Item number one under new business approval disbursement from District One improvement funds for St.

Paul Baptist Church outreach ministry total $1,000.

Councilman Eatman.

Yeah, this is for St.

Paul Outreach Ministries.

They during the set down, they stepped up and really provided food for the community.

And I just wanted to do something for them.

So that's what this is for for the outreach ministry.

Any questions, comments?

Motion.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Item is approved.

Item number two, Mr.

Ethan.

You're on quite a roll.

Yeah.

You just giving out a lot of money.

Yeah, Rose Leadership Academy is a mentorship for young ladies.

Does house that Stillman College in the district and just wanted to give them $500 to help the young ladies?

Interesting.

Yep.

Motion.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item approved.

Item number three, just first time from District One Para Senior Programs.

$500.

This is for the pair of senior Silver Sleek program.

They have a Christmas event every year for the seniors in the district and just wanted to contribute to their Christmas.

Where is it going to be?

It's gonna be at the Matt Gonehue Center.

Okay.

Motion.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item number four.

Um 1500 improvements fund.

Yep.

Mind changers.

For mind changer.

This is right in the pill.

He has a mentor program.

It's actually all over the city.

But this $1,500 specifically be used for Westline Middle School for the mentorship mentorship program he has at Westland Middle School in the district.

Okay.

Motion.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

I'm approved.

Item number five.

Um new Enoch Missionary Baptist Church Outreach Ministry.

Do you know you tell us what that is?

Yeah, new in it is also a church in the district.

They provide hot meals for seniors in the district daily throughout the week, and I just wanted to have them out and contribute to what they do as well.

Okay.

Motion.

All in favor say aye.

Item is approved.

Number six.

Um Paul Bront High School basketball program total of thousand dollars.

What's going on?

Yep, this is agreement with Mr.

Fail.

We're getting together.

Um they have some needs with the basketball team.

Mr.

Phil and Mr.

Lanier and I talk, and we all gonna pitch in to help them out.

Cool.

Question motion.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item is approved.

Item number seven, also Paul Brought High School basketball program $2,500 for district six.

Councilman Faye.

Same thing he said.

Motion.

Merry Christmas.

Second.

Well, they need a lot of money.

We're just doing part of it.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item is approved.

Number eight authorization for reimbursement resolution for the planned elevate bond issue projects.

Ms.

Standard.

I'm going to pass out the elevate bond schedule that I think most council members do pretty familiar with.

We've reviewed them with all the um elevate budget discussions previous now.

And the one that I want to call your attention to is the FY27 bond issue that is down a little bit below half the page in gold.

Um and this will be uh two of the projects on this list will be what we are asking for reimbursement resolution um moving forward.

So currently within that 2027 bond issuance, there are four projects listed.

Bowers Park and the amount of 13 million four hundred, the TCL terminal, which is part of the um the FAA uh grant uh request that we have out for the federal government, that's in the total of 13 million dollars.

It would be the grant match amount, the Northern River Walk phase two in the amount of 10 million, and then Greensboro Avenue project, which is an amount of six million.

So uh Bowers Park is not currently ready to begin um issuing contracts uh for it and then the TCL terminal, we are still waiting on the federal government and that grant amount.

However, Northern River Walk Phase Two Um is ready to move forward with property acquisition um procedures, and I even think that uh Mr.

Bobbitt will be coming forward with appraisal contract requests in the next couple of weeks, and then Greensboro Avenue is at um a point in design where we can uh begin to work on a bid package for that one, and so the reimbursement requests that we are asking for is for those two projects and the amount of sixteen million dollars total.

Um, and really all this is going to do is let us go ahead and move forward with some of the preliminary work, such as any extra designs or any property acquisition that we need in anticipation of a bond issuance in the spring that will then reimburse us for any amounts spent.

Okay.

So uh Mr.

Holmes, Ms.

Johnson, I need some advice here.

We had uh I I was fortunate to get to attend the meeting yesterday, Monday, Monday, yesterday uh on the Greensboro Avenue project.

And I um I'm certain we're gonna work through it.

Um, but there's some rather big places in there that we're not worked through.

We're not ready to pre-fund and pre-authorized upfront expenses.

