
News
June 24, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
Are your county property taxes going up? Find out tonight.
During the monthly meeting tonight (Monday, June24) the county commission will consider establishing an overall property tax levy of $2.61 cents per $100 of assessed value to fund the proposed 2024-25 consolidated budget. That’s a 61-cent hike from the current tax levy of $2.00 per $100 of assessed value. A year ago, the rate was $1.7308 cents. The commission will also consider adopting an initial and detailed bond resolution not to exceed $65 million for the construction of a judicial center/jail.
Fifty-one cents of the proposed tax increase would go to fund debt service for a judicial center/jail while the remaining 10 cent increase would be allocated to schools to help fund the proposed new school budget which includes pay raises for certified personnel and support staff.
The county commission will also likely act on a resolution to have a public referendum on the ballot in the November election asking DeKalb County voters if they would support a $100 wheel tax for debt service to fund construction of a judicial center/jail. If approved by the voters, County Mayor Matt Adcock said funds from the wheel tax could help offset what a proposed property tax increase would generate in the meantime for debt service and allow the county to eventually scale back the size of the overall tax hike for the 2025-26 fiscal year after the wheel tax proceeds start coming in.
A public hearing on the proposed consolidated budget and property tax levy will be held at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, June 24) prior to the monthly county commission meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Mike Foster Multipurpose Center.
The agenda for the meeting is as follows: Call to order; invocation; pledge of allegiance; roll call; public comments; approval of agenda; approval of minutes; financial reports; budget amendments; committee reports; and new business including: appointment of DeWhite Utility District board members (James Hodges, Leslie Enoch, and Arthur Primrose); appointment of beer board members (Larry Green, Myron Rhody, Beth Pafford, Tony (Cully) Culwell, and Jeff Barnes); action on beer board policy and procedures; action on sales tax agreement; action on wheel tax referendum resolution; action on initial and detailed bond resolution; action on the nonprofit resolution; action on the appropriations resolution; action on tax levy resolution; approval of notaries; and any other business properly presented.
DeKalb County Fair Opens Tonight (Monday, June 24)
June 24, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
The 168th edition of the Grandpa Fair of the South opens tonight (Monday, June 24) in Alexandria.
This annual weeklong fun filled DeKalb County tradition will be held each night through Saturday, June 29. New carnival attractions are being offered this year by James Gang Amusements and some got a chance to experience the thrill of the rides and games over the weekend, Friday through Sunday, June 21-23 when the carnival only portion of the fair opened early.
(Click link below or the boxes on the WJLE home page or local news page daily to view photos from the fair this week. It will be updated each day. Photos shown here were made during the carnival held there over the weekend by James Gang Amusements)
Since 1856, the DeKalb County Fair has been offering entertainment, Midway rides, food, exhibits, pageants, livestock shows and other action-packed events. Now in its 168th year, the Grandpa Fair of the South continues to live up to its 2024 theme of “Celebrating What Makes a Community Great.”
New fair events during the week this year include a Bump N Run Derby, Monster Truck Show, and Rodeo along with other old favorites, a demolition derby and motorcycle and ATV racing, among others. Lions Club Pavilion entertainment will feature David Turner and Friends, Center Hill Ramblers, Zone Status Band, Relentless Youth, Harvest Moon, and Square Dancing by Smithville Select, Caney Fork Circle Eight, DeKalb Dancing Delights and Center Hill Hoedown Square Dancers, among others.
The schedule of Fair events on opening night, Monday June 24 is as follows:
Monday, June 24:
Cattle Show-Ag Center- 6:00 p.m.
Junk Car/Bump N Run- TC McMillen Arena – 7:00 p.m.
Jr. Fair Princess (13-16)- Lions Pavilion – 6:00 p.m.
Fairest of the Fair (17-20)- Lions Pavilion – following
Miss Fair Queen (21-54)- Lions Pavilion – following
Lip Sync Battle (Round 1)- Lions Pavilion – following
Open Poultry Show (All Week)- Barn
Cash Drawing-Lions Pavilion – 9:30 p.m.
