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Madison aldermen approve broad consent agenda including hires, grants and contracts
Summary
Madison City aldermen unanimously approved a consent agenda on Aug. 20 that authorized multiple personnel hires, accepted a retirement, and approved contracts, grant project activations and planning variances, while removing the Lifepoint elevations item for separate consideration.
Madison City Mayor Pro Tempore Guy Bowering presided over the board meeting on Aug. 20, 2024, where aldermen unanimously approved most items on the consent agenda after removing one project for separate discussion.
The consent agenda included authorization to hire multiple full-time employees and a transfer, and accepted the announced retirement of Fire Battalion Chief Dwayne Meeks effective Dec. 31, 2024. The board authorized hires for Travis Dunlap (building inspector), Conner Campbell (animal control officer), Samantha Dear (police dispatcher/deputy court clerk), Brande Mitchell (administrative clerk), Payton Watson (police CID clerk), Javion Warren (street department laborer), and Alvin Carter (parks laborer), and the transfer of part-time employee Brayden Ables from Parks to Water. Aldermen also approved pay increases for code enforcement officers John Bourland and Guy Strickland.
On infrastructure and contracts, the board approved Mid-State Construction Change Order No. 23 (fire alarm system requirements) for the new Madison City Hall, authorized an order approving project activation for 2024 MPO Surface Transportation Block Grant awards for the Rice Road overlay and MS 463 geometric improvements, and adopted a resolution authorizing the notice of award and contract execution with Lewis Electric, Inc. for PAPI installation at Bruce Campbell Field (AIP Project 3-20046-037-2024). The board also approved payment of Pickering Firm, Inc. invoice package #3 for the Highland Colony/Madison Central signal project and approved an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for bank stabilization and erosion control on Twin Oaks Drive and Deerfield Drive.
Planning items approved on consent included elevations and a permit for 219 Key Drive; variances to increase accessory structure height and size at 114 Langdon Drive and to decrease a side-yard setback at 116 Sundial Drive; approval of the Sundial, Part 2 final plat (Lots 1 and 2); and preliminary plat approval for North Livingston, Phase 1.
Alderman Mike Hudgins had asked that the Lifepoint Rehabilitation Center elevations and permit be removed from the consent agenda for separate discussion. After that request, Alderman Sandra Strain moved to approve the remaining consent items; Aldermen Patricia Peeler and Paul Tankersley seconded, and Mayor Pro Tempore Guy Bowering declared the motion carried by unanimous vote.
The board did not record any dissenting votes on the consent items. The meeting record shows these approvals were made as described on the consent docket and as reflected in the meeting exhibits referenced in the minutes.
