Pine Level marks 2 years with Town Hall grand opening

Two years after a 59-43 vote made Pine Level Autauga County’s fourth municipality, the town opened a permanent Town Hall at 121 County Road 40 East, giving its young government a place for council meetings, the mayor’s office and day-to-day town business. The grand opening and ribbon-cutting on Sept. 26, 2025, marked more than a building milestone. It showed how far Pine Level had moved from incorporation to a recognizable seat of local government.

The new hall was remodeled from a home and now houses the mayor and town clerk’s office, council chambers and a meeting space in the heart of downtown. Before that, town leaders had been meeting at the Pine Level Volunteer Fire Department and at a church. That makes the new address a practical shift for residents who now have a single place to bring questions, find meeting information and handle the business of a town that is still shaping how it serves the public.

Pine Level’s incorporation path began with the Sept. 26, 2023, vote that residents now mark as the town’s birthday. Judge Kim Kervin formally declared the town incorporated on Oct. 17, 2023, and Zachary Bigley and five at-large council members were sworn in on Dec. 11, 2023. Since then, Pine Level has worked to build the basic structure of municipal government. The town lies along U.S. Route 31 about 18 miles northwest of Montgomery, with Pine Level Elementary School inside the town and Marbury High School nearby. Law enforcement remains with the Autauga County Sheriff’s Office, while the volunteer fire department dates to 1972.

The town has also started building a fiscal base. In 2024, Pine Level passed a sales, fuel and lodging tax package, one of the first steps a new municipality takes when it begins to operate beyond incorporation alone. At the Town Hall opening, Stacy Little, chairman-elect of the Prattville Area Chamber of Commerce, said the moment reflected hard work, determination and dedication. Bigley said Pine Level had tried to incorporate about two decades earlier before finally succeeding in 2023.

For Pine Level, the new Town Hall signaled that incorporation had become more than a vote and a set of names on paper. The town now has a fixed place for public decisions, resident access and official business, and the next test will be whether that physical home translates into fuller local services.