Good gracious.

Is there a motion that we approve the minutes?

Some of them.

Second.

Motion second.

All favor say aye.

I minutes approved.

Okay, Virgil.

You're up first.

So we got two for y'all this evening.

First one's 30 uh 3113 Riggs Road.

The owner has started making some minor exterior repairs.

He does have the windows boarded up and secured.

He has not pulled a permit yet to start work, but they will be here to represent the property.

He says he wants to save it.

How long is it?

What's their recommendation?

I told him I would recommend to give him 90 days to get a permit pulled and get started making the proper repairs for it.

If they do that, I mean I have no problem with them fixing it.

It's either fix it or get it tore down one of the other things.

We've been dealing with this one for quite a while.

That was my question.

Is this not the first time this is when it's coming up?

For condemnation, yes.

It's been in our property maintenance proceedings for about five years.

So they would they would do a little bit of work, get it out, it would go back in.

So that's that looks like there's gonna be a whole lot of work to that roof.

It's gonna need a new roof, new siding, all new windows, uh, new electrical panel.

It's gonna be an undertaking.

They there someone will be here tonight to represent this property.

And you say it's been in for five years.

Yes, sir.

In the property maintenance.

That's a huge expense.

I don't like to see people dragging out.

We're doing just enough to get by.

Repair in a rental house.

Virgil, I mean, would you all be against only doing 30 days?

I have no problem with only doing 30 days.

I don't know.

I would much rather see it.

That's serious, right?

Give them a give them a uh tighter deadline.

Yeah, uh to at least get the permit pulled, get started on some major repairs.

I'm okay with 30.

I don't I'm not real sure.

It's been in that long, I'm not real sure, but okay.

We'll know whether it's serious or not.

All right.

The next one's right down the street, 3153 Ridge Road.

Same situation.

This one's been in and out of property maintenance for quite a while.

Uh the original owner that I had on this one passed away.

Uh read did the paperwork in the wife's name or the widow's name, excuse me.

Uh she has not made any repairs.

Since it's been in condemnation, she has pulled a permit, but it's for minor repairs, nothing major.

Uh I'm not sure if she's gonna be here or not tonight.

That looks major to me.

Yeah, it's it's in pretty it's in pretty rough shape as well.

And it's open to the public.

Oh, yeah.

My recommendation.

I um and like I said, I don't know if she's gonna be here to to try to fight for it or not, but my recommendation is go ahead and move forward with this one, unless she gives y'all uh real good plan.

Yeah, this is gonna be very expensive as is the other.

Both of them, both of them's gonna be rather extensive repairs.

Um with any condemnation, our expectations are to for them to be brought up to as close to code compliant as possible, which 99.9% of the time is gonna be a full rewire and other issues that we can't see from the outside.

So uh all of them are extensive as far as when it goes to the cost on these I tell you it's so expensive.

I had something like this.

I had a leak and living room with my uh rental rental house, and it wasn't that much that had to be done, but it was over $1,500 just for just a little small area, and that's it's a lot of money.

Cost of construction is through the roof right now.

When we start making repairs on old stuff, it even it magnifies it because you're having to you tear out and replace instead of just 70, yeah, because it's a 70-year-old house.

Right.

Um that's all we have for y'all tonight.

Okay, any further questions for Virgil?

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Zach.

Afternoon.

Good afternoon, buddy.

This is a rezoning request for Grant McCabe.

Uh it's a very small piece of property at 14310 Santorini Street, and they're rezoning from SFR1 to LR.

Um so this little piece here, obviously this doesn't really show kind of what you want to see.

So I will get to the main overarching picture is there's two properties.

The lot one on your right hand side is outside city limits.

On the left hand side is in city limits.

They are giving each other or a little bit of land going to um, or I guess that's proposed lot 74 GR.

Um giving some land to him, so that portion is being annexed and rezoned to LR to match the existing property.

So really it's just there's a house and they want to kind of fix the the property lines.

It's someone giving an adjacent owner some property.

