Welcome To The City Of Albertville

' We have one opportunity. and one opportunity

only to make that first impression

of our City'

That will be the lasting impression!

9 Month Plan

1 - Place firm emphasis on the 'Highway 431 Corridor' relative to

visual appeal, attractiveness, signage, building conditions

and other underlying issues. Partnership with business,

industry and other property owners to assist in ownership and

pride of the vision for our corridor.

2 - Review, amend and add to the current sign ordinance that

would address....

A - Placement, height and sizes of signs.

B - Decree sign professionalism. This would prohibit

hand made or home made signage.

C - Enact the requirement of requiring english to be part of the

signage for 'Public Safety' issues.

D - Review and enact requirements for 'Digital Billboards' and

'Digital Signs'. This would include placement, brightness,

time frames for message changes, as well as prohibiting

'blinking' signage.

E - Review and enact 'color requirements' that would have

the positive effect of being in harmony with the immediate

surrounding area.

F - Form a 3 member committee, that would include

the Albertville Building Inspector, for signage

approval.

G - Inspect all current signage to determine 'official approval

and were they permitted'.

3 - Develop and implement a 'Rental Inspection' for rental

properties that would include housing, mobile homes and

apartments. The value would be....

A - Minimum requirements for dwelling units would be an

avenue to ensure the 'tenants' have a safe and sanitary

dwelling/environment.

B - Property owners could have positive input and take

ownership/accountability for maintaining a safe and

appealing property.

C - Would create a positive aesthetic value/attractiveness

of our community neighborhood's.

D - Property values would increase giving 'all' owners higher

' $ equity $ ' in their property.

4 - Albertville Beautification Board/ Pride in Property Objective

'To create a positive, aggressive campaign that will

extol the virtue of cleanliness, attractiveness

and curb appeal throughout our city'

A - Create the 'Pride in Property' organization that will include

City involvement, Volunteer Organizations, Civic Clubs,

Garden Clubs, Boy/Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts/Brownies,

Albertville Schools, Senior Citizen Groups, your Church,

Albertville Chamber of Commerce, etc.

B - Create 'projects' for these groups that will have a positive

impact on the visual appeal of 'suffering areas' of our City.

C - Community wide 'project days' to further enhance our

'Pride in Property'.

D - Work with City Council to assist in formulating a 'Minimum

Landscape Requirement' for Commercial/Retail.

E - Collaborate with the Board of Education to implement a

contest in our school system to develop the 'logo' and

'graphics' for the Pride in Property Organization.

F - The winning graphic will be utilized on T-Shirts, Ball Caps,

Informational forms, Road Signage, Residential, Retail

and Commercial Award Winning Signs, etc.

G - Partnership with the Albertville Recycling efforts.

5 - Retail Business Recruitment

A - Mayor to accept personal responsibility for this critical

need in our city.

B - Form a 3 member committee, partnership with the

Albertville Chamber of Commerce, local real estate

brokers and developers.

C - Develop the best professional portfolio/presentation of

any city in Alabama. To include up to the minute statistics,

population, median incomes, trade area, etc., and that

would also extol 'all positive aspects of our community'.

D - Develop and maintain a listing of available sites for retail

development.

E - Research/formulate the list of potential retail possibilities,

search out developers and aggressively move to contact

and continuous follow up.

F - CDA Board/Formulate specifics for potential City

Incentive's with input from the City Council and Mayor.

6 - Illegal Immigration and Related Issues

A - Discussions and collaboration with Federal and State

are on-going.

B - Senator Jeff Sessions, Congressman Robert Aderholt

and Senator Richard Shelby takes the problems we have

in our city very seriously and they intend to help in any way

they can!

C - State Senator Hinton Mitchem and State Representative

Frank McDaniel are concerned and will assist our city in

this struggle.

D - We are focusing on these areas at present...

1 - Seeking meeting , through our Senator and

Congressman with Director of Immigration and

Customs Enforcement.

2 - Formal request for 287g training for our police officers,

this will give them dual powers to include official

capacity of an I.C.E. agent.

3 - Formal request for an I.C.E. Office/Agency in Albertville

staffed with Federal Agents. I propose to provide office

building if necessary.

4 - We have asked for major funding to provide our law

enforcement with all tools necessary to combat the

underlying issues relative to this.

5 - Other plans are being formulated and will be announced

in time.

Thank you for taking the time to review this 9 month plan. Please e-mail any comments or suggestions to the Mayor or any City Council Members.

Mayor Lindsey Lyons