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If passed, it would increase the amount of money departments can spend without commission approval.

As members finalize new rules in unincorporated areas, Hamilton County commissioners have again extended an ongoing pause on new short-term vacation rental permits — this time through April 20.

Hamilton County Commission Chairman Chip Baker was on to something earlier this month when he suggested the commission needed a more deliberative process for awarding funds to nonprofit organizations, and that became clear with the discussion at Wednesdays commission meeting on funds proposed for the nonprofit Lighthouse Collective.

Hamilton County commissioners will decide next week whether to provide an additional $100,000 in federal pandemic relief money for a youth mentorship program called the Lighthouse Collective, which would be the second of three yearly installments totaling $300,000.

Arguing that it could set a poor precedent, Hamilton County commissioners narrowly denied a request by residents of a Montlake subdivision to accept Terrace Falls Drive as a county road, with an official stating that the roadway doesnt meet existing county standards.

Tennesseans of a certain age first may have heard about term limits during the 1994 congressional campaign, when it was a part of the "Contract With America" offered by Republicans who were anxious to -- and did -- become the majority party in the United State House of Representatives.

Wamp pulled his original resolution pulling funding for a Wastewater Treatment Authority project after Local 3 News reported the project was set to be approved the same day.

Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp apparently didnt see the hornets nest he was about to run into when he suggested the county reallocate 4.2% of the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money the county was awarded in 2021.

Prompting pushback from several commissioners, Mayor Weston Wamp has proposed reallocating $3 million in federal pandemic relief funds set aside for the Hamilton County Water & Wastewater Treatment Authority, which would instead support a series of other initiatives.

Wamp proposed reallocating $3 million in American Rescue Plan funds for road, parks, and organizations supporting members of the Hispanic community.