[0:07] I got to see Alabama.
We still have
[0:26] » I know it. [laughter]
I know it. Let's go. All right,
[0:29] » let's go, y'all.
>> All right. Precounsel meeting of city of
[0:33] Homewood for March 9th, 2026.
>> Councilor Simmons
[0:38] » here.
>> Councelor Sims
[0:39] » here.
>> Councelor Lane
[0:41] » here.
>> Councilor Armstead
[0:42] » here. Mayor Rams
>> here.
[0:46] » Everybody's here.
>> Thanks everybody. Okay.
[0:50] Great to see everybody.
>> Two weeks. Miss everybody. Hey Solomon.
[0:54] All right. Um,
so we have no additions to our
[0:58] pre-consil agenda and we have no old
business agenda items. So we will begin
[1:03] with our new business items to begin
with 0103
[1:07] presentation and update from Sanford
University's Jeff Polich brought to us
[1:11] from Mr. Smith. All right, Jeff, you're
up.
[1:15] » Uh, good evening everyone. Thank you for
taking a few minutes. Uh, I do not have
[1:19] the other end. Oh, I'm sorry.
>> Yes, sir.
[1:25] All right. Uh, good evening everyone.
Thank you for letting me have a few
[1:28] minutes tonight just to say thank you.
Uh, a bit of a goodbye. I'll see some of
[1:33] you over the next couple of weeks, but
uh, I am transitioning out of my role
[1:36] with Sanford University. Uh, I'm moving
back to my home state of Connecticut.
[1:41] Left about 30 years ago. Uh, I'm moving
back for for family and and for my
[1:45] heart. Uh but tonight is really uh I'm
very grateful to be able to introduce
[1:49] Trip Gray uh who will be taking my place
at Sanford and we work so much with with
[1:55] everyone in this room. Uh all the
departments represented from the city,
[1:59] Jennifer, we've known each other a long
time. Uh all folks in city council and
[2:03] Kale and Wyatt and um just really really
grateful for all this work over the last
[2:09] eight years. Uh very thankful that Trip
said yes. So thank you Trip for saying
[2:13] yes. Uh Trip has worked with us for
years. He's been with Cork Construction
[2:17] for the last 20 plus years. Has worked
with me in particular on a lot of our
[2:21] projects on campus, most of our vendors
and partners as well. Uh he will be our
[2:26] community liaison along with Dr. Coen
Coin, uh Lauren Leech, uh Dietri Kaboya
[2:31] on my staff. So we will stay very
involved and integrated within all
[2:35] things the city of Homewood. Uh
representation won't change at all. Uh
[2:39] we will be consistent in attending
meetings. Uh we really want to be the
[2:43] best partner we can with the city of
Homewood and I think having Dr. Coin
[2:47] here, having Trip here tonight, um shows
that for us. Uh Trip and I are going to
[2:52] get the next couple of weeks together.
So I'm going to try and hopefully not
[2:55] dump everything out of my brain into him
in the first day or two. Uh but at least
[2:59] over these next couple of weeks, really
sort of work through everything.
[3:02] » Today's day one, right?
>> Today is day one. Yes. Trip has been on
[3:05] the clock for let's see, you got their
data clock. He's nine He's nine hours
[3:09] in. He's still vertical.
>> Very good. He hasn't said no. Um but uh
[3:13] yeah, I just wanted to introduce Trip.
So maybe if Trip, you want to just say
[3:16] hello few minutes again. I know you guys
have an agenda tonight. So
[3:20] » you followed Jeff for several years and
I know how important the city is to to
[3:24] the university and got big shoes to
fill, but I look forward to working with
[3:28] each and every one of you. So
[3:39] » mic presentation ever.
>> All right. Okay. Well,
[3:44] » thank you. Thank you, Jennifer. I
appreciate I'll see you all before.
[3:48] » Please do not get out of hand.
>> Thank you so much. Okay.
[3:53] » All right. Bittersweet for sure. All
right. Next item. 020326.
[3:58] Presentation. I'm going to miss you. All
right. Tell Mary I said hey. Okay. I
[4:02] will. All right. Thank you.
