All in favor say aye.

I minutes approved.

Welcome, Councillor Henry.

Thank you.

Glad to be here.

Your first pre-council.

We're glad to have you here for sure.

Um start with um Mayor Beth.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Okay, so tonight I'm going to have Spix Market.

They are applying for a retail beer and a retail table wine off premises only.

They are gonna be at 914 Queen City Avenue, which is right down the road here, right across from Alabama Power.

Hours of operation is Sunday, 12 to 10, Monday through Wednesday, 8 to 10, and Thursday through Saturday, 8 to 12 a.m.

There's your aerial view.

I've also included this storefront view for you.

And then there's store layout, which shows you that their snacks will be located in the front of the store.

There are some public safety concerns for this location, and that includes limited parking and then hours of operation on Thursday through Saturday with closing at 12 a.m.

Any questions.

We've had considerable meetings with the residents in and around the area of the prospective operator.

I've talked with the or not I've talked by text with the property owner.

This prospective owners lawyer has met with us too.

So there's been no shortage of uh of involvement and trying to come to a right decision on this.

I know I've think I've heard from everybody in your district too.

Probably and I think the issue uh with most of them is as uh lined up up there, you know that area has become incredibly busy.

That that intersection is incredibly busy.

Uh I know they're concerned about the lack of parking and the ability to block traffic coming in and out of there.

Um there obviously are some concerns about you know the fit with the neighborhood and what's going on and the changes that are coming about.

So no no shortage of looking at it and discussion.

Okay.

anybody else?

All right, Mayor Beth.

Okay, thank you.

That's it.

That's it.

Okay.

Virgil.

So we have three properties for you tonight.

The first one's 2714 31st Avenue.

No.

I've spoken with the owner here.

I don't think she's gonna uh contend it.

She's just gonna let us go ahead and tear it down.

But I've they've been known to change their mind at the last minute.

So I don't expect her to be here, but she could be.

How long are you gonna deal with?

Uh about six years in property maintenance, and then part finally it was able to be put into uh condemnation.

All right, that's all that one and we got two.

These are actually on the next two erects now by the same person is 2806 short 18th street, also known as 2818 19th Street.

This is the northeast structure.

Uh it's two shotgun houses on this alleyway here.

Um these are voluntary condemnations, so nobody will be here to contest.

Or shouldn't be.

Let me rephrase that.

They signed the voluntary condemnation on it.

Yeah, and the same thing on on this one here is just but we had to separate them because it is two separate addresses.

And this is in District 1, I believe.

That's all I've got for tonight.

Okay, any questions for Virgil?

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Zach.

All right.

The first one I've got for y'all is a rezoning request.

Beautiful homes LLC.

It's 0.5 acres located at 2803 and 2805 Herman Avenue.

They want to rezone from SFR 3 to SFR 4.

This is in Council District 1.

So there's the location of the property by that Weaver Bolden branch.

Currently vacant.

So they're requesting to rezone from SFR 3 to SFR4 to be able to reconstruct two houses that were previously demolished in 2020.

So you can see there the property is currently vacant.

But there were two houses there.

We still have two, there are two address points on that property as well.

And so they are wanting to just construct two structures.

They can't do that in SFR3 because of the lot size.

And so they're requesting SFR4.

These are the homes that they're proposing.

And wow.

I see.

It does conform to framework.

That's like a that's interesting.

Zach's got problems with him right here.

Right, right.

It does conform to framework with the use as well as the um uh care or the intended use as well as the zoning.

And it was unanimously recommended for approval at the March 26th meeting.

I can answer any questions on this one if you'll have any.

Got an additional rezoning request.

So this is um 0.4 acres at 4730 Harky Lane.

This is in uh Mr.

Henry's district.

They are annexing into the city limits, and so they come in as SFR1 and they want to pre-zone to GC.

So this is that property.

Um you can see that that slivers in the PJ, but they own that whole kind of corner right there.

Um Harky Lane.

