The Sumner County Commission's Budget Committee meets today starting at 3:30 PM at the County Commission Chambers in Gallatin.
Today's meeting continues the budget hearing process as the Commission prepares to discuss and vote on county departmental budgets.
Today's agenda includes the highway department, the Sheriff's office, Emergency management, and libraries, among other items.
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Monday, April 27, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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Friday, April 10, 2015
Strong Schools to Host RTI2 Forum
Grassroots advocacy group Strong Schools will host a forum on RTI2 - Response to Intervention and Instruction -- on Tuesday, April 14th at 6:00 PM at Merrol Hyde Magnet School in Hendersonville.
The event will include a presentation from Assistant Director of Schools for Curriculum and Instruction Jennifer Brown on RTI2 and its implementation in Sumner County.
Audience members are encouraged to ask questions as the event is intended to be a dialogue around the RTI2 issue.
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The event will include a presentation from Assistant Director of Schools for Curriculum and Instruction Jennifer Brown on RTI2 and its implementation in Sumner County.
Audience members are encouraged to ask questions as the event is intended to be a dialogue around the RTI2 issue.
For more Hendersonville, TN news follow @HvilleNews
Monday, March 30, 2015
Hughes May Seek Top GOP Post
In the wake of the announcement that Tennessee GOP Chair Chris Devaney is leaving his post to assume a leadership role at a non-profit, Hendersonville's Scottie Hughes, who serves as the news director at the Tea Party News Network, has indicated she may be a candidate for the job.
Hughes says she won't make an official announcement until April 6th -- likely because she wants to ensure she'd be able to garner enough votes to win the post.
It's unclear whether the Tennessee Republican Party Executive Committee would warm to Hughes, a leader in the anti-establishment Tea Party movement.
Hughes has also come under fire recently as key staffers at the Tea Party News Network resigned, citing unethical management practices. Specifically, the staffers noted:
“TheTeaParty.net Facebook page was built using non-profit dollars and resources and yet the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month being generated from traffic deriving from the non-profit Facebook page are being funneled to a for profit company with no transparency. Even if you could find a way to make that legal, it’s immoral and unethical,” the letter continues. “We represent ourselves as ‘The Tea Party’ on Facebook and take no action to hold ourselves to the higher standards of that designation. Posts by fights.buzz and viral.buzz have become increasingly vile and unacceptable. The Tea Party is not TMZ and TPNN is not WorldStar.”
Hughes defended the network's practices and has moved forward without the key staffers who left the organization.
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Hughes says she won't make an official announcement until April 6th -- likely because she wants to ensure she'd be able to garner enough votes to win the post.
It's unclear whether the Tennessee Republican Party Executive Committee would warm to Hughes, a leader in the anti-establishment Tea Party movement.
Hughes has also come under fire recently as key staffers at the Tea Party News Network resigned, citing unethical management practices. Specifically, the staffers noted:
“TheTeaParty.net Facebook page was built using non-profit dollars and resources and yet the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month being generated from traffic deriving from the non-profit Facebook page are being funneled to a for profit company with no transparency. Even if you could find a way to make that legal, it’s immoral and unethical,” the letter continues. “We represent ourselves as ‘The Tea Party’ on Facebook and take no action to hold ourselves to the higher standards of that designation. Posts by fights.buzz and viral.buzz have become increasingly vile and unacceptable. The Tea Party is not TMZ and TPNN is not WorldStar.”
Hughes defended the network's practices and has moved forward without the key staffers who left the organization.
For more Hendersonville area news, follow @HvilleNews
Friday, March 27, 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Clary Announces Mayoral Bid
Former Hendersonville Alderman Jamie Clary became the first person to publicly announce a candidacy for Mayor of Hendersonville, an election that will be held in November of 2016.
Clary made the announcement via social media, according to this Hendersonville Star News story.
Clary served as Alderman from 2002-2006. He ran for re-election in 2006, but was soundly defeated by now-former Alderman Lisa West.
Shortly after Clary announced, friends and supporters of potential candidate and former County Commissioner David Kimbrough indicated they'd received messages from him suggesting he will run. Kimbrough has not made a formal announcement.
