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Senior center bid twice grant, OK'd anyway The Grove Hill Town Council approved a bid for construction of the senior citizen center Monday. Bay South of Mobile submitted the low bid of $495,000, which was higher than expected. "I recommend we approve the bid even if we have to borrow some money on it," Mayor Lamar Hudson told the council. And that might be the case. A Community Development Block Grant for $250,000 for the project was received almost a year ago. The council did not detail where the other $245,000 will come from to complete the center but approved the low bid unanimously. Local seniors are currently using the council chambers as a gathering spot for lunch during the week. Budget The budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year was approved. Total projected receipts and revenues was $3,445,697. Total projected disbursements was $3,198,804. Council member Pat McGraw voted against the proposed budget because council members had not been given a copy of the itemized budget. "I'd really rather have an itemized budget, I don't like this," she said, indicating the copy of the general budget she had received. "You'll all get copies of the budget. We can always go back and do a revised budget," Mayor Hudson replied. "My only problem is this abbreviated form," McGraw said. Waste water system Paul Darnell of D & D Engineering discussed several upgrades in the waste water system. Cardinal Contracting was approved for making upgrades to two pumping stations at a cost of $221,600. The pipe is in the ground on the Court Street project and Darnell said there might be enough money from the grant to resurface Court Street. Council member Terry Stifflemire recommended that when the street is resurfaced the speed bumps should be constructed across both lanes of traffic so vehicles can't drive around them. Darnell recommended using a polymer to help dry up the sludge at the treatment plant and at some point concrete work at the facility would need to be addressed. It is believed an odor on Oak Street is being caused by a pumping station on Hurd Street. According to Darnell the line will be extended about 1,300 feet so it will vent in a wooded area. Other business McGraw asked about street signs that had not been put up. Hudson told her the signs were in, they just hadn't been put up yet.
She also asked when the condemned softball field at Hudson Park would be repaired. Stifflemire agreed that work needed to begin on the field soon in order for it to be ready by February.
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