I hope everyone had a great week. We accomplished a great deal last week, here are just a few of the highlights.

We are excited to have Gabe Kuenzli on board in the Mayor’s office as a second Communications Specialist. Along with Samantha Magnuson, Gabe will work to push out as much information and good news as possible to our Madison Community.

My week started off with five students from St. John’s Catholic School who brought breakfast to support their Community Appreciation Day. St. Johns does this each year, and we truly appreciate them.

Later that day we were visited by a group of Government managers from Turkmenistan to learn more about our government structure. This was sponsored by Global Ties and was truly a learning experience for us too.

Chris Lund met with Alabama Pool Kings and the diving coach from Madison Swim Association in follow up to a request that had been made to make sure our diving boards were aligned correctly. We were aligned as needed….thanks to Chris for going the extra mile!

Our Court team had a large docket and busy week, opening 57 cases, closing 122, and issuing 46 warrants.

Our Building team shared that the permitting division issued 98 permits, issued 84 permits, and the inspection division performed 272 inspections last week.

Code Enforcement performed 8 inspections/re-inspections, created 10 cases, and picked up 12 signs in the R.O.W.

Our Fire Marshall’s office shared that they permitted 10 new construction inspections this week and they have now completed 112 in FY23.

The Firefighter application process ended last week and we are excited to have 89 applicants in the cue.

Our Madison Fire and Rescue Community Risk Reduction Program is in full swing with our Madison City Schools 3rd graders. Phase 1 is complete with 43 classes and 826 students involved…..great job MFR!

MFR also shared they responded to 112 incidents, 73 of which were EMS related.

Our Public Works team stayed busy all week on multiple projects. One that stretched multiple days was continued sidewalk repair on HIghland Drive.

Our IT team was busy and shared that 58 work orders were submitted to I.T. along with multiple calls and walk-ins. In addition, they completed updating the city’s network monitoring software to the latest version.

Recreation shared that Youth Volleyball registration is ending this week.
There are 190 participants in the spring league, the most we ever had registered. In addition, registration for Summer Day Camp has begun.  Staff is in the process of planning the 2023 camp.

MARS completed 178 trips this week.

Our Madison Police team responded to 1051 calls for service during the week.

Chief Gandy, Sgt. Ralph Dawe and Sgt. Tanner Ward attended a planning meeting with Chief Bailey, members of the Madison Fire Department,and Dr. West from Madison City Schools for an upcoming emergency management exercise that will be conducted later in spring of 2023 centered around a school bus crash with mass casualties.

Our City Prosecutor Tim McFalls handled 86 municipal court and 10 circuit court cases this week.

I had a great meeting with our new Madison County Commission Chairman, Mac McCutchen. We discussed multiple areas of support including the MPO, roads, Community Center, and public safety.

Lastly, I had a great meeting with our Madison County District 2 Commissioner Steve Haraway. Steve continues to support multiple departments throughout our city and he is constantly looking out for us.

As I close, I again want tell each of you how much we appreciate your focus and efforts. Our city continues to shine….thank you for all that you do for our citizens and employees. Let’s have another great week!