All right, good morning, and we're going to get this August 18th, Tuesday August 18th pre-ment and
work session underway with minus one a day due to previous planned trip. So the three of us fortunate
to be here today so we can have this meeting. And I've got to pick a couple. I'll pick Commissioner
Gruber to lead us in an invocation and Commissioner McKenzie to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
please rise.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for allowing us to be here today as we can do
conduct the business of Ball and County Commission. We ask that you guide us and help us as we go
through the agenda so that we can make the right decisions in to support what the citizens
like, and we also want to ask you to please protect our first responders, all of our men
and women who are in our armed forces defending our nation.
In God's name we pray.
Amen.
Please join me in a pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all.
Thank you.
All right, good morning, everyone.
Welcome to our work session.
That's an exciting time that we have here where the meeting could go by in 50 minutes
or five minutes.
So we will see which one we have today.
But we've got to get done before 10 o'clock regardless.
I do notice we have a few, well, I call distinguished guests in our audience today.
We've got Sheriff Anthony Lowry here with us today with DA Wilters is here.
And also we've got Commissioner Elect Tater Harris joining us today.
So we appreciate y'all being present at our work session because we know how
exciting this is for y'all to come. All right so let's let's set our consent
agenda commissioners and we go over to administration we have a one item.
I'm
good with that. I'm good. Yep absolutely. All right we have an animal
control item good to go yeah okay
got budget and purchase in on our screen here
it looks like I'm looking at something on the tic-tac-toe or whatever you used to
call that show Brady Bunch thing or whatever the three y'all don't see it
but we we on three split screens here Wanda's on the screen and everybody's
else is on screens how y'all doing don't have any questions for the
ladies on the screen.
Nope.
I'm good with that.
It was good to go.
All right.
Thank you guys.
Glad we can make our life easier.
All right, item CF1,
building inspection.
I'm good with that.
Good.
We got three items.
The Sheriff's Office looks pretty cut and dry.
Yeah.
Good.
EMA item.
Good to go.
Yes sir. Good. CK-1 Environmental Management.
Yeah I'm good with it.
All right.
Got five items under grants. I like seeing that.
Looks like so does the DA
and a few others. So y'all got any questions about these grant
opportunities. I know that seeing one is very important.
No, I'm good. Good to go.
All right.
Highway Department. Two items there.
All right. Yeah, I'm good. Only two items. I like that. Highway.
I like it, but Frank, don't y'all don't get in
trouble. If y'all people say, Mark, we not doing nothing. Only two items for
highway on here. People say we're not doing anything. So there's a lot of
information in those two items commissioner. So that's right. It's
probably a lot in that. There's a lot of work in there. Yes, sir. Personnel, we
got animal shelter, employment of two animal control positions and then a
position change in our CIS department. Good to go. Good. Alright. Planning
and zoning. We have a district 18 acceptance of notice and tent to
request planning his own in referendum. I'm good. Good. Okay.
And we're going to
return to public comments. Roxanne, do I have anybody signed up to speak? Thank
you.
Commissioner request, any requests?
No, I'm going to wait until probably next
month. You talking about this? Now I'm a wait until next month.
Yeah we can do that. I'm
going to request this to put this if we can, but we did for the cigars place in Fairhope.
Some of the people that's coming here that we recognize can't make it. So I'm going to
see if I can put it on next month. Thank you. Thank you Commissioner Bob.
Commissioner
I mean, your request.
We got senior staff stuff.
Yeah, sir, I have one report.
In fact, you noticed on the grants,
we had a lot of grants, a lot of the CD, CD, whatever,
CDBGDR, and Trina's gonna give you an update
on where we are with that particular program.
Thank you.
Good morning, Katrina.
Good morning, Chairman and commissioners.
Thank you for this opportunity to provide an update
on the Community Development Block Grant
Disaster Recovery Grant Award.
I'll start off with a brief update and a background of the grant.
The state of Alabama was awarded CDBGDR funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development to support the state's recovery from the 2020 Hurricane Sally and Zeta.
As part of the state's damage and needs assessment, Baldwin County was identified as a most
impacted and distressed area and was awarded $43.3 million through the Alabama Department
Department of Economic and Community Affairs action plan.
