[0:00] me of the Moville County Commission and call the meeting to

[0:05] order and I think um I have a couple announcements but I'll just hold off to

[0:10] the end and make those announcement if you have anything we have any

[0:14] speakers I would signed up to speak this morning all right was Nick Nick did you

[0:20] were y'all here to speak wait the agenda

[0:25] okay okay all right well we'll move forward

[0:31] C we ask that the commission consider the

[0:36] following one approve a list of claims two hold public hearing so any

[0:42] citizen of the county shall be given an opportunity to be heard for or against

[0:46] any item related to the statement of revenues expenditures and changes in

[0:50] fund balance report three adopt resolution amending

[0:54] the Mobile County Commission conference and meeting schedule as follows to

[0:59] cancel the conference on Wednesday July 3rd and hold a combined conference and

[1:03] meeting on Monday July 8th four adopt resolution affirming the

[1:10] County's intent to comply with the construction best management practices

[1:15] plan for the Mobile County Aquatic Center regarding the city of Mobile's

[1:19] issuance of the land disturbance permit pending legal

[1:25] review five authorize advertising for bids for a three-year Det attention lock

[1:30] inspection and cleaning for various locations six authorize advertising for

[1:37] bids for new electronic controlled access gate and fence for camps 2 three

[1:43] and four

[1:47] seven award bid to tailor Sudden Service for mobile government Plaza emergency

[1:52] generator repairs radiator for their total bid in the amount of $883 42.9

[2:01] eight award bid to tendle construction for Michael Square License Commission

[2:06] installation of tag ATM for their total bid in the amount of $

[2:14] 53,8 number nine reject bid for mobile government

[2:20] Plaza pocket park bid exceeded available

[2:25] budget 10 approved reappointment of Frank ever

[2:30] it as a member of the board of directors of the Industrial Development Authority

[2:34] of Mobile County for a term of six

[2:38] years question on that one um was whose appointment is he I know

[2:45] this is a reappointment but we divide those up

[2:53] correct I was just wondering which I believe this was is I believe this was

[2:58] my appointment is yours okay I was just curious yeah I'd re I

[3:03] received uh confirmation from the board that uh he desired to continue to serve

[3:08] and requested that so all right we will confirm

[3:21] that 11 approved memorandum of agreement among Mobile County Sheriff's Office

[3:27] Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the g Coast high-intensity drug trafficking

[3:32] area to designate the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency as the Fiscal Agent

[3:37] for the high-intensity drug trafficking era program until December 31st

[3:45] 2025 12 approve assignment to FSB Architects and Engineers for the

[3:50] renovation of the 10th floor Mobile County Commission Executive meeting room

[3:55] for programming design bidding and project Administration in the AM of

[4:04] $13,995 13 approve renewal of lease agreement with Tanner Williams Civic and

[4:09] Historical Society for the Tanner Williams community park for 10 years

[4:14] with a renewal period of 10 years for a total of

[4:17] 20 did you hear did you um have you heard anything about their elections out

[4:23] there I heard they had elections this week

[4:27] sometime elections for the for their board members and I haven't I haven't

[4:32] heard I heard it was a pretty good turnout so I was just curious if you had

[4:36] heard no I have to check up on that I had heard I haven't I haven't either I

[4:40] was just curious if you

[4:44] had 14 consider taking the following action on

[4:49] bids 15 approve renewal of agreement with narcotics stealth tracking mapping

[4:55] software from covert track for the sheriff's office in the of

[5:02] $4,800 16 approve change order number one with Rogers and Willard for Michael

[5:08] Square Revenue commission restroom expansion and renovation for the

[5:12] construction of an additional office the change order will increase the contract

[5:17] by

[5:19] $2,848 and the new contract total will be

[5:24] $87,200 at number 17 we're going to ask if be

[5:30] voted at the conference authorize advertis and

[5:34] requests for prop proposals for temporary clerical and labor services

[5:38] for Disaster Response and Recovery Services so moved

[5:47] second 18 approve agreement with the American Society for the prevention of

