The Tuscaloosa City Council met on September 9, 2025, to discuss board appointments, a series of routine agenda items, and a special events license. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote to enter executive session to discuss pending litigation and trade negotiations.
Board Appointments:
Unfinished Business – Hispanic Heritage Month Special Events License:
Routine Agenda Items (Pages 15–33):
No department comments today. How about that? And is the mayor on his way? Do you know? He's running there. Okay. So Ms. Johnson will go to you. All right. So two quick um boards to go over, and then I've got one that we need to kind of discuss. Um we've got um if you go back a couple weeks, we talked about Peggy Hogue and Para. Um she did actually reach out and she does want to be reappointed. So if that's okay with you guys, I'll have that on the next agenda. Good with me. All right, and then this is a reminder that we are accepting resumes for the Tuscusa Public Library through next Tuesday. So if you know anyone, have any resumes, make sure they get those sent in as soon as possible. How has that gone? Uh believe we've got a total of six. We are still confirming residency for some of them. I submitted um asked around industry. She's good. So we're accepting those through the 16th. Yeah. And then the last one that we need to go over is the zoning board of adjustments. There are a couple of positions on that board that have terms that either are about to expire or um have expired. So we've got Michelle Cole, Austin Merryweather, and Tim Gillum. Um, their terms are expiring at the end of this month. Um, Austin Merriweather's position is a supernumerary position. And then if you remember a couple months back, um, once counselor Eatman was officially sworn in, um we made the decision to go ahead and roll him off of ZBA so that we could open that up to a like a non-council member type position. So um the staff recommendation is going to be to recommend um Michelle Coley and Tim Gillum for reappointment, and then actually just to take Mary Catherine Holt. Um, she is currently a supernumerary position. Um we they are recommending to move her into councillor Eatman's um unexpired term and then accept resumes for the two supernatural numerary positions left over on ZBA. So at the end of that, there would be three supernatural. Still two, still just two, and then the three's gonna stay on the if he would like to submit his resume. Um, yes. Or he can also submit his for the seat opening up, correct? If you guys choose not to just move Mary Catherine into Councillor Eatman seat, yes. But either one involves just moving a supernumerary into an open active seat. Correct. Yes, sir. So why you do it? Yes. Joe, I'm I wish Joe Eatman could stay on there forever. Does that mean you don't want him on the council? Is that what he did? No, that means he can do both. Like Raven. Exactly. Yeah, but he really came through in a lot of way for a lot of neighborhoods, and him and Tim Gillum both have done really great jobs. I appreciate your service on that, Joe.