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PBA chair apologizes, committee debates PBA role and appointments

Rutherford County Property Management Committee · February 26, 2026
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Summary

Gary Wischnewski, chairman of the citizen Project Building Authority (PBA), apologized publicly to Mark Klein and defended the PBA’s nonpolitical role; the committee discussed how and when the PBA is used, statutory appointment rules, and agreed mayoral appointments will go to steering committee before full commission confirmation.

Gary Wischnewski, who identified himself as chairman of the Project Building Authority, opened a presentation to the Property Management Committee by apologizing for remarks made after the last steering committee meeting and by defending the PBA’s role.

"If it was taken that way, I truly apologize," Wischnewski said, adding that the PBA was established in the 1990s as a volunteer oversight body to help watch county construction projects and that it is not politically motivated. He asked that, when the…

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