County Commission - Regular Meeting

like to call to order the county commission regular session for November 17th. Sheriff E, would you lead us in prayer? You family and friends, we thank you for this county, people that live in it. Uh bless area. Thank you for that commission, body elected and appointed officials. Uh be with us as we come together to do the business of the county tonight and watch over lead us for right decisions. Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Everyone stand for the pledge.

United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, call the role, please. Mr. Simpkins here. Mr. Ledger here, Mr. Mane here, Mr. Batty here, Mr. Dawson, Miss Spicer, Mr. Buckner here, Mr. Britt here, Mr. Petty, Mr. Williams, Mr. Grove, Miss Gray.

Good to see you all here tonight. First order of business is the approval of the minutes of October 20th, 2025 regular session. Open floor for motion. Motion by Commissioner Petty, second by Commissioner Gray. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor of vote stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number two is public comments. On the public comment list, we have uh uh Dale Brown, Ty Coru, Don Hixon, Dale Coru, David Downing, and Mark Tennold. Are y'all here to speak on the public hearing on the resoning of the property? Okay. Is anybody here to speak on any other issue on the agenda? Okay. I'll be I'll be right with y'all here in one more moment then. Uh next item of business then is committee reports. Any committee report? Commissioner Simpkins.

Got one uh egg committee met week. Um we've got two that's going to have to our term limited. It's going to have to come off. Uh that is Scarlett McMan and Randy Simpkins, which that's me. Uh mine will have to be a commissioner is according to our uh way that's written. Um so I'm going to need a volunteer or somebody that would like to serve on the on the egg committee uh take my place. It doesn't have to be done tonight, but uh just be thinking about it. Uh we'll try to do it on the next in two weeks from now. try to nail that down. Um I think Miss Allison's here tonight. She's got somebody on the the farm woman for that committee. So we'll try to get those names together. Thank you. Any other committees report? Hearing none. The next order of business and appointments. We have a reappoint to Board of Zoning Appeals, Mr. David Smith. I'll open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Batty. Second by Commissioner Mlane. Any questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor vote by stating I opposed. Thank you. Next item is public hearings reszoning request for Veron Shaw tax map 101 parcel 017.01 14.92 acres highway 70 east Dixon Tennessee A1 agriculture to R3 district PO great general commercial to R3 uh residential district uh residential district tent district. Mr. Curtis Hayes is not with us tonight. He his father passed. Uh I know y'all want to reach out to him on that. The services tomorrow, but tonight we have Mr. Andrew Mills here uh on behalf of planning commission to make this presentation.

Thank you, Mayor. Um this is a resoning request regarding 3020 Highway 70 East, map 101, parcel 17. It's the drive-in theater property. Um they're seeking to reszone a little over 16 acres. Currently the property is a split zone. Part of it is C2. A large part of it is A1. The proposal is to convert the A1 property to R3 and reduce the size of the C2 property to add a little bit more R3 in there. Um, this went before the planning commission last month and it was a vote uh unanimous uh unfavorable recommendation on this reszoning application.

Thank you. At this point in time, we'll open up the floor for a public hearing. I'll call each of you when you come up. State your name. Come to the podium. State your name at the microphone. Uh we have six people uh to speak tonight. We'll allow two minutes a piece for a 12minute public hearing. Uh, I will be the timer. When you get within 10 10 seconds your time, I will hold my hand up and we'll close it off. That'll give you time to wrap up your two-minut speech. Uh, first up, we have Jell Brown. How are y'all this afternoon? My name is Dale Brown. Additional J. Dale Brown. Uh live there on Highway 70, right matter of fact, next door to Catfish Kitchen. Uh as you know, the uh the zoning board voted this unanimously down. And uh the thing about it is is we have act that's an we moved out there to be in the country, not to be in a city. The other part about it is is we still have to act active farms. We have equipment that runs the side roads and sometimes the main roads. Uh the other thing is that we were close to McGomery Bell Park which is a protected area. Uh somebody talked about putting a traffic light buddy road. There's a great big spring off to the end. You can't cover it up. The other side's got a great big gas man that's going to be a problem. Uh plus there's already structures already built on the other side. So it's not really enough room to widen highway. Our traffic is awful. Uh you have to you take your life in your own hands when you go to mailbox. If I'm on the grass, I have to pick certain times of the day because people will come on your side of the white line. Uh there's been no telling how many accidents and fatalities right in that short section right there. Guy on the motorcycle got

