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Bolivar council backs West Tennessee juvenile detention center, approves rezoning and tax-payment ordinance
Summary
The Bolivar City Council met for its regularly scheduled January session and approved several items that the mayor and council said are intended to address local public‑safety, economic‑development and resident‑service concerns.
The Bolivar City Council met for its regularly scheduled January session and approved several items that the mayor and council said are intended to address local public-safety, economic-development and resident-service concerns.
The council voted to adopt a resolution supporting creation of a comprehensive juvenile rehabilitation and detention center in West Tennessee, held a first reading to rezone 203 Union Street from R‑1 (residential) to B‑1 (neighborhood business), and advanced an ordinance to allow partial payments on real property taxes. Council members also approved allocating $50,000 from economic-development funds to launch a youth council program that will appoint eight students for two-year terms to observe council activity and propose projects.
Why it matters: Council members described the juvenile-detention resolution as a request to state lawmakers to expand local capacity for housing juveniles charged with violent crimes until court…
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