Episode 18 - Sept 8th and 21st Council Meetings and Police Chief/City Manager Situation

The biggie is that the...

the budget was approved.

It was.

And we talked about that last time and, and it was approved.

I imagine in a unanimous manner.

So, uh, there are a couple of things, again, we're not going to dwell on them from the work session where there was, uh, Some budgeted items like sidewalk repairs and resurfacing projects.

There was an emergency purchase of a bus for the Pelham Senior Center by the mayor's office.

And then also taking care of some things over at the ice rink to prevent some expenses later on.

And also there was some discussion about the sewer lift station over that the KOA kept ground over behind Home Depot.

Yes.

THERE WAS A PARTNERSHIP WITH 2030 SHELBY WORKS AND ALSO THE CDA HAS WANTS TO OR DID IN THIS MEETING IT WAS To consider and authorize, but later on it was approved, where the CDA purchased some property.

And just camp out there for just one second because I had a question about that too, and you helpfully answered it.

But I said, why is the city buying property?

Sure.

So the CDA actually is a separate entity from the city.

They work in concert with the city, but they are a separate organization, and they get their funding from the lodging taxes when people stay in our hotels in our city.

And from time to time when it's strategically necessary, they will purchase a property if they want to redevelop it or if they want to kind of control what's going there.

And that was the case here.

They had a proper piece of property on Highway 31 in Pelham they were interested in.

And that's what the discussion was here.

So basically, they have visions for what they want.

Absolutely.

So they take the chance to get it.

Okay.

All right.