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City looking at making a new subdivision The city of Thomasville could be going into the property development business. The city's industrial development board has asked for approval of a measure that would convert industrial park land into residential lots. The council gave its approval for the mayor and city attorney to further investigate the request that would reduce the 200-foot buffer zone between the Joe Davis Industrial Park and Old Hwy. 5 down to 50 feet. The remaining property would be subdivided into seven or eight residential lots and sold to the highest bidders. The industrial development board also requested that the city build an access road between the lots and the industrial park to reduce the number of cars entering and exiting homes directly on Old Hwy. 5. "This is land that isn't doing anything for us as it is," said Mayor Sheldon Day. Council member Charles Allen expressed his concern that the city's costs in developing the subdivision would reduce the profit on the residential lots to an unacceptably low figure. "That's why we'd need to (hire) an engineer to look at this for us," Day replied. The council approved letting the mayor investigate the move. In other real estate business, the council approved entering into a formal sales contract with Southwest Alabama Medical Center for 20 acres of property near the new south industrial park. The hospital had an option on the land, which just expired. The sale contract would be for one year and will require $50,000 in earnest money from the hospital. "Things are beginning to move quickly with the new hospital - quickly for this project anyway," Day said. In other business, the council: Approved joining the statewide sales tax holiday on school supplies August 3-4. Saw a demonstration of geographical information systems by Nick D'Andrea and heard D'Andrea's offer to map the city's infrastructure for approximately $80,000. Heard a report from Day that the prison project may not be dead for the year after some new language was found in bills passed before the end of the legislative session. Day could not give further details at the meeting. Day also announced that renovation work to the Boys & Girls Club building and Fire Station No. 2 would go out for bid July 19. Water Board The water board was forced to re-award the contract for extending a water line to the Louisiana-Pacific mill after it was discovered the winning bidder submitted the wrong kind of bond as required by the USDA. The contract was awarded to Cardinal Construction Monday night. Cardinal's bid was $2,000 higher than the lowest bid, but Day said Cardinal has agreed to match the low bid, given the circumstances. The water board also voted an emergency spending resolution to add the Windsorwood sewer lift station into the town's electronic monitoring system. The sewer lift station experienced a malfunction that sent several thousand gallons of untreated wastewater flowing into a field last week.
The work will total more than $11,000 which would normally require bids be requested by state law, but Day said the situation needed to be corrected sooner than a bid situation would allow.
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