Remarks by Jennifer Milele
71 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 3:37
“9C, I'd like to pull 9C from the agenda. I don't have another date. Is it required to have one?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 3:51
“Well, either one. I mean, yeah, to bring it back, but just not right now.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 4:20
“I prefer either November 9th or December 14th.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
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“that is putting the cart before the horse basically um that leads me to believe that if i was in the outside looking in i would think i would be thinking that okay what about the building of city hall so i would be thinking about what's going to happen with city hall so in my opinion shouldn't that be a public discussion first That's my thought.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 14:28
“Okay. I think the theme of the Christmas parade is have a holly dolly Christmas. Is that what it is?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 14:40
“Okay. So another shout out to Wilson Bank again for donating the over $32,000 to fix our digital sign at the Linda Parkway at the entrance of Mundy Memorial Park. It just went... Crazy and died. So thank you to Wilson Bank. Talking about home rule again, there's three meetings left. Pick one that's convenient for you. Make sure you're informed before you vote. Whatever how you vote, whether you vote for it or against it, be able to justify your vote with a well-informed vote. So that's what these meetings are for. If you bring your questions, if you still aren't sure, please just pick one,…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 26:58
“So I went back and listened to the comments, the discussion from the Planning Commission, and I'm going to side with Luke on this one because he brought up a good point to me. This property is not on Lebanon Road. It's right behind it. And the reason that he brought it up was ingress, egress. There's no main connection to Lebanon Road. If this property develops independently, it could create a precedent, which I thought was a good point. He felt it needed to be combined with the front property, one cell to the other, and then come in together as one project. So this... The property along…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 29:49
“All right, so I was talking to... lady at their web about this one way of looking at it is why not wait until after the election to decide you know to see how the outcome is and the which i understand uh because it may end up being a waste of money on the other hand as i pointed out Well, a lot of the state legislatures start working on legislation in November after the election in preparation for the January 1st when they return to session. So I do have a question. So I see both sides, but I do see that it needs to be done anyway. But I do have a question. So we've been promoting in the home…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 31:14
“Well, that would be, should I motion for that? Because that's what we're promoting.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 31:21
“So if that's what we're promoting, then it would only make sense that that's going to be in the impact fee study, right? Yes, ma'am. So do I need to motion for that? Or is it a given? No.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 32:02
“Well, to me, that's the whole purpose of doing it. So I would like to make a motion that we include those four components, roads and stormwater, sewer, and parks.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 32:40
“Yeah, to... ultimately develop a structured impact fee system for that purpose. So that we can eventually figure out the rates. So if we don't know what we're studying, then, you know, we need to know what we're studying, right?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 35:19
“Okay. The last session, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law that is now known as Public Chapter 1044. So it goes into effect January 1st. This is one of those, if you paid attention to the home rule discussion so far, it also talks about the Tennessee General Assembly can pass general laws under tca tennessee code annotated that apply statewide and there's it has nothing to do with private acts this is general law it applies statewide to every municipality and so we don't get any say in it so what happened was they passed a law and um they ended up putting a bunch of more stuff in it…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 40:41
“I agree, but I don't think that's going to pass up there.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 46:46
“Talking about general laws of TCA, that when they pass it, it applies statewide. So, based on the mayor's question to you, Sam, if we can pass something, do, when they've amend these TCA laws that apply statewide? What kind of authority do we have to kind of, you know, stand our ground, just pass our own law? You know, how does that work?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 52:06
“like I have co-sponsored or sponsored things here of course we don't have committees and subcommittees so you know if I put my name on something you better believe it's going to be to the very end because I want to know what's in it right well it was explained to me it works different at the state because just because you put your name on something you kind of other people take it right and things get added that doesn't make sense to me but that evidently is how it works at the state level and that's how this other stuff got added in he was actually surprised that some of this stuff got added…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 53:26
“He has promised to help us to fight, to help us get these amendments, but he did admit since it's passed now that it will be an uphill battle.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 45:58
“Thank you. I have a couple of flyers to put up. Okay, if you play pickleball or if you don't play pickleball, you can also donate. So the city's fourth annual Pickles for Pups is coming up on October 3rd. It's on a Saturday, starts like eight o'clock. This is a fundraiser for our animal shelter. We do not budget veterinarian expenses, things like that for the animal shelter. So that's what this fundraiser is for. It goes to the animals. So if you love animals and you want to donate, please feel free. Or if you play pickleball and you would like to participate in the tournament, it's a lot of…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“number 17 it says all streets and sidewalks within the development shall be private so the amendment is to remove the period replace it with a comma and add and maintained by hoa that's the motion any objections or without objection okay um I have one other motion I'm going to make, and then I want to discuss something. So the second motion is to motion to north to south. I got a Google map here. So I can't tell on this map exactly where the property line is, but you can tell where the driveway starts. So here's Oakmont. Here's the property line. How many feet into the property line do the…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 1:11:34
“Well, yes. Heading east to this property.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 1:11:42
“Yeah. I mean, I've got the Google here, but of course I don't know where the property line is.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 1:11:54
“All right. So if I made a motion to say... preserve that tree line north to south. And I know some of it up north on the western section is not going to be touched anyway. But to preserve a do not disturb tree line down the property line with it including outside the drip line of the tallest tree. So that's the motion I want to make. That's the reason I was asking how many feet into the property. whether it be 10 feet, 20 feet. But if we determine it from the tallest tree, that the do not disturb would be to the drip line of the tallest tree. But what I want to do is to protect and do not…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“20? Okay. Then I'd like to motion the north to south property line edge would be a do not disturb tree buffer, not landscape buffer, tree buffer for the existing trees there now. And the do not disturb would not go in from the tallest trees drip line.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
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“Well, it's the canopy of the tree. Like this is the top part of the tree. This is the edge of the drip line right here.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 1:13:46
“Yeah, from the tallest, most mature tree.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 14, 2026