These funds are intended to address remaining recovery needs from the disasters by filling
funding gaps or providing means to mitigate future impacts.
To receive these recovery funds, Baldwin County had to prepare and submit a local recovery
plan to ADECA.
The local recovery plan provided an assessment of remaining recovery needs within the county.
The County Commission approved the local recovery plan on September 3, 2024.
The county is in full implementation of three approved CDBGDR programs, including the Home
Ownership Assistance Program, the Local Government Recovery Infrastructure Program, and the
County Priority Infrastructure Program.
The first program is the Home Ownership Assistance Program.
This program will assist low to moderate income households that were residents of
Baldwin County during the 2020 disasters. These funds will be used for the purchase
of a home by providing funds to assist with the down payment, closing costs, and interest
rate buy downs within the approved program allocation of $19 million.
On July 24, ADECA approved the program policies and procedures. Today's consent agenda includes
the adoption of the program policies and procedures that establishes the formal
framework for implementation and secondly the approval of the Family Promise Agreement
allowing the provision of case management services to support program participants.
Can I get a drum roll please?
The county is excited to officially announce that the program is launching on September
21st.
The public notice and social media announcements will be released today.
On August 25th and 27th, I have interviews with WABF Radio to discuss the program
along with the application process and eligibility requirements.
There are also two public meetings scheduled
to provide residents and community partners with aid
in submitting applications on September 15th
at the Foley Satellite Courthouse
and September 16th here at the Fair Hope Satellite Courthouse.
The second program
is the Local Government Recovery Infrastructure Program.
This program will focus on assisting local governments
and public utility providers
in their infrastructure recovery needs
such as sewer, drainage, or roadway improvements with the approved program
allocation of $13.3 million. On June 16th, the Commission approved the 10
local government or public utility projects to be submitted to ADECA for
funding. The 10 activity profile forms have been completed and are now being
submitted in ADECA's portal for review and approval. Our team will begin
working with the funded entities to initiate the environmental review
process for each project. We are anticipating construction on all projects to begin in the
spring of 2027. The third program is the county priority infrastructure program. This
program will allow the county to address and prioritize recovery needs that have a
countywide impact with the approved program allocation of $10.7 million. The county has
two segments to the County Road 65 corridor extension project. Days one will be connecting
county road 28 and county road 32 and the second phase will be connecting county road 34 and county
road 36. For phase one the county awarded the construction bid to asphalt services at the July
21st meeting. The bid did come in below the independent cost estimate allowing the county to
add the traffic signal installation at county road 32 and county road 65 with the CDB GEDR funds.
For phase two, ADECA approved the environmental review on April 6th and released the funds
for implementation on July 21st.
The bid package for solicitation is currently being drafted.
Are you having any questions?
Good job.
Yeah.
It's taken a while, but we've got it taken care of, and it's all due to y'all's hard
work of getting this put together.
you know this thing got dumped through our lap ADM would not do it and they
said well you're gonna have to do it yes sir that's right we proved that we can
do it and you know I think we're doing it better than they are yeah I want to say
thank you too because you took up you and your team took off and ran with it
and did an excellent job with it so thank you fantastic job I can remember
we first started talking about this we had no idea what it was that's true
We had to figure something out on top of COVID and the hurricane and everything and it's
great to kind of see this thing being completed and I know there's a lot of happy municipalities
that are getting a lot of much needed projects done as well as what's fixed to happen with
some of these local residents with getting new homes and stuff.
So what a great opportunity to be a part of and to get to see it come to an end
and when all three of us won't be here in a couple months.
So it's great to see something that we've worked on
for almost three years finished.
So we appreciate y'all's hard work and dedication
because we, the commission couldn't have done it.
I mean, they were trying to task us
with figuring this stuff out.
I didn't even know what the initial stood for it first.
So thank you Katrina and Brian and everybody
that's, I don't know where everybody's at
but I guess you're representing everybody.
Yes sir, we appreciate y'all support.
Absolutely,
that's it for you.
