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Committee recommends approval of consent package including multiple grants and a special‑event ordinance; one contract amendment withdrawn
Summary
The Public Health & Safety Committee recommended approval of a consent agenda that included several grant appropriations and an ordinance creating a temporary special event zone for CMA Fest; the committee recorded a 9‑0 vote for the consent package and separately recorded the withdrawal of a contract amendment item.
The committee moved and recommended approval of a consent agenda containing multiple grant resolutions and an ordinance related to CMA Fest. The consent agenda was recorded 9 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting.
Items listed on the consent agenda included:
- RS 2025‑11‑404: Resolution accepting a Summer Jobs Connect grant from Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to the Metropolitan Action Commission for a comprehensive financial empowerment program (detailed funding amounts not specified in packet). - RS 2025‑11‑145: Resolution appropriating Martha O'Brien Center Tennessee implementation grant funds to the Metropolitan Action Commission for collaboration on direct services and capacity building (amounts not specified). - RS 2025‑11‑408 (transcribed as RS 20 20 5‑11‑408): Resolution appropriating $110,000 from the community safety fund for a grant to the Nashville Anti‑Human Trafficking Coalition to support victim services (rescues, assessments, intervention, addiction and trauma recovery). - RS 2025‑11‑502: Resolution accepting an Emergency Management Performance Grant from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency to subsidize the Office of Emergency Management program (amount not specified). - RS 2025‑11‑154: Resolution approving an application for a Project Safe Neighborhoods grant from the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, Office of Criminal Justice Programs to MNPD to reduce gun‑related violence by funding overtime for investigations (amounts not specified). - BL 2025‑782 (bill on second reading): Ordinance designating portions of Downtown Nashville as a temporary special event zone from 06:00 on 06/04/2025 to midnight on 06/09/2025 for CMA Fest and related activities.
Committee members also considered RS 2025‑11‑153, an amendment to a contract between Metro and Bridal Health Cooperative clinical personnel for MNPD; that item was withdrawn from the agenda at the committee's request and the committee approved the motion to withdraw.
Committee chair recorded the consent recommendation; no individual roll call on each consent item was transcribed. The committee then moved to subsequent agenda business.
