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Rhea County Commission approves reassignments, surplus sales and appointments; rolls recorded
Summary
At its regular meeting the Rhea County Commission approved a series of routine and budget actions — including a $15,000 hotel/motel tax allocation, several surplus‑property sales and a $10,000 reallocation for park improvements — and accepted an audit committee report with one finding.
The Rhea County Commission met in regular session and approved a range of routine and project‑related measures, including funding reallocations, surplus property sales and a reappointment to the county medical center board.
The commission unanimously approved the minutes from a prior meeting and adopted several budget amendments and line‑item adjustments. It voted to allocate $15,000 from the hotel‑motel tax to the Ray King Fair Association for cosponsorship of the 2026 rodeo and to correct a clerical error in a Morgantown Community Park grant, replacing a listed "pickleball court" with a "small soccer field." Chair Linda Stainson also brought forward a reappointment for Lebron Herscher to remain on the Rhea County Medical Center Board of Directors through 2030.
The body declared 17 top‑load dumpsters surplus and directed Emergency Management Director Brad Harrison to sell them by sealed bid, auction or other appropriate means. A separate surplus‑property resolution authorized the sale of other items, including a 1989 Ford fire truck listed for disposal under the posted exhibit. The commission approved a resolution to establish and/or maintain two separate funds for hotel/motel proceeds (item introduced and tabled for further consideration) and later approved a specific reallocation of $10,000 for park items, citing the need for lighting, gravel, electrical work, garbage cans, benches, tables and signage.
The commission also authorized Rhea County to sign a Tennessee Department of Transportation proposal for a federal project (BRZ 7207200 and related state project numbers) to address a breach at Rowing Creek and approved the use of master cooperative purchasing agreements to leverage competitively procured state contracts for local purchases.
On finance oversight, the audit committee presented a report with a single finding related to classifying a high‑school track job as construction rather than repair; the commission accepted the committee's corrective action plan to revise bid‑package language and institute a construction checklist in purchasing files.
Votes were recorded by roll call on multiple items. The public record in the meeting transcript records affirmative roll‑call responses but individual vote tallies and names are not consistently transcribed for every motion; where roll‑call names were read, the clerk noted "Yes" responses. (The meeting transcript does not provide a complete numeric tally for every vote.)
What happens next: The resolution reallocating $10,000 for park work will be implemented through the county's purchasing and project management process; the reappointment and TDOT agreement proceed as recorded by the clerk.