>> Um presentation from Sims Garden
[4:04] director Amy Weiss brought to us from
Mr. Smith. Amy, how you doing?
[4:07] » Is that really what it looks like? Okay.
[laughter]
[4:12] » Okay. Um, well, this is normally a
30-minute presentation, but I was told I
[4:15] had 10, and then I was told I have five,
so I'm going to like go through this
[4:19] real quick. Um, I am the executive
director of Miss Sims Garden Botanical
[4:24] Park in Homewood, which many of you may
not realize is a city-owned park. Um,
[4:28] but it is managed in the same way that
the botanical gardens um, in Birmingham
[4:32] and Aldridge Gardens is managed. It's
owned by the city, but managed by a
[4:36] nonprofit. So the 501c3 is the Misss
Sims Garden Foundation. Used to be
[4:41] Birmingham Southern, but we set up the
Misss Sims Garden Foundation,
[4:44] unfortunately, when Mrs. Sims alma mater
closed. But very glad that that's being
[4:49] taken over by the Coast Guard now. Um,
if you'll go to the next slide. I'm
[4:52] sorry for the people in the room that
are seeing this, but oh, that looks
[4:55] better. Okay, so Miss Sims and her
mother purchased the property in 1964.
[5:01] This is the house that's still standing.
It's a little different today, but
[5:05] essentially that is still there. It's
about a hundred years old now because
[5:08] the house was built in 1927 thereabouts.
It's an estimated number. We're not sure
[5:13] if you'll go to the next slide.
She over time purchased the additional
[5:18] four lots. So, it's a total of five
1920s lot lines. Can you guys see that
[5:22] over there? Okay. Um, and it is in the
Edgewood neighborhood. So, this used to
[5:26] all be cattle ranching. And those of you
who know the history of Homewood, the
[5:30] very first Edgewood city council meeting
was about keeping your cattle on your
[5:34] property. So, [laughter] we have the
original cattle fencing in the garden
[5:39] and right across the street, the
original farmhouse still stands. So,
[5:42] this is a very old part of Homewood. Um,
the soil is excellent. It's never been
[5:46] touched. So, we can grow a lot of really
great things in the garden. If you'll go
[5:50] to the next slide. Um, so Miss Sims was
quite the lady. She was Homewood Citizen
[5:55] of the Year in 2002, but by that time
she had already amassed a huge
[6:01] following. She um was one of the most
popular articles in the Grumpy Gardener
[6:05] Southern Living article. I don't know if
you guys ever read that. Inspired him
[6:09] and Felder Rushing to write a book
called The Passalong Plant Book. Um it
[6:14] was just a a big thing for her because
she never married. Her bow died in the
[6:17] war, so she never had children. She said
she never met anybody that she liked
[6:21] enough to marry after he passed away. So
the garden became her legacy and the
[6:25] community became her family. Um so she
made it known to the city that she was
[6:29] going to leave her property to be
managed as a botanical park. And if
[6:33] you'll go to the next slide,
um she passed in 2006, but it took until
[6:38] December 2009 for the property to convey
to the city going through all of these
[6:43] processes that we go through now with
committees and councils and and probate
[6:47] and all of that. Um, so then in 2012,
the city contracted with Birmingham
[6:52] Southern. In 2018, I was hired. I'm the
sixth um, caretaker. And then I
[6:59] established the Missims Garden
Foundation in um, 2021 and became the
[7:04] executive director, but of course, we
have a board and I work for the board.
[7:07] Um, so in 2018, I really started
thinking about how we could make the
[7:12] garden more of a community resource. It
had kind of just become a passive park.
