By Hamilton Richardson
Elmore/Autauga News
Top Photo: Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie during Tuesday’s city council meeting.
Although Tuesday night’s Prattville City Council meeting was very short, the Executive Session that the group went into to discuss an economic development resolution took quite a bit longer.
On the Consent Agenda were three resolutions, the first of which was a resolution to submit the 2021 Municipal Water Pollution Prevention Annual Reports for the Pine Creek and Autauga Creek Wastewater Treatment Facilities to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
The second measure on the Consent Agenda was an authorization for the mayor to enter into an agreement with the State of Alabama Department of Transportation for the transfer of ownership and maintenance of roadways SR-206 from US-82 to Main Street-Municipal Connection Link, SR-14 from US-82 to US-31-MCL, SR-14 from US-31 to I-65, Old Farm Lane from Cobbs Ford Road to SR-14.
The third resolution was to declare various weeded lots to be a public nuisance, order their abatement and set a public hearing per Title 11, Chapter 67 of the Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended.
All three resolutions of the Consent Agenda were adopted after which the group went into Executive Session for approximately 45 minutes.
When the Council returned from Executive Session, a resolution supporting a measure known as Project Mayfield was brought forward, which was read aloud but very few details regarding the scope or purpose of the resolution were shared.
The resolution read as follows:
“Whereas the City Council of the City of Prattville works through and with the Economic Development Team to attract and retain economic development, and whereas the Economic Development Team, when necessary, calculates, reviews and offers incentives and other assistance to businesses who are interested in locating or expanding within the City of Prattville,
And whereas the team has met and recommended incentives for Project Mayfield for the purpose of economic development in the City of Prattville.
Now therefore be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Prattville concurs that an incentive package be offered and hereby approves the recommendations of the Prattville Economic Development Team.
Be it further resolved that the City Council of the City of Prattville hereby authorizes the Mayor of the City of Prattville to execute for and on behalf of the city any and all documents and agreements necessary to effectuate the grant and provision of said incentives to the extent and as permitted by applicable law and to take all such further action as shall be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes and intent of this resolution subject to a subsequent issuance of a public notice in compliance with Alabama Constitutional Amendment No. 772 and a public hearing, as well as final approval by the City Council of the proposed Project Incentives and Development Agreement at the next regularly scheduled meeting.”
After the reading of the resolution regarding Project Mayfield, the City Council voted unanimously to support.
