Helena City Council Meeting

Helena City Council Meeting
All members were present and they voted unanimously to approve everything below:

• Deputy Chief Tim Carter-Shelby County Law Enforcement-Mutual Aid Agreement: Several police agencies in Shelby County have a mutual agreement that if one is in trouble then the others will help at no charge.
• Ordinance 818-12A-Annexation-Brad and Marcie Fulmer-4461 South Shades Crest Road-Parcel ID 12-6-13-0-000-007.001. 
• Ordinance 819-12A-Annexation-April Adams-3603 Timber Way-Parcel ID 13-8-33-0-000-029.013
• Amendment to Business License Ordinance 734-07-Section 3-Topic C (issuing fee that changes every 5 years)-If amended it should state:  “An issue fee shall be assessed on each license in the amount set forth by the State of Alabama Department of Revenue per Departmental Rule 810-8-5.15 as it pertains to Act 2006-586…”. This is a State requirement so there was little discussion except Katherine asked if it would be automatic in the future.  If you want to see the Alabama Revenue rule then: http://revenue.alabama.gov/rules/810-8-5-.15.pdf
• Finally they announce that City Council Meetings would be the 1st and 3rd Monday starting in November 2012 and that the swearing ceremony for the new Mayor and Council would be November 5th at 6pm.

Farewell to the City of Helena Speech

After the City Council meeting, Mayor Sonny gave a short farewell address to the crowd. He thanked everyone for their support. He also wanted to thank all the employees for their hard work and praised them for their service. He remarked about how there was a low turnover rate and how many had worked for the city for 25 years.  He spoke about the national awards Helena had earned, and said they were won because of the people in Helena working together. He said that Mark Hall would do a good job for the city. Sonny felt that God had blessed him with his time and he felt God had something else planned for him. He said he wouldn't be going away and he would be down the road if his assistance was needed. He received a standing ovation from the packed crowd.

Update: Birmingham News updated their website with a story: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/10/helenas_mayor_bids_farewell_to.html

Broadway Star

Helena's own Broadway star and Tony nominated actress will be recording a new CD. According to Alec Harvey of the Bham news,  Rebecca Luker will be using her New York concert of Jerome Kern music for the recording. 

Rebecca has been nominated for Tony Awards for her Broadway performance of “Show Boat,” “The Music Man” and “Mary Poppins". Full Article

Road Work

A reminder that they will still be working on Helena Road (261) from 8pm at night to 6am in the morning for three more nights so please take that into account for drive times. 

Best Halloween House in Helena

We have several new nominees to take into consideration but some updates about two other nominees. 

Halloween Show

545 Fieldstone Drive is having an electronic Halloween show. It is 32 channels of computer animation and a low power FM transmitter broadcasting the soundtrack on 91.3. They are running it nightly from 7:00pm to 9:30pm weather permitting and they can see and hear some of the videos on  their facebook page. It is HelenaChristmasVacation.

Haunted House

the Loveladys are working very hard to get their public Haunted house ready for the weekend of Halloween Friday, Saturday and Halloween night from 7p.m. to 9:30 p.m. All money will go to charity and they are at  2806 St. Patrick Place

Nominee: 1941 RIVA RIDGE RD. in the Sugar Creek subdivision

Nominee: 205 Stone Creek Way in Old Cahaba neighborhood

Happy Mole Day
Happy Mole Day to all the chemist that are celebrating Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23) on Tuesday