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Prattville council adopts lease ordinance, awards construction and engineering contracts and confirms appointments
Summary
The Prattville City Council voted to adopt an ordinance leasing South Industrial Park property to Rast Construction, approved a major park construction contract and a series of engineering, vehicle and facilities contracts, and confirmed eight routine appointments and nuisance-abatement items on the consent agenda.
The Prattville City Council on an evening meeting adopted an ordinance authorizing a month-to-month parking-lot lease with Rast Construction Incorporated for undeveloped property in the South Industrial Park and approved a string of resolutions awarding contracts, authorizing engineering agreements and confirming appointments and nuisance abatements.
The council placed the ordinance — authorizing the mayor to execute a month-to-month lease at $1,000 per month for approximately six to nine months while Spire Energy South Incorporated’s contractor works on a pipeline project — before the body after a successful motion to suspend rules to allow immediate consideration. The motion to suspend the rules passed by roll-call votes recorded for Councilors Sanders, Jackson, Merrick, Whaley, Strickland and Boehme; the ordinance was then adopted by voice/hand vote.
Why it matters: The lease allows a contractor to use city-owned undeveloped land in the South Industrial Park to support a pipeline replacement project, and the council simultaneously committed capital and operating funds to parks, sewer,…
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