What's what's the most expedient way to handle that?

Don't want to derail anything going on with Northern Riverwalk.

We ultimately this would use it to change it here.

Well, what I would say is ultimately this just sets out for for the IRS and for bonding purposes.

Okay, any any contracts or anything else moving forward with say Greensboro Avenue would come back before projects and have to get approval.

So this this is kind of this is kind of setting up those amounts, but nothing can go forward without a without a separate vote of council with regard to the project.

It's like a placehold for that project.

Well, it's basically saying that we can't spend more than X number of dollars before certain time period when we actually issue bonds.

It it is a funding mechanism um of sorts, but it is not you know, it's not necessarily approval of any of any debt issuance or any project specifics.

But it's approval if we pay it, we'll pay them back to the bond issue, right?

That is yes, sir.

That's okay.

So Bill, Mike, Brendan, we're all clear until we've all nodded, and that's come back to committee and council.

That big issue of reducing traffic lanes needs to be resolved before we move forward with that.

Check?

Okay.

I think the only thing I would just note would be what format would council like to see that in because if we miss somewhere around February or March, that project rolls to May 27th is the window of time.

So that would be thought you faded out the last.

Let me do this.

Council.

The only thing I would obviously the merchants will re-engage us, I'd imagine in early January.

I think the only question is what format would the council like to look at the plans or have a discussion about the lane widths, etc.

That we we went over yesterday morning, because there is a point at which not have to defer to Bill if you got it, but on the particular date where if we don't hit by a certain date, we miss our window of time, and because it's a 90 to 120-day project, it rolls from May 26th to the next eligible time period be May 27th.

That would be the only thing.

Is that fair?

Yes, sir.

So to Brennan's points, so be to keep the schedule achievable.

It's about uh starting construction in May.

In order to hit that, it's about uh contract award in March, advertising everywhere.

So to your point, yes, we absolutely do have some scope elements to work out.

We want to do that as quickly as possible.

I want to do that with the next 30 days.

Bring that back to council to Brendan's question.

Whatever formats the most important.

Here's the format.

It's real soon.

Somebody come look me eyeball to eyeball and say, Yes, we want to reduce the traffic lanes by half, or no, we don't, or we want to do some by two-thirds, and I'll remember that.

Okay.

All good.

We can do it.

Finance be the preferred choice finance committee would be a good start in place or project season one.

Yes, sir.

I guess it it's does it have to re go or re-go through projects?

I'm assuming the project was funded.

Um, the design project that you saw on Monday, that element was funded via the projects committee.

So, but uh with the reduction in traffic, yes, sir.

Okay.

With the full scope that you saw.

Um it obviously there were people in that room in addition to me who were caught off guard by that.

And I even if it was approved, I would I'll I would like us as the as the district council um to have that discussion continue because that's a that's a big deal, I believe.

And if it's not, somebody taught me out of so I'm gonna take that as a no, I I I think it is a discussion point from the business owners I've spoken to on Greensboro Avenue expressly within the what I'm gonna describe as the impact zone, they are less concerned about it.

Are there some merchants on the what I'll call downtown edge or perimeter area that may have larger concerns, just which what it may do to traffic?

Absolutely.

Um I would say your volume uh ownership wise of both business and our property owners, which would be Mr.

Morgan and/or Mr.

Sparlin in that particular area, both have met with Mr.

Duncan, gone over the plants, and met with the engineering office, Bayman Theater has been met with.

So a lot of what I think of as your kind of key impacted parties have vetted it and are comfortable with it.

Um there are going to be obviously because it's downtown as a greater larger area, there are going to be other considerations from other merchants.

So that's something that we'll have to kind of work through.

To answer your question, Mr.

Busby, what we can do is begin engaging you and any other members of the council on the design plan.

If you look at Greensboro moving north, Greensboro and University, you see we started this with that project from the Greensboro Avenue back down to Jack Warner Parkway, and the idea was to bring it back to 7th Street.

Really is the line of demarcation because you get to First Baptist Church on the east side, you get to the courthouse on the west side.

It wouldn't make sense, but beginning at that point of 7th and Greensboro, it really fits into what Charles Morgan and his and everyone else on that block have been talking about for years.

