County mapper to retire at end of month
During the Shelby County Commission on Aug. 24, County Manager Chad Scroggins announced that the county’s chief mapper, J.R. Henderson was retiring after 36 year of service.
“He has kept a lot of mapping in our county alive for years upon years and he will be retiring at the end of this month,” Scroggins said. “He has been a vital part of our GPS program and mapping services. There are not enough kind words to say about how he has helped our whole county and done an excellent job for many years.”
Mapping Services is a division of the IT Services Department to assist in the coordination and management of a wide spectrum of county geospatial information and related technologies, including property tax maps, city limit mapping, aerial photography and planimetric mapping.
During the county manager’s report, Scroggins said they had been spending lots of hours working on the FY 2021 budget and the commission will vote on it at their next meeting Sept. 14.
Work continues on the 280 Services Center and the Birmingham Legion soccer team have put a trailer there to have a place to get in and out of the weather during their practices at the soccer fields.
Ten resolutions were approved during the meeting:
- Bid for Airport Management Software and Electronic Fuel Metering Equipment
- Bid for guardrail repair and replacement at various locations to Alabama Guardrail, Inc. for $38,762.50
- Bid for erosion control materials to Grogreen Solutions
- Bid for diesel exhaust fluid to McPherson Companies, Inc.- Kleen DEF at $1.50 per gallon
- Bid for custom reactivation of GAC Media in two filters at the South Water Treatment Plant to Carbon Activated Corporation for $162,900.
- Bid for custom reactivation of GAC Media in two filters at Talladega/Shelby Water Treatment Plan to Carbon Activated Corporation for $114,850.
- Bid for removal and installation of new booster pump at B-2S Booster Station to Morin Repair Services for $40,980.
- Bid for Talladega/Shelby Water Treatment Plant building improvements to David Acton Building for $1,097,100.
- Bid for print management services to Kyocera Document Solutions for $1,784.66
- Bid for law enforcement safety equipment that included different types of protective materials for the sheriff's department.
County Engineer Randy Cole recommended the commission approve the Annual Right of Way Agreements between the Commission and the Zayo Group.
“Telecommunication agreements seem to be popping up and folks want to locate telecommunication facilities in our rights of way,” Cole said. “This has been thoroughly vetted by the county attorney and discussed by the engineering staff and they have rights to be in our rights of way,” he said.
The next Shelby County Commission meeting will be held Sept. 14 at 8:30 a.m. at the Shelby County Administration Building in Columbiana.