The topline items included in the budget amendment, which still requires legislative approval, are a restoration of the governor’s $250 million mental health trust fund, an $80 million plan to clear the 11,000-person waitlist at the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology and a two-week tax holiday for grocery stores and restaurants expected to cost the state $100 million. The administration initially proposed the trust fund, the interest from which will be used to fund mental health services for children, in 2020 but scrapped the plan as lawmakers rushed to approve a spending plan as COVID-19 started to spread in the state. Democrats
previously proposed a six-month food tax holiday.
The virtual workshop will convene online at 10 a.m. CT, Friday, Feb. 12, to continue a discussion that began with the first Strategic Plan Workshop on Jan.
TCAT Murfreesboro president re-elected to Council for Occupational Education governing board Jan 26, 2021 at 08:00 am by WGNS
Dr. Carol Puryear, president of TCAT Murfreesboro
The presidents of two Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology have been re-elected to the governing board of the Council on Occupational Education, the national accrediting agency for occupational education institutions in higher education.
Dr. Carol Puryear, president of TCAT Murfreesboro, and Dr. Jeff Sisk, president of TCAT Jackson, were re-elected to new three-year terms on the 19-member Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (COE).
The Commission is COE’s governing board and the decision-making body for all accreditation actions of the Council.