OXFORD
The Oxford City Council committed $1.8 million to the owner of Quintard Mall Tuesday to help cover some of the expense of removing the PCBs found in the soil of the mall parking lot several years ago.
Grimmer Realty in Birmingham owns the Quintard Mall. It cost the company more than predicted to have concrete poured over the creek behind the mall where the PCBs were found, Councilman Johnny Bentley said. Some 80,000 cubic yards of PCB-laced soil was removed from the area.
The cost to clean up the area was out of anyone's control, Bentley said.
"If they didn't really need it I feel they would not have asked," Oxford Mayor Leon Smith said.
The council had previously given Grimmer Realty $3 million to help with expenses, but that wasn't enough, Smith said. The additional $1.8 million will be paid out in two installments over the next eight months.
In other business, the council rescinded a resolution it adopted several weeks ago that established a due-process procedure for law enforcement. The council said it already had a procedure in place and didn't need to adopt another resolution.