[7:16] people had forgotten about it. The city
was kind of like, "Oh, this garden, you
[7:20] know." Um, [laughter]
so I really um got together with some
[7:26] big brains in the landscaping and garden
design world at um the botanical gardens
[7:30] at Aldridge Gardens. So Rip Weather, Rip
Weaver, Henry Hughes, Jane Reed Ross,
[7:34] several others in that world. We got
together. We held a cheret, which is a
[7:37] garden planning design meeting. [snorts]
Um, and we came up with a plan to turn
[7:42] this into a demonstration garden for
residential landscape design. And what
[7:47] that means is best practices in storm
water management, best practices in tree
[7:51] management, best practices in what you
plant where for our climate and for our
[7:57] suburban environment. So really thinking
about how can we make this a teaching
[8:01] garden, which is what Miss Sims really
wanted, and teach the community how to,
[8:06] you know, have a garden, how to have a
landscape in their home environment that
[8:10] is both good for human health and the
environmental health. Um, so we started
[8:15] fundraising for that plan in 2020. And
if you'll click on this little button
[8:19] here, Brian, it'll open up the landscape
design. And I was really pleased when
[8:24] Kale came on board because his first day
there was huge storm water issues and he
[8:28] came to the garden on his first day and
said,"I would really love," Sorry, Kale,
[8:32] I'm gonna quote you. I always quote you
on this one because it's such a great
[8:35] quote. Can you get that to pull up
again?
[8:37] » I did.
>> Um, it's also on the next slide. So, he
[8:42] said, "I would love to use this to
demonstrate to developers, homeowners,
[8:47] home builders, contractors, landscapers
how to do storm water." It was right
[8:51] around that time we were redoing our
storm water ordinances in the city. Um
[8:56] well
so that's what this plan does and um
[9:02] every part of we're going to break
ground on this later this year um with
[9:05] landscape services and every part of
this includes best management practices.
[9:11] So this is permeable brick paving. We
have to have ADA compliance because it's
[9:15] a city-owned property. Anytime that you
make improvements has to be handicapped
[9:19] accessible. So, but we're using
permeable brick for that. We have dry
[9:23] creek beds, rain gardens. There's
inground detention here. This is a wet
[9:28] pond, which is in the shape of a creek
bed, so it'll look like a flowing
[9:31] natural creek, but it'll be pretty and
functional. Um, it will go into an above
[9:35] ground retention pond. So, we'll have a
lot more water features in the garden,
[9:39] which everybody enjoys, good for the
wildlife. Um, we're expanding the event
[9:44] space. We currently rent this out. Uh,
and so we're going to be able to expand
[9:48] that. just had 50 women playing maong in
the garden on Saturday and raised $5,000
[9:52] for the garden. Um, and so we need to be
able to do more of those events. Um, but
[9:57] we need to be handicapped accessible.
Um, and if you'll go to the next slide.
[10:02] Oh.
[laughter]
[10:05] Okay. So, just um, this plan is broken
into three phases just so you guys know.
[10:09] And Kale has a copy of the engineered
designs for this and this and the bid
[10:13] and everything if any of you guys want
to see that. Um phase one is the storm
[10:18] water BMPPS accessibility irrigation and
all along the way we're documenting what
[10:23] we're doing because we're not just
looking at trying to be the example for
[10:26] storm water and biodiversity but also
how you comply with city ordinances. So,
[10:31] how do you comply with the tree
protection during construction, you
[10:35] know, part of the tree ordinance? And
being that example and documenting that
[10:39] along the way so that the city has
videos and images and a place to show
[10:44] people this is what we mean when we say
that you have to retain the first one in
[10:48] flush, for example. Um, so really a
teaching point for the city and for the
[10:53] nonprofit in the community. Um, phase
two, we're looking at outdoor kitchen,
[10:58] solar powered greenhouse, completing the
planting part of the garden design, and
[11:03] starting to develop programs and
interpretive signage for the garden.
[11:06] Phase three is a historical home
restoration so that we can expand our
[11:10] program capacity. Right now, I live in
the house. That is my only compensation.
[11:14] Every caretaker before me has lived in
the house. That's just that's just how
[11:17] it worked because there was no money to
pay anybody. So, my husband is a nurse,
[11:21] thankfully. So, that's how we make it
work. But I am very much full-time in
[11:26] the garden doing social media, doing
fundraising, doing all the budgeting,
[11:30] doing all the grant writing, doing
everything. Um, and I do have a lot of
[11:34] volunteers. I do have the board that
helps, but it is definitely a lot of
[11:39] work. But when I move out of the house,
we've been building up the
[11:43] sustainability side, the financial
sustainability side, so that the board
[11:47] can afford to pay a caretaker and that
we can turn the house into an part of
[11:51] the event space as well. since we're
limited by weather. Um, go to the next
[11:55] slide and then I think I'm done. Yeah.
