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If you expected a proposed constitutional amendment that eventually would take away 23% of the City of Gadsdens budget to go unmentioned by City Council members, you were wrong. For some, including Mayor Sherman Guyton and council member Jason Wilson, there was ire over Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, launching the idea of a phaseout of the occupational tax at a press conference on Monday without extending the "common courtesy" of letting leaders in some affected municipalities know about it. Jone...

Gadsden City Council member Jason Wilson on Tuesday introduced a resolution opposing both a proposed rendering plant and municipal tax abatements for it, but four members of the council voted to table the resolution "indefinitely," setting off heated conversation and allegations about the contentious issue. When Wilson spoke of the measure at the pre-council meeting, he said he probably would not ask for consideration at the subsequent council meeting, because he didnt think he could get the u...

During Tuesdays Gadsden City Council meeting, council member Jason Wilson reminded people that the proposed Pilgrims Pride rendering plant came from the State of Alabama, which first suggested it for Etowah Countys Little Canoe Creek Mega-Site. Wilson said the story of why the plant didnt go there varied — it was too expensive to get water service there, or that the County Commission had considered it and decided it wasnt right for the site. "But they were allowed to go through the process," ...