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Williamson County asks state lawmakers to let sale proceeds return to county oversight; debate over independent counsel continues
Summary
The Williamson County Commission voted to ask the Tennessee General Assembly to permit county oversight of proceeds from any sale of Williamson Health and provisionally approved hiring outside M&A counsel amid conflict concerns. Commissioners debated transparency, legal conflicts and who should control sale proceeds.
The Williamson County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to ask the Tennessee General Assembly to carve out a local exception allowing proceeds from a possible sale of Williamson Health to be returned to county oversight rather than routed automatically to a private foundation. The board also provisionally approved a temporary outside counsel engagement at $900 an hour to advise the county on potential transactions.
Commissioner Greg Lawrence, a lead sponsor of the measure, said taxpayers own much of the hospital’s physical plant and deserve a say if proceeds from any sale could be diverted away from county oversight. "If the county owned property sells, do those proceeds come back to the county, the taxpayers' representatives, or does it go to a private foundation whose board is unelected and unaccountable?" he asked.
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