I hate to ask the next question, but I've got to go to my county attorney, find out
what we've got to talk about if we've got anything.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Yes, unfortunately we do have a couple of matters to discuss in the Executive Session
today.
So if we're ready to do so, I would recommend the Commission adopt a motion to discuss
with your attorney the legal implications of and legal options for pending litigation
controversies not yet being litigated but eminently likely to be litigated or
We're eminently likely to be litigated if the governmental body pursues a proposed course
of action.
I'm an attorney licensed to practice law in Alabama, and this exception is applicable
to the planned discussion.
After the vote, Mr. Chairman announced that we will not reconvene the work session, and
we will see everybody at the 10 o'clock regular meeting.
All right, Commission, you have heard our attorney's advice.
I'll make that motion.
We'll go into executive session per our county attorney, and I'll second it.
We've got a motion and a second to go into an executive session as requested by our attorney.
Any further discussion on that?
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
We will not reconvene this work session and we'll see everybody back at 10 o'clock
at the regular meeting.
We'll get our meeting underway today, August 18th, regular meeting for the Bowling County
Commission.
First of all, I've already heard a phone quacking in here.
If you don't mind, please cut your phones to silent or vibrate during this live broadcasted
meeting as it interferes with-
Our TV networks and stuff. So I've got today Pastor Rodney Phillips with Three Circle Church
is going to come up and deliver our invocation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Commissioner
Gruber.
Please rise.
Join me in prayer. Father God, we just thank you for the opportunity to gather here today,
God. We thank you for the privilege that we have to live, work, and serve in this
County. Got to ask for your wisdom and guidance for this County Commission and
for all those who are in a leadership role here in this County God. Lord I pray
for your blessings on the citizens of this County God and I just pray for your
protection for our law enforcement, our firefighters, our first responders, our
educators and our County employees God and all those who call this County
home. Thank you for the sacrifices that those that made for the freedoms
that we have here today. I just ask now for your blessings on this meeting in your name.
Amen.
Please join me in a pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all.
Thank you.
All
right, commissioners got a couple of items before us before we get to our consent agenda.
We've got two sets of a minutes.
We need to adopt August 3, 2025, 20, excuse me, 2026 special meeting budget deliberations.
Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we adopt the special meeting budget deliberation
minutes.
I'll second it.
Got a motion in a second. Any further discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor signify with saying aye.
Aye.
Motion carries.
Mr. Chairman, I'll also make a motion that we adopt August 4, 2026 regular meeting minutes.
I'll second that.
Got a motion in a second to adopt and approve the August 4th regular meeting minutes.
Any further discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Motion passes.
Commissioner Gruber.
Aye.
Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we pay the bills totaling $18,573,049.13 of that,
which is 645 invoices.
I'll second that motion.
We got a motion and a second to pay the bills.
It's always fortunate enough to be able to do that to the tune of $18 million a month.
So we appreciate Commissioner Gruber's motion to make so we can keep these
lights going. So any further discussion on paying our bills? Here none. All in
favor say aye. Aye. Mr. Chairman also want to make a motion that
re-ratified the ratification of it. In from payments as allowed by policy
8.1, and that amount is $4,766 and $182.08, and of that, there are 71 invoices in which
that covers.
Second that motion.
Motion in a second for the ratification of interim payments is allowed by policy 8.1.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Commissioners before us, we have our consent agenda.
I'll
make that motion to approve our consent agenda, and also could it?
We have a motion to adopt the consent agenda as presented in our work session.
Any further discussion on the consent agenda?
Hearing none, all in favor say aye.
Aye.
Our consent agenda has been adopted.
Cariousness now to our presentations, Deidre.
We've got the presentations for our employees of the quarter for the second quarter of 2026.
Good morning.
Once again, I am very honored to be able to present our employees of the quarter.
We have six this quarter, which is a lot, and so we have a pep house today, so we'll
keep it quick.
Our Employee of the Quarter program celebrates our employees who go above and beyond in
their roles, and it also recognizes the meaningful impact that they have on the
success of the entire commission.
It gives county employees the opportunity to shine a spotlight on our coworkers who
consistently do exceptional work, and we also invite citizens to recognize our county employees
who deliver outstanding customer service every day.