Expanding those sidewalks, make it more pedestrian friendly, have room for sidewalk cafes, create that central city feel.

That's where we felt like would be the best place to do that.

Um to answer your question, we can engage with you as much as you would like in the next few weeks, and bring in any other stakeholders that you would like as well.

Okay, so that is not a problem, and I'll ask our team members to engage with you and get something scheduled today so we can start be engaging and also with any council member on this project.

Good.

I think that uh I certainly recognize the difficulty uh of juggling stakeholders as we call them, man, and the merchants are certainly one an important one, but the residents and the districts um that I was elected to represent are one too.

And if I've been remiss and not picking up more um attentively on something like that, won't be the first time, but I'll I'll fix it.

But uh on that point that I again Tuscaloosa has this heritage of these beautiful wide hole, and I'd like to move very cautiously before we start constricting those and changing them.

You know, and but what we just agreed to will we'll handle it.

Yeah, just we'll go with the engineering office, we'll engage you in the council ASAP to find time that's convenient for everybody both before Christmas and then after the new year.

All right, sir.

So then I guess for this item, can we so for this item?

I am going to finance committee.

I'm gonna recommend that we approve it with the conversation you just heard, and trust that that will unfold and we'll we'll all be happy.

Motion to approve, Mr.

Chairman.

All in favor say aye.

Aye, item is approved.

Thank you.

What are we out here?

Number nine.

Um Lily, why are you doing bulletproof vests?

I'm the new grants manager for the city.

The new what manager grants manager grants manager.

It's not the new bulletproof vest man.

Okay, unfortunately not.

So this is just authorization to apply for this grant.

It's a federal reimbursement program for local law law enforcement agencies.

It's a 50% match, and it is budgeted in TPD's budget.

Okay.

Questions, comments?

Yep, second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Can you be able to do that?

Item is approved.

Mr.

Holmes MDAA for liability insurance.

Yes, sir.

Good afternoon, committee.

This is uh this is an annual renewal of my office's liability, our professional liability insurance.

The total cost is $8371.

This is the Sable Belt as last year.

Uh you may recall several years ago, uh, one of my predecessors made the wise choice.

Since we have a prosecution wing in my office, we are eligible to be members of the National District Attorney's Association.

That provides us with a greatly discounted professional liability insurance through them, which is uh which is this question, comments?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item is approved.

Mr.

Turner, Mr.

Holmes.

Yes, sir.

Amendment to the economic development agreement with North River Hospitality.

Yes, sir.

What I will do before Mr.

Turner gets up is kind of give a recap of where we are with the current incentive agreement that was approved with North River Hospitality.

This was approved back in December of 23, January of 24.

It was executed on January 31st of 2024.

If you will recall back, this was uh the time Mr.

Turner proposed a project, there was a total of a $57 billion redevelopment project.

It was going to redevelop the Jackwater in as well as the anchorage building.

Uh who committed to increasing the room count at that time from 56 rooms to 63 rooms.

The incentive amount that was approved by council was 7.455 million.

That was to be a that was the total cap.

And that was to be attained through an 85% lodging tax rebate as well as uh the remission of building fee uh building permit fees over a total of a 10-year period.

That's where we are today.

Um I'll let Mr.

Turner uh let you know kind of what what's happened since then and what he's here to request.

Sure.

Come on up.

Just push the button.

Yep.

Good afternoon, uh, Council and Mayor.

Thank you all for letting me be here.

Um, so Project Gilmore, it's I think we're calling it the Jack Hotel now, um, has been advancing.

We um paused it, um, and many of you may be aware we recently closed on the purchase of the um golf club as well.

So the first time we came and presented this, um you'll see on where it's uh kind of the blue area, bluish purple area.

There's like a center pie of uh roughly nine acres that we did not own at the time.

Uh so and we did not own any of the green area.

Uh, as of two months ago, we have now acquired all of the green area, and now that center partial, which kind of completes the hotel uh footprint, it allows us to expand the uh special event space uh greatly.

That also allows for more serene setting for the cabins.

Uh so we will be putting 37 uh lodging cabins in the woods that are part of the hotel project.