So, just going through really quickly,
[11:59] we offer individual and family
sponsorships. We're going to start a
[12:02] campaign to sell bricks for the garden.
Um, legacy bricks. You can go to the
[12:06] next slide.
Uh, we just had the maong in the garden.
[12:10] We're going to be doing our um homewood
centennial plant sale this year
[12:13] celebrating the centennial along with
the rest of the city. And that'll be
[12:17] featuring all heirloom plants and native
plants. If you'll go to the next slide.
[12:22] Uh we're gonna have our seventh annual
pumpkin patch in the garden where we go
[12:26] through 5,000 pumpkins and about six or
700 moms every year and it's visited by
[12:31] thousands of people. And then we're also
benefiting from a centennial gayla. So
[12:37] October 15th we'll kick off the weekend
of centennial celebration events. So I
[12:43] hope that you all can attend that. It's
going to be really fun, but it'll be
[12:45] benefiting the garden as well. So that's
great for us. You'll go to the next
[12:49] slide.
We have our volunteer days here and you
[12:54] can go to the next slide. And that's the
end. If anybody has questions, you can
[12:58] definitely come see me at the garden. I
would love to give you guys a tour. Um,
[13:02] I know y'all got to roll on, but thank
you very much for having me.
[13:06] » Thank you, Amy.
>> Thank you, Amy. Thank you so much.
[13:10] That was great. All right, next item.
030326.
[13:15] Request to declare miscellaneous library
items surplus. Brought to us from Peter
[13:19] Freight.
[13:24] There's a couple of different pages.
It's a lot of uh either really big items
[13:28] like our old boardroom uh table is
getting surplus because we've now
[13:32] renovating that area with a new table.
Uh and then lots of little small things
[13:36] that are just no longer applicable for
what we do. Um
[13:40] so
all right, any questions for Judith?
[13:46] Um, without objection, we are going to
have the first reading and vote on
[13:50] unanimous consent tonight. So, unless
anyone objects to that, so we will
[13:55] hopefully handle business tonight in
council next door. So, all right.
[14:00] » Okay. Well, we'll leave you up here.
Yep. Yes, you are. Okay. 040326 request
[14:05] for consideration for an ABC240 special
event nonprofit taxexempt license for
[14:10] the Homewood Library Foundation block
party in the library parking lot at 1721
[14:14] Oxmore Road on Saturday, April 25th from
4 to 6:30. Yes. So, this is the Homewood
[14:21] Library Foundation's biggest event of
the year. We do have a temporary uh
[14:24] liquor license from the ABC board.
They'll issue it the week of, but we've
[14:28] already submitted our application. It
has been approved. Um, and so this we
[14:32] usually I come to the public safety
committee, which is now, y'all. Um, just
[14:36] to get approval to have this in the
library parking lot, which is covered by
[14:40] our insurance and everything. Um, and
it's a lot of fun. I plan to send y'all
[14:44] invitations, but save the date because
it's about 1500 people that show up for
[14:48] two and a half hours of just loving your
library.
[14:51] » That's nice. Awesome. Um, we are waiting
on this one, correct? Or this is we'll
[14:56] wait and handle this at our March 23rd
meeting on that. So, okay, perfect.
[15:00] Thank you, Judah. Thank you.
>> All right. Next item. 050326.
[15:07] Request for budget amendment for train
intelligence services agreement signed
[15:10] by resolution 2536 for services provided
March the 1st, 2025 through September
[15:15] 30th, 2025. Mr. Smith.
>> Yeah. Brian, you have Yep. So, um JJ and
[15:22] I JJ probably knows more about this, but
I'm going to try to cover it.
[15:26] We met with Train and with Lee Garrett.
