Chelsea mayor recognizes local baseball team at meeting
The 8U Chelsea Pain Train baseball team stopped by the Chelsea City Council meeting on June 16 to receive recognition from Mayor Earl Niven.
The team had its third tournament win of the season last weekend and is moving on to the district tournament in Columbiana this weekend.
“I had the pleasure Sunday afternoon of going down and watching a group of young men hit the ball better than I could when I was a senior in high school … We’ve got a future on our baseball team as they grow up and move forward,” Niven said.
The mayor shook the players’ hands and handed each a City of Chelsea pin.
“Y’all bring the state championship back here, we’ll have a pizza supper,” Niven said.
Following council business, community member Linda Taylor asked how to place a privacy fence between two properties and Community Center Road in order to bar issues. She cited the council’s June 2 approval of a privacy fence between Highway 47 and the ballpark.
“What do Miss Jacobs and [I] need to do to get the city council to put one between them and the community center road,” Taylor said. “There is drag racing in the road, cars stopped at all hours of the night – you have created an attractive nuisance.”
Niven said she can submit a formal letter addressed to him, and the council will take the request for another fence under consideration. The privacy fence approved at the June 2 meeting will be put up by Shelby Fence Company beginning June 22.
In other news, the council:
- Accepted the $14,450 bid from Bama Utility Contractors Inc. for the installation of a steel casing around the existing waterline on County Road 47.
- Accepted the $17,720 bid from Shirley Brothers Excavating Inc. and Con-Site Services Inc. to remove silt and install a silt fence in order to resolve erosion problems and meet compliance with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
- Paid bills for the month.
- Addressed a community member’s concern about a pothole in front of the Foothills Point neighborhood. The mayor said he would get maintenance to fill the pothole.