LOXLEY — The Loxley Town Council moved its regularly scheduled meeting Monday from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m. to allow time for the members and audience to attend graduation exercises at Robertsdale High School.

After approving the minutes from the April 9 meeting and paying bills in in the amount of $46,781.57, the council quickly moved through the agenda.

A public hearing on a nuisance violation involving abandoned vehicle at 5189 Relham Drive, was the first item on the agenda, but Loxley Mayor Billy Middleton said the issue had been satisfactory resolved.

Noting that the Loxley Police Department personnel “have been underpaid for some time,” the mayor recommended a 15 percent pay raise for police personnel as well as the dispatchers. The council voted in favor of the pay raise, which will go into effect in June.

In other business, the council:

— Approved a request to send Regina Cason and Kay Hicks to the Alabama Municipal Court Clerk and Magistrate Association annual conference in Orange Beach Sept. 19-22.

— The council voted to enter into a contract with the Blackmon Insurance Agency to provide property and liability insurance to the town for three years at $78,700. Middleton explained insurance for municipalities is very specialized and Blackmon is associated with the Alabama League of Municipalities.

— Voted to participate in the State Sales Tax Holiday. The annual sales tax holiday excludes certain “back-to-school” items bought between the first Aug. 3 and Aug. 5.

— Passed a resolution showing the council has reviewed the Department of Environmental Management Municipal Water Pollution Prevention Program and planned action of several items.

— Agreed to be corporate sponsors for the Loxley Art Council, donating $1,000 to the organization.

— Agreed to donate $1,000 to the Red Cross.

— Approved recommendations from the town’s utilities supervisor, Tommy Hudson and his staff, that bids accepted for vegetation and weed control, the purchase of a fuel tank and to take down dead trees., but tabled any action of road paving.

— Accepted the low bid of $10,942.91 from Hagen Fence Co. to fence the football field.

— Approved the purchase through state bid of a 2008 Ford Expedition for the Loxley Fire Department. The fire department will pay the $26,888. purchase price from its funds.

— Appointed Philip Dembowski to serve a one-year term on the state ad valorem tax appeal board.