City Council Meeting Recap 4.14.20
Here is the video from today’s meeting:
Here are a few of the main items the Birmingham City Council discussed at the April 14th, 2020 Meeting
Item 7
The Birmingham City Council approved a Mutual Fire and EMS Aid Agreement with the City of Fultondale for both cities to provide efficient and life saving services to citizens of Birmingham and Fultondale. Our two cities will provide reciprocal fire and rescue assistance by utilizing the nearest units from an incident by either fire department.
Item 10
The Birmingham City Council approved a $1 Million agreement with the newly-formed Birmingham Strong, LLC which will utilize the City’s funding, in addition to private funding, to run a Resilient Worker’s Program that will hire Birmingham Strong Service Corps members (paid volunteers) to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID crisis. It is designed to solve two problems resulting from COVID-19:
- Provide resources to solve emergent and evolving needs of our community (e.g. Health screenings, safe transportation for symptomatic residents to treatment, isolated housing, meal preparation and delivery)
- Reduce unemployment, particularly for low-income and hourly workers
The kinds of work opportunities for Service Corps members include:
- Call center for COVID symptom screening: BhamStrong established and staffed a call center to phone-screen residents at 14 public housing locations across Birmingham for COVID-19 symptoms and connected them to resources.
Paid service opportunity: call center worker; remote work
- Call center for CARES Act support: BhamStrong established and staffed a call center to provide small business owners guidance about the CARES Act.
Paid service opportunity: call center worker; remote work
- School lunch preparation and delivery: BhamStrong coordinated preparation and delivery of 12,000 lunches for Birmingham City School students.
Paid service opportunity: meal prep worker and meal delivery driver
- School supply distribution: BhamStrong assisted the Birmingham Education Foundation and Birmingham City Schools in the distribution of school supplies to 42 Birmingham City Schools.
Paid service opportunity: school supply delivery driver
- BhamStrong Shuttle Service: BhamStrong coordinated the engineering and implementation of health department-approved shuttles to safely transport symptomatic patients to and from treatment.
Paid service opportunity: BhamStrong Shuttle driver
Click Here to Apply for Temporary Work through BhamStrong
Addendum Item 43
In order to fund the $1 Million agreement with Birmingham Strong, LLC, the Birmingham City Council approved a transfer of a combined $273,000 from economic incentive money originally allocated to the restaurants Pappadeaux and Brat Brot (who had already received their maximum amount of incentive money form the City), and $228,000 from economic incentive money originally slated for TopGolf, who had failed to meet the City’s minority and disadvantaged participation goal for the construction of their Uptown location (the receipt of the incentive money was dependent on meeting that goal). The remainder of the funding, $499,000, comes from the Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity.
