Five-Hour Council Meeting Yields Controversial Decision - Huntsville Business Journal

Five-Hour Council Meeting Yields Controversial Decision - Huntsville Business Journal

The Huntsville City Council’s regular meeting Thursday night turned into a marathon session that lasted for nearly five hours, and one resolution that met with much debate was approved by the slimmest of margins. Representatives for Huntsville, Scottsboro and Athens proposed to form the North Alabama Public Energy District, a cooperative district, which seeks to eventually build a natural gas pipeline to serve cities on the north side of the Ten…