Visit the DeKalb County Fair website at the link below for further information at www.dekalbcountyfairtn.com/
2024 DeKalb County Fair – Radio Sponsors
DTC Communications
Middle Tennessee Electric
Wal-Mart
Liberty State Bank
Rogers Group
Wilson Bank & Trust
Mike Eaton – Blackwell Realty And Auction
Wilson County Motors
Heavenly Landscape & Tree Service
Three Forks Market
Farm Credit Mid-America
DeKalb Farmers Co-op
A Degree Above Heating & Cooling
Adams Dental, PLLC – Drs John & Laura Adams
Alexandria Family Care
B&G Supply
Blake Taylor Heating, Air & Electrical
Creative Graphics
Cumberland Supply
DeKalb Animal Clinic
DeKalb County Farm Bureau
DeKalb Funeral Chapel
FirstBank
Galaxy Ford in Smithville
Gina Denman – The Real Estate Team
Hawk Specialty Services
Industrial Machine Service, Inc
Junk & Jewels On The Square
Love Cantrell Funeral Home
Luke Prichard Excavating & Trucking
NHC Healthcare
Powell & Meadows
Regions Bank
Sam’s Pressure Washing & Soft Wash
Sissy Prichard Fish & Betsy Smith – Town N Lake
Slager Performance LLC, Excavation, Demoilition & Land Clearing
Southern Landscape
Stain & Seal Experts
State Representative Michael Hale
Sunbelt Rentals
Tennessee Credit
The Barn at Rowland Hills
The One Call Auction
Twin K Construction
W T Welding – Tyler Cripps
WJLE
DeKalb County Fair – Fair Sponsors
C & S Farms
Caney Fork Electric Cooperative
City Smithville AND Smithville Golf Course & Swimming Pool
DeKalb County Florist
DeKalb County Soil & Water Conservation District
DeKalb Prevention Coalition
DJs Pizza & Steakhouse of Alexandria
Gill Automotive
Grant Cedar Mill
Hosanna Farm
MARQLABS
Middle Tennessee Natural Gas
Smithville Food Lion
Swallows Insurance
The Smithville Review
DeKalb County Fair – Pavilion Sponsors
A.Vester Parsley, Attorney
Alexandria Auto Parts
Avant Funeral Home
Brown Hauling & Excavating
C&C Market and Deli
Campbell’s Garage
Cantrell’s Furniture & Appliance
Curtis Supply
David W. Lawrence, Attorney
DeKalb Ace Hardware
DeKalb County Insurance, Inc.
DeKalb County Stockyard
DeKalb Dental Center
DeKalb Elected Officials
DeKalb Title, LLC
DTC Security
F Z Webb & Sons Pharmacy
Foutch Eyecare
Gammon & Drueck CPAs
Greg Dugdale Properties
Griffin’s Produce
Keith Blair, Attorney
Lebanon Chemical Inc/The Pool’s Edge
Mid-State Precision, Inc.
Rochelle, McCulloch & Aulds
Savvy Scrubs and More / P.T.S.
Smith Farmers Co-op
Tramel CPA Group
Twisted Sifter Sweets
Webb House Retirement Center
DeKalb County Fair – Business Card Sponsors
Betty Lattimore – The Real Estate Team
Newly Constituted County Beer Board to Consider Application for Permit Monday Night
June 23, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
The newly constituted beer board made up of five county commissioners is expected to meet for the first time Monday night, June 24 to consider action on an application for a beer permit. The meeting will be held following the 6:30 p.m. monthly county commission session in the auditorium of the Mike Foster Multipurpose Center or county complex.
County Mayor Matt Adcock announced Thursday night during a county commission committee of the whole meeting that he has appointed, subject to approval of the commission, Larry Green, Myron Rhody, Beth Pafford, Tony (Cully) Culwell, and Jeff Barnes to the new beer board. Green will serve as chairman, Rhody as vice chairman, and Pafford will be the secretary.
The board’s first meeting will be to consider a application by Jeffrey Lynn Cawthorn for an on-premises permit at 2100 Edgar Evins Park Road, Silver Point under the name Edgar Evins Lakeside Kitchen.
Last month, the commission adopted a resolution, upon the recommendation of the government services committee, establishing a new DeKalb County Beer Board to be made up of five county commissioners. The board will have the authority to approve or deny applications for beer permits based on criteria established in policies set by the county commission, such as distance requirements, etc. Beer board members are to be paid per meeting the same as present-day or current compensation for county commission committee meetings.
Several months ago, the commission abolished the seven-member citizen beer board at the suggestion of County Mayor Adcock and made the entire 14-member county commission the beer board.
Since then, the county mayor and commission decided that a five-member beer board would function better.
According to the resolution as adopted last month, County Mayor Adcock will appoint five county commissioners including a chairman, vice chairman, and secretary to serve on the beer board in September each year with confirmation by the county commission. The terms are for one year. The members will be up for reappointment each September.
The resolution calls for the county mayor to provide distant measurements to the board by request of the beer board chairman. The county clerk shall perform the clerical duties of overseeing the process of applications, accepting payment, and forwarding that information to the chairman of the beer board. The county clerk shall also oversee the background check process if the beer board policies require it and then forward results of the background check to the beer board chairman.
The chairman of the beer board will be responsible for setting the meeting date, time, and place.
The county commission will be responsible for developing and maintaining a beer board policy that will provide requirements of the beer board that have not been addressed in the resolution.
“The beer board will be operated under the state laws of Tennessee and beer board policies that would be set in place by the government services committee,” said County Mayor Adcock Thursday night.
“I went ahead and made a beer board policy for you (county commission) to look over so they (beer board) have some criteria to work with on Monday but this is basically the exact same requirements that we already have right now. It pretty much has the same language as the resolution we passed but it goes a little more in detail saying that the county commission and beer board will forbid the sale, storage, or manufacture of beer or like beverages within 800 feet or some lesser distance of schools, churches, and other places of public gathering and 300 feet from a place of residence if the owner is in opposition to the issuance of the permit. The owner of the residence would be asked to sign a statement prepared by the beer board chairman or county mayor that he is not opposed to the issuance of the permit in question. The application fee for a beer permit required by the state is $250. The county will require a background check of the applicant who must not have been convicted of a felony or crime that the beer board believes to be of moral turpitude within the last 10 years,” said County Mayor Adcock.
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