The industrial access road in the Rivercane Development now has a name.

The road’s name, Innovation Parkway, was created by high school students in Escambia County. Two schools — Escambia County High School and Flomaton High School — received $400 checks as a reward for the name at the Atmore City Council meeting Monday night.

Brown Precision Inc., a Huntsville-based aerospace and medical parts manufacturer that’s building a plant in the development, awarded the checks to the schools.

“We wanted it to be something that when everyone moves out here they can enjoy,” Brown Precision CFO and Co-EO Greg Brown said about the road’s name. “We had a contest.”

Brown said the contest’s aim was to educate the students on what Brown Precision is because they’re the company’s future work force.

“We wanted to encourage them to let them know that there’s a reason why they’re taking science and math, and there’s a reason why they’re learning the Pythagorean theorem,” he said. “Hopefully, as time goes by, we’ll have a plan to show them there’s a reason why, how important it is to see things in space and how great of a career it is.”

Brown said they wanted the road name to have a high-tech sound to it.

“We didn’t want anything having to do with our company,” he said. “We wanted every possible company coming out there to say, ‘hey, that’s a great address.’”

Brown said along with his brother Dan, who is the Co-CEO, they just wanted to reach out to the community with this contest because it’s important.

“We want to make a profit like anybody, but the community part of it is what Dan and I have grown to really love,” he said. “It’s what you can do in the community and watching people have careers. It’s a great responsibility. It’s what he and I get a lot of pleasure out of.”

In other business, the council:

• entered into an agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation to install and or operate the maintenance of traffic control signals and or roadway lighting;

• adopted a resolution authorizing Civil Southeast LLC to make an application to ALDOT for sidewalk improvements;

• approved the Concerned Citizens’ use of Houston Avery Park Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. for its Christmas in the Park event;

• approved a retail beer off premises license for Fast Lane on Jack Springs Road;

• approved a proclamation declaring Fri., Dec. 2, as Escambia County Training School Day. The school will have an Alabama historical marker erected. The school was accepted with the Alabama Register of Landmark and Heritage on June 23. This is the first marker that’s been nominated for Atmore.

• adopted a resolution for an agreement between ALDOT and the city for roadway lighting at Highway 21 industrial access road for four poles in front of Jefferson Davis Community College;

• adopted a resolution for a statutory warranty deed from the city to the Poarch Creek Indians and vice versa for a piece of property by Heritage Inn;

• adopted a resolution for an easement from the city to PCI for a utility easement (drainage ditch) at Wind River Road south and Wind River Road north.