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Commissioners approve consent items, multiple MOUs and a donated fire truck
Summary
Cocke County commissioners approved several routine consent items, budget transfers, highway department lease extension and multiple memoranda of understanding, and accepted a donated fire truck by roll call votes.
The Cocke County Board of Commissioners approved a series of consent and business-agenda items by roll call during the meeting, including routine approvals, budget transfers and several memoranda of understanding.
Actions recorded in the meeting transcript and approved by roll call include: meeting minutes/agenda approval; renewal of a listed appointment (recorded as "Phyllis v. Douglas" in the transcript); approval of quarterly court and clerk copies; budget transfers and amendments; highway department request to extend the lease for its current office location (lease address recorded in the transcript as "129 East Title 25 B" and noted as reviewed by the county attorney); approval of the highway department's attached inventory changes; an MOU between Cocke County Westcare and the State Historic Preservation Officer regarding alterations to a county memorial building (transcript: "alterations to Cobb County Memorial Bill" — county name normalized here to Cocke County and document description set to "not specified"); approval of policy and procedures for the 2024 disaster home grant; an MOU with the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs; and a resolution accepting donation of a fire truck from a donor in Anderson, New Jersey to a volunteer fire department.
Each item was presented with a motion and second where recorded, followed by a roll-call vote that the transcript records as "yes" from the commissioners present. The roll-call entries in the transcript list the following commissioners as voting "yes" on multiple items: Andy Ford; Bill Miller; Gala Blazer; Jason McMahon; Norman Smith; Tracy Stepp; Jonathan Templin; Jeff Eslinger; Dan Brock; Wilma Ball; Rick Vassar; David Veridahl; Tim Layman; and Billy Hudson. The transcript does not record any roll-call "no" votes for those motions.
The transcript does not include detailed contract terms, ordinance numbers or full text of the MOUs; where the record was unclear or used an inconsistent county name, this article uses the official Cocke County spelling and notes when a description in the record was not specified.
No contested votes or recorded dissents on these items appear in the meeting transcript; most items were approved on voice or roll-call votes with all recorded votes in favor.
