Council sets deadline for construction of Madison Branch Blvd, adds ARPA funds for Public Safety Annex

MADISON – The Nov. 12 Madison City Council meeting had a heavy focus on road improvement measures.

Among those measures were the approval of a professional services agreement for the installment of an inclinometer and periodic of monitoring of slope stability on the Hughes Road bridge.

Temple J Electric, LLC was awarded the bid for the installation of traffic lights at the intersection of Burgreen Road and Hardiman Road, and the council authorized a professional services agreement for engineering design services on the intersection of Browns Ferry Road and Sullivan Street.

In preparation for the new elementary school that the city broke ground on the last week of October, an agreement was approved for infrastructure work on Madison Branch Boulevard, Segers Road, and Maecille Road.

“Under this agreement, the parties are committing to have this road work done by June 2026 in time for the opening of the new elementary school in August of 2026,” explained city attorney Megan Zingarelli.

The city is currently in an agreement with the Madison Board of Education and the developer of the Madison Branch subdivision to together extend Madison Branch Boulevard from Hardiman Road to Segers Road.

The agreement approved at the November 12 council meeting concerned the connecting of Madison Branch Boulevard to Maecille Road and included the addition of turn lanes from Maecille onto Segers. The Madison Board of Education is reimbursing the city up to $2 million dollars for work done on this section of the road project.

“This is a really good partnership, I think, between us and the schools, and being out there, it’s a beautiful area. It’ll help get people there, you know, across east to west or west to east, whichever way you want to go,” commented council president John Seifert.

The council also accepted federal funding in the amount of $500,000 in ARPA funds from Madison County for the new Public Safety Annex in Town Madison.

“Huge thank you to the county. That’s Chairman McCutcheon [and] Steve Haraway. This, obviously, goes towards the next one and which, we’ll support that and use as that $500,000 and the rest of our ARPA funds to be used first in the Public Safety Annex,” said Mayor Paul Finley.

In a separate agreement, the council proceeded to award Dunlap Contracting, Co. a $4 million bid for the renovation of the Public Safety Annex and construction of Fire Station 4.

The next city council meeting will be held Nov. 25 at 6 p.m. at Madison City Hall, 100 Hughes Road. Work sessions will be held Nov. 20 and Dec. 4 at 5:30 p.m. The Dec. 4 work session will be held at the new Madison Community Center on Browns Ferry Road rather than city hall.