Um, so we now control all the area out there, uh, which really helps uh with the resort concept and granting uh resort guests privileges to play golf and those types of things when they come to town uh and utilize the club.

Uh so just kind of an update of what's happened since then.

When we originally presented, this was kind of where we were, um, and we were uh had not started the marina, which is now the captain's club.

Um that's what it used to look like.

Um today um the captain's club is completed.

Uh roughly nine million dollar project restoring the existing cabin, which you see the interior of on the left.

That's an original 1840s cabin.

We added a new market that is open to the public on the lake front uh and added new gas pumps and services for the uh general public at that point.

Um this is the new restaurant component that whoops.

Let me back up.

So we opened we were able to open the restaurant uh part this summer along with the Wibbet adventure that is out in the lake.

That's been a big success over the course of the summer.

This is the inside of the market.

Um that has been a lot of fun for people to be able to have a place to come and experience on Lake Tuscaloosa.

We've hosted chamber all kinds of events for different organizations throughout the community at this market.

Uh, the new docks um that are throughout, so we really elevated the boat population.

It went from a lot of boats that had trees growing out of the motors to now there's 450,000 crisscrafts stored there.

So we've really seen um a higher quality of boat product now in our storage facility.

Uh Hill House Condos uh was not under construction at the time.

It is nearing completion.

We should finish that up in March.

Uh, close to a 40 million dollar condominium project.

Uh we've sold all but four units in the property, and so we'll be concluding that uh in March.

Uh which brings us uh, and then with um the hotel project, we had gotten to a point where we knew we were likely to acquire the club, and that was going to create some changes in how the resort needed to be designed and the layout.

So we paused at that point.

You can see we were well under construction.

We had already got the hotel, we're reframing it to the new hotel specs that we're doing.

More shots.

That's the anchorage building where the new restaurant will be located.

These are from the original presentation.

So you know Scott kind of covered the financial aspects of it.

But you know, right now basically the total revenue from the site is the property taxes.

The agreement provides the economic support.

The project with the changes that we're doing has gone from a $57 million project to a $94 million project, which is a big number given, but we've done a lot of research and in terms of the special events and the capabilities that we'll be able to have now and expanding those offerings.

So we are not asking for any change to the economic support of the project.

Realistically, because of our delay in acquiring the club and rolling that into part of this project.

Realistically, we think winter of 27 is when we're gonna probably open this, but we're just with delays and things that have been happening unrelated to like we had a four-month weather delay for Hill House.

We're just being conservative and saying, can we extend that to completion of 2028 for the construction?

You're not asking for any more money, no just a little more time.

Just a little more time, that's all.

Yep.

That was what was in the agreement, which would put it at the I think it's the end of the started yet.

Those pictures were showing you like all the trendy up.

Have the incentives started.

No, they won't so the incentives are lag time.

Didn't we build abatement?

Several years.

Yes.

But so the way that the incentives work, there's nothing that comes to us until we're producing rather than we collect the taxes, submit it to the city, and then it's rebate rebated to us.

And so that's not happening yet, right?

No, no, no.

Nothing will happen instead of when do you think it'll that will begin happening?

Our target is to open in winter winter 27.

Yes, sir.

And what you're asking for is 30 months from then.

We're just asking to set a date of the end of 2028 for completion of it.

We think it was gonna be in advance of that, but we're just kind of giving a buffer for like we had four months of weather that delayed us on Hill House.

With the 30 months, didn't you say it would have ended at the end of next year?

It would be opportunity for the incentive.

So you're asking for two more years.

We're asking to take it.

Same amount of money.

Two more years to that's right.

You see what I'm saying?

Why don't you summarize it?

No, I said when this was originally proposed to us, this was supposed to be wrapped up by the end of 26, but they're asking to add two years to that to be able to reach to recoup.

Correct.

Wrap up the end of 28.

That's correct.

They're just asking for 24 more bonds.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean I'll check the motion to approve.

Second.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Items approved.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Good luck.

Just a little bit of uh procedure since this does fall under uh amendment 772.

What we will do is we will notice uh we'll notice public hearing.

We have enough time to publish that.

We'll have to have the public hearing on January the 6th.

Um this is the second part of that, and he probably could tell you more about it than I can.