So, train provides us um last year they
[15:32] provided us with intelligent system
services which means that they can
[15:36] control the environment within city hall
from offsite and it saves us a ton of
[15:41] money each year. We intended to budget
for it and have them provide the service
[15:46] the entire year this year and I didn't
know that it wasn't happening but it's
[15:50] not happening. Uh, so they came back to
us and said, "Hey, we'd love to continue
[15:54] these services with you guys and saving
money." And so that's that's what this
[15:57] is, is to move um 75
$7,540
[16:04] from carryover fund balance uh into
building repairs and maintenance
[16:11] for the for them to continue service
through the end of this fiscal year. And
[16:16] then next budget cycle, we'll budget
them for the entire year.
[16:21] It helps Lee Garrett, who is our our
building um kind of manager
[16:27] to know where how the dials are set.
There's a lot of uh there's a lot of
[16:31] touch points within city hall that you
know dampers and all this mechanical
[16:35] stuff that I don't kind of out of my
league, but um
[16:39] » it saves the city money.
>> This keeps this helps them from being
[16:42] off I guess on site for That's right.
All of their
[16:45] » Y
>> and they can manage controls from where
[16:48] they are.
>> How does that work on the third floor?
[16:50] We not Does that have anything to do
with the third floor?
[16:52] » Do you know JJ?
>> How does it work on the third floor?
[16:55] » Yeah, they do the whole building.
>> They do the whole building.
[16:58] » Yeah. So, it allows them to have a set.
So, you can just move it up or down two
[17:05] degrees. You can't before you could
adjust
[17:09] » because weekends change. I mean, the
weekends like maybe
[17:13] » Yes. Well, because of Rosewood Hall,
they monitor that as well
[17:18] » because the church to use that on
Sundays and then they have other events
[17:24] during the week at night and on the
weekend. So they monitor that
[17:29] » so that they have control of there's no
wide swings like five degrees here five
[17:37] degrees on the first floor five degrees
below you know change
[17:47] » it's a good service to have
[17:52] All right. Well, without objection, we
will carry this over to our meeting on
[17:57] March 23rd.
Um, thank you so much for that
[18:00] information. Um, all right. Next item is
060326.
[18:05] Request for approval to keep a new
retaining wall in the city right away at
[18:08] 521 Edgel Drive. Mr. Pew.
>> Yes. Um,
[18:14] Gordon's here. This particular uh
retaining wall was built. It was
[18:18] discovered at final inspection. Um, you
can see the property line marker that
[18:25] the surveyor left there. The new
retaining wall extended somewhat into
[18:30] the rightway. Uh, it was caught sort of
after the fact. It's on a dead end. It's
[18:35] not hurting anything, but it's in the
rightway. So, I uh
[18:42] I brought it here so y'all can look at
it.
[18:46] Any questions?
>> And it's in the rideway. So, what do we
[18:53] » So, typically it it could stay if with
an approved indemnification agreement,
[18:59] just an agreement stating that that the
homeowner understands that if say the
[19:04] city ever wants to put a sidewalk there,
it has to go away. Or it it makes sure
[19:10] that the owner understands that even
though it's in the right way, it's
[19:13] theirs to maintain.
[19:18] Just to be clear, too, that is that is
the property line to the back.
[19:23] » No sir, that's in the front. So, we
>> stake.
[19:27] » Yeah, I'm confused, too.
>> That's has a road. We're talking about
[19:33] the road. Are we talking about to the
stake to the left?
[19:35] » No. So, yes, it was um I want to make
sure I'm answering the right question.
[19:41] So, if you're driving up Edgol, here's
the dead end over here.
[19:46] » I was standing about right here in the
road taking a picture.
[19:51] » I got you.
[19:55] » Is that the road right there where the
leaves are?
[19:57] » Yes.
>> So, we
[19:59] » right here.
>> Yes.
[20:01] » This is sort of the valley gutter.
Okay. There's there's no issue with u
[20:11] there's
somebody gets hurt by somebody hits that
[20:15] spot because it's all the way to the
road. That's kind of unusual, is it not?
[20:21] » There was I will say before they built
this, there was a little stacked stone
[20:26] wall there. So there there's always been
a a wall there, but they took it down
[20:31] and rebuilt it out of this.
