Gardendale this week annexed 47 acres in hopes of bringing a major dealership into its city limits.

The Gardendale City Council on Monday annexed part of Mary Buckelew Parkway, just off Interstate 65, into the city.

Barber & Barber Properties LLC recently purchased the site from Jefferson County in order to possibly move Dewey Barber Chevrolet there from Warrior.

“That’s our intent, is to relocate, but we still have a lot of pieces of the puzzle to work out,” said Scott Barber, owner of Dewey Barber Chevrolet.

Barber said GM is pushing the dealership to upgrade its facility.

“We would have to spend a lot of money to upgrade our (Warrior) facility,” he said. “We’re looking at economics. It makes sense for us to spend a little more money and get closer to a metropolitan  area.”

Gardendale Mayor Othell Phillips said the city has not talked with Dewey Barber Chevrolet owners about tax incentives, but he said that offering incentives is a possibility. He said he has been talking with Dewey Barber Chevrolet for several months about a possible move to Gardendale.

“We haven’t negotiated any agreement,” Phillips said, adding that the dealership “will be a great tax generator for the city.”

Phillips said Monday he does not yet know how much tax revenue Gardendale would receive from the dealership. He did say, however, that all Gardendale City Council members signed an agreement with the Jefferson County Commission that the city would not do away with the county’s portion of sales taxes as part of an incentive plan for Dewey Barber Chevrolet.

The move would take a big chunk of sales tax revenue from the city of Warrior.

Warrior officials would not release how much revenue Dewey Barber generates for the city in sales taxes.

Mayor Rena Hudson said Tuesday she has not talked with anyone from the dealership about the business moving.

“We’re going to hate to lose them, if we do,” she said. “If they move, we wish them well.”

Scott Barber said that if it does not work out to move the dealership to Gardendale, his property company would likely use the site for other development.

In other business, the council:

• amended certain provisions of the city’s planned unit development zoning classification. Councilman Alvin Currington said the Planning and Zoning Board and the Appeals and Adjustments Board have been working on the changes for several years “to get these codes to where they should be.”

• re-appointed Euel Fountain and Dr. Truett Guffin to the Planning and Zoning Board and Jerry Swafford, David Erwin and Ginger Smith to the Appeals and Adjustments Board

• hired Rod Hassler as a temporary full-time laborer in the Public Works Department

• hired Joey Hasty as a police officer

• proclaimed May 20-26 as National Public Works Week

• voted to cut the grass at six properties and to assess the charges to the owners

• opened a bid from Aramark Uniforms for jail linens service and a bid from Gardendale Cleaners for police uniforms dry cleaning services. No other bids were submitted, and officials will determine if the bids meet the requirements

• turned the floor over to Magnolia Festival organizer Kathleen Phillips, who presented festival scholarships to 15 north Jefferson students, two volunteer awards and $1,000 checks to two charities: Cornerstone Ranch and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama

The next regular council meeting is June 4, 6 p.m., at Gardendale City Hall.