Enterprise city council approves stop sign on accident-prone street

By Kelly Tabor

Published: August 6, 2008

Keayana Minus lives on the corner of West Adams and Mack Streets in Enterprise, where two different vehicles plowed into her home just 10 days apart in July.

Minus asked Enterprise Police Chief T.D. Jones to appeal to the Enterprise City Council Tuesday night to put up a three-way stop sign at the intersection.

“A car lost control and hit the house, knocking over the columns on the porch,” said Jones. “Then someone on a stolen motorcycle ended up on her front yard.”

The problematic intersection, just north of College Street, is made worse by a curving hill on Adams Street which causes drivers to speed up.

“Some of these rookies drive like it’s the Indy 500,” said Councilman William Cooper. “I want to remind everyone that school is in and please observe the speed limits.”

Jones said city engineers should have the stop sign up and warning signs posted within a few days.

In other business, the council heard a request from Capt. Paul Daigle who wants to hold a back-to-school event called the “Barnyard Olympics” on Tuesday, Aug. 26 in Henderson Park. Daigle and other Fort Rucker captains will organize the teen-oriented event with all proceeds going to Enterprise High School. Daigle said the event will feature games, a hay bale tossing contest, a pizza pie eating contest, and a concert which will be free to all 2007 through 2009 graduates, but will cost the general public $5.

“We want to do this as a weekday event because a lot of these guys don’t have much time to spend with family except on the weekends, and I don’t want to take that away from them,” said Daigle, who recently returned from his second deployment to Iraq.

The council approved a declaration of elections because incumbent candidates Mayor Kenneth Boswell, Councilman Wallace “Al” Miller, Jr. from District 4 and Councilman J. Paul Russell from District 5 all were unopposed in this month’s election.

The council also approved an agreement to hire Ashley C. Pastor as a consultant at the request of City Clerk Steven Hicks. Pastor would be hired to rewrite the job descriptions of city employees including police officers and sanitation workers to determine if employees are earning fair pay for this market. The consultant, who should begin work next January, will earn $50 per hour but no more than a total of $2,700.

The council approved an ABC request for Bel Vino wine bar, which will be relocating early next year just north of the Rawls hotel on Main Street.

Several contract billings which total more than $69,000 were also approved by the council. They included Civic Center/Senior Center construction projects, a Highway 84 bypass lighting project, the Salem/Hickman Road ALDOT project and the City of Enterprise Web site hosting fee.