>> That is a dead end
[20:33] » sort of. Yeah. The problem the problem
with this area is and this was never in
[20:38] the budget to even do. I didn't want to
spend the money doing it. But the the
[20:42] driveway I couldn't even get in and out
of the driveway with my truck. It's real
[20:46] narrow and you would have to literally
back up the I was backing up edge null
[20:51] to be able to turn to get out. This just
gives you a better rate a better radius
[20:57] to turn in and to turn out. So I mean
that was
[21:01] almost out of necessity. the the rolloff
people, the dumpster people busted up
[21:05] what was there before. So,
>> does the show
[21:11] » That's great, Brian. Thank you. Does the
retaining wall currently go flush to the
[21:16] gutter there or does it stop?
>> It it comes it comes down to where the
[21:21] driveway is. Yeah, it just continues up.
>> But the the rolloff people busted all
[21:27] that stuff up and I end up having to do
something. I didn't really want to do
[21:30] anything to tell you the truth. It just
cost me money and headache obviously.
[21:34] » And you got the fence there and then
it's ox more right on the other side.
[21:38] » That's right.
>> Yeah. That's just a dead end.
[21:46] » See, you I you would literally have to
back up the street to get out of that
[21:49] driveway. I mean, it's just a mess.
[22:00] What's that? What's your name, sir?
>> What's that?
[22:02] » What's your name, sir?
>> Uh, Gordon Morton. G O R D O N. M O R D
[22:06] O N.
>> Any other questions for Mr. Morton?
[22:11] » All right, Mr. Morton, we will take this
up at our March 23rd meeting for a vote.
[22:16] Thank you so much for coming to present
that to us. We appreciate it.
[22:18] » I'll send you that.
>> Okay.
[22:22] Okay. Um 070326
requests for consideration to permit use
[22:26] of the city hall plaza for spring and
fall 2026 tournaments by Yay. Cornhole
[22:31] be hands back.
>> I think we got a couple of phrases over
[22:34] here. How yall doing? Y
>> good to see you all again.
[22:38] » Good to see you guys.
>> I'm Sam. I'm with Cornhole. So uh we
[22:41] were here to request obviously
permission to use the plaza again. We've
[22:44] been setting up on the uh social taco
side which is on the other side just
[22:48] because we asked them where their
approach is where they like to drive in
[22:50] the most business. So they had told us
that with the tacos kind of more spot
[22:55] for them. So be on Monday nights from
about we usually get here about 5:30.
[22:58] We're out here about 7:15 7:30 me and
him handle all the trash. There's any
[23:02] trash picked up. We pick up all the
trash. It's from Monday April 6 to
[23:06] Monday May 11th six weeks back to back
to back on Monday nights. And uh that's
[23:12] pretty much it. Can I just clarify? Did
you say you're going to move where
[23:16] you're doing it? This is where you've
always done it. Are you moving it over
[23:19] there, too?
>> Yes. So, we usually It's up to So, they
[23:21] choose it. They usually have to put on
the taco side just for the business. So,
[23:25] be on if you're looking at the plaza on
the right side versus the left. Does
[23:29] that make sense? [clears throat]
>> And so, do you want And I've got on the
[23:33] agenda item, it also mentions fall 2026.
Are y'all ready to talk about fall yet?
[23:38] » We're not We haven't We haven't got to
fall date yet, but it would be the week.
[23:41] It would be after the week after Labor
Day would be the start date. I don't
[23:43] know what Labor Day is.
>> Do you want to get us some dates? Um
[23:48] » yes, Sam.
>> Sam.
[23:50] » Uh we could hold off on the falls. Like
I said, we don't even talked about the
[23:52] fall yet. So we could hold we just get
approval spring. Yes, ma'am. P I E.
[23:56] » Okay.
>> T R A N.
[23:59] » T R A N. T O N I.
>> Okay.
[24:05] It sounds like where to go.
>> Yeah.
[24:10] » If if I mean we can set up on the social
side if that's easy.
[24:14] » I was just asking him if if he thought
we needed I needed to provide a new
[24:18] exhibit. Show us the whole thing. But
[24:24] » any questions for Cornhall?
