FOLEY – A plan to cut traffic accidents and deaths in Foley is one of the items on the agenda for the City Council when it meets Monday, Aug. 19.

The council work session and meeting will begin at 4 p.m. in Foley City Hall.

The Comprehensive Safety Action Plan was developed to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries in the city. Foley developed the plan using funding from a Safe Streets and Roads for All grant.

As part of the plan process, the city held two public meetings to talk to residents about areas of concerns with Foley traffic.

According to research conducted as part of the plan, 5,218 traffic accidents happened in Foley in the five years between 2018 and 2022. In 136 of those accidents, victims died or were seriously injured.

Other items on the Foley City Council agenda for Monday include:

  • A public hearing to consider the violations of the city’s repair and demolition of dilapidated buildings and structures that constitute a public nuisance at a lot on Cedar Street.
  • A performance contract activity report by the South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce.
  • Monthly activity reports for the Community Development, Police and Fire departments and tax reports.
  • Granting a franchise to Hotwire Infrastructure Group for a cable and internet service system network.
  • Giving Riviera Utilities consent to sell property in Baldwin County.
  • Granting a restaurant retail liquor license for the Colt Grill on West Laurel Avenue.
  • Granting a lounge retail liquor license to Foley Liquor on South McKenzie Street.
  • Starting a capital project and transferring funds from the Police Personnel Account to the Capital Project Account.
  • Approving monthly bids for July.
  • Approving an agreement with the Mobile County Commission’s Southwest Alabama Regional Highway Safety Office/Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs Community Traffic Safety Program for reimbursement of overtime for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
  • Declaring guns surplus and donating the weapons to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.
  • Approving Basketville-Donovan Inc.’s professional services proposal for additional funding for the first phase of the Miflin Road access management plan.
  • Increasing T-hangar lease rates at the Foley municipal airport.
  • Approving the lease of new T-hangar units and establishing a lease rate.
  • Approving a contract for the city’s reinsurance/stop loss renewal.
  • Transferring funds from the Police Personnel Account to the Operating Account.
  • Accepting Engineering Design Group’s professional services proposal for the second phase of the North Cedar sidewalk project.
  • Reappointing Gregg Knight to the Board of Adjustments and Appeals.
  • Reappointing David Vosloh to the Foley Education Advisory Committee.
  • Reappointing Barbara Ingram to the Riviera Utilities Board.
  • Setting a public hearing to declare weeds to be a public nuisance at a lot on North Alston Street and ordering its abatement.
  • Setting a public hearing to declare weeds to be a public nuisance on a lot on North Alston Street and ordering its abatement.
  • Accepting additional funding from the FY2024 Legislative Event Grant.
  • Accepting and using a Friends of the Library donation.
  • Amending the city FY2024 budgets.
  • Appointing James Shoots to the Foley Education Advisory Committee.
  • Authorizing employees to enter property on South Cedar Street to abate a public nuisance.