Statement, you and I are here.

Well, and uh if you had a chance, I would accept the motion to accept the minutes.

Move the second that all in favor.

Uh fast.

All right.

We have uh I think we have our alternate coming shortly, but let's go ahead and get started.

Uh Sean, I guess you're first.

Yes, you jumped up.

Yeah.

All right, now I want to say this.

We're gonna go over several things, job descriptions, and there might be some questions I ask, but I I know y'all are very professional, and I don't want anybody to get their feet.

Okay, yes, sir.

Because there may be a question or two, because we just don't know.

Yes, sir.

But but nobody's let's not make it partial.

Yes, sir.

Okay, we're not we're not.

So anyway.

All right, thank you.

All right, uh, good afternoon, council and mayor.

Uh, the first request is to adopt the executive director of government relations and external affairs job description.

Um, as you all are aware, Dr.

Rush has been assigned uh to perform those duties uh since actually July 1st of 2025.

Um that has been going well, so we are asking to actually go ahead and adopt um a job description for that.

Oh Ms.

Rush, sure.

Yes, we might sit in.

You sit wherever you want to sit.

Um we've got an extensive uh list, and I think you shared with some of us of this.

Yes, sir.

But tell us what you've actually been doing.

Okay, that's a good question.

So um I think the easiest way to explain it is um this position is is set up to be the main connector and advocate outside of the city hall.

So it's it breaks down really to two parts.

So there's community part where I'm working the main connector with agencies, I'm working with the downtown business association, I'm working with different organizations, and um main connector on that point.

So that if there are questions, if there's any assistance needed, right?

So there's 19 departments, it just it makes it nice to be able to funnel everything to one place.

On the other side is the legislative side.

So um I will be working with the local delegation.

I will be the intergovernmental connector between Northport, the county, um, and Montgomery, and seeing what that looks like.

So I have been building those connections.

If you actually I'll pass one of these out to everybody, so this is a document that I put together for the mayor when we were originally putting this this position together, and it breaks down what the position looks like, the 30, 60, 90 days, what have I been doing for the past 30, 60, 90 days, and the yearly goals and what that looks like, how it all kind of comes together.

So I think the easiest way to kind of walk through what have I been doing now that you kind of have an understanding of what the position is, is if you look at this 30, 60, 90 days.

Like I've just literally been coming in checking the boxes.

Okay, this is what I'm doing today.

This is what I'm working on, and building that out.

So let me see.

I think it starts on page.

Okay, so it starts on the bottom of page one.

So um I have been working on a lot of SSUT related stuff.

So that was one of the mayor's main priorities of this position was to come in and say, okay, we've got this SSUT that is going to impact um cities across the state, the city of Tuscaloosa um incredibly over the next more and more over the next decade, two decades.

So been working on that a lot.

I came in and I said, okay, so what does this position need to look like at the city?

So I'm gonna do some benchmarking.

Um went up to Mobile, went to Birmingham, and to Montgomery, went to our partner cities in the top five because we're so we're the only city in the top five that did not have this position.

So said how is everybody else doing it?

So went and saw how they're all doing it.

There is no one size fits all.

Some cities are much more um legislate, like legislatively um that is their priority.

Some are much more the local, get involved in the community public affairs side, and that's their strength.