Uh just my only question at this point
[24:30] is I mean you're only talking about
usage of Mondays at this point and you
[24:34] have no no plans at this point beyond
May 11th.
[24:40] » Is only May 11th right now. Okay. We're
looking at some other things for the
[24:43] summer. So I just want to confirm we
don't do anything.
[24:46] » All right. Perfect. Thank you.
>> Okay. Great. Okay. So we'll take this up
[24:49] on our March 23rd meeting if that's
okay. Is that okay? Timeline for you
[24:52] guys to get going for February uh for
April 6. April 6th. Sounds good. Thank
[24:57] you guys. Good to see you all.
>> Thanks you guys.
[25:00] » All right. Next item. 080326.
>> Request to set a public hearing for
[25:06] declaring property at 2011 Dale Avenue.
A public nuisance due to a dead tree
[25:11] brought to us from Mr. Cook. Is he here
today? Mr. Cook.
[25:15] » Mr. Pew. Are you speaking for Mr. Cook?
[25:21] » What? Are you speak to the Dale Avenue
item, too? I'm sorry.
[25:26] » I'm sorry.
>> You're fine. The Dale Avenue
[25:28] » 080326 Dale Avenue
>> 2011 Dale Avenue.
[25:31] » Yes. What about that?
>> Can you speak to that? Sure.
[25:34] » Mr. Cook is not here.
>> Oh, absolutely.
[25:36] » Yes.
>> Public nuisance due to a dead tree.
[25:41] » Yes, that's right. Um,
>> any pictures?
[25:44] » No, I haven't received anything.
>> Oh, I didn't realize Scott had submitted
[25:48] that, but um I'm not even sure he meant
to do that.
[25:53] » Do you want us Yeah.
>> Okay. Just leave us here. Okay.
[25:57] » So, this is just a request to set a
public hearing to declare it a nuisance.
[26:01] Right. So,
>> that's right. We've gotten we we could
[26:03] move forward with it because we have
gotten several complaints about there
[26:06] being a large dead tree there and Scott
has gone out there and confirmed. Yes.
[26:10] It and it needs to be removed.
>> Is this a 30-day notice for the public
[26:14] hearing?
>> Well, we're going to set it on the 23rd
[26:18] anyway. Is that okay?
>> I think that'll give
[26:20] » Okay. All right. So, we'll set public
hearing on the 23rd and it's probably
[26:23] gonna be a four-week uh four-week
notice. Okay.
[26:27] » Does that work?
>> That sounds like a plan.
[26:28] » Okay. So, that gives us six weeks.
>> This tree is not in the uh
[26:33] » right away, right?
>> No sir.
[26:35] » Okay.
>> Okay. All right. Okay.
[26:39] » All right. Let's see. 090326
request for consideration for Jack and
[26:43] Jill of America to use council chambers.
Chambers brought to us from councelor
[26:48] CZ.
Oh, you want to kick it off and then go?
[26:51] » Go ahead.
>> All right. So, Jack and Gio is an uh
[26:56] it's a membership organization for women
and their children, female, their
[27:03] children. And and what it does, it it's
a service organization. They they really
[27:09] put emphasis on serving the community um
in various capacities whether it be you
[27:17] know you getting involved in local
politics or even you know uh
[27:24] understanding
what you know local government is um
[27:28] just so you're you know and you're
you're a breast of it. So they
[27:32] approached me, part of their activity,
they do a bunch of different activities
[27:36] they they've done, you know, to give
kids to to broaden their pallet. They
[27:40] they did a tasting for them of various
foods. Um because a lot of these kids
[27:45] don't get that opportunity.
Um um I'm trying to think of another
[27:50] event that they did. I can't remember.
Um but long story short, it's a great
[27:55] organization. Uh we're part of it. I was
asked to speak at this
[28:01] um time as well. My experience during
the campaign and you know fast forward
[28:08] responsibilities now uh which I agreed
to do. There's another council member
[28:13] from Helina that's going to do the same
thing. He's a part of the organization
[28:18] as well. And it's really we're going to
create a mock uh council, you know, a
[28:24] meeting for them. Uh we'll do an agenda.
