The Town of Hope Hull, Alabama

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Incorporation Update – June 30, 2026

VOTE JULY 14, 2026
at REVIVING MINISTRIES

🧪 July 10, 2026

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Your Hope Hull Incorporation Council is extremely pleased to share this information with you.  We all (the council and many community supporters) have been working months now to get to this election.  It truly has been a community effort; and your hard work and support have paid off.  Now, the voters will decide the future of our community.  The Montgomery County election office (of the County Probate) has tentatively set the date and time for our incorporated area citizens to vote on Hope Hull’s future.  While it is not yet definitively locked in, as there are several details we continue to work out with them to ensure this is when the vote will happen, we are confident enough in this time and location that we decided to share it.  Details we are still working on include a Memo of Agreement and accepting Fiscal responsibility for the election—we (the petitioners) must fund the cost — but believe it is most likely this will be the date.  We currently believe this is the day WE decide the future of Hope Hull.  

Therefore, we need your help more now than ever.  Talk to your neighbors.  Make sure everyone understands what’s at stake and who can vote.  Ensure each eligible ‘yes’ voter finds the few minutes it will take June 30th to stop by our polling location to cast their ballot.  The time has come.  We can choose to represent ourselves, with our friends and neighbors that we elect to determine the future of our community…..OR….we can stand by and watch as other entities impose their desires and their will on what was once the community we called Hope Hull. 

Important Note:
We also need to begin identifying who will serve as the mayor and the initial five council members. These individuals must be selected from the town-at-large, as required by Code of Alabama, 1975,

EMPOWERING OUR COMMUNITY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

And finally, as a reminder; IF the vote to incorporate is successful, there will be another election in a few months to select a Mayor and 5 Town Council representatives.  Like the voters in this yes/no vote, the mayor/council must come from the town limits.  So, be thinking about who you’d like to see in these positions and let’s select the best of us as our representatives.  Then, once these folks are in place, our annexation initiative can ensure each one of us in the larger Hope Hull area who prefers Hope Hull over other municipal entities that may well ‘gobble us up’ can petition the Hope Hull Town Council to annex into the newly established municipality. The following article provides an update to the Hope Hull Incorporation initiative.  It appeared in the recent edition of the Pintlala Ledger.

IF town residents vote to establish the town, then setting up town government begins. First, we must elect a mayor and five council representatives.  They become the town’s governing body and will establish city processes and procedures to include town government structure, services, ordinances, and financial management.  One of the most important authorities this group also sets up is planning and zoning—local control over what may come into our our community.  This one factor is a key driver behind this effort. The realistic choices are creating our own town having local zoning authority or we stand by and allow another town (where we have no representation) zone the area we call home. Significantly, the representatives MUST live within the town boundaries.  They are not paid positions. They, based on the desires of those who elect them, will decide how the new town is governed and managed. Also, significantly, once the mayor/council is established, the town may grow through annexation, which potentially includes many of us, if we so choose. Those of us who want to be in the Hope Hull town simply petition to annex, and a council vote allows annexation. Pike Road gives a notable example of how this process might work in Hope Hull, allowing rapid growth in a short time.  For the majority reading this update, this offers a way, if you so choose, to become part of this newly established town—and prevent acquisition by another nearby city you would rather not be governed by……all by the people, for the people. Your choice.

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Consider donating to the Hope Hull Inc. Initiative Fund. Checks can be dropped off at Mosley’s Store or sent to the listed phone numbers. Please make checks payable to: Hope Hull Incorporation.

For additional information regarding the Hope Hull Incorporation please contact

Austin Overman – 334-312-3225 hopehullal@gmail.com

Your Municipality and you!

FAQ

WHY IS NOW THE TIME TO INCORPORATED TOWN?

The City of Montgomery plans to absorb Hope Hull: 

  • They’ve expanded their city limits already.  Even call the “PJ” their ‘planning jurisdiction’. 
  • They’ve grown their budget by taking our farmland.  AND they want more. 
  • How do you feel about Montgomery’s leadership and management?
  • Do they have Hope Hull’s best interest in mind?  Are they good stewards?
  • Just drive the bypasses—Southern, Northern, Eastern or West.  See the abandoned store fronts, acres and acres of land they could develop–sitting vacant.  But they want ours. 
  • Did you know Montgomery has more land than Denver, Tampa, & Las Vegas?
    • Police, Fire, and Maintenance city services already stretched too thin
    • Yet they want more
  • Daily shootings.  Innocent people shot in their cars on city streets. And they are coming! 

DO WE WANT MONTGOMERY RUNNING HOPE HUL?  OR IS IT ENOUGH?

It’s time to form our own town, elect leaders from among our neighbors, and stand against a city that doesn’t value our way of life. Don’t we want local leadership—people who cherish our small town, our farmland, and our country lifestyle—or do we want more of Montgomery?

IT’S TIME FOR HOPE HULL TO STAND UP. 

It will take a lot of work.  It will take all of us.  But let’s pass the HOPE we know and love to our children and grandchildren. 

Here is what it takes to get it done:

  • Present a map—boundaries for the initial town
  • Have a surveyor prepare a legal property description of the town’s boundaries
  • Have 300 residents in a contiguous community; with landowners on-board
  • Gather signed petitions and required affidavits
  • Present these to the Probate Judge
  • Hold election (all the above to GET TO a vote—where the majority rules)
  • AND, SIGNIFICANTLY:  All of Hope Hull is affected, not just those in the initial formation area.  If you are outside the initial proposed town area, you can annex in once the town forms.  For others within the area the benefit is the Town of Hope Hull will form a barrier between you and the City of Montgomery.  Please read all the information provided in this site carefully.  Talk with your neighbors.  Join us as we stand up for rural living, a slower pace of life, rolling pastures, and the continued safety afforded country living..

We can vote to control our future—or let the City of Montgomery do it for us.

What do we need you to do?

  1.  Read through the pros/cons.  Support the HOPE HULL Incorporation initiative.
  2. Spread the word
    1. Volunteer to call/visit your neighbors—let’s inform everyone!
    2. Pass out flyers
    3. Make sure everyone knows about upcoming meetings and votes
  3. Sign the petition/affidavits; encourage everyone to sign the petition and drop them off at Mosley’s Store
  4. It will take us ALL
  5. STOP MONTGOMERY FROM ABSORBING HOPE HULL
  6. OUR FARMS, OUR FREEDOMS, OUR FUTURE
  7. A FUTURE OF HOPE