Mayor and council members convened on December 16, 2025, for a regular meeting that included praise for public works and community members, approval of prior minutes, updates on a school property lease, finance committee approvals, and announcements of upcoming events and appointments. No public comments were made.
All right, if we could all stand, please. Council McClusch, would you like to lead us in the invitation? Yes, sir. We thank you for the state board. Thank you that we get together aboard. Lord, first off, I'd like to pray for the safety of our first responders, board, especially as the roads are a little bit slippery. I pray for the safety of our children also, Lord. We saw the bus drivers as they uh make their rounds for us during this council meeting, Lord. Help us to be pleasing you. Amen. Let's see. Roger, you want to lead us in the plant? Roger Mass. Individual. All right, we'll call this meeting. St. Albany City Council to order. Uh praise and recognition. I want to start off with uh public works. Uh and the job they did, especially this weekend. They were around the clock. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, make sure our roads were clear and overall they're as good as anywhere. I just heard that if you cross a river, you can tell the big difference. And uh that's tribute to our employees. So thank you, John Boyd. Pass that along. Uh any other praise and recognition. Yes, sir. I just recognize Cheryl and Marty and Tyler Thomas. That was weather's kind of awful out there, and she reached out, and there's some folks that are kind of in unfortunate times who and she was helping out and kind of keep dry and myself to thank for helping reach out to you late at an inconvenient time and to try and help folks out. So Cheryl kind of spurred that and so give her credit for being you know just a good hearted citizen trying to help folks out when she can, and thanks to you for pitching in and reaching out and finding folks that can we we made the effort to try and help them. I don't know if they got there to the bus station or not, but um no, they had plenty of time. I called KRT. I want to thank them. Uh there's three individuals, and uh uh I called KRT manager Sean Heel, and he sent a bus or a transport down to transport the three of them up to Charleston to a warming center, and uh they weren't there, so but we tried. I thank you. That's you know, so thanks to her, thanks to you. Yeah, thank you. Uh the mayor got a message the other day saw still his thunder from the U.S. attorney in Charleston uh Hannibal's federal prosecutions, and he was bragging on our special enforcement unit and uh work they're doing and the cases that they're bringing. And today uh one of the drug dealers that they arrested, we just found out they're getting a 10-year prison sentence, which is pretty significant. Um and then they're also there's a I don't want to say names, but there's a couple cases he reached out today. They're gonna indict a couple more people through uh federal courts. Keep up the great work. Yes, Councilman Page. Well, three things. One just to announce I the reason why I was coming up here late. I have Councilman Whittington and Codell on the phone, got a three-way phone call here. Cut L's over there too. Yeah, I've got him.