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Franklin County commission approves budget amendments, joins state electronic‑monitoring program and accepts veterans plot donation
Summary
At its Oct. 21 meeting, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved multiple budget amendments including school and general fund adjustments, agreed to participate in Tennessee's Electronic Monitoring Indigency Fund (EMIF), and accepted a donation of two cemetery plots to assist indigent veterans.
Franklin County commissioners on Oct. 21 approved a package of budget amendments, adopted a resolution to participate in the state’s Electronic Monitoring Indigency Fund and accepted a donation of two cemetery plots to help indigent veterans.
Chairman and County Mayor David Alexander opened the meeting and the board first approved routine items including the Sept. 16 minutes and the Finance Director’s August revenue and expenditure reports. The body then moved to several budget actions. Commissioner David Eldridge moved to adopt Resolution 10a‑1019, an amendment to the General Fund and Library Fund budgets that incorporates supplemental state and federal grant receipts and other routine adjustments; Dale Schultz seconded and the resolution passed on a roll‑call vote, 13‑0.
The commission also voted 13‑0 to adopt two related jail‑and‑inmate items together: Resolution 10b‑1019 (a General Purpose Fund amendment) and Resolution 10d‑1019, which authorizes Franklin County to participate in Tennessee’s Electronic Monitoring Indigency Fund (EMIF). The EMIF participation commits the county to a budgeted local match and to sign a memorandum of understanding with the State that lays out billing and payment procedures; under the program the county pays 50 percent of monitoring costs for eligible indigent defendants and the State is expected to pay the other half subject to available appropriations and the fund’s solvency.
Commissioner Jennifer Stines moved to approve Resolution 10c‑1019, an amendment to the Franklin County Board of Education’s general purpose school budget for the prior fiscal year; Greg King seconded and the motion was approved by roll‑call vote, 13‑0.
The board unanimously approved Resolution 10e‑1019 accepting a donation from Norman Meeks of two burial plots in Franklin Memorial Gardens to be used for indigent veterans. The resolution directs the County Mayor and the Veterans Service Officer to administer the donated plots. County records attached to the meeting packet show the donor and the cemetery have executed a transfer form valuing the two plots at $1,000 each.
The commission also approved a slate of appointments and reappointments to boards and committees, confirmed multiple committee minutes and accepted a set of department quarterly reports by voice votes. A single appointment to the Sheriff’s Civil Service Board (Eddie Vincent) passed with one abstention (12‑yes, 1‑abstain). The board approved a set of notary applications by roll call.
The meeting packet included detailed finance director attachments showing year‑to‑date collections and expenditures across county funds and capital‑project status reports for the jail, communications project, TCAT and school construction projects. No controversial debate preceded any of the votes; motions were made, seconded and carried under normal procedure.
What happens next: the county will execute the EMIF memorandum of understanding with the State treasurer and implement the budget amendments. The donation of cemetery plots will be managed by the County Mayor and the Veterans Service Officer.