So they're requesting to rezone to align the rezoning or to align the zoning with the adjacent property that they own, and once annexed, um, it will all be GC.

What is pre-zone?

So we go through the zoning request first before they annex in so that they know when the annexation comes forward, they are going to get the re the zoning that they're requesting, which is GC.

The trigger line to be able to do it is after you've bought the property and got the zoning to bring it in.

So when can you do it?

When can you do that?

When can you pre-zone a piece of call?

Right, whenever you're annexing into the city limits, that's when we do the pre-zoning.

But as we were in I'm still on right, so Mr.

Bosby, uh state law allows state law of I believe it was back in 2014, 2015, somewhere in there, allows for property to be pre-zoned.

So once next week you'll hear the annexation request, and it's really just as Mr.

Hond said, so that uh they know that when they annex the property in that it will carry the zoning designation that they would like as well.

No, I understand that it is logic when they have control.

I'm trying to understand when they control it.

When under state law say you can do it, then they have control of the property, and we have control.

Yeah, and they they're making that request at this point.

So they're they are legally able to make this request.

Yeah, you're gonna come up swinging state laws.

Oh no, I'm sorry.

Well, it does conform to framework.

I don't know what happened with these slides.

That's kind of crazy.

Um is it there's a rumor that you have to have a certain font.

Not my kidney.

Well, you do, yeah.

And it got kicked out, right?

But I've used these before.

I don't know, but it does conform to framework.

This is just already them.

Yeah, and it's unanimously recommended for approval at that March 26th meeting.

And it's a veterinarian clinical.

Right, that's what they're proposing.

Any questions on that one?

So you'll hear the annexation at the next meeting.

And it doesn't have any outdoor kennels or anything like that.

But it's got it's at a play area, but not overnight out.

That's right, yes, sir.

And then I have an annexation request for you all.

So this is uh Grady Allen Holman, it's 0.7 acres um at 12053 Grandview Drive.

This is again in Council District 3.

So this is way north on 43, um adjacent to Lake Tuscaloosa, and they are requesting to rezone or sorry, to annex into the city to um for city schools.

So currently outside of city limits, adjacent to um city limits with the lake, and it was unanimously recommended for approval.

I can answer any questions on this one as well.

Question for Zach.

All right, thanks.

Thank you, sir.

Mayor Maddox.

Yes, sir.

I've got several things today.

Um first, I certainly want to thank Brandy Johnson for overseeing our special election.

I know she's been under a lot of pressure for the last couple of months, and so Brandy, I want to thank you for a job well done.

Um I also want to thank um certainly our our team members.

We've had several hundred team members the last two weekends that have been really pressed into duty between A-day weekend and Morgan Wallin weekend, fire police, um, ESD, CFG, and several other departments who have had to work through the weekends.

It's it's been an incredible uh couple of weeks for our people.

I know they're tired.

Um I'm tired and I didn't do anything, right?

They they've actually been doing work, and so I I want to thank them for what they do.

Um, they do a fantastic job and represent the city really well.

Um, want to remind everyone we have the mayor's cup coming up.

Um we have our largest registration we've ever had in the history of it.

Um so we certainly hope to see all of you out there and would love to recognize you.

So if you're coming, please text me ahead of time so I can make certain that recognize you for doing that.

We it's it's a lot of fun, and so I really would love to have each and every one of you there and to the public.

You can go to Tuscaloosa Mayors Cup.com.

Mr.

Busby, I want to congratulate you on your event uh this past weekend.

I know you put a lot of time and effort into that.

I saw the pictures on Tuscaloosa News.com.

I mean, you've about got this down to boot camp level.

I mean, it's no doubt about it.

We'll find them up at the finish line.

It's impressive.

So you just recognize Councilwoman Howard.

I'm gonna go to the house.

Hey, you're a great leader.

He better give you something on uh I think so.

Did he give you the teacher?

I think nothing for climbed all the way up and down in that well.

