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Prattville council adopts multiple measures: consent agenda, $500,000 CDBG award, equipment purchases and sales-tax-holiday ordinance
Summary
Council adopted an eight-item consent agenda (nuisance abatements), approved acceptance of a $500,000 CDBG grant for College Heights sewer and street work, authorized two turf mowers purchase for urban management, and unanimously adopted an ordinance for the July 2026 back-to-school municipal sales-tax holiday.
The Prattville City Council approved routine and financial measures including an eight-item consent agenda, acceptance of a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for sewer and street improvements in the College Heights area, a budgeted equipment purchase, and a municipal sales-tax holiday ordinance.
The consent agenda included multiple nuisance and demolition resolutions authorizing the mayor to abate properties and charge incurred expenses under Chapter 46 of the City of Prattville Code of Ordinances. The council created and adopted the consent agenda by unanimous vote.
Council accepted $500,000 in CDBG funds (grant number LRCMPF25-002) for sewer and street improvements; the packet noted a previously committed $204,235 in matching funds and that the Adeccah administrative fee schedule determined fees that will be paid with grant funds. Civil Southeast LLC was awarded the RFP for professional engineering services for the project and Grant Management LLC was awarded RFP O25008 for grant administrative services.
Council also authorized release of funds to purchase two Wright ZXL 60-inch mowers from Live Oak Outdoors LLC doing business as Prattville Outdoors at a combined cost not-to-exceed $25,486.40, funded from the urban management capital outlay budget line.
Finally, the council adopted an ordinance exempting certain covered items from municipal sales and use tax for the July 2026 back-to-school sales-tax holiday, as allowed under Code of Alabama 1975 sections 4-23-210 through 4-23-213.
CFO Daniel Oakley presented the monthly financial packet earlier in the meeting: year-to-date general-fund revenue was reported at $28,902,578; total bank balances citywide were $50,512,831; and total outstanding AP and debt citywide was $65,463,181. Wastewater operations showed net income from operations of $152,833; sanitation net income $113,075; and the judicial special revenue fund reported a net loss of $109,045 for February.
Next steps: staff will proceed with CDBG administration and engineering per awarded RFPs; procurement and payments for the mowers will be completed under the approved budget line; council will monitor project progress and financial reporting.