And so, we will get started with that.
First of all, we have Council on Aging.
We have Kelly to present, Ms. Crystal Richardson.
Good morning.
I'm so happy that we have a packed house to see all these good employees that the
The commission has, Crystal has been with the council on aging for 21 years.
She has been a case manager and I am honored to be here this morning because I see her
work every single day and what she does, but when the citizens of Bowen County write
to y'all or call me, it means so much and so I know we've got a lot to do this morning
But I just want to read a few things that a lady and gentleman wrote in about crystal.
Thank you so much for your efforts to provide guidance on Medicare health and prescription
drug plans for the upcoming year despite your full schedule of appointments.
On the last day of counseling for seniors, you wedged me into your workload.
Your service and dedication to the work is so much appreciated and it has provided
a clear picture of how to move forward on our medical plans.
Thank you for your forbearance and excellent guidance.
Another citizen wrote in and said, what a pleasure it is to see a wonderful county employee
enjoy doing her job and helping folks understand what we do.
And Crystal does that.
Crystal goes above and beyond and I'm tickled to recognize her for this well-deserved
achievement, her compassion, dedication and commitment to the senior citizens and
And Baldwin County serves as a meaningful difference every day in our community.
So thank you, Crystal.
I just want to say I'm very grateful for being selected as employee of the quarter.
But I could not do it without my other coworkers.
And I want to thank them as well for what they do every day.
So good job.
Thank you.
Deidre, are we doing pictures?
All right,
next with our citizen service center.
we have Ms. Shannon Spivey to present Ms. Wendy Bryant Sellers.
Good morning.
Good morning. I'm so happy, like Kelly said, to have everybody here. Chances are
somebody in the crowd has probably talked to Wendy. She talks to hundreds of
our customers every week and she treats them the way I would want to be treated.
I would want my mom or dad to be treated when they call in with a genuine
and desired to help them. And what she's done most recently is truly go above and beyond
about a year ago. We found out we were transitioning to a new contact center software. It was nowhere
in her job description that she learned call routing and that type of thing, but she was
interested in it. She has done over 200 hours of training on the new software since January.
She's gotten multiple certifications.
And then as the case always happens, about a week after GOLIVE, I was out of the office
and have been for the better part of the six weeks since we have transitioned to the new
contact center.
So Wendy has been the point of contact.
She took the initiative to go to 10 different offices, train over 100 contact center users,
100 of our employees and really build a great relationship with them so because of that
we want to also once I was back in the office several department heads reached out to let
us know what a great job she did and continues to do so because of that I'd like to recognize
Wendy.
Thank y'all and if anybody has any issues with Cisco, y'all know who to call.
I
would like to add to that that we didn't just receive one nomination for Wendy, we've
received eight within a short timeframe.
Alright, so with our highway department, what about Ms. Derricka James?
Ms. Derricka, if you know she's in operations, support specialist number two.
She's been with us about four years.
She works in the area of 300 barn, our Foley barn, very busy barn, and the support
specialist playing in bottle roll and that is to keep all the guys organized and keep
them moving forward and keep them on task and so she's got a very challenging role of hurting
that many cats. If anybody that's worked in a facility like that, we've got some great
guys but sometimes they need some adult supervision and Derricka is that adult supervision.
So
So I would like to congratulate Derricka. She brings a sense of professionalism and does
an awesome job at what she does. And she is very organized, which is helpful with our
Area 300 barn. So thank you so much for doing all you do. I'm going above and beyond.
Well,
Jeremy is our supervisor. I'm just the assistant supervisor, but she does bring
a professional attitude to the barn and she's always helping the people out that need questions
asked on the phone. She helps me out because when I started my job, my new job, I was not
very computer literate and her and Jeremy has helped me mainly her because it's the
county's hard system to figure out if you don't know but she is really smart with
her job. She knows all the ins and outs and how to get things taken care of.
Derrick does a great job for us and I'm proud of her. Thank you. Thank you.
Come
on, you might as well come up and say something. She said no.
No pressure. Remember the days. All right. And then next with our highway
department, we have Mr. Gerald Wilson.