Um it just happens to be outside of city limits, and when you come into city limits, you're zoned SFR1, which we are proposing to fix in our code updates coming to you guys in the near future.

Um, so they have to go through this process.

Um I'm sorry, I I fell off that wagon at the very beginning.

Okay.

Who's given what to whom?

All right.

This property owner check.

And this property owner.

This property owner is giving this liver to this property owner.

Okay.

Wow.

So because they're the house that they want to build and they can't build it with the lot lines, things like that.

So this has to annex into city limits.

Okay.

When you annex into the city limits, you're zoned SFR1.

Okay.

This is on LR, so he's rezoning to LR to match what exists today in that area.

What is L Rake Residential?

Okay.

Yeah, it's it's a little confusing for sure.

That was clear it's all right.

Okay.

Um, and then y'all will see the annexation, you know, in a couple of weeks.

So it does meet framework, does conform to the plan, and it was recommended, recommended by planning commission.

Um, next up we have two annexation requests.

The first one is that one that you saw the rezoning for two, I guess two weeks ago.

Um, or maybe it was last week, I don't know.

It all runs together.

Um, but this is that gas station uh that was rezoning and coming into city limits.

Um, so they're just rezoning to GC, and then now they're annexing.

So we discussed this one pretty in depth last week last time.

Um so now this is just that annexation piece.

Um it was unanimously recommended for approval.

And then this final one I have is an annexation request for Jonathan Grammar.

This is approximately one acre on Nickel Park Road, so uh you can see Nick uh Lake Nickel, um, it's just kind of like northeast of Lake Nickel.

Um I don't know if there's really any other good way to describe it.

Um but they're proposing to annex that kind of zigzag strip as well as the house itself to get into city limits, and I'll show you why they have to do it that way.

They're just trying to um yeah, they're trying to extend the boundary so that they can get that house.

That's why it looks like that.

And the reason for that annexation is for city schools.

So my understanding is that little square that you already see in city limits, uh, they were proposing to build their house on that piece, and so they annexed it into the city at that time.

They realized that they'd rather build their house on the piece that they did, and now they're requesting to annex that piece.

Um did recommend denial by a vote of five to two in October.

Uh you can see the no votes there, um, and their concerns were related to the method of annexation with that you know, 20-foot wide strip, um, setting a precedent of people not wanting to annex their full property and just kind of working their way into city limits.

Um, and then the yeses, they um talked about they want the property in city limits, of course.

You know, we always want property in city limits.

Um and they were okay with this specific instance due to the nature of the quest being request being for city schools.

So what was the was the focus of the no's that they were just selectively annexing a strip as opposed to the larger lot?

Right, yes, sir.

And is there any code or guidance on that?

It's just not best practice.

And I think one of the issues that you can think of is if this were a different situation with a commercial property, they're trying to you know keep some of their land outside of city limits so they can do what they want, they'll get some in.

It's just the idea of setting a precedent was what they were concerned about.

What just below the check square up there?

What what is that right there?

Is it just nothing there?

Uh yeah, so all of those all the white is outside of city limits.

Do the grammar is on that?

The grammar, so uh where the square, the pink square is in the middle of the screen.

Almost all of the property north of that is a mix of their family owning that, the grammar family.

And so they're actually the little zigzag piece is his uncle.

They're annexing their portion of the sit of that property to get into to allow Jonathan Grammar to annex his portion.

But he doesn't own that part below where he wants to go.

Um I don't know if he owns that part below, but he does own all the rest of the part within that like hatched square area.

Zach the house is is going to be located.

I mean, in in that I think it they've already built it.

They've already built so the I understand about the precedent part, but it's if the major value of that property is coming in the city.

Correct.

Because the home is right.

Right, the home will be in the city.

We would probably like to see that whole each property come in or be subdivided in some way, right?

That that is cleaner than that, correct?

It could be, yes, sir.

But what he's doing is not against anything that we could allow.

That's correct.

Raven, I hate to put you on the spot.

No, that's okay.

I won't see what what you saw.