killed right there in front of the the storage units. Got run off the road. We were coming home one night. Guy passed me when I got to the to the double lanes. Guy passed me between the mailboxes in my vehicle. How he made it, I don't know. Uh my next door neighbor, bless her heart, Miss Bessie Bradley got rear ended right there which caused her other problems and met her that caused her to meet her demise. Uh there's been I don't know how many accidents down a little bit further down where you turn in Estates there in front of Cat Pitch Kitchen. Uh traffic is just bad and uh everything comes to comes together right there. So they're talking about building on these units. You realize if they built 160 units, that's that's uh uh what uh almost 320 cars.

Mr. Brown, thank you. I appreciate it.

All right. Next name we have is Mr. Ty Coro. My name is Ty Coro. Uh, I probably won't take 2 minutes, but uh the the worst part about this is they're going to put this thing right there and they're going to have an entrance on Highway 70 and on uh M Loop. Well, if these people come in and out my loop, that road's hardly wide enough for two vehicles to pass already. And uh and then now they come out and they go to Highway 70 and then they try to get out off Buddy Road on Highway 70. It's always a real bad intersection. And uh this body right here uh a while back uh made a planning uh a uh growth plan. And in the growth plan, it said that the around the park would be a uh a a area for not a lot of growth or anything. We're talking about putting an R3 in this area. And y'all know as well as anybody that after you do an R3, they're cl they claim they're going to have nice apartments or whatever, but they can do whatever they want to. they can put low rent apartments or whatever they want to after it passed. It'll be like the fuel depot where it was already zone uh industrial and couldn't do nothing about it. So once this is passed, it's just going down the road and they can do whatever they want to do and ain't nothing none of us can do about it. So that's all I have to say.

Thank you, Mr. Coroo. Next name is Mr. Don Hixon. Mr. Hixon. Yes, sir. For those that don't know who I am, my name is Don Hixon. I moved to Dixon in 1986. I I owned and operated the Catfish Kitchen on Highway 70 for 35 and a half years. About I guess 10 or 12 years ago, I developed section B of Montgomery Bell Point and I'd hate to see anything. We have a beautiful subdivision that's safe for parents growing raising their children and I'd see hate to see anything happen that would be detrimental to that. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Hixon. Next name I have is Mr. Dale Coro. I'm Dale Coru. I live on 250 Buddy Road also own property at the corner of M Lof and Buddy Road which is the at said that they would have in into there. It's like Tai said is you can hardly meet two vehicles can pass on Buddy Road on M loop already. Then we also have just like that they've already mentioned there'll be two or three a accident dents a month here at Buddy Road in 70. So more traffic more people chance of getting killed or hurt. Uh and we don't need anything. If it was just three or four houses on it like it would be anywhere else, maybe it was okay. But when you're talking about the R3, they're going to map and build anything they want everywhere. And that that's what we don't want is a lot of more traffic and and more people in that area. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Coroo. Next name I have is Mr. David Downing.

Mr. Mayor mission. I My name is Dave Downing. I live in that White House right across the street from uh the drive-in theater. We moved there about 13, excuse me, 13 years ago. And uh we bought it for the way it was 13 years ago. uh and any change to that would I think affect a lot of things, property values, quality of life, and anything like that. And it appears to me that if we were going to have some sort of uh development or something like that and the the test would be does this benefit the community or does this deter from the community and there's nothing good going to come out of that as far as I can see. I don't see any benefit at all. It's going to be a drain on on uh facilities, the infrastructure, everything that's there right now. So, it's going to be a problem, I think, from the get-go. But, um, uh, thank you for your time and thank you for this opportunity to speak.

