By DON FLETCHER
News Staff Writer
Atmore City Council, sitting one member short, approved during the panel’s Monday, March 24, meeting a lease of 34 acres of farmland adjacent to Atmore Municipal Airport.
Under terms of the lease agreement, the lessee, Michael Glick, will pay (or has already paid) $3,400 to use the land for “the sole purpose of planting, cultivating and harvesting agriculture crops.”
Glick also agreed to obtain a general liability insurance policy in an amount not less than $1 million during the term of the lease, which runs from January 1 through December 31 of this year.
In other business conducted Monday, the four council members (District 4’s Shawn Lassiter was unable to attend.):
*Selected Lassiter as the council’s voting delegate for the annual business session of the Alabama League of Municipalities Convention, which takes place May 15.
*Approved a request by Main Street Atmore (MSA) to use Heritage Park on May 22 for a Bourbon Pairing Dinner Fundraiser. MSA Executive Director Shinora Redmond said proceeds from the event, which was held at Poarch last year, would be used for an unspecified downtown improvement project.
*Approved a request from Don Taylor, who said he was representing a “group of women,” to use Heritage Park from 6 to 7 p.m. on April 11 for the senior lead-out of a “community-prom,” separate from the local high school’s prom.