Earlier today, Birmingham mayor William Bell briefed members of the city’s business community on tornado relief efforts at Birmingham Business Alliance headquarters. After he finished his remarks, he took a few minutes to answer questions from the media. The voice asking most of the questions is that of WBRC’s Dennis Washington.
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Mayor Bell updates Birmingham’s business community
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Tagged briefing, mayor, questions, tornado relief, video, WeAreAlabama, William Bell
Mayor Bell’s listening tour stops at More Than Conquerors
Birmingham mayor William Bell is currently on a listening tour – incidentally just before the start of what promises to be as intriguing a budget process as the city has ever gone through. It also happens to be an election year (though it’s still early).
This evening the tour will make a stop at More Than Conquerors Faith Church on the city’s West Side (Dennison Avenue to be exact) starting at 6 p.m. The focus of tonight’s discussion will be on the future of transit and education in Birmingham – two issues becoming increasingly more important than ever.
Perhaps the folks at Black & White will be particularly interested in tonight’s community gathering as a potential beginning to a follow-up of their February 17 feature piece titled “The Decline and Fall of West Birmingham.”
According to one of the tweets announcing the meeting this afternoon via Twitter, the meeting is open to the public.
Posted in The City
Tagged Education, information, listening tour, mayor, More Than Conquerors Faith Church, Transit, William Bell
One iPad per Councilor – the remix
Yesterday NBC 13 reported that Birmingham mayor William Bell and City Councilor Johnathan Austin visited our local Apple Store to investigate purchasing iPads for the current Council. The purchase would no doubt pay for itself as it would help to reduce costs involved with producing printed review materials for council and committee meetings.
The weird thing is, the City Council (at least the last council) received netbooks, jump drives and AirCards from former Birmingham mayor Larry Langford in last year in early June to accomplish the exact same thing. It was interesting at the time because they were delivered before the start of the last budget cycle. That purchase cost the city $4,975; the now proposed one would be $4,491 before taxes and cases.
We’re wondering if the cases for the iPads will come with a message similar to the one embroidered on the laptop cases that came with the netbooks last year?
Posted in The City
Tagged City Council, iPad, Johnathan Austin, mayor, netbook, option, paperless, William Bell
Birmingham to Atlanta high-speed rail study announced
Earlier today, Birmingham Mayor William Bell joined the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham‘s executive director Charles Ball as plans were formally announced for a feasibility study that could lead to the creation of a high-speed rail link between Birmingham, AL and Atlanta, GA.
Ball stated during prepared remarks that the study would cost $500,000 with half of the funds available due to a portion of the federal stimulus bull. It will be a partnership between the RPCGB, the Georgia Department of Transportation and Norfolk Southern. The study is scheduled to begin on July 1 and take one year to complete.
The video includes portions of Ball’s comments and all of Bell’s comments to those gathered.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Atlanta, B'ham, Birmingham, Charles Ball, high-speed rail, information, Transit, travel, video, William Bell
Bell to hold open meeting for young professionals
Birmingham mayor William Bell has announced – via the city’s Twitter account – that he will be holding a meeting with young professionals at Urban Standard on Thursday at 12 p.m. According to the follow-up tweet posted by the city’s public information office, the hope is that those in attendance will be willing to “share your ideas, concerns and vision for the future for Birmingham.”
We’re just happy for the folks at the popular lunchtime spot as they’ll be packed on Thursday with both young professionals interested in sharing what they want for the city showing up and the regular crowd. It will be the second public meeting held by the mayor announced via Twitter since being sworn in last Tuesday.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, conversation, downtown, event, gathering, meeting, Urban Standard, William Bell, young professionals
Bell wins Birmingham mayoral runoff, serves until 2011
With 99% of the precincts reporting, William A. Bell, Sr. has been elected to serve out the remainder of Larry Langford‘s term as mayor of Birmingham, AL. Unofficial results show that approximately 41% of registered voters took part in the election to choose the chief executive for the state’s largest city (compared to 23% in the general election in December).
Mr. Bell received 53.57% (25,354) while attorney Patrick Cooper received 46.4% (21,979) of the total vote.
The election is scheduled to be certified on January 26 at 12 p.m. with provisional ballots to be counted at that time.
Posted in Election 2010
Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, election, mayorpalooza, Patrick Cooper, politics, results, special, William Bell
Mayorpalooza ends tonight!
Many people are rejoicing in the fact that the journey to the special election to serve out the remainder of former Birmingham mayor Larry Langford ends tonight – though the reasons for that relief vary depending on who you talk to.
There’s bound to be endless coverage of the election results across Birmingham virtual landscape but the City of Birmingham will be posting the election results on their website starting at 7:15 p.m. tonight. You could also check out the results from various sources, including Fox 6, AL.com and Wade on Birmingham.
Of course, I have my own opinions about today’s vote, but I did vote this afternoon. I hope that you did too. We’ll post a photo of the winner after it’s been determined.
Posted in Election 2010
Tagged 2010, AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, election, locations, mayor, Patrick Cooper, results, special election, William Bell
