The Tuscaloosa City Council Finance Committee met on August 26, 2025, to approve routine items and hear budget presentations from several city departments. The meeting was chaired by the Mayor and included council members, department heads, and staff. All consent items were approved unanimously. The committee also outlined plans for additional work sessions.
Take a look at the um minutes from last week and if there's a motion to adopt those, we'll entertain that second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, minutes are adopted. Item number one, Mr. Green, approval of a minor public works contract with tri-state abatement for best disciplines. Who's in charge? I thought it sounded familiar. I thought we're doing finance and projects on that. That was a double gavel for you, Mr. Okay. You'd like to make me there. Councilman Lanier. Approval of disbursement from District 7 improvement funds. Tell us what you got. 1500 bucks. Yeah, regular donations to South View on the minimum for teachers' depreciation. Simple. Okay. Motion. There you go. All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, item is approved. Number two, Mr. Lamair. Okay, this is uh Central High School Girls Flag Football. Yes, let me and uh uh Councilman Eden Howard. We were we were putting this together for central uh girls football team like me and Mr. Phil D for Bryant with band and uh football bashers. So we just kind of don't need that little bit 1500 for me and then they'll get it get able a little bit that you uh go ahead and vote that in for Ms. Didn't you we can keep it right? Second all in favor say aye. Aye item is approved. Item number three, general fund budget revision number seventeen, Miss Stanley. Good afternoon, council. Good afternoon. Um the same as Mr. Eatman's request for district improvement funds last week, Mr. Lanier's district approved request request this week to require us to reach back into reserves from prior years, and so that is just what this budget revision is doing. It is asking to move um sorry, uh asking to move two thousand six hundred dollars from the district seven prior year balance into the current year to be able to activate the two requests that he just mentioned. Any questions? Comments all in favor say aye. Aye item is approved. Item number four, authorization to execute a grant agreement with Southwest Alabama Highway Safety Office, uh 2026 communities traffic safety program, chief. Yes, good after mayor and council. Uh we do this every single year, so basically we get uh different allotments of money, and officers go work the high traffic enforcement um areas that we have a lot of recs and they reimburse us. How much is it, Chief? It depends on uh different communities of how many how many different people take it. It'd go in from 10,000 to 50 or 60,000.