Madison County Board of Commissioners hold June meeting

JACKSON, Tenn. — The June meeting of the Madison County Board of Commissioners had some old and new business to discuss.

The meeting began with the invocation by Pastor Ronald Benton.

This was followed by two members of the Jackson Police Department discussing how they can get the community more aware of the dangerous effects of fentanyl abuse.

Karen Bell, finance director for Madison County, stated that she was resigning from her position which will be effective on June 28.

“I thought the role of finance work was to review financial data relating to audits and budgets and to make sure that every tax dollar was being spent wisely,” said Bell.

A resolution was read by District 4 Commissioner, Gary Deaton, which called on the United States Postal Service to return mail processing to Madison County.

County Commissioner, Jeff Wall, told us about the board voting 18-yes and 3-no to solar farm use at an area in Denmark.

“The solar farms that are moving in, they benefit somebody, somewhere, some company or something like that. In this case, it’s going to directly benefit JEA,” said Wall.

He said that this will be energy efficient and benefit people locally.

Property tax was also discussed during the meeting.

“Property tax rate is the same as last year. There is no increase in property taxes this year,” said Wall.

He discussed the pennies that were allocated will help to support the school system.

“The penny allocations that we actually allocated will support the new school buses to be purchased by the Jackson-Madison county School System as well as boil projects and other projects that they have for the schools,” said Wall.

These pennies total at about $319,360.

The next meeting is scheduled for June 28 to discuss the ratification of the budget.

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