As a professional services contract it does not have to be competitively bid, which was the primary question people had in their mind. Do we have to bid this out, or can this contract be awarded to this company?

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Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The birding trails are in the same category, ... We need to use our natural resources. We need to play the cards we have.

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It may well be an issue the council wants to address tomorrow evening in the formal session. We do have, on Thursday evening, a budget work session to try and finalize as much as we can.

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This is a command that's being relocated here. That's very permanent because it's hard to relocate those. That could be a big thing down the road.

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So far in BRAC we've been all about Redstone. If this goes through, we'll be all about Decatur.

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If the president signs it and Congress approves, we could get as many as 150 families.

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Obviously 1 October is within that 30-day period. The earliest we could do it and protect those individuals retirement benefits would be 1 November.

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