The Tuscaloosa City Council convened on November 4, 2025, to address six primary agenda items, focusing on public works contracts, airport infrastructure improvements, and IT service renewals. All items were discussed with input from departmental staff and unanimously approved by the council. Additionally, minutes from a previous meeting were approved, and the council set the date for the next public projects committee meeting before adjourning.
Aye. Aye. Minutes are approved. Item number one is approval to award a public works contract to civil works for the waterfall roadway drainage improvement project. The total is $155,000. Mike, welcome. Good afternoon. Asking to uh move forward with this recommendation. If you'll remember this was one of the neighborhood drainage projects that we brought to you a few months ago. This one in particular, we had a had budgeted 250,000 for. So we're very pleased with the uh the low bid that we've got. We received bids from four four different companies. Uh and civil works was the lowest responsive bidder. Um just a little excerpt uh of the plan set where we're gonna be adding some drainage structures and tying into some existing storm sewer uh in this location. But uh very pleased that this came in uh under our anticipated budget. That's real good. It came in on the budget. Yep. It's good that'll help us do some other stuff. Questions? Most when they get ready to start. We're gonna wait till after the holidays to start. Um did don't want to disrupt this neighborhood during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, so we're planning on having the contractor mobilized shortly after New Year's year. All right, and then roughly how long do you think it'll take 30 to 45 days, Max? Depending on whether motion is second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Item one is approved. Item number two is approval, balancing change order with Taylor Electric for the University Boulevard East Bridge Lighting Project, deductive total of $50,000. Zach, welcome. Good afternoon, Council. Good afternoon. Yes, this is a deductive change order for $50,000. Um this is the lighting project for the bridge going into Alberta. We put in 27 pedestrian style lights and about 1,200 feet of fiber conduit. Good thing. Motion. Motion second, all in favor say aye. Aye. Item two is approved. Item three is approval to award the 2025 CMP lining project to inliner solutions. Totals 329,510. Zach. Yep. So this is our uh 2025 CMP lining project. We've identified three locations across town to line. Let's see. First is Fredericksburg, which is in the Academy Drive Subdivision. We have a 42-inch CMP pipe that's we've had to patch the road and try to patch the pipe a few times, so this will line that pipe under the road. The next is a third is a two 36-inch CMP pipes.