Thank you, Mr. Downey. Uh, last name I have here is Mark Tenold. Yes, my name is Mark Tennold. How are you? Uh, I agree with most all my neighbors. I live between Mr. Downing and Mr. Brown, right on Highway 70 across from the the uh drive-in. Uh, my my major uh complaint would be if it's zoned R3 would be the traffic uh that is already terrible terrible. As I mentioned, the uh rush hour traffic is just bad and I had all these other cars coming out at Buddy Road with no light and no turn lane. Uh that's just a to me it'd be a disaster. Uh I like the area. It's a busy area. It's rural and I'd like to keep it that way. Uh one other point I haven't uh mentioned is these these apartments are three apartments possibly they're going to make. I don't know any of the cost basis. what kind of apartments are they going to be? What's the price range of them? Uh any of the little details, I don't know. So, I'll be curious to know about that, but the I'm in objection to turning it into R3.

Thank you, Mr. Tel, and thank you for all of you who spoke tonight. That is the end of our public hearing. Next item of business is resolutions. First item is financial quarterly reports. Uh Mr. Hall, mayor, I don't have anything to add. two weeks ago in the meeting.

Any questions for Mr. Hall? Open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Grove, second by Commissioner Ledger. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number two is financial quarter report school funds. Have uh Dr. Sutherland here. Any questions for Dr. Sutherland? No floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Gray, second by Commissioner Petty. Any questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor by stating I opposed. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. S. Thank you.

Item number three, speed survey Willough Branch Road. Sheriff Ess. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Uh has just a reminder, please. This was a Willough Branch. Uh was a uh 7-day study. A lot of vehicles 4,440. Uh it is it is a narrow road. The 85th percentile come back 27 one direction 30 mph. Still have a recommendation of resetting the speed from 45 to 30.

Commissioner Williams is that in your district. Is that that is your motion? Motion by Commissioner Williams. to have a second. Second by Commissioner Simpkins. Any questions for Commissioner Williams or Sheriff Eids? Hearing none. All in favor vote by stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number four, weight limits on Harmon Springs Loads and Southern Road. Commissioner Williams, this came from you. Do you are you presenting this or is Mr. Hodgees or Mr. Reagan? Anybody but me? Uh I I did speak I did speak to Mr. Hodgers before and I and you'll see in the in the quote uh that he got from Collier. So it it was broken down into into three sections. And I hate to spend the 25,000 for all these three sections, but I think what I would like to present is if we do North Hummingbird, they can't get to Harmon Springs without going through North Hummingbird. And so I would like to to make a motion we do the 6,500 on North Hummingbird and and do the study and let the weight limit come back and then maybe we can try this section of road and see what kind of luck we have on enforcing it before we would spend the whole 25,000.

Okay, that's your motion. Let's get a second. We can have discussion. I have a second Commissioner Williams motion second by Commissioner Grove U on this uh and ask the attorney and highway. I haven't read this in detail. Can it be broken down as he asked and the price be adjusted accordingly?

And on this does the contract reflect that that we can break it down that way as well as a proposal? Yeah, the contracts for all of it, but I'm sure based on how Mr. Hodgees uh requested it and the way they presented it, they can modify the contract just to deal with that. Any Yes, Commissioner Simpkins. Does any of this lie in the Dixon city limits? Any all this pertains to county road.

Any other questions?

It will take a budget adjustment. He is not he did not uh budget for this. So it would come out of his fund balance is where that is. He has adequate number money in his fund balance to do such. Yes. Commissioner By maybe explain to me what they're going to do for 6,500. They'll go out they'll take course road in various spots and they'll take that core sample back to the lab and they'll test it. They'll test rock and tell us what

and tell us what that particular road could be rated for as hard weight. what what that road could handle. Now they may come back 30. That's that's I guess my thing is we're not going to enforce it. we don't have a way to enforce it. And us spending doing this, I I'm not going to vote for it just because of the the business that I'm in. And I mean, we're trying to get I get it, but there's a sign out there that says, "Hey, turn, you know, if we're after I don't know who we're after here with this." And uh I I mean if we want to do a study and see what it is, but you know if we had wait a guy that would enforce it and weight limits said a guy that went around and we're going to spend this and then we're not even going to enforce it.

