Year: 2019

Council approves gas-tax projects list By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members gave unanimous approval to two measures in preparation for receiving future funding from two separate road and bridge repair and improvement initiatives. Councilors adopted a transportation plan that will allow them to apply for the next round of funding from the Rebuild Alabama Act and authorized the city’s engineering firm, Civil Southeast, to make application…

City to form complete count committee By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although no vote was taken by the city council during their meeting August 26, Atmore Mayor Jim Staff presented a proclamation supporting the 2020 Census and promising formation of a “complete count committee” to help promote local participation in the 10-year population update. The local committee has not yet been selected, but the proclamation reads that the city…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Abstentions by two different Atmore City Council members prevented immediate approval of separate resolutions to grant tax abatements for two local businesses during the council’s Monday, August 26, meeting. The abatement requests came from Alto Products Corp. of Atmore, which was asking for relief from property taxes on several pieces of new equipment, and H.O. Weaver & Sons, which wants the same relief for…