Votes at a glance: Jackson City Council passes budget amendments, ordinances, annexations and contracts (May meeting)

The Jackson City Council conducted a series of votes on budget amendments, ordinances, annexations, contracts and appointments during its May meeting. Below are the actions the council approved and key details drawn from the meeting record.

Votes at a glance

- Budget amendment: Recognize insurance recovery and appropriate $66,346 for repair of roundabout wall — Motion passed 8–0 (first reading).

- Budget amendment: Transfer $38,500 from Fire Department travel, training and memberships to operating supplies for increased medical supply costs — Motion passed 8–0 (first reading).

- Budget amendment: Transfer $40,500 from City Recorder salaries to IT contractual services to implement TCM enterprise document management system — Motion passed 7–1 (one abstain) (first reading).

- Budget amendment (grant): Recognize $405,433.80 in Tennessee ECD Connected Communities grant funds and appropriate $450,482 for construction and furnishings at the Senior Citizen Center — Motion passed 8–0 (first reading).

- Ordinance (scrivener’s correction): Amend Title 8, Chapter 1, Section 1011 concerning alcoholic beverages to correct a scrivener’s error — Motion passed 8–0 (first reading).

- Budget amendment (donation): Recognize and appropriate a $10,000 donation from Love and Truth Church for a K‑9 officer — Motion passed 8–0 (second reading).

- Budget amendment: Recognize an additional $31,758 reimbursement from West Tennessee Healthcare for ShotSpotter — Motion passed 8–0 (second reading).

- Ordinance: Amend city code relative to sale and use of fireworks — Motion passed 8–0 (second reading).

- Ordinance: Create a cost‑saving incentive program for city employees — Motion passed 8–0 (second reading).

- Annexation and zoning (George White): Annex and zone approximately 30.21 acres north of Garrison Drive and Pinehill Cove to RS2 (single‑family residential) — Motion passed 8–0.

- Annexation and zoning (Joel McAlexander): Annex and zone approximately 3.35 acres at the 300 block of Cooper Anderson Road to RS2 — Motion passed 8–0.

- Annexation and zoning (Harris): Annex and zone approximately 21.6 acres at the southeast quadrant of US Highway 45 Bypass and Highway 45 North to B‑5 (Highway Business) — Motion passed 8–0.

- Rezoning: Rezone property at the northwest corner of McClellan Road and Pleasant Plains Road from RSFH to RS1FH (approximately 38.21 acres) — Motion passed 7–1 (one abstain).

- Contract award: Waypoint Analytical for monitoring the Jackson Madison County Landfill (groundwater testing twice annually per TDEC requirements) — Motion passed 8–0.

- Contract award: Galls LLC for fire department uniform items — Motion passed 8–0.

- Contract award: TLM for design and project management of the Sportsplex Enfield Turf Project (design contract value $255,730; overall project discussed at ~$4,000,000) — Motion passed 8–0.

- Appointments: Housing Commission — Adam Johnson (replace Andrew Massey) and Lee Godfrey (replace Kimberly Goodwin); Recreation and Parks Advisory Board reappointment of Mark Winston — Motions passed 8–0.

Other business: Council read a letter of commendation honoring an officer for actions at a residential structure fire on 04/14/2025. The meeting transcript contains inconsistent naming in the commendation text (the officer is referred to as Christopher Crobat in portions of the record and later as "Provost" in another line); the council read the commendation during the meeting.

The votes above reflect the council's recorded tallies in the meeting transcript. Where the transcript did not name a mover or seconder, the motions are recorded without those names. No measures listed above failed on final recorded votes in this meeting.