Commissioner Williams, do you want to

Yeah, I guess so. I guess I'll just kind of re recapture what I said before. So, so everybody knows we're not trying to limit Vulcan from from having access. So, the Rock Corey, Vulcan Rock Corey on Hummingbird has an access for them to come out and turn left and go up to Highway 70. The roads been built for that. And so what we have a problem is is that all a lot not the local drivers but the trucks that are coming in from out of town from Clarksville or whatever they're coming out of the Corey and hanging right and they're coming out and they're trying to bypass all the traffic in town and and cut through out on Highway 48. And so, you know, I understand that, you know, there's some enforcement issues. And I think in my view, they come out of the ticket. They come out of the rock corey with the ticket and they've been across the scales and it says how much weight they have. And in my view, I think the highway department through the sheriff's department if if we have these and they usually come in spurts where it's they're hauling a lot of rock in one week. We'll have 20 or 30 trucks, you know, that's going every day for a week and then we won't see nobody for a month. So that's I think you know I'm not trying to I understand like local deliveries if somebody calls for concrete or gravel that I mean if they have a ticket it says where they're going and so that's my view on it and you know the the people are these roads are not built to handle the dump truck traffic and they have an access that they can go through. So that that's the reason that that I'm asking for it.

Commissioner Dawson. Okay. Um, this is what I see is going to happen. Man lives in Pleasant View Road, White Blood, Tyler Town Road, uh, anywhere out there and they they see all these trucks going by and they they're going to go and they're going to say, "Hey, I want my load limit lowered, Bardo out there comes through Pleas Road, 80 100,000 lb them tractor and trailers." So, how do you do part of it? And and it seemed like that you're holding the dump trucks because somebody don't like to see a dump truck come on down the road. I mean, they you're uh it's sort of blaming them and and how do you discriminate against them and you open up the the Pandora's door for everybody else in the county and you can't say if if this passes then they're going to have a legitimate reason to come before us and and what are we going to do then? I mean it just going to be a mess. What's going to be just like it was with with Bardo Medal up there and we tried to stop it. It just uh you know state be involved, lawyers be involved, we'll be sued. I mean you know so that's really not tonight. I don't know how come we even talking about this. I mean don't make sense to me.

Thank you. Commissioner Grove, did you Yeah, I I think is what Commissioner Williams is saying, and Jackie, I might be wrong, is there's roads that's constructed that will bear the weight without costing taxpayers money. If they're on these roads that's not constructed to carry the weight, they're tearing the roads up, which is in fact making you go out there, pave them more often, and do repairs, which is costing the county money. Correct. So, I I think everybody's got a legitimate argument here, but Commissioner Williams is saying there's roads that's engineered to carry the weight and there's roads that's engineered not to carry the weight, and we need to keep the weight on the roads that's engineered to be carried on. I think that's that's pretty simple and pretty self-explanatory to me.

Any other commissioners?

You see the roads 75% of them is not engineered to take the loads that they got. They take it. So, is the county going to go out there and engineer and all of them and see what the roads needs to be upgraded or whatever? And then that's going to fall back on the taxpayer. They there's lots of roads got potholes in them and dump trucks and I mean logging trucks and everything. The world go through them all time. There's no way in the world that you're going to enforce that. I mean, uh, and sure I I know what they're saying about some roads, but if you come up home lane, I mean, down there from the Rocky, that's pretty nice road. I mean, I don't see it to wall to pieces, you know. It's just it's a lot of dump truck, you know, activity coming out of there. But that's the uh you know, I guess the quarry being there. Maybe they need to move the quarry out in the country somewhere in the you know, it make more sense it would be to try to do the roads. You're talking about a lot of money upgrading all the roads in the county.

