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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, vehicle and building repairs that will affect multiple city departments and capital budgets.
Major approved items and outcomes
- Ordinance (Item 1): Amend FY2025 budget and authorize mayor to enter parking lot lease with Rast Construction Incorporated for undeveloped property in South Industrial Park; lease rate stated at $1,000 per month for an estimated 6–9 months. Rules were suspended by roll call and the ordinance was adopted.
- Resolution 2 (Bid No. 25001): Awarded to Webb Builders Incorporated for Spillway Park improvements at a cost not to exceed $5,423,018; funding approved from FY2025 capital projects fund (Spillway Park improvements). Adopted by council.
- Resolution 3: Authorized the mayor to enter an agreement with Civil Southeast LLC for design engineering services for the Fayet(te) Branch outfall sewer improvements at a cost not to exceed $754,200; funds approved from the wastewater enterprise fund capital projects line. Adopted by council.
- Resolution 4: Authorized the purchase of one 2025 Kenworth T880 dump truck from Kenworth of Montgomery Incorporated for wastewater at a cost not to exceed $230,000; funds approved from the wastewater enterprise fund capital outlay. Adopted by council.
- Resolution 5: Amended the FY2025 budget and authorized restroom renovations at City Hall to Camco Properties LLC at a cost not to exceed $69,385.98; funding moved from facility maintenance departmental reserves to facility maintenance capital outlay. Adopted by council.
- Resolution 6: Authorized a preliminary engineering agreement with Larry E. Speaks and Associates Incorporated for the Laney Drive extension and roundabout at a cost not to exceed $54,500; funds approved from FY2025 capital projects fund (Laney Drive extension). Adopted by council.
- Consent agenda: The council created and adopted a consent agenda that included Resolution 1 (surplus various IT equipment), nuisance declarations and abatements for properties at 1050 Spring Street and 797 Franklin Street under Chapter 46 of the City of Prattville Code of Ordinances, a release of a demolition lien for 348 Doster Street, and three reappointments (Matt Hoelscher, Jeremy Day, Jonathan Brown) to the Historic Prattville Redevelopment Authority and an appointment of Jonathan Wynne to the Board of Zoning Adjustment. The consent agenda was adopted by voice/hand vote.
Discussion and procedure notes
Councilors did not engage in extended debate on the individual contracts during the meeting; several items were presented as budgeted expenses for the respective funds. The ordinance required suspension of the rules to be considered that night; the suspension passed on a roll-call vote that recorded six named yes votes. Other votes were conducted by voice or by show of hands and were recorded as adopted; individual vote tallies were not read into the record for those items.
The meeting placed the approvals into the FY2025 budget lines indicated in each item and authorized the mayor to execute contracts and documents necessary to carry out the intents of the adopted measures. No public comments were offered on these agenda items during the meeting's public-comment period.
Ending
The council completed the regular agenda after the votes and moved to closing comments and the next scheduled meeting was announced for March 2025 at 6 p.m.
