Gulf Shores, Ala. – (OBA) – The city’s annual contract with AirMedCare to provide emergency medical transport for residents and city employees is up for renewal for 2025 and will be considered at the council work session on Nov. 18 at city hall in council chambers.

Gulf Shores first signed up for the service in 2019 and it provides air and ground transport for the residents if one of AirMedCare’s air or ground ambulances is used for transport. The contract for city residents will cost $163,798 and adding the employees will cost $25,740.

Fees for residents will not be going up this year and will remain at a $55 standard rate and $45 for seniors. The first year of the service the costs were $45 and $35.

During the work session, the council will also:

• Hear a presentation from the police department.
• Consider a contract with TischlerBise to study the city’s impact fee ordinance to see if it needs upgrading since is first established in May of 2007. The contract is for $79,560.
• Discuss approving a maintenance agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation for all sidewalks in the city in the right of way for State Route 59. The city and state signed agreements in 2016, 2021 and 2024, but this agreement covers the entire length of the road in the city “which will speed up the permitting process for any future sidewalk installations,” according to a memo from Construction Manager Clint Colvin.
• Consider reappointing Lorenzo Rease to the planning commission for six more years and appointing Cassie Pulliam to the Library Advisory Board to finish out Merileigh Moen’s term. Moen’s term goes through Nov. 1, 2028, and a memo on the agenda said she was moving.
• Discuss declaring a 1997 ladder truck surplus and donating it to the Fort Morgan Fire Department.
• Hear a request to amend the planned unit development for Colonial Traditions to add 106 single-family townhomes and detached homes on 18.4 acres.
• Hear a request to rezone .72 acres at 4137 County Road 6 near Oyster Bay Road.
• Discuss increasing the design contract for the practice pavilion at the new Gulf Shores High School by $159,438 for a total of $8 million.