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The Oxford Board of Aldermen held a regular meeting at 5:00 PM on August 18, 2026, in the City Hall Courtroom. Mayor Robyn Tannehill and all seven aldermen were present. The meeting addressed budget amendments, emergency purchases from Winter Storm Fern, personnel actions, parade permits, development projects, contract extensions, and an executive session. All votes were unanimous unless noted with recusals.
No. All right. Could I have a motion to adopt the agenda as printed? Second. All in favor. Any opposed. I'll start with a really exciting announcement that I found out about an hour ago, travel and leisure just named us the best small college town in the U.S. So that is pretty exciting news. Congratulations to we've got some university representatives here tonight. So congratulations to y'all. And we are proud to share the honor. The thing that seems to be the most talked about in the city topic right now are the new parking pay stations. I know they have been just a huge hit so far. We um I've decided that whoever does parking meters is the same people that do the iPhones, and so they make sure about every four or five years that everything in them goes wrong, so you have to get new ones. So those of you who have experienced the parking meters where you show up and it's not working, or where the screen is so light you can't read it in the bright sun, or all of those things, um, your woes will be now fixed because we have parking pay stations. Um these parking pay stations were the same as the ones that have been in the parking lots all of this time. So you actually can still put your coins in. See a lot of chatter online about we you can't put your coins in anymore. You absolutely can put your coins in, you can put your card in. Um, you can get the app on your phone or you can text to pay. The text to pay option is a new option. Um, the two things you need to know is what zone am I in, and there are plenty of signs to tell you, and you need to know what your car tag number is because you're gonna have to put that in. So everybody take a picture of your car tag when you go out tonight and have that on your phone so you don't get mad when you walk to a kiosk and it's 110 degrees and you didn't get your tag number. Um, so that is um what's new and exciting on what's happening in Oxford site. Um, and so that's it for mayor's report. We are working hard on the budget. We will approve that in the coming weeks and appreciate all the hard work that our department heads and others have put in there. So, with that, um, let's start with the financial administration office request to approve the minutes, the recess board of alderman meeting on August 3rd. We approve. Second. All in favor, any opposed request to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting um on August 4th. Second. All in favor, any opposed, request permission to approve the accounts for all city departments. Some of them all in favor, any opposed, request approval for emergency purchases made as a result of winter storm fern, which occurred January 23rd through the 26th. So moved. All in favor, any opposed. Request permission to approve a list of budget amendments and reallocations, and Alison Garner is here to answer any questions that you have about that. It was in your packet, but I'll let her give a brief overview and then she can answer any questions. So basically, the proposed budget amendments we have right now are basically corrective and administrative in nature. There's um on the first page, there's fund and accounting corrections that need to be made to ensure that the budget was recorded properly. The bond payment allocations needed to establish the appropriate funds so we could allocate those um correctly, and then the winners for infern account was for the emergency expenses of you know the unanticipated disaster cost and the recovery funding, and then there's an out transit correction to align the budget with the amount that was originally intended, and then the building and grounds reallocation was just redistribute those existing um expenses and revenue among the subject departments after we restructured that. So that's basically a summary of what you have on 90 page 93 through 97 of the amendments. Anyway, does anybody have any questions? All right, could I have a motion then to approve that list of budget amendments and reallocations? All in favor? Any opposed now ask you to consider the consent agenda?