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Council briefed on multiple procurement, contracts, grants and amendments including Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater items and subrecipient agreements
Summary
City staff briefed the Tuscaloosa City Council on a long list of procurement awards, professional-service agreements, grant subrecipient amendments and budget actions, several of which were briefed in committee last week.
City staff summarized a broad set of agenda items the council will be asked to authorize in subsequent proceedings, covering procurement awards, professional services agreements, subrecipient funding amendments, insurance and budget amendments.
Notable items staff listed (as read from the agenda): Empire Pipe and Supply — $11,450 (previously budgeted purchase); Morrow Water Technologies Inc. — $13,247 (previously budgeted); Jacobs Engineering Group — professional services not to exceed $96,500; Suncoast Infrastructure Inc. — minor public works contract $14,300; TTL — professional engineering services for the Mercedes force main phase 3 project, $398,000; Jacobs Engineering Group — water tank maintenance master plan, not to exceed $79,000; Building Specialties Company — $7,285.40; Patrick Allen Companies, LLC — $16,465; K and A Builders — $11,857; Overhead Door of Tuscaloosa — $15,907. Staff also listed payment of a flood insurance premium for the Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater of $17,775 and noted a tentative award of a public-works contract to NC Morgan Company for a public-safety logistics expansion project (transcript reads the figure as "1,103,006 hundred dollars"; the amount is unclear in the spoken record and is therefore listed as not specified here). Staff said several items had been briefed in committee or projects meetings last week.
The agenda includes amendments to subrecipient agreements under the city’s Community Development Block Grant and Emergency Solutions Grant programs: an amendment with Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa (Community Development Block Grant, 02/2024) and amendments under the city’s 02/2023 Emergency Solutions Grant program with Tuscaloosa Emergency Services, Inc. and with Sand Inc. dba Turning Point. Staff also listed an authorization for Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue to accept donations totaling $3,538.50 and an agreement between the City of Tuscaloosa and the National Museum of the United States Air Force (terms not specified in the remarks). Other items include amendments to the FY 02/2025 water and sewer reserve fund budget and the water and sewer fund budget; amendments to exhibits related to Tuscaloosa arts and entertainment; and appointments to the Tuscaloosa Sister Cities International board, all of which staff said had been briefed previously in committee.
Staff called out a suspended-rule resolution authorizing the chief financial officer to draw a draft for the neighborhood drainage protective purchase of 2205 Thirteenth Street (identified in the remarks as the home of Miss Johnson). Staff said that purchase is set to close in March and that the item was placed on the agenda because council will not meet the following week.
Most items were presented as agenda descriptions and dollar figures; no formal open-session votes on these specific authorizations were recorded in the portion of the transcript provided, and staff repeatedly noted that many items had been briefed to committees the prior week.
