located at 5101 Moffat Road from B2 to B3 and 5361 Myffort Road from R1 to B3.

Vice versa.

These are these are mine.

Um, on both of these, the first one is um going from a B2 to a B3.

Um, it's on a fairly short piece of land there.

If you're familiar at all with that, it in between Moffat Road and Overlook.

And there will be no buffers on this, and there is a residential area to the south.

There are some residents back in there who I've spoken with, and they are not in favor of going from a B2 to a B3.

The whole idea of a B3 is just really something that bothers them.

I do understand that the um property owner is cleaning up the lot, which is good news.

However, taking it to a B3 is something that is just not appropriate for that area.

On the second one, um, going from a R1 to a B3 is even less appropriate.

Um, this particular parcel sits right in the middle of single family homes.

There's a new subdivision that has been approved right next door.

And while a different zoning might be more appropriate, like a B1, we can't make that change.

If that's something that the applicant wants to do, she has to start over with this whole process.

Um, going forward, and I've talked to Shayla a little bit about some of these things.

We need to better explain to people when they come to the city looking for answers as to what they need to do for a zoning change.

Um, when she came to the city and told them what it was she needed, what she wanted to do on her property, which is to allow moving trucks and build a almost 1,300 square foot storage building, you know, behind her business.

The appropriate zoning would be a B3.

But there's got to be somewhere in between there that we're able to speak with these applicants and help them understand that if you're going from an R1 to a B3, you may get a little pushback from the neighbors, you know, and just walk them through the process a little bit and maybe guide them to you know a different direction.

But that's that's for another day.

Both of these, I'm going to ask you all to uh join me in denying both of these requests.

Okay.

All right, Madame Clark.

Resolution is held over.

25752 grant a permanent easement to Albion Power to provide new underground service for fire station 19.

25753, grant a permanent easement to Alabama Power to provide new underground service to Japanese gardens.

31754 authorize the mayor to apply, accept and receive a grant from the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Ordinances being introduced, 64032.

Consider the proposed rezoning of the property on Greel Light Road.

Consent resolution is being introduced.

Diane Steele to the History Museum of Mobile Board.

Recommend approval to the ABC Board for issuance of a re lounge retail liquor class one license to Bebobs downtown 213 Contai Street.

Authorized removal of WES Group 1678.

We'll be talking between meetings and Jonathan.

We'll begin with all the council members.

This particular event was a partnership with Parks and RICs already.

Resolutions being introduced, 08762, approved purchase order to charge point for annual renewal of cloud southwest software maintenance services for electric vehicle charging stations, $15,070.

08763.

Approved purchase order to Dana Safety Supply for Law Enforcement Upfits for Chevrolet Tajos, 41,773.77.

08764 approved purchase order to elite textile trading for 24 stainless steel baggage tables for cruise terminal $39,984.

08765 approved purchase order to gains utility construction company for storm drainage vegetation zero eight seven sixty-six seven sixty-seven sixty-eight seven sixty-eight are all um for drainage vegetation debris removal that's invasive management hues 360 services safe haven company 08769 approved purchase order to Melvin Pierre Pierce Painting for painting of 20 cruise terminal bollard bowlers uh 23,500 08770 approved purchase order sunbelt fire for fire boots and helmets $60,470 08771 approved purchase order to the University of South Alabama for 2026 summer semester paramedic courses 20,169 08772 approved purchase order to Zoe Medical Corporation for one-year preventive maintenance service plan for defibulators 34,668 dollars 09773 transfer funds with general fund athletic aquatics to capital account Africa Town Welcome Center for consultant contract 100,000 Mr.

President Yes um if I if we can get admin first of all we're excited about this because again this is moving us closer to the opening of the Africa Town Welcome Center if we can have Ms.

Smith just to share with the public um what this uh funding will allow us to do in terms of moving us to the next stage of completion for the Africa Town Welcome Center.

Thank you.

No problem.

Good morning this will help us with the finalizing of the contract that we're doing.

So we're getting ready to go under contract with Watermark, which will be leading the design inside Africa Town Welcome Center.

The extra 100,000 is to work with the A V company that's gonna come and do the A V work that we're contracting from Birmingham to be able to come and do that.

And so being able to do this will start us into our process of designing and collecting the information of what will happen inside Africa Town Welcome Center.

And just as a follow up in our meeting again thank you for the meeting last week for with the community we did acknowledge the end of December 1st of January we might be opening depending on where we are with the collection of artifacts and stores and so forth and I just want to get that out to the public so they'll know where we are in the timeline.

Yes that's all I have thank you Mr.

0975, authorized one-time lump sum payment of two RSA ERS for eligible mobile transit authority retirees under the provisions of section two of Act 6026.

Chief.

Yeah, I wanted to point out to you that this is a authorized legislation from the state to give this one-time bonus.

Uh there was much discussion from the state retirees about getting a cost cost of living adjustment.

I just wanted to make sure that y'all understood that we cannot do that without state legislation.

They understand that.

The same goes with the transit workers.

What you don't see on here are mobile police and fire retirees.

It's because that is a city controlled plan, and we can proceed with a cost of living adjustment with the mobile police and fire retirees.

