Tuscaloosa Accountability Project

Tuscaloosa Area Long-Range Transportation Plan, 2040

Tuscaloosa Area Long-Range Transportation Plan, 2040

Public Meeting, 7/24/14 Notes by Laura Reed

David Norris -WARC, Transporation Planning Director Jill Hannah – WARC, Senior Transportation Planner Another staff member (Zane Davis?) -WARC Dan Wolfe -University Planner and Designer Russell Lawrence -PATA Transit Representative, Executive Director Ann Wynn – private citizen Laura Reed – private…

By John Earl

A few people who care about historic preservation were surprised by appointment of Bob Ennis as Anne Gibbons’ replacement on the City of Tuscaloosa’s Historical Preservation Commission. Mayor Walt Maddox’s fingerprints may be on Ennis’ appointment.

Gibbons had favored Ian Crawford as her replacement, who has academic credentials in historic preservation. She had been told by the…

University of Alabama Task Force: Listening Session–March 17, 2014

University of Alabama Task Force Meeting

Moody Music Building, UA Campus

3-17-14

  Present (Task Force Members)

Mary Meares, Associate Professor, Communication Studies — Faculty at Large

Meredith Bagley, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies — Faculty Senate

Utz McKnight, Associate Professor, Political Science — Black Faculty Staff Association

Stephanie Robinson, Graduate Student,…

University of Alabama Task Force: Listening Session–March 4, 2014

University of Alabama Task Force Meeting

Moody Music Building, UA Campus

3-4-14

  Present (Task Force Members)

Norman Baldwin, Professor, Political Science — Faculty at Large

Mary Meares, Associate Professor, Communication Studies — Faculty at Large

Meredith Bagley, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies — Faculty Senate

Osiris Molina, Associate Professor, School of Music — Faculty Senate

Draft Proposal From Hardy McCollum and Walt Maddox for School Funding Changes

A TAP member recently attended a County Commission meeting where Commissioner Murray alluded to a draft proposal from the Mayor and Probate Judge to make the one cent sales tax permanent.  Per the draft proposal, the allocation of the sales tax would be changed.  Currently all funding is allocated to the City and County schools.  Under the proposal, half of the money would be allocated to PARA…

UA Student Government Association Senates Votes Down Resolution to Press for Racial Integration of Greek System Today

UA Student Government Association Senates Votes Down Resolution to Press for Racial Integration of Greek System Today

Golf course – school parcel land: How the deal was done

Originally posted on Read. Listen. Think.:

The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education held a retreat on January 17-18, 2014.  Most of the retreat was videotaped, including the part first thing in the morning on January 18 during which the board attorney, Dave Ryan, made a presentation to the Board about a parcel of property next to Northridge High School which had come to be designated for use as a…

Pre-Council & Public Projects Committee Meeting 3-18-14

On the Council agenda tonight will be a hearing on a housing development on Rice Mine Road that would be located near the Greystone neighborhood.

As Jason Morton reported in The Tuscaloosa News: “The public hearing will focus on the tentatively named ‘Waterfall’, a subdivision that is a collection of townhouses, duplexes and single-family homes planned for Rice Mine Road. Last month, the City…

Tuscaloosa Neighbors Together March 10, 2014 Meeting

Members Present

• President Joan Barth, Vice President Lib Davis, and Secretary John Earl; Board members Tom Fanning (D6), Gabriella Merriman (D-2), Olivia Kendrick (D-3) and Freddie Bruner (D5). Also attending were Easty Lambert-Brown, Gary Limmroth, Susie Smith, Richard Crawford, Julie Elmore, Bob Lundell and Stan Pate; as well as Tuscaloosa City Council Members Burrell Odum and Sonya McKinstry.

UA Student Government Association Senates Votes Down Resolution to Press for Racial Integration of Greek System Today

The following resolution was put forward today in the University of Alabama Student Government Association Senate to press for the complete racial integration of all University of Alabama Greek letter organizations.  The vote was 26 against the resolution, 6 in favor of the resolution, 1 abstention.

  RESOLUTION # R-XX-14

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

STUDENT SENATE 2013-2014

  Sponsored by:  Katie…