While they're walking, I guess so so
So many times we have some incredible employees that have been with us a substantial amount
of time and we felt like they're kind of like unsung hero, they need to be recognized and
then there's an occasion when you get somebody that's only been with you a short amount
of time but has had a major impact to what you do on a daily basis and not only that,
the quality of what you do.
Jared is our paving supervisor.
So he's been with us just a little over a year but the improvement that we have
seen in the quality of our resurfacing projects that we perform in-house and our dirt road
paving projects we do in-house has grown exponentially. Although he's a young man compared to some
of us, his whole life has been in the paving business. He grew up in it, so he came with
us winning a way more experience than somebody his years normally would have. He has not
only shown that in the field and through the improvements and the quality of our
workmanship that we've seen, but also in improving the morale of that paving crew.
Now, for those y'all in the audience, and you all know how hot it is right now, that
asphalt, when it goes down, how hot is that asphalt, when it's?
About 280.
So they're working with material that's 280 degrees, and 110 degrees, a heat index,
sometimes 115, right now they're out there working.
And so, he normally does that.
He keeps these crews safe.
We rotate our crews out,
letting sure they have plenty of breaks,
especially in these kind of conditions.
But he has been an immediate positive impact
to the paving department.
And we are so proud to have him with us.
And I was going to say a few words as well.
Morning, Commissioner.
I'd like to thank you for the opportunity
to recognize one of our outstanding employees,
Mr. Gerald Wilson.
Gerald's our paving crew supervisor,
been with us for about a year, like Mr. Mark said. In that time, Gerald has greatly improved
our paving operations, strong work ethic, paving knowledge, great leadership skills,
and an overall great attitude. Gerald has embraced any task given to him, not only
just in the paving, but anything from our bridge maintenance crews to our crack seal
to even placing the RPMs on the road. He has not only embraced it, but he has
actually thrived on it. Gerald's always ready for after-hours call-outs, doesn't
matter if it's storms, doesn't matter if it's size, doesn't matter, he's always there to
help us. He has been a huge, huge, huge benefit in helping changing the culture of
our paving crew. Like Mr. Mark said, it's hot out there and through his positive
work ethic and through his, you know, just his positive attitude and skills and
leadership, everybody on our paving crew is just happy now and they're
The job reflects it now. And I just want to feel like I'm honored to give them the floor of the quarter.
Absolutely.
Because I
just like to say thank you, and I'll keep doing the best I can.
Well, thanks.
Thank you.
Next, we have Jared Cunningham to present Miss Rhonda Riles in our custodial department.
Good morning, commissioners.
Good morning.
Rhonda here has been doing a great job for a long time. I know this employee of the quarter, but Rhonda could be our employee of the year.
Custodial deals with everybody's staff up to elected officials, excuse me, and Rhonda's
always got something different going on each day.
We've had some changes in the custodial department and with changes sometimes there's some difficulty
and Rhonda's overcame them.
I've received numerous emails and we've done some more in-house work such as cleaning
the carpets at the Baymanette facility for the commission area and there's just a
lot that she has done, that has came out, that has looked great. So we wanted to go ahead
and recognize her with the employee recorder.
I just want to say thank you for this recognition.
I truly appreciate it. Absolutely. Thank you.
Last but certainly not least, we have our
probate.
Not sure who's coming up here.
Couldn't see you over. We got much. This is to present
Ms. Melissa Adams.
We've got to keep him under control. You know, he gets a little bit.
That's right. Good morning, Commission. The judge and I are
excited to be here today to present Ms. Melissa with Employee of the Quarter.
Melissa is our lobby clerk here in the Fairhip location.
That office service is about three to four hundred customers a day
and she is the smiling face that attends to them. I've personally witnessed
Melissa and everything that she brings to the table but what I think is
really fantastic about this is that her co-workers nominated her for this. They voted her to have
this award. And I just think there's something special about people being in the trenches
with you but still being able to recognize what you're bringing to the table with them.
