Improvement Projects on city budget

The Mountain Brook City Council adopted the city’s fiscal 2013 budge of $31,273,758 at its September 24 meeting. According to City Manager Sam Gaston, the budget increases revenues by 1.2 percent over last year and projects $508,000 surplus.

The budget includes funds for the following projects:

• Sidewalk projects including Phase 6, Safe Routes and Lakeshore Parkway and Montevallo Road crossings of Highway 280
• A footbridge on Mountain Brook Parkway just north of Watkins Branch, to be completed in conjunction with the Lakeshore Drive
• $270,000 in funding for Cahaba River Park
• A survey of residents about future garbage pickup and other city services
• Renovations of the dorm section of Fire Station Number 2 at Overton Road
• Drainage projects around Heathermoor  Road and Cambridge Roads and at Northcoat Drive
• New traffic signals at Beechwood Road and Overbrook Road
• Replacing computers at the Emmet O’Neal Library
• Paving and landscaping the lot next door to the Emmet O’Neal Library.