Um, we'll put some silly stuff on there
[28:29] that they can vote on, but then we
thought about putting maybe one serious
[28:33] item, you know, the silly stuff to keep
them engaged because, you know, as you
[28:37] know, pre-teens, their attention span is
about as short as a
[28:43] short
>> as adults, right?
[28:44] » Yeah. [laughter]
Yeah.
[28:48] » But then but then put something serious
to make them think um and really to get
[28:52] them engaged and to to to really show
them, you know, what you know work what
[28:57] this work is about. So great. I think
it's a great opportunity for us to be um
[29:02] engaging in the community and allow them
to come in and to see what we do and how
[29:07] we do it. Um and you know, you know,
that mock uh um council meeting I think
[29:13] will be interesting to see how these
kids [clears throat] react.
[29:16] That's it. Any questions on that?
>> You can We had some kids that came by
[29:21] with their competition and they fourth
graders were mad that the fifth graders
[29:25] got seconds of crispositos and so the
fourth graders were running out of
[29:28] crispos so they had us that could be
something you could add to your crisp.
[29:32] » The crispos that is universal.
>> Yes, very much [laughter] so.
[29:38] » My house.
>> Okay. Well, we are going to take that up
[29:40] tonight. So we will move that out
tonight
[29:43] » uh without objection there. Awesome.
Okay. Any other questions for councelor
[29:47] S on that?
>> If anybody want to come
[29:53] » join in that is uh
>> the 29th Sunday.
[29:57] » Yeah.
>> Sunday evening. Correct.
[29:59] » That's right.
>> Okay.
[30:00] » And it's going to last about an hour and
a half.
[30:03] You know, I told him, "If you want me to
speak, you better give me a time frame,
[30:08] and that means 10 minutes, and I'll I'll
honor that. But if you don't tell me, I
[30:15] [laughter] could go longer. It's
possible."
[30:18] » All right. Um, okay. Bo, do you need us
to uh any discussion on 110326
[30:24] consideration for an ABC 140 special
events retail license?
[30:30] » I mean, it's it's basically they've
they've gotten It's not it's not
[30:33] anything that they have to have uh
you know uh anything from police and
[30:38] fire approval from police and fire. It's
just they have their they got approval
[30:41] from ABC to do this.
>> So we'll have that on the council agenda
[30:44] when we go out.
>> Yes. On council agenda.
[30:47] » Okay. At this time, I would entertain a
motion for the council to enter into
[30:51] executive session pursuant to Alabama
Code 36257
[30:56] to discuss preliminary negotiations
involving matters of trade or commerce
[31:00] in which Homewood is in in competition
with other governmental bodies in
[31:04] Alabama.
[31:07] » Make a motion to go into executive
session.
[31:10] » Second.
>> All right. I have got a motion from
[31:12] Councelor Sims with a second from
councelor Armstead. Um Mr. Seers, can we
[31:16] have a roll call vote, please? Yes,
ma'am.
[31:19] » Councelor Simmons.
>> Yes.
[31:20] » Councelor Sims.
>> Yes.
[31:22] » Councelor Lane.
>> Yes.
[31:23] » Councelor Armstead.
>> Yes.
[31:25] » Mayor Anders.
>> Yes. Okay. That passes 5 to zero. So now
[31:28] I'm going to ask our city attorneys for
a declaration as to whether the proposed
[31:31] executive session falls within the
stated exception of the open meetings
[31:34] act.
>> It does. Uh the proposed executive
[31:36] session involves discussions that would
have a detrimental effect on Homewood's
[31:39] competitive position if disclosed
outside of an executive session and
[31:44] falls within the exception.
>> Thank you so much. All right. Well, this
[31:47] Council meetings adjourn until 6 and we
will reconvene in the council chambers
[31:50] at our regular scheduled time. So we
will see everybody next door minus Mr.
[31:55] Smith uh Mr. Gaston and city attorneys
and council.
[32:00] » Yes.
[32:04] » Thank you guys.
>> Where are we going?
[32:13] You know,