At its Nov. 20 meeting, the Hamblen County legislative body approved a slate of finance items and a joint resolution with the City of Morristown to seek a Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) transportation planning grant.

Finance Committee Chair Rodney Long presented the 2025 annual inflation adjustment for the Hamblen County and City of Morristown landfill, which the commission approved. The committee also moved multiple budget amendments: a Department of Education amendment read in the meeting as an "increase of $4,000,972 and $972,416" (numbers read verbatim from the motion), a general administration project of $250,310, and a data-processing amendment of $13,021.08; commissioners voted to approve those amendments.

Chair Thomas Doty introduced Resolution 25-25, a joint resolution of Hamblen County and the City of Morristown supporting pursuit of a TDOT transportation planning grant. The commission voted in favor of sending the resolution to the finance committee and then approved it as presented.

Why it matters: The education and other budget amendments adjust county spending authority for the fiscal year and the TDOT planning grant pursuit signals intergovernmental cooperation with Morristown on transportation planning and potential state-funded projects.

What’s next: The county will implement approved budget changes through its finance processes. The joint resolution authorizes the county to pursue the TDOT planning grant; subsequent applications or match commitments would appear at future meetings.

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