Um, but this is what this does is there is a uh state law, state uh tax credits, state incentives that people can get for these tours of type investments.

They cannot get them unless unless the city certifies that we are already incentivizing this project.

I think it has to be at least 20% logic tax.

So this is a resolution just say what we are doing uh that will certify it and allow Mr.

Turner and his group to apply to the state for for their side.

There's no additional money from from the city.

Motion motion, second.

All in favor say aye.

And I will hold this one back and it'll go on January 6th with the other one rather than going on its own next week.

Um the customer says so.

Yes, sir, 85% is that graduate either up or down.

Uh no, sir.

85% ends the end of 28.

Gotta be the construction would have to end by the end of 28.

Sorry.

We gave them two more years.

Okay.

Item number 13, Jackson Center for Quest.

Councilman Eatman.

Yes, this is the tax incentives for ex we discussed at the last meeting.

Roughly 62,000 for one year.

First year of sales taxes.

So thank you.

Nothing you have to add through the question.

Committee members, any questions or comments?

No, Mr.

Chairman.

I know sometimes we have instances of where we're discussing these things.

It's I know I'm trying to think recently we did this.

I I would like to make a motion to move this to council.

Yeah, I see.

From this committee.

All right.

Motion to move this to council.

I don't second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item is moved to council.

Again, I'm sorry, just for just for a little bit of procedure, since this would fall under 772, it would require publication at least a week in advance.

So January 6th will be the council date.

Thank you, Scott.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, Mr.

Oh no, you're fine.

Okay.

Or are we?

14.

That was our 14.

Established budget for 2026 for NOAA's ARC 2.0.

Yes, sir.

So this week, so last week we approved the um reimbursement resolution for NOAA's ARC 2.0.

It will be on city council for full adoption tonight.

And so this is requesting the budget creation for the NOAA's Art 2.0 projects.

You can see the detail of the projects and all of their amounts in the uh I think it's page six within your packet.

Um and this is just based off of the presentation that was done regarding each individual project, and then the reimbursement resolution information that's on council tonight.

So walk me through flow one more time.

This is creating the 45 plus million mid million dollar budget for NOAA's Arc 2.0.

Yes, sir.

Which we've recognized that one of the blessings and one of the challenges is it comes in smaller byte sizes and you don't always know when they're coming.

Right.

And so you have to be a little more nimble financially.

So if not to borrow a bunch of money you don't need for a lot of time, you don't need it.

So far, so good.

Yes, sir.

You got it.

Okay.

So what so does the the impact of the 45 million seven fifty is that just our target on the wall?

What that's so that is the is that that's the same some sort of refunding agreement.

No, sir.

So generally within the presentation, the mayor's number was 50 million total for NOAA's Art 2.0.

Um however the total sum of each individual project right now is only at 45.7 million, knowing that we're probably going to have some flux in there possibly for contingency and um and any kind of design increases that are necessary.

Um but this is just establishing the budget for the total overall amount within the reimbursement resolution, it does not allow us to spend more than 15 million dollars.

55 zero 1515 15, yes.

Um so it doesn't allow it it allows us to to cap out pre-space how much we can spend without having bonded.

Correct, correct.

Yes, and so our treasury group will be the one that reviews all spending every week to make sure that we don't hit that 15 million dollar cap.

Um, and then we'll also be tracking all of our cash reserve amounts within each individual fund to make sure that our our cash is is staying you know as stable as it needs to to maintain.

Any other questions or comments?

No motion, second all in favor say aye.

Aye budget item is created item number 15 resolution uh say Mr.

Holmes.

Yes, sir.

Good afternoon.

I think this is the last time you have to hear from me today.

Uh this is a resolution renewing the contract with Hostville Direct Communications.

This is Steve Raby, who's actually the city's lobbyist uh for I think about the last four or five years.

Um we would like to keep him on.

This is the be the same contract, would be the same amount, which is a total of forty-eight thousand dollars a year, four thousand dollars a month.

Any changes to the contract?

No, sir, it's be exactly.

Yes, sir.

No changes in the price.

No sir.

Updated dates is be all uh motion.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item is approved.

Um the business being brought before finance.

Okay, not sir motion.