HOLLY POND, Ala. – Roads were the main topic of conversation for the Holly Pond Town Council Monday evening.
Mayor Bill Oliver proposed a “test road” be treated by Corrective Asphalt Materials, an Illinois company that works in different parts of the country.
“It’s a treatment of the road,” he said. “It fills in all the cracks and smooths it out – it’s a thin layer, it reinvigorates the asphalt.”
Oliver proposed the “test road” be Wesley Avenue, from town limits to U.S. Highway 278.
He estimated the job being “$14,900 something.” The council voted to do the test road with the company.
The council discussed the pay for the next mayor and council. In a vote to raise the pay for the mayor to $400 per meeting and the pay for council members to $200, a $50 increase across the board, the vote did not pass.
In other business, the Town of Holly Pond will be holding a public hearing Feb. 26, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. at the Guy Hunt Library to review its application for a Clean Water State Resolving Fund (CWSRF) loan from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) and make the contents of the associated Environmental Information Document (EID) available to the public. The documents include preliminary design and environmental information related to the proposed upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant to meet the needs of the residents and the regulations set forth by the governing body over the plant. The documents also contain information to identify and resolve infiltration and inflow issues and upgrades to sanitary sewer pump stations to operate more efficiently.
The council voted to accept a resolution to allow JTM Broadband to bring its business to the town.
Oliver shared, “I welcome this new business and hope they bring high speed internet; I hope they get that access out here.”
The council also voted to set a first reading of an updated Flood Plain ordinance, required by FEMA.
The council had a first reading for an ordinance to clean up mismanaged paperwork from the previous administration concerning an annexation, with Town Attorney Dan Willingham saying, “This ordinance ratifies the annexation. I suspect the original annexation documentation was posted, but it was never recorded to the probate judge. This ordinance ratifies the annexation, petition and previous ordinance that didn’t get reported. It fixes it.”
The Holly Pond Town Council meets on the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Guy Hunt Library. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be March 2, 2020.
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