[5:52] cruelty to animals to facilitate the identification and coordination of

[5:57] assistance and animal rescue efforts s in order to maximize the welfare of

[6:02] animals and their caretakers before during and after a major incident and to

[6:07] minimize the loss of life and animal suffering that might occur following

[6:11] such an

[6:17] incident 19 approved facility usage agreement with Bishop State Community

[6:22] College for the use of its center for advanced manufacturing area on October

[6:27] 18th 23rd and 28th for pole worker training in anticipation of the Alabama

[6:34] general election 20 adopt resolution approving

[6:39] request of probate court to dispose of certain items from fixed assets

[6:43] inventory list declare items as Surplus property and authorized items to be

[6:48] disposed by lawful means 21 approved contract with Mobile

[6:54] Bay Area Veterans Day Commission in the amount of $5,000 for its annual Veterans

[7:00] Day

[7:03] celebration 22 approve agreement among Mobile County the Sheriff's Office the

[7:09] city of Pritchard to house to house city of Pritchard prisoners at a cost of $50

[7:16] per

[7:18] day 23 approved three-year office trailer

[7:23] rental agreement with William Scotsman under the current purchasing Cooperative

[7:27] Omni contract for camp one first year estimated delivery and installation

[7:32] charges in the amount of 99,2

[7:36] 57 and the second and third years being

[7:42] $56,950 can we go back 22 J I think there was some discussion

[7:48] recently when we had uh had an agenda item to approve housing prisoners for

[7:54] another uh municipality and that we CH Chickasaw and I don't remember what the

[8:00] rate was but we were going to we were going to look to make sure that um the

[8:05] the price was sufficient and that we were going to also make sure that it's

[8:09] was level for all municipalities we this

[8:19] right

[8:23] okay okay

[8:33] it covers the cost I don't want to well that's what I was concerned with

[8:42] also

[8:53] to okay yeah thank you we just want to make sure it covers the cost last week

[9:04] well they probably

[9:10] know thank you thank you

[9:14] Dana 24 authorize acceptance of the program

[9:19] information license agreement with Freddy Mack for dpa1 for the Mobile

[9:24] County Down pavement assistance program through the Grants Department this

[9:29] agreement will allow the program's information to be accessible on Freddy

[9:32] Mack's website with no cost to the county 25 approved contract amendment

[9:39] number three with Moffet and nickel for project Dolphin Island Causeway

[9:42] Shoreline restoration project to add additional construction engineering and

[9:47] inspection services and number 26 Nick lockas with

[9:52] South Alabama is here and we can recognize him at this time

[10:04] good morning good morning how are you Nick than for opportunity to speak real

[10:09] quickly on this want to answer some questions about what we

[10:14] doing I guess the question is that better now oh yeah you can hear me now I

[10:19] can I guess the question is why is this why are we doing this sure so first big

[10:25] thank you to Jay John and Christina for helping us look at this we we the

[10:29] university has three let's take you back to early 1970s when the university took

[10:35] over what was then Mobile County Hospital which is now University

[10:39] hospital and that time the the hospital board was created by state law to allow

[10:45] the the county to raise taxes to help offset some of the uncompensated care so

[10:50] fast forward to today we're continually for the last three years in a row

[10:54] hitting $1 million a year in uncompensated care so the funds that

[10:58] come from the hosital hital board help offset a portion of that that's the

[11:02] Nexus of why it was created the technical details of what we're trying

[11:07] to fix here is that the university sends the County Commissioners when for the

[11:12] various six-year terms we nominate individuals to serve on this board but

[11:17] those nominations come from three separate University entities one the

[11:21] university Board of Trustees two is the USA Health Services foundation and three

[11:26] the USA research and Technology Corporation so the issue is now is it's

[11:31] time for nominations we have names to bring forward to you to consider however

[11:35] a couple of those entities don't exist anymore the University of South Alabama

