Board of Aldermen Meeting, Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The City of Starkville Board of Aldermen’s recess meeting on October 20, 2026, included a consent agenda with substantial procurement and infrastructure business. Airport items sought approval of three FAA project change orders with net contract-price changes of $24,628.60, $185,000, and $176,000, plus grant applications for a corporate hangar ($567,000, with an $11,025 city match) and the runway/taxiway extension and runway overlay ($3,677,890, with a $71,514.45 match). Other listed items included renewing Falcon Contracting Company’s asphalt-overlay contract and tree-maintenance contracts with TreeHuggers LLC and Jackson Land Services LLC; leasing police and fire vehicles from Enterprise Fleet Management; renewing Google Workspace through SATA Systems for $22,200 and Barracuda backup software for $18,432.84; and renewing HVAC service with Breslin Inc. Utilities items included a $423,033.32 price decrease for final quantities on the Ernest E. Jones wastewater-treatment aeration project, a proposed $483,000 low-bid award to JMM Farm and Company for the Curry Well electrical rehabilitation project, and authorization to advertise for an electric-division supply source and bids for Josie Creek Blue Station construction. The consent agenda also included state-funding MOUs for sewer/lagoon work and repairs to Colonel Muldrow Avenue and Loomis Drive, a firefighter-gear manufacturer trial, and a postage-meter agreement with Quadrant Leasing USA Inc. for $188.32 monthly over 63 months. These items were presented as consent-agenda business, but the transcript does not capture a vote on the consent agenda or the items’ final disposition.

In public hearings, the board approved a manufactured-home special exception, a hotel parking reduction, and an accessory dwelling unit exception; it postponed York Developments’ building-height variance and four-bedroom-unit request so the applicant could appear before the board. The meeting also included routine announcements and citizen comments. No additional procurement policy change was identified.