City Council agenda information (Birmingham, Trussville: hotels, home builder, purchase)

[mcalumni01]

Jun. 14th meeting...

An Ordinance authorizing the Mayor to execute an Interlocal Cooperation
Agreement between the City of Birmingham and the Alabama Law
Enforcement Agency for the sharing of equipment and services for the
mutual benefit of the City and ALEA for the newly proposed High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force located in Birmingham,
Alabama during the period leading up to and extending through and after
The World Games 2022, including particularly June 30, 2022 through July
21, 2022. ALEA will provide upon request and subject to availability
certain equipment and services to Birmingham, including but not limited
to ninety-one (91) Troopers, four (4) Bomb Techs, three (3) EDD K9
teams, ninety-eight (98) Police vehicles EOD equipment, for use in
preparing for and hosting The World Games 2022. [First Reading]
(Submitted and Recommended by the Mayor)**

ALSO: Other Alabama cities are sending law enforcments resources to Birmingham
Center Point - Light tower
Clay - Light tower
Florence - Bomb techs and K9 units
Fultondale - Sky watch tower
Gadsden - Bomb techs
Gardendale- 12 police officers and 12 police vehicles
Irondale - 7 police officers and 4 police vehicles
Jefferson County - 116 deputies, 5 K9 units, 6 bomb techs, 50 police vehicles
Homewood - 8 police officers, 8 police vehicles
Hoover - Sky watch tower
Huntsville - 10 officers, 2 K9 units, 2 bomb techs
Mobile - 4 bomb techs, 1 K9
Montgomery - Sky watch tower, 2 K9 units, 2 bomb techs
Mountain Brook - 4 police officers
Pinson - Light tower
Univ. of Alabama - 8 police officers, 5 K9 units, 353 bicycle racks, 4 message boards, 4 light towers, 80 walk-thru metal detectors, 100 traffic delineators
Vestavia Hills - 8 police officers, 8 police vehicles

Together with hundreds from the Department of Homeland Security (SEAR 1 event), FBI, DEA, and ATF personnel.

[mcalumni01]

City council approved Mayor Woodfin $14M infrastructure improvements projects. As following...

$1,293,532.28 to 3rd Avenue West Streetscape

$675,000.00 to Carver Avenue SW

$168,503.89 to City Park (Mountaindale Road Park),

$109,413.00 to Eastlake Park (Fitness Court)

$50,372.21 to Fire Facilities Improvement

$20,278.84 to Fire Facilities Improvement

$750,000.00 to Forest Park Avondale Business District Streetscape

$96,477.20 to Germania Park Improvements

$475,000.00 to Hanover Circle Repaving

$37,561.19 to Henry Crumpton Recreation Center Improvements

$598,615.00 to Hooper City Phase V Drainage Improvement

$150,000.00 to Museum of Art Elevator Repair

$815,000.00 to Pine Knoll Vista Drainage

$583,337.80 to Tuggle Elementary School Access Improvements

$400,000.00 to 19th Street Ensley Improvement

$150,000.00 to Cahaba Road Roundabout

$1,500,000.00 to 41st Street Streetscape and Drainage

$1,200,000.00 to Greensprings Highway Streetscape Phase II

$500,000.00 to Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd Streetscape

$1,250,000.00 to City Walk

$500,000.00 to 2nd Avenue South Streetscape

$500,000.00 to Hawkins Golf Course Repairs

$400,000.00 to Vulcan Park Improvements

$375,000.00 to Rickwood Field Improvement

$500,000.00 to Interstate Greenway Project. https://alabamanewscenter.com/2022/0...ferson-county/

[mcalumni01]

^^^Every item with a streetscape mention will be getting the city "complete street" model. There are a lot more streets in the work for this design as well.

https://bhamcitycouncil.medium.com/b...e-e1699f743163

— more dedicated bike lanes, improved pedestrian sidewalks, and enhanced equity for all users — after the Birmingham City Council unanimously approved an ordinance, which adds a “Complete Streets Policy” to the city code.

[TimCity2000]

any idea what the $1.25M for CityWalk is for?

i assume personnel (security / etc) or maintenance?

[mcalumni01]

Originally Posted by TimCity2000

any idea what the $1.25M for CityWalk is for?

i assume personnel (security / etc) or maintenance?

Likely...

[OldBankhead]

Speed humps, subsonic crowd dispersal units, 4K surveillance system.

[Zachadoo92]

Yeah…wonder why they need all that…

[mcalumni01]

Also approved during the council session...20Midtown building III

A Resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Right of Way
Encroachment License Agreement whereby F.F., LLC is allowed to
install twenty (20) blade signs, for the purpose of advertising proposed
business locations at and in the 20 Midtown Apartments Development
Complex, located at 200 - 20th Street South. All signs will encroach into,
over and upon the rights of way of 20th Street South, 2nd Avenue South,
Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard and 3rd Avenue South. (Submitted by the
Mayor) (Recommended by the Director of Planning, Engineering and
Permits and the Public Improvements Committee)

[mcalumni01]

Around the Carraway development...

A Resolution setting a public hearing September 20, 2022, to consider
the adoption of an Ordinance “TO AMEND THE ZONING DISTRICT
MAP OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM” (Case No. ZAC2022-00009)
to change zone district boundaries from MU-D Mixed-Use Downtown
District to D-4 Medium Density Residential District, filed by Becky
Carpenter with Corporate Realty Development, applicant, representing the
owner Northside Redevelopment, LLC, for property located at 1710 26th
Street North, and situated in the SW1⁄4 of Section 24, Township 17-S,
Range 3-West, Birmingham.

[bhamblazer]

There was an agenda item on the budget committee for the city to sale land near the intersection of Lakeshore and Tom Martin Drive to Consolidated Pipe & Supply for a new HQ.