I just want to read a brief summary about what her supervisor wrote. Melissa serves
as the lobby clerk and is often the first point of contact for the public entering
the building. She has developed a strong knowledge of the building and its departments
allowing her to efficiently direct visitors even when they are not here for probate
Services. She checks and probate customers, reviews documentation to ensure that they have
everything that they need before waiting and handles many transactions in the lobby to
improve customer convenience and reduces wait times. I have personally seen her process
100 transactions a day. That is still while processing customers in, giving them tickets
and she does it with a smile on her face every time. We're very proud of Melissa.
I love my job and I love that we have great leadership and supervisors and co-workers and
it's truly humbling that it was them because they do the same thing I do.
So thank you.
Thank you.
And if we can have our recipients come up to the front to take a group picture with
the commissioners,
whichever, I think y'all come down.
Before the employees of the quarters scatter out of here and get back to work, I'm sure
the commission would like to say a few things about it.
Commissioner Gruber?
Yes, golly.
You know, we had these recipients today and everyone of them brings something unique
to the table. You know, from laying ass fault, you know, supervising people at custodials,
you know, and taking complaints in the highway department, you know, and helping the public
in the probate office. Everyone of those people are very important. They've got a job sometimes
that is pretty tough every once in a while. So, but anyway, I want to thank each and
one of them and continue to do the good work that you do, you know, those are the best people
we've got.
I want to thank them.
Thank you.
To the six employees, thank you for what you do for Baldwin County and for the citizens.
It's a pleasure to work with y'all.
I get to work with some of you, especially the ones that work here in Fairhope.
I get to see what y'all do, and you do bring a lot of happy customers, and I
know there's a lot of times that they let us know.
And I just really want to say thank you for what you do, so thank you again.
So I've got to follow the other two, so it's all the same, we definitely appreciate our
employees and I'm glad that we've got this implementation of the employee of the court
assistant that we implemented to recognize outstanding employees and I like the fact
that when some come up here to speak they always don't take the credit but give credit
to others that work with them and that just shows an example of true leadership.
So we live in the greatest place on Earth, I would say,
and got the greatest employees on Earth.
It's a blessing to be a small part of such a big organization.
And there's not a day that goes by that we don't think about
or thank our employees for what they do.
And thank you, Deidre, for running this program
and keeping these employees at the quarters going
because it's just exciting to see some people's only been here a year, some people's been here 21
years, so it rains in between, so it's always good to recognize our employees. So thank y'all,
each and every one that's well deserving for the award, so I'm glad I don't have to use Cisco.
So I'm glad other people have to use that for us. So I wouldn't know how to do all that,
but Wendy would teach me.
Thank y'all again.
So we'll move on to our public hearing section
of this commission meeting.
This is where the fund begins.
So I'm gonna let the employees of the quarter
exit out if they want to.
Congratulations again, guys, ladies and gentlemen.
There will be some seats opening up
if people wanna sit down
Instead of standing up the whole time, a few seats up front here.
More people here, and the team came out to vote.
That's right.
That's something.
Okay, first up on our public hearings agenda, we're going to be hearing case number Z26
slash 26, the Gulf Coast Farm LLC property rezoning request.
Commissioner, we received notification from the applicant that they do intend to withdraw
this case today.
Okay.
Now, they're within the seven-day window, so they're requesting to withdraw.
That would still require a vote of the Commission to allow them to withdraw if you such use.
So, Brad, in this case, I don't open a public hearing.
We just call for the vote.
Correct.
If y'all are inclined to grant their withdrawal request, then just a motion.
Commission, do I have a motion to accept this withdrawal request?
I'll make that.
Go ahead.
Go ahead, Mr. Chairman.
I'll make a motion that we accept the applicant's request to withdraw his application at this
time.
I'll second that.
Got a motion and a second.
Any further discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes.
That case will be withdrawn.
Next up is case number Z26 slash 27.
Cooper's Lake Property Resonant Request.
Commissioner, likewise, I've received the indication that the applicant may be wishing
to withdraw.
I would like, if the applicant's in the room, to actually confirm that before you take action.
Is the applicant in the room?
All right.
I confirm.
Okay.
We wish to withdraw.
So we have a commissioner.
Is there a motion to withdraw?
Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we accept the applicant's request to withdraw his application.
I mean, excuse me, I'll make that second.
