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Commissioners defer decision on creating Bedford County budget committee pending legal review
Summary
A proposal to create a five-member budget committee under the Tennessee Financial Management Act prompted heated debate about bylaws and county authority; commissioners voted to defer action for 30 days while seeking additional legal opinions.
Bedford County commissioners voted to delay action on a proposal to create a separate five-member budget committee under the Tennessee Financial Management Act after a wide-ranging discussion about state law and the county’s bylaws.
The proposal — discussed at the March committee meeting after a County Attorney opinion was read into the record — would establish a budget committee that could assume certain budget-preparation functions described in Tennessee Code Annotated §5-21-104 and §5-21-105. The committee discussion produced competing views about whether a new special committee would supplant or simply supplement existing standing committees and…
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