Photo by Jesse Chambers
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Birmingham City Hall seen from Linn Park.
The Birmingham City Council had a relatively light work load at its regular meeting for Tues., Nov. 17.
The following are a few of the items the council passed.
The council passed an ordinance that amended the city’s grants fund budget for Fiscal Year 2021 and appropriated $4.28 million for street resurfacing and ADA upgrades. The money comes from the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT).
The council also passed two other amendments to the 2021 grants fund budget to allow the city to appropriate its match for the ALDOT funding, which is $1 million.
Virtually all of the matching money came from the city’s Department of Planning, Engineering and Permits and was previously allocated for street resurfacing.
All three agenda items related to ALDOT were submitted by Mayor Randall Woodfin and the council’s Budget and Finance Committee and were recommended by the city’s Director of Finance.
- Members passed a resolution authorizing Woodfin to issue, on behalf of the city, a firm commitment to allocate $1.5 million of the city’s Community Development Block Grant funds in support of a HUD CHOICE Neighborhoods Implementation grant application for the redevelopment of the Smithfield Court Housing Project and surrounding neighborhood. The CNI Grant application is a joint submission by the city and the Housing Authority Birmingham District. If the grant is awarded, they will receive $35 million in HUD funding for housing and neighborhood revitalization.
- The council passed a resolution authorizing Woodfin to take any actions necessary to apply for $82,425 in federal grant funds through the FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The grant will assist the city in developing a community mitigation project in North Birmingham. The maximum expected project duration is 3 years and has an estimated total project cost of $109,900 and an estimated required city match in an amount not to exceed $27,475, which may be in the form of a contribution of money, labor, materials or services
- A developer, Railroad Park Apartments LLC, wants to construct balcony overhangs and signage on a proposed apartment building, so the council passed a resolution assenting to the vacation of just over 584 square feet of air space and 413 square feet of alley rights along 14th Street South (between Third Avenue South and Third Avenue South Alley), along Third Avenue South (between 14th Street South and 15th Street South), along 15th Street South (between Third Avenue South and Third Avenue South Alley) and the Block 153 alley (between Third Avenue South and Fourth Avenue South).
