The Demopolis City Council failed to act on a request to let the next city council fill a seat on the Demopolis Board of Education.
At their Sept. 18 meeting, the city council nominated Lee Jordan and Chip Hughes to fill a vacant seat on the school board. They passed a motion to vote one of them onto the school board on Oct. 16.
Hugh Overmyer, who ran unopposed for District 5 in the Aug. 23 city election, attended the city council’s Oct. 2 meeting to ask the current council to let the next city council fill the school board seat.
Overmyer said that he was speaking for newly elected councilpersons Dawn Newell Hewitt and Luke Hallmark as well. The new city council will take over on Nov. 3.
Demopolis Mayor Woody Collins said that to comply with Overmyer’s request, the council would have to rescind the motion that set Oct. 16 as the date for the school board vote.
“It’s up to you gentlemen,” Collins told Charles Jones Jr., Bill Meador and David McCants, the only councilmen who attended the meeting on Oct. 2.
Meador, who did not run for reelection, made the motion to rescind the council’s motion to vote on the school board member on Oct. 16. The motion died for the lack of a second.
“I want to vote my own self on the date the mayor and city council agreed to,” McCants said. McCants lost to Hallmark in the Sept. 23 runoff.
Hewitt is senior manager of project technology support at medical company Icon Clinical. Chip Hughes is a homebuilder.
In other business, the council to file for a $1.15 million grant to lay tarmac at the Demopolis Municipal Airport. The grant would require a $28,000 match.
Jones asked the Demopolis Police Department to look into adding surveillance cameras at the entrances to the city.
The council also approved a request from Cemex to create an entertainment district on the river on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to celebrate their 25 years in Demopolis. Cemex, a cement plant located on Arcola Road, employs almost 100 people.
Brad Fisher is Associate Publisher of the Black Belt News Network and Selma Sun. He can be reached at bfisher@kingfisher-media.com.
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