Over 10,000 Signatures Collected on Petition for Hospital

By Donna Bain
Staff Writer

The Carrollton Town Council meeting was held October 7, 2022. Councilman Phillip Trull and Councilman Sherman Mayhew were not in attendance. The meeting began with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. The council voted to approve the minutes with a motion from Councilman Chuck McDaniel and a second from Councilman Freddie Lowe. The council then voted to pay the town’s bills with a motion from Councilman Lowe and a second from Councilman McDaniel.

Mayor Mickey Walker discussed the petition for the hospital. “We have over 10,200 signatures at City Hall,” said Mayor Walker. “We have a meeting set up in Montgomery to present them later this month. We are supposed to meet with the State Finance Committee and the State Treasury. We hope to get Dr. Bill Curry to go with us. They do have two plans in the works to be able to open the hospital. We have to be one of the first ones there to get some of the Alabama Rescue Plan money when it becomes avail- able. The money will be allocated after the first of the year.”