Tonight, Knox County Commissioner Rhonda Lee called out the HPUD Board career of Kevin Julian, who has served 12 years and now gets another 4 years. Watch it here.
Commissioner Larsen Jay who has served the last four years on Commission was unaware of where the provision of term limits is in code. Come on Larsen, Rhonda has only been Commissioner 26 days and she is showing you don’t know squat.
Larsen blew this. How could he miss it?
Oh, it’s like Farragut where the law doesn’t apply:
https://farragutpress.com/articles/2022/09/12192
“Not following Town light code still legal: Hale
Answers new alderman’s claims of ‘illegal’ park lights
September 21, 2022 by Tammy Cheek
With new Town of Farragut Alderman David White (Ward II, South) repeatedly vocalizing his claim in recent months that Town park lighting at Mayor Bob Leonard and McFee parks are “against code” and therefore “illegal,” that charge was answered.
Before Farragut Municipal Planning Commission’s Thursday, Sept. 15, meeting, where action on a proposed amendment to the Town’s lighting ordinance concerning ballfield lighting was postponed, Town attorney Tom Hale explained the Town is not “illegal” with MBL and McFee park lighting.
“When a municipality is designing its own facilities, like a park, that is considered a governmental activity, like a park is, under the law of Tennessee it is not required to follow its own regulations,” he said. “That’s what the general law is in the state and across the United States, actually.”