Month: January 2025

Childersburg resolutions paves the way for Cooper Steel expansion

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The Childersburg City Council set in motion a plan for Cooper Steel South, LLC to expand their Childersburg facility and increase their production employment.

To open their Tuesday, January 21st meeting, the Council approved Resolution 2025-03, which authorizes Mayor Ken Wesson to sign a letter of intent on behalf of the City of Childersburg and the Industrial Development Authority with Cooper Steel South. That agreement is for an option to purchase 60 +/- acres located in the Industrial Park for the amount of $6,000 per acre.

In other new business, the Council approved payment of expenses for Mayor Wesson to attend the Alabama League of Municipalities 2025 Advocacy Day, where he will work alongside other municipal officials from around the state to help set the League’s advocacy agenda for the upcoming session of the Alabama Legislature. There is a $195 registration at Renaissance Montgomery on February 12, 2025.

The Council also approved Rachel Carlson and Aimee Burnette to attend the Regional Alabama Judicial College Conference on April 3, 2025 in Birmingham. The registration is $240 for each applicant.

Approval was given to pay invoices in the amount of $512,348.36. That includes a $95,000 installment for the City’s liability insurance premiums, along with a $213,000 payment on the new Police and Judicial building construction.

Mayor Wesson thanked the Elks Lodge for hosting this month’s Greater Coosa Valley Chamber Coffee, “You had a great crowd, a wonderful breakfast, and gave us a lot of information on your lodge’s community involvement. We are fortunate to have you as a community partner.

Though the weather hasn’t exactly cooperated, Wesson also reported that the citywide leaf collection program is moving along well and will hopefully be completed in the next few weeks.

The next regular meeting of the Childersburg Council will be held on Tuesday, February 4th at 6:00 p.m.

City of Childersburg approves a grant application for another new ambulance

Watch the meeting video &/or read the accounts of the meeting of the Childersburg City Council meeting held on Tuesday, January 7th at 6:00 p.m.

During their first regular meeting of the new year, The Childersburg City Council gave approval to Resolution 2025-01, which authorizes JMCM Consulting to submit a grant application for an ambulance and related equipment. The grant amount will be $385,000 with a local match of $41,249.97 and consulting fee.

In other new business, the Council approved a three-year agreement with Waste Recycling for equipment located at Hollywood Boulevard, along with a pricing schedule for the recycling material purchased by Waste Recycling. That is mostly cardboard as a service to local businesses, which typically generates about $4,000 per year more than the cost for the equipment.

That approval came in the form of Resolution 2025-02. Mayor Ken Wesson said, “It’s an important service provided to our business community. It pays for itself and then some for incidental expenses of the program.”

Wesson declared January 2025 as “Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month” in Childersburg.

The Council approved two year terms for the City Municipal Court Judges to run from January 7, 2025 to January 7, 2027. Lance Bell will again serve as the presiding Municipal Judge, and Erskine Funderburg will serve as part-time Municipal Judge.

Approval was given to a pair of training sessions for the Childersburg Police Department. Chief Keven Koss will attend the CLEEF course for certified executive law enforcement in Dothan on January 15 & 16. There is no registration fee, but there will be an expense for two nights lodging and per diem.

Micah Northcutt will attend the NRA Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor certification. That training will be held in Muscle Shoals April 21 through 25. There is an $850 registration fee along with five nights lodging and per diem.

The Council approved an advertisement with The Daily Home in their Government & Industry Update for a quarter-page color ad in the amount of $433.

Approval was given to pay invoices in the amount of $452,343.30. That includes several high dollar payments, such as City insurance premiums, a payment on the new Police and Judicial building construction, a payment to the state retirement system, as well as City employee health insurance premiums.

In an item added to the agenda, the Council approved up to $11,000 for the purchase, installation, and flags for a new 60-foot flag pole for the new Police and Municipal Court Building on Highway 280.

The next regular meeting of the Childersburg Council will be held on Tuesday, January 21st at 6:00 p.m.