[11:39] Health Services Foundation has been dissolved so we technically don't have a

[11:44] legal means of nominating someone or bringing that board together so what

[11:47] this is doing is uh making an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation so that

[11:52] instead of having three separate University entities making the same

[11:56] nominations which technically all come from the board anyways is cleaning up

[12:00] the language to say that we are now the USA Board of Trustees will send you the

[12:04] nominations going forward instead of three separate entities underneath us

[12:09] which is the same thing so that's all it is just a little is that fair

[12:15] Jay SP on accurate makes sense just clean up language how many how many

[12:20] members are on the board I'm going to look at John here

[12:24] real quick is it six or four three it's three so we take I guess

[12:30] we we nominate two for each slot which why I think it's six and there's three

[12:34] directors so we'll send you two names and y'all are going to pick one once we

[12:38] make these changes and then they alternate they're staggered

[12:42] terms all right I won't be here Monday but y'all know Anna Catherine she'll be

[12:46] here Monday if youall have any additional questions thank you Nick all

[12:50] right all right thanks thank

[12:55] you item 26 reads as follow adopt resolution amending the certificate of

[13:02] incorporation of Mobile County Hospital board to amend the manner in which

[13:05] members of the board are nominated

[13:09] 27 approve appropriation contract with family counseling center of mobile doing

[13:15] businesses lifelines counseling services in the total amount of

[13:20] $7,500 for its annual Bay Area brunchfest fundraising events funds

[13:26] divided as follows 28 approve appropriation

[13:30] contract with opportunity for entertaining entertainers and Performing

[13:35] Arts in the amount of $5,000 from district one education funds

[13:40] for its Mob music festival and Alabama hip hop

[13:46] week and Commissioners we have one add-on this

[13:52] morning add on Number One approv Professional Services contract with

[13:58] Studio Rotan in the amount of not to exceed

[14:02] $5,000 from district one commission funds to provide interior design and

[14:06] planning services for Africa town hall and food

[14:11] bank and as a reminder we will have the Mobile County engent care board meeting

[14:16] on Monday as well all right thank

[14:20] you Miss Anderson

[14:29] number one authorize advertising and receiving bids for project Munro Lane gr

[14:34] drain Basin pay number two approv supplemental agreement number four with

[14:39] Frank Turner Construction for project Tanner Williams Road additional lanes

[14:44] for the removal and disposal of slotted drain pipe and

[14:49] concrete number three award bid the ho Weaver and Suns Incorporated for project

[14:54] Bush Lane and Carol Plantation Road for their low bid in the amount of 3 million

[15:03] 55,56 finally that's an exciting sir uh agenda item to see those

[15:10] those two roads are desperately in need of some attention particularly Bush

[15:16] Lane number four approved preliminary and final plat of boutwell Estates off

[15:22] Pine Road and that is what we have for today I think that's the shortest

[15:26] engineering agenda we've ever had I think missing a day may have surprised

[15:31] us even though Carrie gave us a heads up but we'll we'll make it up next time oh

[15:37] sure all right well thank

[15:44] you do you have any announcements I don't I just have a couple quick

[15:49] announcements and uh they're all pertaining to the uh animal shelter so

[15:55] um there's two adoption events this Saturday best friends n network hosted

[16:00] an adoption event at the shelter from 10: to 2 is that right the time 10 to 2

[16:06] and then I think at pet supermark on Hill Crest we're hosting an

[16:11] adoption event at the store from 10 to two and I guess while we're talking

[16:16] about the um animal shelter just want to say what a great job you guys have done

[16:24] and were doing uh particularly prior to the event with the Sheriff's Office in

[16:29] the dog fighting um activity that was going on where we had to take in I think

[16:34] it was 30 something uh dogs that were involved in that so you guys have really

[16:39] worked diligently I know that uh a lot of times you get uh some some media

[16:44] coverage that's um I don't like to use the word fair but undeserving maybe and

[16:51] so I know you guys are really working hard I was hearing a lot of good things