So I believe there was a request to make those lines a little cleaner, right?

And add the portion right below the square on to Lizetta.

Oh, yeah, just to kind of make the law.

They did not, no, ma'am.

Okay, but I'm still a yes vote because I believe this petitioner has intentions on keeping all of the property, and even though the rest is not going to be annexed into the city, I don't believe that they would jeopardize their property and put something there that they know would be detrimental to the process.

They're gonna live there.

And then the family member owns a lot of the property to the right from where we are sitting.

And if I understand the situation with a timing issue for the schools, he he needs to have this annex in so his kids can continue in school, right?

Right.

Also they're giving them extensions because of this process.

Um did did y'all or have you talked with Jonathan about a way to clean that up with a sub or something?

Have you talked to him about that?

Not outside of the planning commission, no, sir.

If we if we allow this, there could still be a subdividing or something to clean this up in the future, right?

I mean, it could yes sir.

Could right if he wanted, or if he was willing to do something else, he'd have to bring more of that property in, right?

Yes, sir.

Are all of the are all of the adjacent property owners to that property?

Are they all family members, or are there some other people?

I believe everyone north of kind of the line right there in the middle of your screen is um family.

It's all family, and they'll be here to I well, I guess it's not a public hearing, but um I can reach out and get that information and and provide that to you all.

One more question before you want psychology.

I'm just thinking something which is always dangerous, other than for um right why say this other than to make it cleaner?

Do you do you feel like we are setting a bad precedent here?

I think you know, we've kind of extensively discussed the situation, which could be unique in this case of some other situation.

So I think if you all feel comfortable with that, I don't think it would be setting a precedent.

Right?

Yes, sir.

So that's that's a big that's a big part.

I mean, the house is being brought to it.

So anyway, okay, thank you.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, Jim.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, Zach.

Mayor Maddox.

Uh yes, sir.

Um, first tomorrow at 9 a.m.

at Benjamin Barnes YMCA, we will be having the unveiling of the Marshall 4 statutes.

Um, this is a copy of the program that'll be passed out tomorrow.

I hope all of you can be there for that.

We have some special guests who are coming in from Huntington, West Virginia, and Marshall University who will be joining us as well.

I think it'll be a very memorable day.

And what Caleb O'Connor has created, I think it's going to be very inspiring.

I think all of you will be very, very impressed by it.

Um, I want to thank Mike Gardner who represented the city just a couple hours ago at the chamber's annual transportation summit.

So, Mike, you did a really fantastic job.

I know how much you love public speaking.

But I really appreciate you doing that.

You did a fantastic job representing the city of Tuscaloosa.

Um, I do want to take a point of personal privilege.

Um this Saturday morning or Sunday morning.

Um, we unexpectedly lost.

I know many of you, and I know for me a dear friend and Brian Harden, Brian Harden Construction.

Um Brian was just a couple weeks ago.

We were having lunch, and I asked him, I said, How do you how did you know to start such a construction business to do like this?

And he said, I'd saved up some money and always thought I could run my own business.

Man, did he ever?

Harden Construction is an unbelievable construction firm doing heavy construction projects across the United States.

He certainly built a legacy, but Brian's passion is those of you that may have known Brian was golf.

And um what we were talking about last week was he's been really pushing us to expand Old Colony.

Um but Brian's passion was I don't they don't call it first T, but was the first T program.

And he quietly gave I I don't know, tens of thousands, probably more that he never wanted his name on, never want anybody to know about it.

He just wanted underserved children to have an opportunity to play golf.

Um they don't make them like Brian.

We're gonna we're gonna miss Brian.

Um also just a reminder to the council handful of meetings remaining in the year.

We've been talking about this as a staff.

I think we've got five brandy or six meetings remaining after this, three for the year.

So I was being ambitious.

Um so you can expect longer agendas, tighter deadlines.

So just keep that in mind as you're planning out for the rest of the year.

Lastly, is we do have three items for executive session.

Knowing we're not meeting next week, these items will be long, I'm afraid, although we would like to be done by 2 30, Mr.

