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File #: 13-0950    Version: 1 Name: Approval for Hwy. 98 and Pine St. retaining walls in flower beds
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 8/20/2013 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/3/2013 Final action: 9/3/2013
Title: Resolution To Consider Building Retaining Walls To The Annual Color Beds At Highway 98 and Pine Street
Attachments: 1. C.O.F. 98 and Pine St. Walls
Related files: 13-1012
Title
Resolution To Consider Building Retaining Walls To The Annual Color Beds At Highway 98 and Pine Street
 
Summary
DESCRIPTION OF TOPIC: (who, what, when, where, why, and how much)
There is a need to make repairs to the flower beds at Hwy. 98 and Pine St. Landscape Workshop has quoted $5,818.24 to perform the work necessary for building retaining walls to keep the beds from washing out. The Beautification Board would like to transfer a total of $4,991.82 from their budgeted accounts to the Horticulture Landscape Improvement account to fund the project.
 
 
SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Please provide the amount requested: $5,818.24____________
Is this a budgeted item? Yes /No      
Please provide the budgeted amount: $_____________   Account No. _01-619-7100 (Decorations-New); 01-619-5030 (Supplies-Arbor Day); 01-626-4025 (Horticulture Landscape Improvement)
If budgeted, is this a capital purchase, capital project, or special fund?      _________________________  
Was this item included in the Fiscal Year Capital Projects Plan?   Yes/No
If yes, please provide the amount included in Capital Projects Plan: $___________
 
 
Body
 
WHEREAS, the annual color beds at the intersection of U.S. Highway 98 and Pine Street require retaining walls to help with flooding/erosion, and Landscape Workshop has provided a quote of $5,818.24 to provide the work.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Foley, Alabama, as follows:
SECTION 1:      Authorizes the transfers of $4,660.77 from Beautification Board Account # 01-619-7100 (Decorations-New) and $331.05 from Beautification Board Account # 01-619-5030 (Supplies-Arbor Day) for a total transfer of $4,991.82 to Horticulture Account # 01-626-4025 (Landscape Improvement).
SECTION 2:      Accepts Landscape Workshop's proposal for building retaining walls to help with flooding/erosion of the annual color beds in the amount of $5,818.24 for the repairs.
SECTION 3:      This resolution requires no new allocation of funds, only a transfer of funds among the accounts listed in Section 1, with this action becoming effective immediately upon its adoption as required by law.