Homewood City Council creates interim city manager, approves contracts and a package of resolutions

The Homewood City Council on Monday adopted Ordinance 2924 to create an interim office of city manager and set a March 1, 2025 start date, and approved a series of contracts, resolutions and appointments by unanimous or near-unanimous votes.

The ordinance, introduced under agenda item 170125 and read into the record by a city staff member, invokes provisions of the Alabama Code for the council-manager form of government and authorizes the council to employ a city manager under sections cited in the ordinance. The ordinance states the interim manager will assume office March 1, 2025, and that the ordinance will terminate when the council-manager form of government approved by a special election takes effect on Nov. 3, 2025. Councilors approved the ordinance on unanimous roll-call vote after a motion for unanimous consent (moved by Councilor Smith; seconded by Councilor Hardin). The ordinance was recorded as No. 2924 in the council minutes.

Why it matters: the ordinance sets the administrative framework for hiring a city manager while preserving the effective date of the charter change approved by voters. The council-manager form approved in the September 2024 election will take effect Nov. 3, 2025; the interim ordinance provides a temporary statutory structure for staffing until that date.

Votes at a glance

- Ordinance 2924 — Create interim office of city manager (agenda item 170125). Motion: adopt…