I one of the things I'll say about my race is you don't have to climb over any obstacles.

You just gotta be able to walk around in the street.

So um we do have a very busy day.

Um we have capital projects recommendations that will be in projects committee at 2 30.

That presentation minimally will take 15 to 20 minutes at finance committee.

Uh, we'll be presenting the annual comprehensive financial report.

So that will take 10 or 15 minutes.

So we're gonna have a pretty packed day with a lot of agenda items.

So want to go ahead and get your your minds wrapped around that.

We're gonna do our best from a staff level to expedite it at the same time.

We want to answer any and all questions that you have.

Lastly, we have three items for executive session, and we do think it executive session will likely take somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 to 45 minutes.

Um lastly, I just looked over to my right and saw we have former council member, now State Representative Norman Crow here.

So we're glad you can still find the way to City Hall.

I'll never forget Mr.

Tiner, that's all I have.

Okay, thank you.

Oh, can you give us an update on the officer that was hit and uh also the is a guy that was driving the bucket truck this morning?

I talked to yes, um, I talked to Jacob earlier today.

We had one of our um public works employee who was in a bucket truck that had an 18-wheeler side swipe it.

And so I talked to Jacob before I came down here, and he was doing up in the bucket.

He was up in the bucket he was putting a sun, what we call sunscreen around the uh traffic signal.

And so um Jacob Osborne is his name, but um he sounded as shook as I would be, but he's gonna be fine, and he certainly is a very fortunate man.

Um the last report, I text with him on Sunday, and everything seemed to be progressing well.

I haven't talked to him since Sunday.

Anything else?

He's doing well.

Yeah.

So um again, kind of our city employees are out there.

But both seem to be doing fine.

If I get any other further updates, I'll let you know.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

And um, I want to say too um Bob at uh I hope you would know how many prayers have been sent your way and and how much we love you, and and um and and just know you've got so many people who love and care about you.

And and and Jennifer.

Um I guess let's see, we got Jessica.

Good afternoon, council.

Yeah, good afternoon.

I'm gonna bring up uh Woods Hobbs and Destiny Crawford from the UA Blackburn Institute.

So they held their warrant clinic this past Saturday, and it was a great success.

Um we had 15 city employees in attendance.

We were able to help 98 citizens and recall 168 warrants.

So I want to turn it over to them and kind of let them give you a brief overview of how it went.

Great.

Well, hello, I'm Woods Hobbes.

I'm Dusty Hollered.

And I just want to thank you guys so much.

Thank you for the mayor, thank you to the director of public safety.

Thank you to Jessica and the municipal court staff, thank you to everyone.

We had TPD and the social workers there, and a lot of the community loved them having them there.

We had over 13 people registered to vote.

I'm gonna read a few stats that we had a survey over 83 participants um out of the 100 um gave us some stats.

And so 43 of the end of 43% of the individuals are living below the poverty line.

68% of those have over 68% have over one child in their care.

Um 57% lost their driver's license, so we had a leah there, um, and we're gonna continue to build that out.

That way we can continue to get them their driver's license back and get them on the road to recovery on that.

Um 49% said that it affected them getting a job, and and it affected that that sphere of influence over them.

And then 52% said that there was a huge fear that they were gonna get arrested or that they just didn't understand how the warrant system worked.

So we're working to alleviate that fear and kind of bring them, make them aware of where everything stands.

And then Destiny, do you want to read that?

Yeah, so uh again, thank you so much for all the city's support.

This has been like a really incredible experience, and um, especially with the officers that we were given that day.

That was really really um we were really grateful for that, just for like being able to secure everything.

And we couldn't even find them.

We spent about four like two hours where the undercover agents had multiple people come up and try to retore their voting rights.

So yeah, thank you.

That was really really amazing.

Um, and so one of the comments that we got from one of our participants, this one kind of was really close to our hearts because this has been a really really important project to us for a variety of reasons.

But she said, thank you all so much for the help.