Mr. Sponsor, do you have something? And so sheriff's department, could they just legally pull somebody over and say, "Let me see your way." Is that the way to enforce it or That's a question for legal. Thank you.

Yeah. So, I think the intent is is to try to get some understanding of what if you see a truck loaded with gravel coming out of there, what would the standard weight be for that? And if it's clearly something that would exceed whatever weight limit that we set, then that would be a basis for pulling them over. If it was necessary to get the ticket and the person didn't volunteer it, then presumably the county would would subpoena those records or that information from the quarry in order to be able to prove that that person was carrying a weight well in excess of what the limit was. Is it a really clean process? No. It's it it's going to require a little bit of work. But I think the point, if I understand what Commissioner Williams is trying to do, is create an incentive for them to not do it. try to push the traffic into the preferred route that the county's designated. And are you going to have an officer or deputy out there catching every person? No, you're not.

But, uh, I think the hope is what the plan is is that if you do some, maybe it trickles down and you help resolve some of the problem that's there. I'm just I'm having flashbacks of two-mile road when we tried to set a weight limit on that. But where this is different, they will have a weight ticket, right? That and and the difference there also was on that prior incident is that was the only access and the most uh direct access to property that was already zoned for that use. If what was being said today is we're going to put weight limits on every road where they can't get a truck from the quarry, we couldn't do that. Yeah.

Yeah. For sure. Commissioner Batty, do you have a question? I I just seems like we have done this a couple of years ago. Maybe it just wasn't on these roads or did we do it on a on some county roads maybe somewhere? Those big roads they study on. Well, they done they done a study on Tertown Road, too, didn't book. Uh I'm not That's for your time, but it is. Yeah, I think they did. Road, it's just a little onelane drive going back there. You know,

look like we'd be better off spending $6,500 on signage putting out there saying, "Hey, well, I hear what you're saying, but we do have a proper motion second. So, I hear your concerns, but let's let's stick to this one right now because the motion is to spend the $6,500 to have a study done. I'm not cutting off debate. Just want to keep you on the question. If there's any more questions on that motion and second. Yes. Need to amendment to it to do a budget amendment at the same time or do that separate because

we can we take out his fund balance. So we can do that secondarily. That's we'll you'll not work out. Thank you. Any other questions on the motion? You have a proper motion. Second. Uh, I realize there's probably some be disagreements. So, madam clerk, could you call the role? Mr. Simmons, no. Mr. Ledger, yes. Mr. Mane, no. Mr. Batty, no. Mr. Dawson, no. Miss Spicer, no. Mr. Buckner, no. Mr. Britt, no. Mr. Petty,

yes. Mr. Williams, Mr. Grove, yes. Miss Gray, seven, seven nos. Five.

Motion fails. 7 to five. The next resolution is authorize the county mayor to deed and give certain county own real property to the water authority in Dixon County. This is the point uh on what we refer to as a fellow farm at the corner of Twomile Road and Hoover Road. Uh we're doing that exchange for some work that the water authority is going to do for us on the fire department and the ambulance service here in Charlotte and open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Mawane, second by Commissioner Bainy. Any questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor vote with stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number six, purchase upon convenience center property. As y'all recall, this was the pro this is the property that we have at this point in time where the pond uh road uh property is. Uh our friend, the late Billy Masses on this property. His family is uh prepared. They want to get rid of this. Uh they want to sell that to us for $75,000 uh three a little over 3.43 acres. That keeps us where we are and gives us room to expand that at the proper time. I'll open the floor for a motion on that. Motion by Simpkins, second by Brett. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number seven is the 2026 holiday schedule that was passed out to y'all at the last meeting. It's the same traditional holidays that county government sets. This sets them for the 2026 calendar year. Open for motion. Motion by Commissioner Grave, second by Commissioner Batty. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor of vote with stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number eight, historic development grant, a resolution authorizing county to apply except for historic development grant. Uh this is a

uh grant for $1 million. It's a $500 $500,000 matching grant. As you know, we already have money budgeted for the historic courthouse. This would just replace the county money with the historic grant if we so gain that. Uh, open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Butner, second by Commissioner Penny. Any questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number nine, a resolution to authorize certain amendments to the budget established for the county's general purpose school fund fund 141, federal projects fund 142, central cafeteria fund 143, and or capital project fund 177. Dr. Sood on these accounts. This is money in and out. And then uh on the request that I have is for the fund balance of the 28156.22.

