“I believe the best course is to simply turn the page once again and work toward a solution. One door closes, another opens.”

And with those words from Mayor Hoyt Sanders, the Pinson City Council unanimously approved a motion Friday night to cut its 25-year-old ties with the Alabama Butterbean Festival and move to organize a new event in its place.

The action came after the Clay-Pinson Chamber of Commerce — the group contracted with by Pinson to run the Butterbean Festival for the past 15 years — announced on Facebook this week that it was shutting down the festival, adding that the Pinson Council was no longer supporting the chamber. That assertion has been denied by Sanders and by Mayor Pro Tem Dawn Tanner, who had questioned chamber leadership in a February council meeting about the annual appropriation the city provided for the event.

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Sanders said that a new event, tentatively titled the Main Street October Festival, would be created by the city as a replacement. A special-called meeting of the council will be held Thursday to hash out plans.

The council’s move was almost anti-climactic, given the rancor that filled social media after the chamber’s cancellation. But Tanner had some pointed parting words for festival managers.

“Shame on the Clay-Pinson Chamber of Commerce for backstabbing us. I’m sorry I have to say that,” Tanner said. “It doesn’t matter how it came about. We asked to look at their books, and they didn’t like it. So they stomped their feet and are shutting everything down. … When the time came to ask them questions, they didn’t like it.”

Sanders previously said that the city was blindsided by the chamber’s action, which was made public while Sanders, Tanner and one other councilor were attending the National League of Cities meeting in Washington, D.C.

The chamber has since had nothing public to say about the cancellation. BirminghamWatch has made several attempts to talk with Executive Director Ronnie Dixon about the issue, without success.

The Butterbean Festival was first held in 2006 by the Palmerdale Homestead Community Center. It made headlines in 2010 by cooking a huge pot filled with 1,010 pounds of butterbeans — setting a Guinness World Record in the process. Shortly after that, the city contracted with the chamber to manage the event, which had sponsored it ever since.