Being a single mother of Florida and doing this on my own has been hard, and I just wanted to thank you all for this help because I really didn't know how I was gonna get this paid.

So again, thank you all.

So it just kind of reminds us like we're doing this for the community, and all these people are really really close to us.

So thank you again.

What are your majors?

Uh I'm a double major in political science, legal history again.

I'm also legal history and political science.

Legal history.

Yes, it's under the history department, but then it's like a legal sphere, kind of like pre-wall track.

Is it a history of the evolution of the law system?

It kind of focuses more on like constitutional history and constitutional law, and it kind of is really setting us up to be able to go to law school because it's teaching us about like the actual laws, like criminal law, um, just those different different things.

You've been thanking us, we need to thank you.

Thank you guys so much.

And then we hope to do this again next year, and we truly appreciate the support of the city, and we hope to do it again next year.

Thank you.

Good job.

Thank you, Council.

Thank you, thank you, Jim.

Jessica, John Mazet, Frazier Lanier, Bob Young, you coming up to me just here to support John away.

Thank you all.

Thank you all.

My remarks will be brief.

Um take a look at that chart.

Uh I'm John Mazek from the Fraser Lanier Company, and we recently completed uh two bond issues for you guys.

We're very, very grateful for the opportunity once again to work with you.

I wanted to share the results of these uh so everybody is informed.

Uh just take a look at this chart, and uh if you turn it sideways, you'll see the rates, these are just rate indices.

They start going up around uh February 28th.

That's the day that uh the Iran war started.

So we we did this in the middle of a war, literally, and uh got it all together.

Carly and her team did a great job.

Um you've got a triple A rating again.

That's that's terrific.

You can't you can't improve on that.

Um you can see the highlight, the little highlight I put in there.

That's the day we sold the bonds.

We were ready, we were in a to use a football analogy, we were in a three-point stance, waiting, waiting, waiting.

We all felt Mr.

Busby was in constant consultation with us.

Uh we had multiple calls with him and with Carly and I talked to Walt, uh waiting for the right opportunity.

The right opportunity came around April 7th and 8th.

That's the day we sold these bonds.

Uh so we've we've done that.

When I was with y'all last, the rates we shared with you were average about 4.72.

We we sold at 4.42.

So that's a 30 basis point differential.

That's terrific.

Even though rates, and one other comment I'd like to make and follow me here, rates in general are higher now in general than they were when we did the deal for you guys in August, July, August of 205.

However, you heard me say 442 is your rate.

The rates we did in August and July of 25 were 485 and 475.

That's because there is an enormous respect for the city of Tuscaloosa.

There's a scarcity of your paper.

People wanted triple A paper, and nobody else was in the bond market.

No other city in Alabama had the guts to go for it that day or that week.

So we took advantage of that and pushed down the rates really remarkably.

So there was a very much a success story.

One other note about this is uh Walt in particular may be interested in this about fees paid to people like us.

Uh we did this for about half what the city of Huntsville did.

City of Huntsville did a deal March 12th, and uh they they paid almost double what you guys did.

And you're a slightly less credit than the city of Huntsville.

So that is really you know good for y'all.

Y'all got a great deal, and you got a great deal in the in the uh market.

Um I appreciate the opportunity to work for you once again.

Thank you very much.

Any questions of me?

Thank you, John.

We appreciate that 50-year relationship with the city.

We're 50 years old, so I was uh four when it started, but uh John and I I appreciate the nice comments to me, and I know Mr.

Busby does as well, but the real credit is you mentioned goes to our accounting and finance team.

All that I'll I'll take full credit for the victory of that day.

There you and the team are the ones who made it happen.

We appreciate it.

And Scott, I left you out.

You were you're he was involved in everything, as y'all know.

He's the quiet guy behind the scenes.

So I appreciate it.

Any other questions?

I'll just take off.

Nice to be the only girl to dance.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And it took guts to do that.

I mean listen to us, and we we executed.

So thank you all very much.

