CHILDERSBURG, Ala. – The Childersburg City Council met at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7 for their first regular meeting of 2025, giving 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 Blvd., 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 Jan. 7, 2025 to Jan. 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 Jan. 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 training which will be held in Muscle Shoals, April 21-25. 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 Hwy 280.
The next regular meeting of the Childersburg Council will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 6:00 p.m.
