Auburn City Council unanimously approved the process of renaming Mike Hubbard Boulevard during their Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday night.

The process now moves to the Planning Commission, and the Council will vote on a name change at their May 19 meeting.

The Alabama Supreme Court upheld six ethics convictions against Hubbard on April 10. Hubbard was convicted of 12 felony ethics charges in 2016, being sentenced to four years in prison. In 2018, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld 11 of the 12 original charges.