Chairman Hyde and the Financial Management Act

He was opposed to it before he was for it:

This is not Sumner County’s first trip down the Private Act path. Records indicate the county adopted the 1981 Act in November 1991. Public controversy over compliance issues arose by April 1999. By Oct. 22, 2001, District Attorney General Ray Whitley was requested by at least eight commissioners to conduct an investigation.
Whitley concluded that the county was not in compliance as to the Board of Education’s not being administered by the county’s Finance Department. “It is not a secret that the Act is not being complied with in this area, nor has it ever been, apparently…The Commission has implicitly approved non-consolidation,” Whitley wrote in a Dec. 12, 2001, response.
“In fact, the will of the commission was memorialized in June 2001 by the commission’s voting to opt out of the Act and no longer be governed by its provisions, effective July 1, 2002. The entire question of Broad of Education compliance will be moot at that time…I see this question as a political matter, not a criminal one.”

The above clip from the Hendersonville Standard indicates that when Merrol Hyde was Director of Schools, he essentially did not comply with the Financial Management Act of 1981 in spite of its adoption by the County in 1991. Hyde was Director of Schools in 1999 and would have been the Director who failed to comply. He was also a County Commissioner and likely led efforts to "opt-out" of the Act in 2001 as indicated.

Now, Mr. Hyde is pushing for some version of the 1981 Act so that the School Finance department would come under control of the County Finance Director -- oddly, this is the very arrangement Hyde found objectionable when he was Director of Schools.