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Tuscaloosa council adopts annexations, contracts, grants and code changes in consent-heavy meeting
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Summary
The Tuscaloosa City Council approved a broad consent agenda and a series of resolutions and contracts, including annexations, public-works awards, grant applications, and multiple code and budget amendments in a single session with roll-call votes recorded for each item.
The Tuscaloosa City Council approved a package of routine and substantive items in a single, largely uncontested series of votes, adopting annexations, awarding public-works contracts, authorizing grant applications and amending city code and budgets.
Most of the evening's formal business was handled through the consent agenda or bundled resolutions. Council voted to adopt an annexation for roughly 1 acre on Nickel Park Road and approved multiple code amendments. The council tentatively awarded public-works contracts to Civil Works Construction LLC, Inliner Solutions LLC and Dominion Construction Company Inc., and authorized professional services agreements with Mimecast North America Inc. and Vector Solutions.
Council also authorized grant applications for the Tennis Venue Center and Creative Places arts facilities, accepted a donation from the Community Foundation of West Alabama, and approved budget amendments and amendments to joint funding agreements with the Tuscaloosa County Road Improvements Commission. A resolution consenting to allocate opioid settlement funds to the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney's Office was adopted. Payment of city bills was authorized near the end of the business portion.
The actions were moved, seconded and passed by recorded roll-call votes; the meeting transcript records the roll call and "yes" votes for each item. City staff presented each item with minimal debate and the police department reported no objections to special-events liquor-license applications that were handled in the same segment of the agenda.
The meeting concluded without controversy on these items and with the council adjourning after the public-comment period.