[16:55] about the uh population of the animal shelter and and how great you guys were

[16:59] doing out there and then we had this event which is caused a little hiccup

[17:03] but I think we're catching back up and um I also want to say that I think we're

[17:08] going to have Sheree you can correct me but Monday we're going to have a puppy

[17:12] Expedition here at the we're going to have all the little puppies back so

[17:16] everybody be here for the puppies I love it when you bring the puppies down to

[17:20] government Plaza did we have Morgan maybe step up and talk to us a little

[17:25] bit about uh what's been happening with the shelter I know you've been trying to

[17:29] move some dogs into foster care and to get them adopted through the these

[17:35] events cuz you're the 32 dogs that you took in really put a strain on

[17:43] uh I guess the the ability to take dogs additional dogs so what's what's

[17:50] happening well I will say this uh you know last summer we had a population

[17:55] that was well over 200 animals out of the shelter and with staff really uh

[18:02] working hard uh we got that population down to where we were under our capacity

[18:07] of uh care uh and we were still making great Headway with moving animals out of

[18:12] the shelter thanks to adoptions uh a new Foster program that we're still just

[18:16] trying to jump start and get that uh get that up and running um the best friend

[18:21] Society will be out here this uh Saturday pushing for more Fosters so

[18:26] they they've assisted Us in in in boosting some post on social media and

[18:30] we'll be doing what we call a foster Blitz to get more people excited about

[18:33] fostering and getting animals out of the shelter um but uh yeah bringing in the

[18:37] 32 dogs has really impacted our ability to operate um it all all of those dogs

[18:43] take up One Wing of our kennel so that's about a third of our space um and each

[18:47] one of those dogs uh is in a single run that uh they have access to both sides

[18:53] um so normally um if we start to get overpopulated or we get more animals in

[18:58] we can start putting dogs on the other side of those runs but we are really out

[19:02] of space so we've been really pushing and asking the public to get involved

[19:06] come out and adopt if you're if you're ready to to bring a new uh pet into your

[19:10] home um or if you're not ready to bring it in permanently there's there's Foster

[19:13] options that we have available we also have over 40 puppies in the shelter

[19:17] right now that could just use some some extra socialization and time away from

[19:22] the shelter bring all bring all 40 of them Monday I'll do my I'll do the best

[19:26] I can I'm kidding just bring it yeah say

[19:31] something real quick so I just want to thank the shelter staff because

[19:34] everything we've asked for in order to accommodate media request and to to make

[19:38] things happen with helping move those dogs they've done and they've done very

[19:42] well and since June 8th we've cycled about 55 dogs and puppies out of the

[19:47] shelter through foster adoption and rescue PS yeah and I would I meant to

[19:52] mention to you Sheree you and your staff for helping Morgan with that I mean it's

[19:57] it's a team effort for sure with animal shelter and and our Communications team

[20:03] and you guys do a fantastic job how long will the 32 dogs be on

[20:08] hold um either until the conclusion of the case or if we're awarded custody

[20:13] prior to the conclusion okay so they could be with us

[20:17] for a year and a half two years um do are any of them evaluated for behavior

[20:23] modification as of right now none of them have been evaluated based on their

[20:26] behavior U but all of them have been evaluated for medical to make sure that

[20:30] there's nothing uh pertinent to their medical needs at this point U we've had

[20:35] two dogs that did need um some some additional care um but um the rest of

[20:41] them will eventually uh once custody is transferred to the

[20:46] shelter uh then we'll begin those Behavior evaluations to see which ones

[20:50] we might be able to place up for adoption or um you know ideally working

[20:54] with the rescue to get them transported to to another area mhm

[20:59] okay thank you thank

[21:02] you all right did you have any other announcements okay okay if there's no

[21:08] further business I guess we'll stand adjourn

[21:10] until Monday June the 24th for the Mobile County Commission meeting

Mobile County Commission Conference Meeting June 20, 2024

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