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Prattville council adopts three rezonings, new cemetery code, IT purchase and Gardner Road engineering agreement
Summary
At a business meeting, the Prattville City Council approved three rezoning ordinances, ratified a $130,707.92 IT equipment purchase, adopted a new city cemetery code, and authorized engineering work on Gardner Road; several nuisance-abatement resolutions and a restaurant liquor license were also approved.
The Prattville City Council on an evening meeting adopted multiple ordinances and resolutions, approving three rezonings, a replacement cemetery code, an information-technology procurement, and an engineering contract for Gardner Road resurfacing and striping.
Councilors adopted ordinances to rezone property on Fairview Avenue; to rezone 879 Washington Ferry Road from B-2 General Business District and R-2 Single-Family Residential to Institutional (petitioner: First Pentecostal Church); and to rezone property west of Rocky Mount Road and east of Magnolia Ridge from Forest/Agricultural/Recreation to R-3 Single-Family Residential and B-2 General Business. The council voted by voice on those ordinances after public hearings that drew no speakers in opposition.
The council also ratified an amendment to the fiscal year 2025 budget to purchase two Liebert air-conditioned cabinets for the information-technology department, at a cost not to exceed $130,707.92, citing a four-month lead time on the equipment. The ordinance and budget amendment were moved, seconded and adopted during the meeting.
Separately, the council repealed and replaced Chapter 14 of the Prattville Code of Ordinances (city cemeteries, sections 14.1–14.11) after the council suspended rules to allow an immediate vote on the ordinance; the roll-call to suspend the rules recorded affirmative votes from Councilors Sanders, Jackson, Mayer, Whaley, Stritchett, Boehm and others, and the ordinance was adopted that same night.
The council also authorized the mayor to enter into an agreement with Krebs Engineering Inc. for engineering services on the Alabama Department of Transportation project STPMN-0124251 (CPMS reference numbers 10007721 and 10007717) for resurfacing and traffic striping on Gardner Road from Upper Kingston Road to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, at a total cost not to exceed $47,266 and a net cost to the city not to exceed $9,453.20; funds were appropriated from the fiscal year 2025 gas tax fund line item for Gardner Road paving.
On the consent agenda the council approved several nuisance-abatement resolutions declaring garbage and rubbish at specified addresses to be public nuisances and authorizing abatement and recovery of expenses under Chapter 46 of the Prattville Code of Ordinances. The consent agenda also included a resolution granting a retail restaurant liquor license to Taqueria La Parroquia LLC d/b/a Taqueria La Parroquia; the public hearing for that license had been held earlier with no speakers in opposition.
Why it matters: rezonings affect land use and neighborhood character; the cemetery code rewrite replaces existing city rules governing burial grounds; the IT procurement and engineering agreement involve capital spending and infrastructure maintenance.
Votes at a glance (key outcomes): - Ordinance: Rezone Fairview Avenue — adopted (vote by voice; no roll-call count recorded). - Ordinance: Rezone 879 Washington Ferry Road to Institutional (petitioner: First Pentecostal Church) — adopted (vote by voice; no roll-call count recorded). - Ordinance: Rezone parcel west of Rocky Mount Road / east of Magnolia Ridge to R-3/B-2 — adopted (vote by voice; no roll-call count recorded). - Resolution: Amend FY2025 budget and ratify purchase of two Liebert air-conditioned cabinets — ratified; amount not to exceed $130,707.92. - Ordinance: Replace Prattville Code Chapter 14 (city cemeteries, sections 14.1–14.11) — adopted after suspension of rules (suspension roll call recorded in meeting minutes). - Resolution: Authorize mayor to contract with Krebs Engineering Inc. for Gardner Road resurfacing engineering — adopted; total not to exceed $47,266 (net city cost not to exceed $9,453.20). - Consent resolutions: multiple nuisance abatements at 106 Buckner Street, 629 Lower Kingston Road, 325 Festival Drive, 502 W. Fourth Street — adopted; mayor authorized to abate and recover expenses under Chapter 46, Prattville Code of Ordinances. - Consent resolution: Grant retail restaurant liquor license to Taqueria La Parroquia LLC (d/b/a Taqueria La Parroquia) — adopted.
What the council did not decide tonight: An annexation ordinance for property at 1301 and 1315 Upper Kingston Road was held until after a public hearing and related pre-zoning scheduled for Feb. 4, 2025.
Members present and formal roll calls were used for specific procedural votes (for example, the motion to suspend rules before voting on the cemetery code); most final ordinance adoptions were by voice vote with no detailed roll-call tallies recorded in the transcript.