They're meeting tomorrow for a resolution that's going to ask the city for a 2.5% cost of living adjustment for certain groups within that retirement plan.

Um the last time they received cost of living adjustment was 2008.

Um, and mainly because we've been working on trying to get the unfunded liability paid off.

In other words, we wanted to be able to secure funding for the benefits they were promised before we began to do anything else.

That last payment will be made by I think around March of next year.

And so the unfunded liability of the plan has been caught up.

Uh so this will be the first cost of living adjustment for retirees since 2008.

Mr.

President, yeah, Mr.

Woods, and then Ms.

Um, thank you, Chief, for uh for explaining that.

Um I had some questions, I guess, kind of about the going into the the um police and fire retirees.

Uh I know there's been conversations um about a cost of living raise or a or a 13th check, I believe, or something.

Um and I know that after we'll I'm we'll whatever you guys want to look at.

Um, I know we'll talk about that later.

So I I definitely do want to express to the police and fire retirees that that this is not a forgotten issue.

Um, despite what Facebook posts say that we are we are aware of, and I know that y'all are y'all working on that.

Um, but I did have a question about the I guess the transit authority on retirees.

Um, I mean that those those, you know, going after you know, with the transition to via um we we did contribute or or or we did something, I guess, uh, right around October last year, September, October last year with the transition.

Um, but uh, I mean, that none of those employees are city workers, right?

I mean, I guess uh what's the reasoning behind I guess the city, even though it it is just 5600, um, what's the I guess what's the reasoning of the city, you know, contributing again further um because we we did make a kind of a match or we we took care of that I thought in October.

These are for legacy workers that are one time were city employees, but are no longer uh we no longer they are no longer city employees, so these cover the small, very rare uh workers that are still under that plan.

Okay, awesome.

Thank you.

Mr.

President, uh thank you, Chief, for uh sharing with us.

Um, you know, we acknowledge that you know for the police and fire department.

That's that's a long time.

I think you said 2008.

Correct.

Okay, my question is you talk you talked about the fact that I know we're uh nearing the last payment.

What what on about what is that amount that now that once we do that last payment?

What were we paying um monthly for that?

Or and I don't know if it was monthly or maybe it was quarterly or annually.

Yeah, and I may have to defer to Logan, but the um the payments for the unfunded portion, so there's the normal cost of the plan, which isn't outrageous, and then there's the unfunded is what I'm doing.

Which is a kind of a legacy debt that we inherited 30 years ago and now we reach final payment, but the uh it's around 15 million a year that would be retired from that.

Okay, yeah, and that's what I was asking about, Chief, the unfunded amount because again, you know, as um Mr.

Woods stated, we acknowledge that 2008.

That's a long time, but also we we understand that we must plan appropriately for how we move forward with that.

So thank you.

Well, and just so y'all know that the retirees have been really understanding that we didn't want to add to that unfunded liability, which is why it's gone so long without a cost of living adjustment.

But now that we're there, of course they're coming to us and um we're honoring our commitment to them by passing this colour.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

President, yes, Chief, while you're at the podium, uh I know these are for police and fire and transit, but are other employees, other retirees through RSA, are they going to be uh looked at in the same sort of way?

Are you planning anything for them?

Well, if you look at 0974, that is the uh the state retirees, the RSA plan.

And that's a one-time bonus.

It's not a cola, even though we did look at a colour, there's just no enabling legislation in order for us to give a colour.

So the state retirees are controlled through the legislators on whether or not what we can do.

And the only thing they passed this past session was a bonus, not a cost of living adjustment.

And I think that it might be 2008 since they've had a probably so this is a bonus, it's not a cost of living adjustment.

That's correct.

Right.

Is this the the one dollar per uh month of service?

Month of service.

Okay, so that's really gonna vary all across the board.

That's right.

And um to Councilman Woods, uh, there was talk of a 13th check and all this other that's not possible in the state.

It could have been possible, but the the problem with the police and fire pension plan is the lack of cost of living adjustments, not this 13th 13th check is like a bonus.

I mean, it it just doesn't help the retirees in the long run.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Um clerk zero zero nine seven seven six authorized the modification and name change of capital fund transit fleet and equipment to transit assets.

21777, authorized contract with ICA construction corporation for installation of new playground equipment at Lavaretta Park playground court, 449,000.

Mr.

President, yes.

This one uh is in my district, and I'm really excited to see this moving forward.

Um, we were actually ready to start earlier than this, but we didn't want to take the playground down during the summertime.

So uh we're moving forward with the contract, and we won't start taking the current playground down until after kids go back to school.

So looking forward to this.

This playground has been at Lavretta since uh Stig Nodine was in my seat, so that tells you how far back this goes.

Uh, it is definitely time for a new playground there.

The the equipment, while it lasted was great, but you can only do so many repairs and patches to this kind of equipment.

So we're really looking forward to getting the new playground equipment in.

We held a number of uh community meetings to let the residents help select the equipment, what it's gonna look like, even the color scheme.

So I'm really looking forward to this, and we'll have a great uh grand opening for this playground when it's ready.

