The Birmingham City Council approved its consent agenda, authorized two small agreements to support mobile food markets and fresh-produce distribution, and set a public hearing on a proposed text amendment to the city zoning ordinance.

The consent agenda — a package of routine items — was approved by voice vote during the April 15 meeting. Specific items listed on the consent agenda were announced by staff and the council took one motion to approve the package.

Item 13: The council approved a resolution authorizing an agreement with Community Care Development Network in an amount not to exceed $4,000 to provide fresh produce to food-insecure families in underserved areas of the city. The resolution text cited sections of the Code of Alabama 1975; funds were to come from District 9 and District 7 discretionary funds.

Item 15: The council approved a resolution authorizing an agreement with the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in an amount not to exceed $4,000 to implement the UAB Mobile Market (Live Healthy/HealthSmart mobile market) to address lack of convenient, affordable food in underserved communities. Funds were to come from District 7 discretionary funds. Council members noted the mobile market will participate in local events including a district “Love D7” day on April 26.

Item 41: The council approved a resolution setting a public hearing to consider adoption of a proposed text amendment to the city zoning ordinance (case ZAC2020-5-4, amendment number 15133 as read). The resolution as read said the amendment “will affect all properties within the City of Birmingham;” council staff said a redline version of the amendment would be provided next week.

Votes and procedure: All approvals were taken by voice vote; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting transcript. Where the meeting record included a seconder but did not name the mover, the record lists the motion and the outcome as approved by voice vote. The council did not record individual yes/no tallies for these items in the transcript.

Funding notes and follow-up: The resolutions for items 13 and 15 each referenced Code of Alabama 1975 provisions as the legal authority for the agreements and specified the district discretionary funds as the source. Staff noted changes to several consent items earlier in the meeting (amount adjustments and account numbers) and identified one consent item withdrawn from the list.