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Votes at a glance: Kingsport approves multiple ordinances, contracts and rezoning items
Summary
At its June 16 meeting the Kingsport board approved a slate of ordinances and resolutions — including budget adjustments, CDBG and enterprise budgets, several rezonings, contract awards for bridge work, emergency procurement ratification and agency agreements — with most measures passing unanimously.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen on June 16 approved multiple ordinances and resolutions across the meeting agenda, including budget adjustments, rezonings, contract awards and several procurement actions.
Key outcomes included: adoption on first reading of a budget-adjustment ordinance addressing grant receipts and a one-time debt service payment for Pet Works (nearly $260,000), final adoption of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) fiscal 2026–27 budget (roll-call vote 6–0), and multiple second-and-final-reading rezoning ordinances that change listed parcels to R-3 (low-density apartment) or B-3 (highway-oriented business) zoning. Several rezoning votes were later reconsidered per a procedural suspension of rules and recorded with one or more abstentions where requested; the board reported results such as 5–0–1 where noted on the record.
On infrastructure and procurement, the board awarded the Fort Town Road bridge remediation project to Thomas Construction (base bid $807,000; total project $981,002) and approved a $125,000 amendment to Madder and Craig for construction services and inspection on a separate bridge project. The board also ratified emergency sewer pumping and storage services with Blue Tank and Pump Rental for the Fieldcrest annexation area and authorized a reimbursement to Integrity Building Group LLC for Fieldcrest Phase 2 ($116,493.78).
Other actions approved included a not-to-exceed $97,000 amendment to Cambridge West Architects for the Bays Mountain Nature Center renovation, authorization to purchase student-transportation routing software and hardware from Tyler Technologies (first-year cost ~ $103,000) at the Board of Education's request, and a fiscal 2027 fee-resolution adoption (no major fee increases overall). The consent agenda — including two Assistance to Firefighters grant applications and other routine items — passed as presented.
Most items were approved by unanimous voice or roll-call votes; where a board member requested abstentions or reconsideration the clerk recorded the revised vote totals on the record.
