Just as it already does for most other municipalities countywide, the Cullman County Sales Tax and Revenue Enforcement Department will serve as the collecting agency for the half-cent sales tax set to take effect at Garden City.

In what amounts to a necessary formality, the Cullman County Commission signed off this week on the county sales tax department picking up sales tax counting duties on Garden City’s behalf.

Garden City’s town council directly approved a half-cent sales tax increase measure at its Sept. 17 regular meeting.

In other business at its regular meeting this week, the commission:

– Approved road resurfacing and striping along two county roads as part of an in-kind economic incentive for a to-be-announced capital improvement project at an existing local business.

– Approved a $196,000 youth services grant agreement for FY 2019, with no matching contribution required by the county.

– Approved the 2019 North Alabama Highway Safety Office grant for the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office.

– Granted a request from Garden Brothers Circus to use the Cullman County Agricultural Center as the venue for a Sept. 28 circus event.

– Approved a $15,000 expenditure, in agreement with the City of Hanceville, for the county’s contribution toward creek maintenance of Mud Creek.

– Approved the settlement of two separate lawsuits against local businesses delinquent on their sales tax payments.

– Approved an order for 14 buses for the Cullman Area Rural Transportation System (CARTS), eight of which will replace buses damaged in the March hail storm, and six of which will replace fleet buses slated for retirement.

– Approved a $7,578 payment to Gorrie-Regan & Associates for time clock maintenance.

– Surplussed a copier/scanner from the Probate office.

– Approved the plat proposal for the Hart’s Cove Subdivision located along County Road 2023.

– Approved a bond extension for the developer of the Stillhouse Point Subdivision along County Road 71.

Benjamin Bullard can be reached by phone at 256-734-2131 ext. 145.