Planning Commission/Board of Zoning Appeals - Regular Meeting

Thursday, August 20, 2026

The Planning Commission/Board of Zoning Appeals approved a new field supervisor position and adopted significant changes to the nepotism policy, allowing family members to work in the same department without direct supervision. They also standardized firefighter leave and compensation policies.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission/Board of Zoning Appeals
Meeting Type
Planning Commission/Board Of Zoning Appeals
Location
Manchester, TN
Meeting Date
August 20, 2026

Transcript

32 sections

0:21 – 0:45Speaker 2

Locator, principal account. Responsible RH, Tina Warren, Mayor Hobbs, lawyer Craig Johnson and Aaron Wagner. Do we have any citizen comments? Does he approve the verbal trial of the meeting of July 23?

0:45Speaker 3

I am adopted.

0:56Speaker 2

We have a motion of the lawyer Johnson, supported by the mayor Hobbs. All those in favor?

1:03Speaker 3

The motion is adopted.

1:09 – 2:11Speaker 2

We will not serve water for a field supervisor and in the current affairs we will put in wait the additional hours of the police service. And so these two changes in the order of the day... Motion to approve. All those in favor. In the files, there was a request sent by Director Follet for the water service concerning a field supervisor for the maintenance of the facilities. and warehouse operations. Description was sent to the mayor who examined it. The RH examined it. The two approved it.

2:13Speaker 3

Motion approved.

2:20Speaker 2

Any questions?

2:22Speaker 3

All we do is

2:26 – 4:46Speaker 2

supervise to help the warehouse. It's a versatile job. We are going to delete an account holder to create this one. No budget update, no cash update. It's a kind of long-term replacement. We are going to gradually eliminate some account holders as we move on to electronic reading. We are therefore trying to prepare ourselves little by little. It's Netbots. We have a motion of the lawyer Johnson, supported by Mayor Hobbs. All those who are... The motion is adopted. Then, for current affairs, we have the nepotism policy, submitted by Mayor Hobbs. The reasoning here, I mean in his current editorial, if you have a parent, you can't be in the same brain. I want to reclassify this so that you can't work directly. This is nepotism. But I want you to be able to do it. We meet this problem in the police and at the firefighters. This is what they want to follow. They want to follow the traces of their parents and so on, and we force them to go work elsewhere for the moment. They don't work here with me. I think you can delete the first sentence. Yes, if I remember correctly, this first sentence was added a few years ago because of a potential situation and they just

5:00Speaker 3

Add this sentence to what existed before my arrival. I take memories that speak of it.

5:08Speaker 2

So I guess the motion is common.

5:09Speaker 3

More than one member of each family should not be employed in the same service of the municipal government.

5:15 – 5:29Speaker 2

If you delete that, the rest of the comment is that no one will be employed, promoted or transferred to the municipal service if it turns out that they receive the municipal, that they receive the direct supervision of a member of his family. Or what direct supervision of a member of his family? Or what direct supervision of a member of his family? I think that this line, as you said, somehow solves the problem.

5:31Speaker 3

So if you have a service director, a member of his family could not work in this service, but otherwise in any.

5:44 – 7:07Speaker 2

And this applies to all. And that's how it is. The different stakeholders who came. To follow the places. So the problem of supervising a member of his family. This is my motion that we delete. And we will review the rest of the defined area to see if there is something to adjust to correspond to this. But I don't think. But I looked.

7:25Speaker 3

So it's defined here. It's defined in another section of the code.

8:00 – 9:55Speaker 2

I am presented by Mayor Hobbs, supported by lawyer Johnson, to delete this first sentence on nepotism. So what we have here is the way in which the Organized Fire Service works 2, 8... The rest of the city works 2, 0, 80 hours. So what we did is we simply added, if you have been here for a year, you have two weeks off. So that's what we did. We made sure they could have two weeks off, they would work five days during this period. 80 hours is 120 hours, but they work 804 hours. So that's why the... is higher than in the rest of the city. It's just so that they can take the same amount of time off. It's correct and will be based on their working hours and I talked to the councillor Crossland. Once he understood that he worked 800 hours more, he agreed. J'appuie. Motion d'avocat Johnson, appuyé par Tina.

9:56Speaker 3

Tous ceux qui sont pour.

10:03 – 11:00Speaker 2

Toutes nouvelles affaires. Oh, le changement d'église. which is equivalent to what everyone else is doing. And that's what we're trying to do, it's just standardizing. The team change consists of having the firefighters from 4 p.m. to... Just so everyone understands, they work from 4 p.m. today, but they're present 24 hours a day.

11:00Speaker 3

They're called after.

11:06Speaker 2

22 hours a night. We pay once and a half otherwise they are not paid to sleep.

11:12Speaker 3

Your aspect is the way we organize ourselves.

11:15 – 11:28Speaker 2

The number of hours necessary. If you ask them to work an extra day unscheduled, it was always at the normal rate. It's quite unfair because it's one more day.

11:28Speaker 3

So by the end of 24 hours, we clarify the remuneration of each one.

11:31 – 12:38Speaker 2

And also in their working day. Everything goes in order and we just simplify things that have been going on for a while. The boss understands the calculations very well, but for us, we don't. So we just asked him to give us 24 hours to make it simple for everyone. That's what it's about. They will spend 24 hours paid, rest time, and everything remains unchanged. Je fais une motion Motion du maire Hobbs Motion adopté Nouvelles affaires

12:43Speaker 3

A question, I suppose, is that we will try to register this on the day of the 1st of September.

12:47Speaker 2

This change of policy on nepotism?

12:51 – 13:04Speaker 3

I think it's the only thing. On the day I saw that I had to do it. I don't think so.

13:04 – 13:16Speaker 2

There is an order on the leave of absence. I don't know. Nous avons besoin d'une politique sûre.

13:32 – 14:02Speaker 3

Chèque. for which we are going to make an order to change. I can find it, but it saves me time.

14:02Speaker 2

I have a motion to raise the session. Selection. Selection.

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