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Votes at a glance: Maury County Commission actions, Jan. 21, 2025
Summary
The commission approved a slate of grant amendments, budget revisions and personnel actions and adopted the county road list and hazard-mitigation plan. The earlier resolution to authorize purchase of 1113 S. Main Street failed.
The Maury County Commission on Jan. 21 approved multiple routine and grant-related items and took other formal actions summarized below. The measure to authorize purchase of 1113 South Main Street for $600,000 (resolution O12524) failed earlier in the meeting; that item is covered separately.
Key approvals (motions and recorded outcomes):
- O12520: Amendment to the Health ELC (formerly CARES) grant — increase of $50,000; budget amended; no local match. Approved (vote recorded as 18 ayes).
- O12527: Amendment to Child Support Office grant to cover officer raises — additional $9,890; budget amended. Approved (18 ayes).
- O12528: Adoption of the 2025 Maury County road list. Approved (18 ayes).
- O12535: Adoption of the 2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan for Maury County (FEMA requirement). Approved (18 ayes).
- O12537: Acceptance of State Crisis Intervention Programs grant for Maury County Juvenile Services — $450,000 to be received over three years for diversion specialist positions; budget amended; no local match. Approved (18 ayes).
- O12539 / O12540: Personnel actions in Animal Services and Juvenile Services — reclassification and updated job descriptions (animal services deputy director to grade 9; creation/adoption of diversion specialist job description tied to grant). Approved (18 ayes for each listed personnel action).
- O12541: Highway Department incentive — $1-per-hour raise for highway employees who obtain and retain a Class A commercial driver's license. Approved (18 ayes).
- O12543: Reclassification of juvenile services intake/resource coordinator position and elimination of a vacant intake research coordinator position. Approved (18 ayes).
- O12544: Adoption of State of Tennessee deferred compensation plan 2 agreement (no cost to the county). Approved (18 ayes).
- O12545: Resolution urging the Tennessee General Assembly to allocate one-half of the real estate transfer tax to the county where collected (recurring). Approved (18 ayes).
- O12546: Amendment to the capital investment program grant to increase the federal portion to $383,200 and adjust time of performance; budget amended. Approved (18 ayes).
- O12547: Multiple Maury County School budget amendments, including recording carryovers and new grant budgets; 3% fund-balance test met. Approved (18 ayes).
Procedural notes: Several consent-agenda items were adopted without roll-call discussion. Where recorded in the meeting, votes were unanimous (18 ayes) for the items above; when commissioners were absent for a particular vote the clerk noted presence/absence before the vote. The earlier purchase resolution (O12524) failed (1 yes, 16 no, 1 abstain). Several amendments proposed during the bookstore discussion — including a motion to require an independent appraisal prior to negotiating an offer — did not receive the two-thirds support necessary to amend the motion and were not adopted.
Ending: Commission business continued after a short recess; the mayor and staff will return any negotiated contracts (if pursued) to the commission for action, and the commission requested follow-up work and reporting for items related to parking and capital projects.
