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Birmingham City Council
Members of Birmingham City Council and some city staffers at a recent meeting.
The Birmingham City Council, at its regular meeting for Tuesday, Oct. 3, voted to give the long-awaited extension of Vulcan Trail on Red Mountain another boost forward.
As part of its consent agenda, the council approved a Trail Construction Easement Agreement with Freshwater Land Trust under which the city will grant a temporary construction easement to the organization over and across a strip of city-owned land located on Red Mountain, and Freshwater Land Trust will construct the Vulcan Trail there.
The council voted to pay McWane Science Center downtown the sum of about $159,000 for a term of one year. This was also part of the consent agenda. The facility is expected to “operate and maintain a public cultural facility that serves as a tourist attraction for the City and assist the City in facilitating various economic development and revitalization projects,” according to the text of the resolution. The city has regularly helped support the facility.
The council also voted to set a public show case hearing to consider the possible revocation of the business licenses issued to Skyy Lounge, located at 1928 11th Ave. South in Five Points South.
The hearing will take place on October 24 during the regular council meeting.
The Five Points Neighborhood Association is seeking the revocation due to recent violent incidents at the club, including a shooting near the club on Sept. 2, according to a report at AL.com.
A vote to approve the nomination of Adam Arrington as a director with the city’s Land Bank Authority failed after a disagreement between councilors Marcus Lundy and Sheila Tyson. Lundy said that the nominee’s resume indicates that he lives in Bessemer. Tyson said that the nominee actually lives in Birmingham and insisted on an up-or-down vote on the nomination. The vote was 3-2-1 in favor, but four votes were required, so the measure failed. Lundy and Abbott were the no votes.
