Priceville council approves minutes, bills and several travel/training expenses

The council approved routine administrative items including the minutes from the Feb. 23 work session and council meeting and payment of outstanding bills. Motions to approve the minutes and the bills were made, seconded and approved by voice vote.

The council also approved several travel and training expenditures: $300 plus travel expenses for Shannon Wiesner and Cindy Livingston to attend a municipal court magistrate seminar on May 1 in Madison; $510.16 plus travel for attendance at a new chief development seminar in Anderson; travel to a professional background-investigation training in Birmingham on May 21 for Chief Jason Wigginton, Assistant Chief Jason Wilbanks and Sergeant Brad Summers; $1,456.40 in hotel expense and $1,350 registration plus travel for internal affairs certification in Hoover (March 30–April 3); and $701.75 hotel expense and $550 registration to attend the National Homicide and Death Investigation Conference in Franklin, Tennessee. Each of these items was moved, seconded and approved during the meeting.

These approvals were procedural and did not include additional discussion of the underlying personnel matters. No final vote or follow-up reporting timetable was provided in the transcript for the routine expenditures beyond the council's affirmative approvals recorded in the meeting.