11-22-1 resolution for approved mid-year raise of 2 % for regular full and part-time staff for the 2022-23 budget year with $3,500,000 funding this expense from General Purpose School Fund. 21Yes 1 Abstain by Commissioner Jones

11-22-2 resolution for approved Five Additional paid Holidays for ten and eleven month full time classified staff for the 2022-23 budget year with $1,309,507 funding this expense from General Purpose School Fund. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-3 resolution requesting $2,440,254 for the purchase of school buses for the 2022-23 school year. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-4 resolution approving lease/purchase agreements or apple computers for digital learning. Principal cost will be $277,292 and interest of 2.34% and a yearly commitment of $71,746.42. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-5 resolution appropriating $25,000 to provide on-call engineering services required to review septic systems with in Williamson County. Due to employee attrition on-call services is needed until staff vacancies have been filled. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-9 resolution authorizing a grant contract with the state of Tennessee, TN Corrections Institute and appropriating $9,769 of grant funds into the Sheriff’s Office budget to be used for training corrections and jail-based employees. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-10 resolution authorizing a grant contract with the state of Tennessee, Department of Safety & Homeland Security and appropriating $39,999 of grant funds into the Sheriff’s Office budget to be used for highway safety campaigns. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-17 resolution appropriating $750,000 to the Solid Waste Department for assistance with relocating the Material Recycling Facility, specifically relocating the baler operations which require two new balers. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-18 resolution authorizing a grant contract with the state of Tennessee, Department of Military, and TN Emergency Management Agency and appropriating $144,275 of grant funds into the Office of Public Safety budget to be used for preparedness and training of personnel for response to domestic terrorism. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-19 resolution authorizing the issuance, sale, and payment of not to exceed $50,100,000 of General Obligation Public Improvement and School Bonds of Williamson County, TN and providing for the levy of taxes for the payment of debt service on the bonds. 18 Yes 0 No 4 Abstain by Commissioners Mary Smith, Graves, Sanford, Torres

11-22-20 resolution authorizing the issuance, sale, and payment of not to exceed $79,700,000 of County District School Bonds of Williamson County, TN and providing for the levy of taxes for the payment of debt service on the bonds and allocating educational Impact Fee Collections to defray public improvement expenses. 18 Yes 0 No 4 Abstain by Commissioners Mary Smith, Graves, Sanford, Torres

The bond issuance in resolutions 11-22-19 & 11-22-20 will be used to fund the following:

11-22-26 resolution to adopt the provisions of the “Jackson Law” in Williamson County, TN which would require county legislative approval of at least a 2/3 majority vote, for the planning of a new landfill or solid waste processing facility. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-28 resolution revising the Williamson County Educational Impact Fee as in the table below:

21 Yes 1 No by Commissioner Sanford

11-22-32 resolution authorizing the WC Mayor to enter into a long-term lease agreement with Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC which is located adjacent to county owned unincorporated property and wishes to extract raw construction materials from this property.

18 Yes 4 No by Commissioners Lawrence, Mary Smith, Lisa Hayes Lenox & Stresser

11-22-34 resolution amending the rules, regulations and procedures of the Williamson County Board of Commissioners concerning rule 5.4 debating the subject. This resolution regards “calling the question” which is used to terminate the conversation on any particular resolution and to force a vote whether Commissioners who are requesting to speak have been heard or not. Presently, if a Commissioner “calls the question” a vote is taken as to whether to stop the conversation or not and a 2/3 majority vote is required. This resolution, if approved, will only require a majority vote. FAILED 3 Yes 19 No, Yes votes by Commissioners Aiello, Hester, & Tunnicliffe

11-22-35 resolution amending the rules, regulations and procedures of the Williamson County Commissioners concerning rule 8.1a appointment of committees. This rule states that committee assignments should be done in September each year. Because its difficult for the Steering Committee to meet and do this in election years, this resolution would allow this to happen in October of election years. 19 Yes 3 No by Commissioners Herbert, Mary Smith & Lisa Hayes Lenox

11-22-36 resolution amending the rules, regulations and procedures of the Williamson County Commissioners concerning rule 8.3 concerning rotating committees to determine that the Chairman will be a non-voting ex-officio member of all committees including the Human Resource Committee. 21 Yes 1 No by Commissioner Lisa Hayes Lenox

11-22-37 resolution amending the rules, regulations and procedures of the Williamson County Commissioners concerning rule 1 convening the Board of Commissioners. Rule 1 provides that the agenda & resolution packet shall be “mailed to” each Commissioner at least 6 days prior to each session. This resolution changes the wording to “provided to”, to reflect the current practice of receiving this information electronically via email. 22 Yes 0 No

11-22-38 resolution requesting states bordering the4 USA southern border to declare action must be taken to strengthen the border to address the immigration crisis that have resulted in an influx of illegal aliens and drug trafficking subject to the provisions and restrictions of Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3. not discussed

11-22-40 resolution of support for state legislation to create a tax classification bracket for certain commercial and residential historical properties in Franklin, TN regarding Main Street. The tax increase due to the property re-assessment of 2021 has caused property tax bills along downtown Main street to approximately triple from 2020 to 2021 and in some cases has caused a significant strain on small business owners who create the small town & unique character that downtown Franklin presently enjoys which contributes to tourism in the area and the subsequent tax revenue to Franklin & Williamson County. Too preserve the unique and desirable character of the Main Street Historic area this resolution asks the state legislature to create a special tax bracket for relief.

This resolution was amended to remove reference to Residences. This amendment passed 18 Yes 4 No by Commissioners Mason, Mary Smith, Graves & Williams.

The amended resolution failed 12 Yes 9 No 1 Abstain. No votes by Commissioners Herbert, Mason, Webb, Morton, Sanford, Nations, Tunnicliffe, Williams & Steve Smith. Abstention by Beathard

The Tax Study Committee is scheduled to meet to draft a new resolution to address the concern for small businesses on Main St, Franklin that originated Res. 11-22-40.