Tag: Birmingham City Council

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  The City Council voted Tuesday on an agreement with the Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) to use federal grant...

By Erica Wight The Birmingham Times The Birmingham Promise Initiative, launched this summer to build pathways into quality jobs for Birmingham City School (BCS) students, came...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  Birmingham city leaders on Tuesday asked for continued prayers for a 4-year-old shot in the Marks Village housing community, and...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  More than two months after Mayor Randall Woodfin presented his fiscal 2020 budget and three weeks after the fiscal year...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  Mayor Randall Woodfin said Tuesday he wanted to put out “factual” information regarding the Birmingham Promise Education Initiative, launched earlier...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  The Birmingham City Council will consider limiting the number of new self-storage facilities in downtown because they take up a...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Birmingham City Councilor Steven Hoyt on Tuesday suggested that the city call in the National Guard to deal with crime....

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times The Birmingham City Council voted Tuesday for the city to purchase for $50,000 the former Ensley High School, which has...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Residents and representatives from Birmingham nonprofit organizations went before city officials last week to ask for funding in Mayor Randall...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday proposed a $451 million fiscal 2020 budget that includes a focus on neighborhood revitalization...