Lee Erwin reporting
news@clarksvillenow.com
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – At their formal meeting Monday, August 12, Montgomery County Mayor Carolyn Bowers informed County Commissioners that she had pulled a resolution from the agenda involving new regulatory powers for the county. The County Powers Act resolution would grant Bowers some of the powers similar to those of the mayor of the City of Clarksville such as issuing burning bans and enforcing a curfew.
Bowers talked about her decision to pull the measure. “Some information has come forward today that tells us that the EMA (Emergency Management Agency) and the county fire departments have the authority to do the burn bans. We had done some research on it and had not found all of that coming forward,” Bowers said. Bowers added that she plans to do more research on the resolution before bringing it before the commission for a vote.
The zoning of land near Fort Campbell came before commissioners involving 12 tracts of land which were remnants of the relocation of Dover Road several years ago. The land was federal property and has been sold to the public after bids were taken through a website set up by the government.
Since it was federal property the land had not been zoned in the past. The Clarksville-Montgomery County Regional Planning Commission requested the zoning should be Agricultural or C-5 Highway and Arterial Commercial District. In the end the properties were approved to be zoned Agricultural.
Commissioners also voted to Monday postpone a decision to require animals in Montgomery County to be protected from direct sunlight in temperatures above 75 degrees. The resolution supported by Montgomery County Animal Control and Adoption is mainly aimed at protecting pets like dogs. It is expected to be taken up at the September session of the county commission.
Commissioners did vote Monday to change the word animals to domestic dogs and then decided to postpone a final vote the measure. When the discussion of exactly what determined shade was questioned by some commissioner’s, Commissioner Tommy Vallejos asked that the resolution be sent back to committee for further study.
Other items approved by commissioners were the purchase of land for the proposed construction of a new Emergency Medical Service Station on Highway 12. Amendments were also made to the 2013-14 Clarksville-Montgomery County School System budget re-appropriating funds from the Carmel Elementary School project to the Pisgah Elementary School project and renovations to the old Jostens building.