City of Fairhope City Council Meeting October 26th, 2026

City Council meeting of the City of Fairhope, October 26, 2026. The council approved several infrastructure and procurement actions. It approved a $17,857 increase to Duplantis Design Group’s contract for Flying Creek Nature Preserve phases two and three, bringing the contract ceiling to approximately $410,000 (the final figure is garbled in the transcript); the work is supported by a $2.5 million GOMESA grant, and the project scope grew from an $850,000 to a $2.3 million construction project. The council also approved selecting Krebs Engineering for Magnolia Beach Apartments lift-station improvements, with a not-to-exceed fee to be negotiated and returned for council approval. It approved purchasing an Elgin RegenX regenerative-air street sweeper through Sourcewell for $344,466 plus freight, under budget, and discussed awarding the K1 Center south service-alley paving work to Asphalt Services for a not-to-exceed amount of about $31,900, including a 15% contingency; the transcript does not capture the vote on that item.

The council also approved an agreement involving 107 acres on the west side of the airport. Discussion cited an earlier cost of about $36,000 per acre and an anticipated value or reimbursement of about $45,000 per acre after construction of an industrial road, though the precise transaction terms are unclear in the transcript. Other adopted actions included accepting streets and utilities in several developments, adopting the Baldwin County multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan (required for FEMA disaster-funding eligibility), and updating the capital-asset accounting policy; the policy changes accounting capitalization thresholds, not purchasing approval limits. The council also approved moving lodging-tax collection to the state and set a public hearing on updated building and related codes. No other specific contract awards or spending decisions were clearly captured.