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Votes at a glance: Gallatin City Council approves several ordinances, resolutions; EDA pay-scale removal fails
Summary
At the June 17, 2025 Gallatin City Council meeting, the council approved multiple budget and capital items, including funding for a new raw water intake and sanitary sewer additions, authorized a Tyler Technologies cloud agreement and revised personnel pay and classification rules. A motion to remove EDA employees from the city pay scale failed.
At the Gallatin City Council meeting on June 17, 2025, the council approved a set of ordinances and resolutions covering year-end budget clean-up, water and sewer capital projects, software hosting, personnel pay plans and the personnel classification system. Separately, a motion to remove Economic Development Authority (EDA) employees from the city pay-scale framework failed on a roll call, and the original pay-plan revision later passed.
Key actions approved or considered (as read into the record and voted on during the meeting):
1) Minutes approval — Motion to approve minutes from the June 3, 2025 council meeting (motion by Councilman Fan; second by Councilman Jones). Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
2) Ordinance No. 02505-33 — Year-end account cleanup (second reading). Motion to approve (mover/second recorded). Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
3) Ordinance No. 02506-34 — New raw-water intake project. Councilman Fan introduced an ordinance authorizing a total amount of $20,340,000 “from water, sewer, 2025 bond sales, and TDEC ARPA noncompetitive grant” to fund the project. Motion and second were recorded during the meeting; outcome: Approved by voice vote.
4) Ordinance No. 02506-35 — Lock 4 Road sanitary sewer system additions. Ordinance awarding a bid and authorizing funds totaling $1,500,000 from water/sewer reserves for the Lock 4 Road sanitary sewer additions project. Motion to approve by Councilman Jones; second by Councilman Carter. Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
5) Ordinance No. 02506-36 — National Pipe Flow Meter Relocation Project (Contract 02/25). Ordinance awarding bid and authorizing $310,000 from water/sewer reserves for the relocation project. Motion by Councilman Carter; second by Councilman Gervontz. Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
6) Resolution R2505-28 — Tyler Technologies software-as-a-service agreement. Resolution authorizing the mayor to sign an agreement to move municipal justice software to a Tyler-hosted cloud environment. Councilman Gervontz moved the resolution and thanked IT staff for negotiated amendments protecting the city’s interests. Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
7) Resolution R2506-30 — Revise employee pay plans. The council debated a motion to remove EDA employees from the city pay-scale framework. Councilman Gervontz moved to remove the EDA; the motion was seconded to allow discussion. During a roll-call sequence recorded in the transcript, multiple council members responded “No” to the removal; the motion to remove the EDA employees from the pay scale failed. The council then voted on the original revision to the employee pay plans; that revision passed.
8) Resolution R2506-31 — Revise the personnel classification system and update job descriptions. Motion moved and seconded; outcome: Approved by voice vote.
9) Resolution R2506-32 — Amend personnel rules (Rule 4, Section 4-3) to allow departmental hires up to specified steps with HR and mayoral approval within budget parameters. Council members asked the HR director for clarification; the HR director explained “parameters” refer to budgeted salary lines and annual budget decisions (for example, a maximum percentage increase set during budget planning). Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
10) Other business — The council approved a road-closure request for the Trans Am car show in July (closure of North Water Street, Prince to Main, 5:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.). Motion and second recorded; outcome: Approved by voice vote.
Votes and procedure notes: Most final votes on ordinances and resolutions recorded in the transcript were taken by voice vote and were announced as “Aye” with no roll-call tallies provided in the record. The one explicit roll-call sequence documented in the transcript was for the proposed removal of EDA employees from the pay scale; that removal failed and the main pay-plan revision later passed.
Why it matters: The approved capital projects allocate more than $21 million of water and sewer funding and bond or grant resources toward a raw-water intake and local sewer upgrades. The personnel-rule and pay-plan changes alter hiring and compensation parameters for city employees and clarify administrative authority during budget planning. The council’s refusal to remove EDA employees from the pay scale leaves those employees within the city’s pay framework.
