Here are a few of the legislative highlights from Tuesday’s Birmingham City Council meeting, in case you missed it.
Board Appointments
There is an opening for the Director Position 3 on the Birmingham Land Bank Authority. The goal of the BLBA is to serve the citizens of Birmingham by working collaboratively and transparently with community stakeholders and the City of Birmingham to steward vacant, abandoned, and tax-delinquent properties and dispose of them to the best use as defined by the needs of the community to reduce community blight, stabilize neighborhoods, facilitate community civic, and commercial redevelopment, and to increase community and overall City of Birmingham property values while returning such properties back to the tax rolls.
The qualifications for this position are as follows: Applicants shall have expertise and experiences in careers or activities involving real estate, property management, finance, real estate law, transit planning, residential contracting, banking, architecture or city planning. All directors must be residents of the City of Birmingham, shall not be an elected official.
For anyone interested in applying, please send a letter of interest and resume to Council President Crystal Smitherman’s office (crystal.smitherman@birminghamal.gov) by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Budget and Finance Committee Meeting Review
On Monday, the Birmingham City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee approved an item for roughly $12.5 million for capital improvement projects across the city. The items ranged from streetscape improvements on Carver Ave. to improvements at Henry Crumpton Recreation Center. These improvements span across all nine districts. Here is a list of all the projects and the amounts that will be considered by the Council when it appears on next Tuesday’s agenda:
An Ordinance to amend the Capital Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, by appropriating:
$1,293,532.28 to 3rd Ave W Streetscape
$675,000.00 to Carver Ave SW
$168,503.89 to City Park (Mountaindale Road Park)
$109,413.00 to Eastlake Park (Fitness Court)
$50,372.21 to Fire Facilities Improvement
$20,278.84 to Fire Facilities Improvement
$750,000.00 to Forest Park Avondale Business District Streetscape
$96,477.20 to Germania Park Improvements
$475,000.00 to Hanover Circle Repaving
$37,561.19 to Henry Crumpton Recreation Center Improvements
$598,615.00 to Hooper City Phase V Drainage Improvement
$150,000.00 to Museum of Art Elevator Repair
$815,000.00 to Pine Knoll Vista Drainage
$400.000.00 to 19th Street Ensley Improvement
$150,000.00 to Cahaba Road Roundabout
$1,500,000.00 to 41st Street Streetscape and Drainage
$1,200,000.00 to Greensprings Hwy Streetscape Phase II
$500,000.00 to Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd Streetscape
$1,250,000.00 to City Walk
$500,000.00 to 2nd Avenue South Streetscape
$500,000.00 to Hawkins Golf Course Repairs
$400,000.00 to Vulcan Park Improvements
$375,000.00 to Rickwood Field Improvement
$500,000.00 to Interstate Greenway Project.