Hamilton council approves grant application for $15 million County Road 35 project, OKs sidewalk, equipment and small donations; tables easement and softball-bu

The Hamilton City Council on a regular meeting on Sept. 16 authorized city staff to apply for federal planning funds for a 1.4-mile County Road 35 project and approved several small purchases and community donations while tabling an easement request and a bid for a girls softball facility.

The council passed Resolution 2025-9-15 to appoint engineering firm Farmer and Morgan to apply to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program to fund planning for the County Road 35 segment from I-22 to U.S. 43, a project the council described internally as a roughly $15,000,000 undertaking. The council also acknowledged notice of an $800,000 ADA sidewalk grant awarded for fiscal 2026 from Alabama’s governor and approved a special work authorization agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation to install and maintain traffic-signal cameras and related equipment the meeting described as $200,000 in value at no cost to the city.

Why it matters: the actions set in motion engineering and planning work the council said would be required before construction on a multi‑million-dollar road project could begin. The highway…