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Lebanon council approves package of ordinances and resolutions, including opposition to ICE detention facility
Summary
Council unanimously approved a slate of consent items, multiple budget amendments, utility and planning measures, and a resolution opposing an ICE detention facility within city limits. Votes were taken by motion and voice vote with no recorded opposition.
The Lebanon City Council approved a broad package of ordinances, resolutions and first readings across departments during the meeting.
On the consent agenda the council approved six items — including a contract with Witt Sign Company for the Jimmy Floyd Family Center sign, a property purchase authorization, an easement with Middle Tennessee Electric, an award for an equalization basin and pump station (Project CL23102), municipal code revisions, and police budget amendments — by motion (Council Morehead) and second (Council Carmack) and voice vote with no opposition.
In old-business and new-business blocks the council passed multiple land-use and annexation measures, utility budget amendments, fee updates for planning and the fire marshal's office, purchases for engineering equipment (a drone), agreements for CJIS cybersecurity and Barracuda email protection, a CCTV inspection program agreement with IT Pipes, and an escrow agreement relating to the pump station project. Where recorded, motions were moved and seconded by council members listed in the agenda; all were approved by voice votes with no opposition recorded.
Notably, the council adopted Resolution 26-28-27 opposing the establishment of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility within the city limits; the resolution was introduced by Mayor Rick Bell, moved by Councilman Phil Morehead and seconded by Councilman Chris Crow, and approved by voice vote.
The meeting concluded after the council approved the remaining listed items. Most votes were voice approvals with no roll-call tallies recorded in the transcript; a quorum of seven members was present at roll call.