Tiner.

Each item is sensitive, and so it deserves a thorough review by the the city council.

So it may put us a little bit behind schedule in our committee hearings, but we'll get on schedule, Mr.

Brant.

I know.

But it uh I just wanted to be aware that because of the timing of schedules of we we have to get these three items in front of them today.

And that's all happening.

Yeah, I'm just shocked about Brian.

I did not had not heard that he uh he was it's um I I you know it's a shock to everyone.

Yeah, he was uh everything you said, but he was a big supporter of my talent search and do it for 30 plus years with Eagles Wings.

He always had that check ready, and uh so he served on the paraboard, he was actually Northport's representative to the Faro Board, and they're certainly gonna miss his leadership.

Um I know we got well Brandy.

Sorry, just thrown off by that news.

I didn't unknow.

All right, so I've got one quick item for you guys.

Um, historic preservation commission has a member whose term has expired.

Um, as I'm sure you're aware, um, historic preservation commission's members are mayor nominated and council appointed.

Um so we have yet to confirm whether or not Mr.

McCool would like to be reappointed, but during this time where we wait to hear back from him, we just want your permission to go ahead and advertise for resumes.

Please.

Okay.

Two weeks.

Two weeks.

Okay, thank you, Brandy.

Um Scott.

Sir, good afternoon, council.

Afternoon.

I want to direct you actually back over to the first page of the agenda.

We have a couple items under unfinished business, where on page six and seven, you'll be amending exhibit D of section 1942 of the Code of Tuscaloosa.

This came to you originally from uh admin on the 21st.

On page eight, you'll be amending exhibits A and B of Section 1942 of the Code of Tuscaloosa again.

This came to you an admin on the 21st.

I'm sorry, I said 28th last time.

21st on both of those.

On page nine, you'll be authorizing amendment number two to the fiscal year 2026 general fund budget.

This came to you in finance on the 21st.

And we will skip down towards the bottom of page two, where on page 26 through 27, you'll be accepting paved streets for public dedication and maintenance as shown in the legacy point subdivision platz phases 1A, 2, and 3.

This came to you on projects on the 21st.

Sorry, the 28th.

On page 28, you'll be authorizing the purchase of equipment supplies or services from Genuine Parts, DBA Napa.

This is a total of $13,524.41 cents for a rotary lift $12,000 pound for the Tuscaloosa Police Department.

This comes to you as a previously budgeted purchase for on purchasing.

On page 29, you'll be authorizing a minor public works contract with Isbull installation.

This is for $25,700 in KMT and projects on the 28th.

On page 30, you'll be authorizing an as-needed FY 2026 minor public works contract with Proscape.

This is a total not to exceed $25,000 in KTU and Projects on the 28th.

On page 31, you'll be authorizing a professional services contract with Smith Steagle and Associates PC.

This is a total of $23,700 in KMTU and projects on the 28th.

On page 32, you'll be authorizing a contract with Suite One Media Inc.

for media software services.

Is it a total of $1,800 in Kew and Projects on the 28th?

On page 33, you'll be authorizing the mayor to execute an application for the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvements Program.

The A Trip for 2026 to support the construction of the Julia Tutwiler Drive and Campus Drive Improvements related to the Woolsey Fennel Bridge McFarland Boulevard replacement improvements project.

This is a total of, I'm sorry, uh this came to you on October the 16th in finance.

On page 34, you'll be authorizing a contract for professional engineering and related services with Hazen and Sawyer for ALDOT reimbursable project.

This is related to utility relocation for the state's Woolsey Fennel Bridge Replacement Project.

This is a total of one not to exceed 1,217,595 and 17 cents.

And this came to you in projects on the 28th.

On page 35 and 36, you'll be authorizing a contract with Mara Water Technologies and declaring a bid law exemption pursuant to Alabama Code of 411651 D7.

This is a total of $57,129.45 cents and comes to you from Water and Sewer Department.

On page 37, you'll be authorizing mayor to execute an engagement letter with the Arbitage Group.

