The Mobile City Council met on August 4, 2026, to discuss and act on a range of items including a consultant contract for organizational review, a cost-of-living adjustment for police and fire pensioners, numerous purchase orders and contracts, and to set public hearing dates for several rezoning requests. Council members provided updates on upcoming budget hearings and recognized city staff performance.
So that we can maybe do things, make changes sooner than later than just you know, whenever there's an equal rise. Yeah. And then when we do make these changes, then the follow-up would not necessarily come from from that group. It would be us. What is the follow-up? What changes were made and how is it working now? So that's just pretty much what uh councilman Woods has said. Um, so that the council is aware. Absolutely. And and then on the eight boards, maybe this can be part of the agreement. Which boards are we going to look at? Which boards are we going to ask for, not just some global go out and look, but are we going to specify which right? And I think the mayor said from the beginning, that's where we're really looking for your feedback. Right. I mean, we want your involvement. There's a recognition uh among this administration that that you're appointing the vast majority of these boards. And so, you know, we we asked, let us know where you think her services could be best utilized. Um, because we want that in preparing this agreement. We want to know where we can focus her talents. Anyone else? Yeah, just briefly, um I don't want to beat the horse uh too hard. Uh but we we have to have something. And I hope you can understand this was not your fault. You weren't here. Like I get it. But I hope you understand and see our perspective that she likely is doing a lot of useful work and she is likely improving the downtown mobile alliance. Well, they'll cost all right. Okay, well, there's no line of sight to that from us other than saying, man, the downtown mobile alliance sure is doing a great job, but I don't think that's enough to guide our decision. So we're gonna put forward, I think some amendments to the contract so that uh this ongoing dialogue that's had at the on the 10th floor can be had with us at some level so that we can inform, you know, we don't just appoint these people to the board, we create the board. We're setting up the confines of which they operate on these boards so it can, you know, because we I think we have some boards that we'd like to sort of restructure. Think about this, Robert. We went through the whole ARB process. We redefine the ARB and um with nothing from the consultant, I think was looking at it. I mean, we just sort of had to take everybody's word for it. So we just need to avoid that going forward. We're happy to consider any language that you want to propose. Madam Vice President. And and Robert, to your point, I do want to point out if you look at the report that she did provide the um the skeleton. She some of the things that um councilman Woods that he's pointed out, size, strategy, policies, budget, KPIs, and people, it's saying that these are the things they're going to look at. I think what we're saying is that let us see that final report based off of what you said you will look at. So some you clearly, you know, this is a renowned um consultant that's providing outstanding services, but we can't see it. But we clearly see here these are the indicators that she's going to be looking at. So we can just get that report, the current, the desired, just as she outlined in there. I think it's going to help us move forward. Okay. But thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? Okay, that's it.