Scottsboro, Alabama - July 13, 2020 - Scottsboro City Council Meeting Regular Session - Update 1 July 14, 2020, County Park Rd and Hwy 72 Safety Project and Tax Abatement for Restaurants -- Update 2 - Urban Blight Video --- Jackson County Commission Agenda and Facebook Video Link to Today's Commission Meeting

Scottsboro City Hall, photo by G.Morgan

Many thanks to the Council and the Mayor for your mask and social distancing policy in the council chamber.

Updates 1 and 2 posted.

City Council Agenda

City Council Video

Urban Blight - Questions by Dr. Gary Spears brought forward to the Scottsboro City Council.

Second Update - Video Urban Blight, North Houston and Mary Hunter Ave. and West Willow and Broad Street



Update 1 - July 14, 2020 --: Council Member Mashburn discusses the County Park Rd. U.S. Hwy. 72 Safety Project at 24min. 30 sec into the city council video, posted after the city council agenda above, during the reports section.

Council Member Greg Mashburn, photo from www.cityofscottsboro.com "City Council Members;" fair use for non-profit news reporting and commentary

This has been a long standing issue involving no votes, then changing to a yes vote; article on the no votes with council member statements - https://arklite.blogspot.com/2019/03/scottsboro-alabama-march-3-2019-update.html  , changing to yes vote on March 25, 2019 after reconsidering the issue in the regular session.  article -  https://arklite.blogspot.com/2019/03/scottsboro-alabama-march-25-2019_26.html 

 All meetings about the issue going back to May 21, 2018 including this blog article - https://arklite.blogspot.com/search/label/County%20Park%20Road%20US%20Hwy%2072%20Intersection

Presentation from Robbie Copenhaver at the Sep. 16, 2019 council meeting, take note of his comments about tax abatements issue at 40min 47sec into the work session video  - https://arklite.blogspot.com/2019/09/scottsboro-alabama-september-16-2019.html

 October 29, 2019 meeting there was much discussion about the tax abatement issue, videos and article -  https://arklite.blogspot.com/2019/10/scottsboro-alabama-october-28-2019_29.html

Jackson County Commission Meeting

Meeting Video Link After Agenda

Jackson County Courthouse , north side. photo by G. Morgan

                            Jackson County Commission Agenda

Jackson County Commission Facebook Video Link of meeting:  https://www.facebook.com/JCCommissionAL/videos/729147717885053/?epa=SEARCH_BOX