This was the over the air unit question at Burns Middle School. Uh any questions for Dr. Sutherland? I go ahead and make a motion to pass it then go to discussion if there's any questions.

Thank you. Motion by Commissioner Gro, second by Commissioner Ledger. Forward for discussion. Any questions for Dr. Southern? Hearing none vote. All in favor by stating I oppose. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Southern. Items uh next one other business number one has been pushed the commissioner's report for the financial reports. We're pushing that to December. So that will be that. Uh next item of business other business as you heard earlier the public hearing resoning request for Vernon Shaw tax mount 101 parcel 017.01 14.92 acres highway 70 east Dixon Tennessee A1 agriculture R3 residential district PO general commercial to R3 residential district 10th district. Uh Mr. Hayes explained that earlier. Uh your vote tonight is on this is to move it to the regular meeting if that's what you so choose or deny it. Open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Williams. Mo that is a motion uh tonight. I have a second. Second by Commissioner Grove. This point in time we do need to give the opportunity for the applicant to speak if they so wish. Is the applicant or applicant representative here? We have a proper motion. You have a motion to deny. So, just to remind you, when you have a motion to deny, affirmative vote, a yes vote is to deny, a no vote is not to deny. So, make sure yes is to deny, no to deny. I love when we do the negatives. Everybody got that one? Okay. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor to deny, please vote by stating stating I

in favor. No, thy eyes have it. Thank you. Anything else on that? Next item of business approval notaries. Madam clerk Charlene Kovven, Emily England, Nora Keel, Lillian Langford, Nancy Roco, Haley Thornton, Deanna Wood, Amanda Wright, Brandon Wright. Thank you. Commotion. Motion to approve by Commissioner Gray, second by Commissioner Grove. All in favor with stating I opposed. Thank you. Any announcements? Yes.

It's not an announcement. I've already spoken to Brian and Jackie about this issue and we've done talked about a lot what's a rose tonight. Um this pipeline company, I'll call it. um coming through here and crossing our county roads and state roads, which we don't have nothing to do with the state roads, but these county roads, they are I think they're when they came here, their plan was to bore under these roads and through the creeks and whatever. Well, when they got here, they're from Texas and I think they have sandstone in Texas. We have limestone here and they've been working down here below my house for 3 months and they burning up boring machines. They boring they b all day long and get two feet. So now they decide they're going to blast and dig through our creeks through our roads which that wasn't the agreement. I've talked with Jackie about it. He said that uh they're hard to deal with. Um but they are blocking our roads as a road down on off state and they've had block for three going on two weeks maybe three. They fix them cut mine in two. They cut mine in two. That's that just disrupts the bus routes. Fire the fire protection rescue squad. They'll have a oneway in and they'll have to come from the Charlotte end off the 49 end. Another issue, there's a lot of farmers on that road, cattle, rowcroppers, they drive the combines and stuff up and down the roads

and if they make them detour around on the secondary. My road is a state aid road. It's a little wider and a little better. You can get around with it. But when they put them back on their what I call secondary roads, uh, you know, you go to taking dual wheel combines down a 20ft road is not safe. And these people think that they can just shut the road down indefinitely, I guess. So my concern is safety um on these roads and their authority. Just how much authority do they have to come in here and uh take over

you? U my my theory on that is uh it's it's kind of like u I live here, you're visiting and they've done kind of pushed their limits with all the neighbors. So, they're they've had enough. So, I don't think that they should be allowed to willy-nilly operate like they're going. And I'm going to ask Brian to look into this because they're right there at my road now. I don't know what the plan is to cut to get across it, but they're right on the edge of it right now. And like I say, it could take them a month to get across that road and up the bluff. It's right beside it. So, I'm not I don't think that's what we need to be putting up with.