21778 authorized professional services contract with Minnequin Resources Incorporated to provide governance review and improvement consulting services 90,000.

Mr.

President?

Yes.

Um, I have several questions regarding this.

You know, first of all, I'm excited about the fact that we are reviewing and we are implementing continuous improvement processes and reviews.

Um, my question is when you read this uh agreement, it appears that we have 20, it states that we have 25 boards, but this can go up to eight boards.

My specific question is what are the criteria that they're going to be looking at in terms of evaluation?

It says that um it's going to conduct a review across the boards, but what would be the consistent review of those boards?

Um across the boards.

I talked to uh councilman Reynolds a little bit about this.

What I probably need to do is get a little more details from Miss Minnekin of what exactly we can expect there for the service that she's providing.

But it it does deal with board governance.

We've engaged her before with board governance, um, just to improve our processes.

And and when you do that, thank you, Chief.

That that would definitely help.

But when you do that, Chief, it also recognizes that this is a company that we've used in the past, and it states that we made, you know, that they made great progress.

If we could see what reviews, you know, see the reports from the past, what were the recommendations?

And did we actually implement those recommendations in the past?

Because it it it states that you know, in the past, we have improved as a result of this service.

Yeah, and I think I think that's a fair to get that type of assessment in as well as uh what the expectations of this current contract will be and what boards she'll be working with.

That would be great.

Thank you so much, 2179, authorized contract of USS Alabama Battleship Commission doing business as USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park for replacement of TIC deck on battleship USS Alabama, 125,000.

Mr.

President, yeah, Ms.

Woods.

Um obviously there's been emails going around for Mr.

Maples.

Uh the uh and then on Friday uh as well, the I guess council for for the company, um all weather roofing uh did reach out.

They um they offered a letter saying that there is their intention to surrender the business license.

Um and I know we've had I know at least um me and Mr.

Maples have had conversation regarding do we have to take action since they did um send a letter, um council did send a letter notifying the city that they were intending to surrender the license.

Um after talking with uh with the departments on the the license has not been received in hand from anybody in the city, so technically the license is still out in the world somewhere, and um I guess with that being said, and uh Mr.

Maples can probably opine on it.

Um I think we do need to move forward with revoking the license since the license is not in hand um by anybody in the city.

So you would need to move forward if from an administration perspective, the license has not been effectively surrendered.

So if it has, it's moot because there's no license to revoke.

If it has not, then you would proceed.

Yes, uh Logan, like an opine on that.

Um, and in the opinion of y'all's department, it it has not effectively been surrendered, I guess.

It has it is not Marius downstairs checking now.

Maybe it happens in the next hour, but we'd let you know.

But thank you.

Uh Mr.

Uh Vice President, Mr.

Penn.

Uh even if it shows up during the council meeting, us officially as a board as a body voting to revoke the license is not going to make it's not going to change things.

It will still be revoked, it will still be surrendered.

But I think if as we take action, that will help people understand, it will help spread the word that you know the council has done what we could do, and that you know, this license has been revoked either way.

So it's not going to hurt.

I think it will help.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I agree with my colleague.

I think at this point, uh, we have to take action.

Um we have to also let um my constituents know that we're serious.

Um, and and and this is a serious matter.

Um, so uh regardless of what take place, um I will my decision stays the same.

Mr.

President, yeah, uh Ms.

Angry and uh Mr.

Fleming.

I concur with that.

I mean, and again, to your point, like we're checking to see if it's there and confirming that if we go ahead and and move forward with our authority to make sure that we know it has been revoked, then we have truly addressed the needs of our constituents.

So I concur with my colleagues.

Yeah, I just want to say I agree too.

I think given the public attention that this has received and everything that we have heard, we we need to make a statement um just to show support for all the victims.

So I agree.

All right, Mr.

President.

Yeah, Mr.

Karen.

Um, I want to go back to 21780.

Um, can we get some more information about the post-disaster support service as well?

Um, I know this in a contract is a three-year term and it's renewable um without uh the city council approval for the three additional one year.

Um, and I is this something that we do normally um with these type of contracts.

Good morning.

Yeah, it's a preposition contract for disaster services.

This contract specifically is for our first responders or essential workers to ensure shelter, laundry services, food, and also emergency generation and roof tarping.

The structure in which it's done is to adhere to FEMA standards so everything's pre-procured, so we can seek the reimbursements on the back side.

As for the three years, we've done that with our other pre-position contracts to make it easier and keep them all in line so they're renewing once they're established, renewing uh in unison.

Yes, sir.

Clerk announcements, uh council and thank you in front of the administration, uh vice president.

All right, well, we have a number of items that if everybody agrees, we can lay the rules on.

Let's see.

I'm starting with um.

Well, the one ordinance, we're gonna lay that one over, so never mind.

Um to resolutions being introduced, um, starting with 08762, all the way down to 08769, then 08771, 772, and I think that's and then 09 uh 775, and that's all of them.

Well, do you want to do that one with that?

I mean, there's no money, there's no money attached to it, but go ahead.

If everybody's okay with that one, okay, and that would be it then.

Okay, all right.

We see you show downstairs at 10:30.

Okay.

Okay.