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Mount Juliet meeting lacks quorum; three annexation and land-use items deferred to April 28
Summary
The Mount Juliet Board of Commissioners opened a public hearing April 14 listing three ordinance items — two annexations and a land-use plan amendment — but adjourned after determining it did not have a quorum. City code cited requires a majority; the items were rolled to the April 28 meeting.
The Mount Juliet Board of Commissioners opened a public hearing on April 14 that listed three ordinance items — two property annexations and a land-use plan amendment for a senior living site — but the meeting was adjourned after the presiding official said the board did not have a quorum and all business was deferred to the April 28 meeting.
The agenda items read aloud for the public hearing were: an ordinance to annex approximately 6.6 acres at 340 John Wright Road (Map 76, Parcel 54) located inside the city's urban growth boundary; an ordinance to annex approximately 0.5 acre at 9385 Lebanon Road (Map 54 D, Group B, Parcel 1) also inside the urban growth boundary; and an ordinance to amend the land-use plan for property identified on the agenda as “Paddock Senior Weller Life Communities” at 535 Pleasant Grove Road (Map 70, Parcel 70.2.201 and 70.2.205) from "interstate commerce" to "multifamily," the language as shown on the meeting notice.
The presiding official notified attendees that members of the public were invited to comment and that speakers would be recognized for three minutes. The record shows the public hearing was opened and members of the public were invited forward to give their name and address at the podium, but no public comments are recorded in the meeting transcript.
When the commission reconvened for its regular meeting, the presiding official said the city code cited a requirement for a majority of commissioners to be present to establish a quorum. "We only have 2 members of the body here, so we do not have a quorum tonight," the presiding official said. Citing city code 6 22 10, the presiding official announced that the board could not proceed with city business and that everything on the agenda would be carried forward to the April 28 meeting unless a public notice stated otherwise. The presiding official then adjourned the meeting.
No votes, motions, or formal actions on the three listed ordinances are recorded in the transcript. The three items remain scheduled on the city agenda and will be considered at the next meeting on April 28, according to the presiding official's announcement.
Meeting context: the April 14 session included a public hearing notice with three substantive land-use items but produced no deliberation or votes because the board lacked the required quorum. The transcript contains the agenda readings, the public invitation to comment, and the adjournment due to lack of quorum; it does not record any public testimony or staff presentations for the listed items.
