Metro Nashville Council has posted the agenda for the next meeting, which takes place on January 18.
Included in the agenda are board appointments, settlements for property damages, approval of grant applications, zoning, and other expenditures totaling millions of dollars.
Some examples of issues that Metro Council will consider are as follows:
RS2022-1328, sponsored by councilmembers Parker, Allen, Welsch and Styles, is “A resolution to approve the Second Amendment to a grant contract for constructing affordable housing approved by RS2019-1861 between The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting by and through the Metropolitan Housing Trust Fund Commission, and Affordable Housing Resources.”
The agenda analysis states:
Affordable Housing Resources entered into a grant contract to distribute $533,690 in monetary grants from the Barnes Fund. The contract was originally for the construction of 30 units of affordable housing. The first amendment to the grant extended the term of the grant from 24 months to 36 months.
The resolution under consideration approves a second amendment to the grant contract. This amendment reduces the grant award from $533,690 to $283,690 and reduces the number of units from 30 to 10.
RS2022-1336, sponsored by Councilmember Allen, is “A resolution approving a joint funding agreement with the United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, to acquire approximately 525 square miles of current LiDAR derived high-resolution elevation data for Davidson County, Tennessee.
The agenda analysis states: “Fiscal Note: The cost to the Metropolitan Department of Information Technology Services to acquire high-resolution digital elevation data developed from airborne LiDAR for an area of
approximately 525 square miles is $218,962.14.”
RS2022-1337, sponsored by councilmembers Allen, Evans, Welsch, Suara and Styles, is “A resolution approving an application for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Metropolitan Nashville Fire Department, to protect the health and safety of the public and first responder personnel against fire and fire-related hazards.”
The agenda analysis states: “This resolution approves an application for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Metropolitan Nashville Fire Department. If approved, the grant award would be $693,081 with a require local cash match of $63,007.36.”
An ordinance on third reading, BL2021-1000, is sponsored by Councilmember Styles and is “An ordinance to amend Title 17 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws, the Zoning Ordinance of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, by cancelling a portion of the Hickory Hollow Planned Unit Development Overlay District for property located at 5256 Hickory Hollow Parkway, approximately 530 feet southwest of Mt. View Road, zoned SCR (12.11 acres), all of which is described herein (Proposal No. 1-74P-014).”
BL2021-1051, an ordinance on third reading, is sponsored by councilmembers Suara, Styles and Rosenberg, and is “An Ordinance to adopt a Plan for a Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County Internet Forum.”
The agenda analysis states:
This legislation approves the Metropolitan Council’s plan for an internet forum and, upon passage, the plan would be submitted to the Office of Open Records Counsel. The Council first gave notice of its intent to explore the establishment of an internet forum through Resolution No. RS2020-173, adopted on January 21, 2020. This resolution requested that the Metro ITS Department assist the Council in the creation of a plan for an internet forum.
The Council’s proposed internet forum would be hosted by Bang the Table. Only members of
the Council would be allowed to post to the forum and no communications would be deleted
from the forum. A username and password would be required to post to the forum and all
members would be required to sign the Internet Forum Terms of Use Agreement, which is
attached to the plan.
BL2021-1052, which is on the third reading, is an ordinance approving and adopting the redistricting plan for Nashville’s council and school board districts.
Other items may be added to the agenda upon consent.
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Aaron Gulbransen is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Davidson County Courthouse” by euthman CC BY-SA 2.0.
“Affordable housing”, the unicorn of big, liberal cities. Just a big money pit into which tax dollars are dumped and out comes smelly brown stuff.