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Murfreesboro City Council approves rezoning, contracts, grants and equipment purchases
Summary
At its Jan. 16 meeting the Murfreesboro City Council approved a second-reading ethics-code ordinance, a first-reading rezoning for property along Joby Jackson Parkway, multiple contract awards and renewals, grant acceptances and equipment purchases.
Murfreesboro City Council on Jan. 16 approved a package of ordinances, contract awards and budgeted purchases ranging from a rezoning and sewer-allocation variance to vehicle and radio equipment purchases.
The council voted unanimously on a second and final reading of Ordinance 24046, an amendment to the city's ethics code, and conducted a public hearing and first reading on a rezoning request for roughly four acres along Joby Jackson Parkway that would allow an extended-stay hotel. Planning staff said the Commercial Highway zoning requested would permit the hotel and that two adjacent property owners consented to rezoning of their parcels; the council approved the rezoning on first reading.
The council also approved a sewer-allocation variance for a mixed-use development on Greenland Drive, near Middle Tennessee State University, that staff said adds two units of sewer capacity and that water-resources staff confirmed capacity in the basin.
On procurement and contracts, the council approved: - a renewal for the city's brush-and-limb collection contract with Rollins, doing business as RecPro, which staff said will run through Jan. 8, 2026; staff presented the FY25 portion of the expense as $727,350 and said the remainder would be allocated in the FY26 budget; - acceptance of the lowest responsive bid on the Blackman/Burnt Knob/Manson Pike intersection improvement project; city materials presented a bid range from about $4.9 million to $6.7 million and an engineer's estimate of $6 million. Staff read into the record the low-bid figure as "4,000,000 865,978.5¢" and recommended acceptance of that bidder, Hawkins and Price, with a 5% contingency; the contract approval was made subject to legal review. Staff also noted included relocation work for a waterline shown in bid materials as "6 178,886 dollars," with the applicable water utility responsible for part of that cost. - purchase of radio equipment from Motorola for the police department for $396,914, funded in part by the 2022 CIP bond and the department's FY25 operating budget; - amendment No. 1 to the CentralSquare CAD software support agreement, increasing the remaining contract net by $9,207 and converting to an unlimited-license subscription model for future growth, with a 5% annual increase noted for future years; - purchase of two replacement unmarked police vehicles from Allen J Automotive for $73,880, funded from the drug fund; - a contract with CBI Works/Base Solutions to furnish the Murfreesboro Transit Center for $197,284 using Omni Cooperative contracts; - acceptance of a grant under the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program for $360,000 to develop a pedestrian-vehicle crash-reduction action plan, with a city match of $72,000 to be funded through State Street aid; - acceptance of a Public Entity Partners safety grant for roughly $4,000 to buy safety equipment for the fleet and streets divisions; staff said the grant would reduce an approximate $11,000 purchase down to a lower out-of-pocket cost (figures presented in the meeting materials as displayed).
The council also approved routine items on the consent agenda, three regular beer permits and three special-event beer permits, and a series of roll-call votes on the items above. For each item voted during the meeting the roll call recorded the same councilmembers voting in the affirmative: Councilmember Aberwater; Councilmember Gail Harris; Councilmember Maxwell; Vice Mayor Shacklett; Councilmember Wright; and Mayor McFarland.
No members of the public spoke during the rezoning public hearing; the planning commission had recommended approval of the rezoning at its Dec. 4 meeting. Several items approved by the council were noted as subject to legal review or to be funded from specified budget lines or future budgets as presented by staff.
The meeting closed with announcements about road projects coordinated with the Tennessee Department of Transportation, staffing updates for police and fire, and the city opening of a new water resources building at 316 Robert Rose, after which the council moved to an executive session on pending litigation.
