Sand Mountain Reporter

Four property owners didn’t get their wish to be out of Albertville.

The City Council on Monday rejected four landowners’ requests to be deannexed, which was required for their property to be put in Boaz.

Billy Wayne King, Jonathan and Michelle Sanders, Jonathan and Candice Smith and James and Lori Wise asked the city to deannex their land on Henderson Road and off Fuller Road.

It was a 4-1 vote, with council President Diane McClendon, President pro tem Randy Amos and Councilmen Kerry NeSmith and Doug Wood voting against deannexation.

Councilman Chuck Ellis voted for it.

“The one thing I thought we needed to do was to square up the city limits,” Ellis said after the meeting.

Ellis said he didn’t want to start a precedent of deannexation to help people who simply don’t want to be in the city limits, or who need deannexation to help sell a house to somebody who wants it to be in another city.

“If you look at our city limits, it looks as jagged as a serrated knife,” Ellis said. “I don’t know that in four years we could square it up completely, but we could get started doing something.”

The council voted unanimously Monday to extend by 90 days a $500,000 loan agreement with BancorpSouth for construction of the proposed aviation college building at Albertville Regional Airport.

The loan has a 3.8 percent interest rate and will be reimbursed by state funds that should be available before the 90 days is complete.

Council members also approved the $25,400.32 bid of Montgomery’s Gulf States Distributors for 32 Tasers to be used by the police department, and the $21,925 bid by Noble Sign Co. of Anniston, which will construct the new lighted sign at the airport.

Both bids will be repaid by grants.

Lyons and the council also declared March as American Red Cross Month. Amos presented a certificate to Judy Rhea.

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