Thank you, John.

Thanks, buddy.

All right, Scott.

Good afternoon, council.

I think that's the first time I've ever been described as quiet.

Thank you, John.

Uh I am actually gonna jump back up here at the top or on page 10.

You'll be setting the cost for demolition of the structure located at 3601 21st Street and authorizing the filing of a lien.

Uh, that comes from UD.

And now we will jump back down to the council agenda.

Full council agenda.

There's a reason.

I'll have two.

I don't think I did it.

There you go.

Thank you.

Couldn't even pull that right at that.

All right, we can proceed.

Yes, sir.

On page 10, we're setting the uh cost for that demolition, and we're jumping down to page 18, where you'll be authorizing amendment number one to the professional services contract with Peregrine Technologies.

Uh, this is an amended compensation amount of 187,000.

On page 19, you'll be authorizing a contract for professional engineering with TTL for phase two of the Cypress Creek drainage improvements project.

This is a total of $863,250 and came to you in projects on the 7th.

On page 20, you'll be authorizing professional engineering contract with Hazman and Sawyer PC for the Rigs Road and 31st Street drainage project.

This is a total of 199,442.25 cents.

Again, that came to you on projects on the 7th.

On page 21, you'll be authorizing amendment number one to the minor public works contract with Tusco Inc.

for as needed FY25 fencing services.

This is a total amended compensation of $38,440.

Uh, this came to you on projects on the 7th.

On page 22, you'll be authorizing a minor public works contract with Chip Griffith construction.

This is a total of 25,900 came to you in projects on the 7th.

On page 23, you'll be authorizing a minor public works contract with RCS waterproofing LLC.

There's a total of $7,659 in game to you on projects on the 7th.

On page 24, you'll be authorizing the purchase of equipment, supplies, or services from the trailer store plus LLC.

This is a total of $11,400 and is for a 19-foot tilt trailer.

On page 25, you'll be authorizing the purchase of equipment, supplies, or services for the Tuscaloosa tennis center.

This is a total of $13,200, and again comes to you from purchasing as a previously budgeted purchase.

And on page 29, you'll be amending exhibits A and B of section 19-42 of the code of Tuscaloosa.

This came to you in admin on the 7th.

On page 30 through 31, you'll be adding sections 2020.

Sorry, adding sections 2076 through uh 2100 of the code of Tuscaloosa.

This again came to you in admin on the 7th.

Is there any questions for me?

On page 25, what is the expense?

Um Eric, do you know that one or Carly?

On the tennis center.

No, I know the amount, but that's for the cabinets for the electoral work being done for the tennis camera system, play site system for cabinets for the for the play site cameras that were approved back here.

So the play site cameras were the 90 something a week or two ago.

Yes, sir.

And that was what had been pre-approved.

We are purchasing the cabinets that are our standard spec, and then they're being installed by the contractor.

That's why they're presented this this way.

Thank you.

Thank you, Scott.

Um also uh Brandy, we have we have a the council has a um is it the statement of economic interest to have to be filled out by April 30th?

April 30th or 31st, yes, sir.

Okay.

Okay.

So I just remind everybody if you haven't done that to do so.

Um projects 230 finance three, admin three thirty, community development four, um, council at five, of course.

The only board of adjustments will meet this Monday.

Um anyone else have anything to bring before the council.

All right, is there a motion that we go into executive session?

So have a motion in the second.

Um Scott.

Yes, sir.

As your city attorney and attorney licensed practice law in the state of Alabama, I can certify that this executive session is to discuss securities, plans, procedures, assessments, measures, or systems, or the security or safety of person structures or facilities or other infrastructures, including without limitation credit concerning critical infrastructure, the public disclosure of which could be reasonably expected to be detrimental to the public safety and welfare, as well as 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 uh states or foreign nations, the discussions of which would have a detrimental effect upon the competitive position of a party to the negotiations if uh disclosed outside of executive session.

Okay, have a motion second.