At Monday’s Wetumpka City Council meeting, the council approved the sale of two lots at River Town Center.
City leaders said a restaurant is coming to one and a children’s indoor event facility to the other.
“This makes me happy that we put a development together, then present the lots and they are selling,” Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis said. “It’s going to be beneficial to the City of Wetumpka for years to come.”
The city purchased the property about a year ago and began designing a development.
“The sale of the property will cover our investment in the development,” Willis said. “Then the city will see the benefit of sales tax revenue when the businesses open.”
Willis and other city officials said announcements about what businesses are coming will be released in the future. Willis said he anticipates construction to start in the next two months.
At the council meeting, change orders were approved to accommodate the sales. One was combining lots to create a lot of about three acres. Another was bringing power to a lot being sold. The last was to work with ALDOT to create larger radius turn-ins into the development to allow for truck traffic.
A preliminary engineering agreement between the city and state was approved by the council for sidewalk and parking improvements along portions of Tallassee Street. The sidewalk project could be funded by an ALDOT TAP grant if approved. The entire project is being designed together in hopes it can be bid as one larger project.
In other action the Wetumpka City Council:
• Approved minutes of the March 17 meeting.
• Approved a contract with Elmore County E911 and the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office for Southern Software. It will allow approved police officers access to a phone app to monitor the CAD system at dispatch.
• Approved the Farm City Festival to be hosted by the Elmore County Extension Office on Oct. 24 at the Farmer’s Market.
• Approved Linda Presson hosting an Easter Egg hunt at the Farmer’s Market on April 20.
• Approved EAA Chapter 822 to host a Young Eagles Event with Elmore County JROTC at the Wetumpka Municipal Airport on April 26.
• Approved The Kelly Fitzpatrick Center for the Arts to host Wildlife Arts Festival on Oct. 25.
The next meeting of the Wetumpka City Council is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, April 21.