Well, we've got a motion and a second to accept the withdrawal of the Cooper Lakes property rezoning.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Next up, case Z26 slash 28, Carlton Fine Properties LLC property rezoning request.
Could y'all please hold it down just for a second so we can hear each other talk up here.
Case Z26-28, Calton 5 properties, LLC property rezoning request.
Frank, what do we have on that one?
Yes, sir.
Commissioners, likewise, I've received confirmation from the applicant this morning that they
do want to withdraw this case as well, a request to withdraw.
So you'd need action to set that request.
We resetting the date on this one, though, right?
No.
So, no, sir, if they, it's the same as the previous two.
Okay, so commissioners, you've heard the...
I'll make that motion to withdraw the case.
Well, second.
Got a motion and a second to accept the withdrawal
of case Z26 slash 28.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
Our P and Z cases are over with for the day.
Thank y'all for coming.
Any other staff recommendations?
You got to take it, yeah.
All right, no, sir.
I like them
All right, things have calmed down a bit.
I did get a little bit of feedback.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wait a minute, how to pick up?
I mean, I'm going to download this board.
You got cussed down?
I'm proud of you commissioner ball you didn't I didn't come over the table over him all right um
Any of any addenda?
All right great press questions
I didn't see anybody here from the press
All right commissioner comments
Who you want to go first?
Again,
I want to thank the staff for all they do to getting us to the meeting to us so
that we can make the seasons on it. And, you know,
they weren't very diligently with all
the department heads and everyone else and all their departments that have anything to do
with this. There's a lot goes into it that people don't realize what goes into
meeting a meeting ready to present to the public. So again, I thank them so very
much for that.
And you know, I just want to again thank everyone for what they do
in helping Balling County. You know, our law enforcement, our first responders,
or, you know, our folks that, operators that answered the telephones and, you know,
take the abuse sometimes of what citizens don't like and they want to
complain and they're the first ones to catch it. So I just want to thank them
for that and all our first responders. Wish you all the very best. Thank you.
I just echo what Commissioner Gruber said.
I just want to thank the employees that do a job for the county every day.
Thank you for what you do and for the ones that we recognize.
Thank them.
They do a lot for Baldwin County and for the employees and for the city, excuse me, for
the citizens.
Commissioner, thank you for, you know, for today.
That's all I have.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
I would like if, on my comments, I would like to address something to the public if Frank
would get on his microphone and explain what happens when an applicant of a plan in a zoning
case had it all teed up today, decides that they want to withdraw, explain to the mad
public that all came here today to either speak for or against cases how this process
this works, so it doesn't all fall back on us.
Sure.
And so it is the opposite of the applicants,
prerogative or discretion, if they choose to withdraw
or request to withdraw, which is what they did.
And going forward, what it would require is the applicant
can either come back at a later date,
they could change their application
to request something different
than what they brought to the package
before you today, what's on the agenda.
But the ball is in their court to regroup and decide how they want to come back or if
they want to come back.
Some may not.
Sometimes they don't ever come back.
So that's really the only action that was taken was they put it back in the applicants
court.
Obviously they realize for whatever reason they chose to not attempt to move forward
with it.
So that's where we are.
But I will say, when they do come back, there will have to be a full range, you know, a
full advertisement, a whole complete different public hearing.
That public hearing will be advertised.
The entire process that was going through to get to where we were today will all have
to be redone again.
The applicant typically pays for that cost.
And so that's where we are.
So I would encourage the residents to keep their eyes out.
If they start seeing signs up again, start seeing notices again, then look at the
applications being presented and make your decisions accordingly.
Thank you, Frank. That helps clarify that.
And, you know, just as the other two said,
we appreciate everything that our staff does to get the agenda ready.
I don't even know.
I've never count the pages.
How many pages was this in the agenda packet?
A few hundred pages, and we got four or five pages to look at.
So it's a lot just to put together for us to breeze through in such a short
amount of time and never underestimate that our staff does top notch job in
putting this together making it simple for us to be able to sit up here and do
what we do and again congratulations to all the employees of the quarter that
were recognized today much deserving awards given out so that's it for my
comments if y'all don't have anything else then it means a journey.