I agree and I appreciate you bringing it up. We've been dealing with this issue all along. The first one I think we had that came to really our attention was the stunt they pulled on Spencer Mill Road right below the deal where they cut the road wide open. And the irony was that I went up and asked them who gave him permission to close the road and they told me the county mayor did. So there was quite surprised when I dropped my ID out my badge. It's like that's me. So but we've worked with Mr. Hodgeges. I've worked with their attorneys based in Nashville. their lobbyist and frankly they don't care and we have little or no authority we do about it but we do have authority over the county roads and again that's an enforcement issue that Mr. Hajes, the sheriff and myself, we'll start on on that. But they uh as we know out in the 12th district with all the issues we had there, they decided to clear their Kinder Morgan pipes one night. That's like having a jet engine running next to your building. And that's not an exaggeration of the noise. And uh they when I made the phone call, they really just didn't seem to care. and we reached out to tea and tea pretty much told us Tennessee Merch Management Agency that they with under their federal domain we really didn't have a lot we could do with it and it's unfortunate it's frustrating and it was really frustrating when you have large corporations and they play that part and do the advertisements about how they're here to help you but at the same time they're making a mockery of what we do here and how we treat our community. So I agree I'm not happy and I agree with you and if you would do that and sheriff and Mr. Hodgees, we y'all are available tomorrow. Why don't we meet and take another run at this?

I think it's pretty close. I mean, they're right there. I mean, the shoulder of the road is right there where they're at now. And all they got to do is turn around, I guess, and start digging through the road, I guess. So, I think it's it's pretty pretty uh uh evident that they're fixing to do something. So, as soon as they cut that road, we're going to be in trouble. I appreciate you bringing up. We'll have that conversation tomorrow morning if y'all if y'all are available. Thank you, Commissioner Buckner.

It looks to me like, you know, I talked to Jackie, we've got a bridge out on East Pine, it's got to be rebuilt uh due to the floods and stuff like that. Uh EPA won't let us get in the creek to clear bridges and stuff. you know, we can't do anything to uh maintain the stuff like that, but yet uh they can come in and dynamite a creek and uh put a pipeline across it and probably don't have to have a permit or anything. So, you know, just wondering.

I mean, they're they're down there every day and they I don't own the land, I lease the property. They have to pump the water out at night or it fills up at night. They come down there first thing in the morning, crank the pumps up, pump it out into they call it filtration. It's all it is is about 100 maybe well maybe 75 square bales of hay they've got netted around this pool that they pump the water, the dirty water over in filtration, the hay filtrates that out. Well, you come down there and look, it's limestone water all the way across the hay field. now where they where it dries up overnight dry you know the water seeps down and then it's as gray as this as that floor right there now that

they're not but anyway they they have I mean I don't know like I say this they think they they're here and they own it and they in charge and ain't nothing you can do about it. Any other announcements? Yeah. Well, I just wanted to ask uh Brian real quick. Wasn't there a law passed not very long after the fuel depot where our government at the state said that local governments couldn't hinder anything to do with fuel or energy anything at all like we couldn't make laws or pass anything to get in their way that we would no longer have authority to do that. Would this be something like that? All

details and and we're going to go back and look at that. Um I know we worked with Mr. Hodgeges and in fact uh Mr. Mills did on some bonding issues when Kindred Morgan started this pro uh pro uh pro process and I want to go back and look at that with them on what was agreed to as a part of that and also look at what we can do legally. Yeah. Good point.

Any other announcements? The final announce will be the next regular session meeting will be on Monday December 15th at 7 p.m. in the Beaverdale Booty Ree Jr. County Commission Chamber of the Dicks County Administration Building Forcourt Square Shark Tennessee. I have a motion second adjourned. Bye.