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Clay City Council accepts $92,000 Innovate Alabama award, approves multiple routine resolutions and tables procurement-card limits

Clay City Council · April 15, 2026
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At its meeting, the Clay City Council accepted a $92,000 Innovate Alabama award for an Innovation Trails project, approved a series of routine resolutions including a $21,000 library-sign budget amendment and a WEX fuel-card agreement, and voted to table procurement-card monthly limits and refer them to the finance committee.

The Clay City Council on the evening reviewed a first-reading ordinance on outside-agency funding, accepted multiple grants and passed several routine resolutions while referring a proposed procurement-card policy to the finance committee for further review.

Mayor (Speaker 1) told the council the city had been awarded $92,000 through the Innovate Alabama network program to support an Innovation Trails project: "$75,000 to the trail and infrastructure development, $10,000 for smart infrastructure lighting and project management evaluation at $7,000," the mayor said, describing those line items as how the award was broken down.

The council approved Resolution 26-36 to accept and administer the Innovate Alabama award and passed other items in unanimous roll calls. Councilors also approved a WEX fuel-management agreement…

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