This came to you in finance on the 28th.

On page 38, you'll be authorizing the Tuscaloosa Police Department to sign an interagency agreement.

This came to you in public safety on the 28th.

On page 39 through 40, you'll be authorizing the mayor to execute a real estate sales contract with the Land Conservation of America, LLC, regarding the sale of the Hopkins Building Warehouse.

This comes to you from my office.

On page 41 through 42, you'll be authorizing the mayor to execute a real estate sales contract with SD properties LLC regarding the purchase of 1209 James I.

Harrison Junior Parkway East for Warehouse and Storage use.

This is a total not to exceed $2,105,000 in comes to you from my office.

On page 43, you'll be authorizing disbursement from General from District 3 improvement funds for Tuscaloosa City Schools.

This is a total of $10,000.

On page 44, and that can be you in finance last week, I'm sorry.

On page 44, you'll be authorizing a disbursement from District 2 improvement funds for the Tuscaloosa County Parks and Recreation Authority.

This is a total of $2,000 in CPU and Finance on the 28th.

On page 45, you'll be authorizing a disbursement from District 2 improvement funds for the Alpha Charter Youth Clubs of Tuscaloosa County.

This comes to you as a $1,000 donation and comes to you from finance on the 28th.

On page 46, you'll be authorizing a disbursement from District 2 improvement funds for the Bridge Builder Friendship Foundation.

This is a total of $1,500 in KM2 and Finance on the 28th.

On page 47, you'll be authorizing a disbursement from District 2 improvement funds for the Central High School.

This is a total of $2,500 in came to you in finance on the 28th.

On page 48, you'll be authorizing disbursement from District 2 improvement funds for Jeremiah's Community Garden.

This is a total of 1,500 in came to you in finance on the 28th.

On page 49 through 50, you'll be authorizing amendment number three to the fiscal year 2026 general fund reserved for future improvements.

This came to you in finance on the 28th.

On page 51, you'll be introducing zoning amendment number 23, rezoning approximately 0.84 acres located at 212102, Fifth Avenue East from SR from SFR1 to MR1.

I've got to get used to y'all's uh new zoning abbreviations, Ms.

Kreitz.

Uh this comes to you from the petitioner uh through uh that process.

It's just for introduction only tonight.

Uh we'll skip over the couple items that uh Mr.

Pons covered, where on then on page 58, where you'll be appointing Andrea Wilson to the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission Board of Directors.

Uh then on page 59, you'll be authorizing amendment number three to the fiscal year 2026 general fund budget.

Uh this came to you in finance on the 28th.

On page 60, you'll be setting December 9th, uh 2025 as the date to consider adoption of the zoning amendment, and that is uh goes along with the zoning amendment that we are introducing uh there.

We mentioned earlier.

Any questions for me?

Questions for Scott?

Thank you, sir.

Sir Project 230 Finance 3, Admin Policy 330, properties at four, one item there in council course uh city hall be closed.

Tuesday in observance of veterans day, no council or committee meetings.

And then the 12th day 2025 foreclosure sale in the council chamber.

All right.

Anyone have anything else to bring before pre council?

Is there a motion to go into executive session?

So the second Scott.

Yes, sir.

As your city attorney and attorney license practice law in the state of Alabama, I can certify that the topics for this executive session are appropriate to discuss with their attorney the legal ramifications of and legal options for pending litigation.

Controversies not yet being litigated, but imminently likely to be litigated or imminently likely to be litigated at the governmental body proposed course of action, as well as to discuss security plans, procedures, assessments, measures, or systems, or the security or safety of persons, structures, facilities, or other infrastructure, including without limitation information concerning critical infrastructure, the public disclosure of which could be reasonably expected to be detrimental to the public safety and welfare.

And finally, to discuss preliminary negotiations involving matters of trade or commerce, in which the governmental body is in competition with private individuals or entities or other governmental bodies in Alabama or in other states or foreign nations, the discussion of which would have a detrimental effect upon the competitive position of a party to the negotiations.

Okay.