Other potential candidates include current Aldermen Matt Stamper and Steve Brown and former Alderman Tommy Elsten. Brown and Elsten both ran for Mayor in 2012, when current Mayor Scott Foster won re-election to a third term. Brown then won election to an open seat on the BOMA in 2014.
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Clary made the announcement via social media, according to this Hendersonville Star News story.
Clary served as Alderman from 2002-2006. He ran for re-election in 2006, but was soundly defeated by now-former Alderman Lisa West.
Shortly after Clary announced, friends and supporters of potential candidate and former County Commissioner David Kimbrough indicated they'd received messages from him suggesting he will run. Kimbrough has not made a formal announcement.
Other potential candidates include current Aldermen Matt Stamper and Steve Brown and former Alderman Tommy Elsten. Brown and Elsten both ran for Mayor in 2012, when current Mayor Scott Foster won re-election to a third term. Brown then won election to an open seat on the BOMA in 2014.
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Hyde and Rogers Take on Voters
Apparently, resoundingly losing an election won't stop Merrol Hyde from trying to meddle in local political affairs. Despite the fact that Hyde's County Commission buddies Frank Freels, Jerry Stone, and Kirk Moser lost in the May elections and that Hyde's once-powerful faction on the Sumner County Commission now can barely muster more than 5 votes on any single issue, Hyde continues to push an anti-voter legislative agenda.
Hyde has partnered with State Rep. Courtney Rogers (the candidate Hyde recruited to run against Debra Maggart in 2012) to advance state legislation that would bar teachers, police officers, and first responders from serving on the Sumner County Commission.
Hyde claims that this is to prevent any "conflicts of interest." Nevermind that voters were fully aware that the candidates they were voting for (or against) in May and August were also serving Sumner County as teachers, sheriff's deputies, and in other capacities. Hyde wants to protect the poor voters from any injustice -- Hyde knows best, after all.
While such a stance may seem hypocritical in light of the fact that Hyde himself was once Director of Schools while at the same time serving as a County Commissioner, hypocrisy has never gotten in the way of Merrol Hyde with a political ax to grind. In fact, when his schools budget was out of balance and he was serving on the County Commission, he voted 7 times in a single night for varying levels of a tax increase -- now, he claims to be an anti-tax champion.
As one might guess, County Commissioners who also serve our community in other capacities have had enough of the 1-2 punch of Hyde and Rogers. Last Monday, they passed a resolution calling on the General Assembly to oppose the ill-conceived Rogers bill.
And one Commissioner, Scott Langford, offered his opinion in the Hendersonville Standard.
Langford said of the Rogers bill:
This bill seeks to undermine free elections by limiting the choice of who can serve and whom voters and whom voters can elect.
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Hyde has partnered with State Rep. Courtney Rogers (the candidate Hyde recruited to run against Debra Maggart in 2012) to advance state legislation that would bar teachers, police officers, and first responders from serving on the Sumner County Commission.
Hyde claims that this is to prevent any "conflicts of interest." Nevermind that voters were fully aware that the candidates they were voting for (or against) in May and August were also serving Sumner County as teachers, sheriff's deputies, and in other capacities. Hyde wants to protect the poor voters from any injustice -- Hyde knows best, after all.
While such a stance may seem hypocritical in light of the fact that Hyde himself was once Director of Schools while at the same time serving as a County Commissioner, hypocrisy has never gotten in the way of Merrol Hyde with a political ax to grind. In fact, when his schools budget was out of balance and he was serving on the County Commission, he voted 7 times in a single night for varying levels of a tax increase -- now, he claims to be an anti-tax champion.
As one might guess, County Commissioners who also serve our community in other capacities have had enough of the 1-2 punch of Hyde and Rogers. Last Monday, they passed a resolution calling on the General Assembly to oppose the ill-conceived Rogers bill.
And one Commissioner, Scott Langford, offered his opinion in the Hendersonville Standard.
Langford said of the Rogers bill:
This bill seeks to undermine free elections by limiting the choice of who can serve and whom voters and whom voters can elect.
For more Sumner County and Hendersonville news, follow @HvilleNews
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