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Regular City Council Meeting

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 · 142 agenda items · 18 votes recorded

Agenda items
142
125 consent · 17 regular
Votes
18
minutes text
Dollar items
18
with amounts
Topics
9
classified

Executive Summary

The Birmingham City Council considered adopting a sweeping set of fiscal year 2025 budgets — including the General Fund, Capital Improvement Fund, TIF Fund, Storm Water Fund, and several others — alongside a $20.2 million appropriation for the federal Recompete Grant program and a $596,434 General Fund transfer to support the Birmingham Zoo. The council also weighed a controversial ordinance that would authorize the Mayor to enter into a cooperative agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a new city employee mental health paid leave policy, a 2025 legislative agenda seeking a ban on Glock switches and firearm conversion devices, a funding agreement with Sixteenth Street Baptist Church for a visitor and education project, and multiple BOLD Program agreements with community organizations including Be Kind Birmingham, Better Basics, and Bundles of Hope Diaper Bank, among others. Additionally, the council considered rescinding a prior lease-purchase agreement with Edwin B. Lumpkin, Jr. and joining a settlement involving Publix and its related entities. The council also handled 20 building demolition orders across the city, along with 37 routine public safety items, 15 budget items, and a handful of contracts, parks, and licensing matters.

Provisional · minutes not yet adopted
Roll call

Votes (18)

passed #1769 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1770 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1771 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
6–0
Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1772 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
6–0
Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1773 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
6–0
Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1775 official minutes · high
Re: #134. P ITEM 31. An Ordinance, pursuant to §11-102-1, et seq., Code of Alabama, authorizing the Mayor to enter into an Inter… structured fact · 80%
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1776 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1777 official minutes · high
Re: #134. P ITEM 31. An Ordinance, pursuant to §11-102-1, et seq., Code of Alabama, authorizing the Mayor to enter into an Inter… structured fact · 80%
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1778 official minutes · high
Re: #134. P ITEM 31. An Ordinance, pursuant to §11-102-1, et seq., Code of Alabama, authorizing the Mayor to enter into an Inter… structured fact · 80%
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1779 official minutes · high
Re: #134. P ITEM 31. An Ordinance, pursuant to §11-102-1, et seq., Code of Alabama, authorizing the Mayor to enter into an Inter… structured fact · 80%
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1780 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1781 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
7–1
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Woods · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Williams · NAY Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1782 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
8–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Woods · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1783 official minutes · high
Re: #142. ITEM 102. A Resolution rescinding Resolution No. 1619-24, adopted by the Council, authorizing the Mayor to execute a Lea… structured fact · 80%
8–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Woods · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1784 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
6–0
Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1785 official minutes · high
Re: #130. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA text similarity · 75%
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
passed #1786 official minutes · high
No agenda item linked.
7–0
Abbott · YEA Moore · YEA Smitherman · YEA Tate · YEA Williams · YEA Alexander · YEA O’Quinn · YEA Clarke · ABSENT
Business

Regular Agenda (17)

Procedural: INVOCATION: Rev. Ennis Gaddis, Jr., Associate Pastor, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Zion City, Birmingham, Alabama
Procedural: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Councilor Hunter Williams
Procedural: ROLL CALL
Procedural: ADJOURNMENT
Consent calendar

Consent Agenda (125)

Items passed as a group without individual discussion unless pulled by a council member.

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