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EV adoption projected to increase as public, private investment increases charging options

While electric vehicle sales are less than industry experts predicted, continued investment in EV infrastructure is expected to help bridge the gap. Officials with Ford announced they would be...

State revenues predicted to grow at a slower pace over the next two years

The State Funding Board set a growth rate for general fund revenue collections to fall between a negative 0.5% to 0% for the remaining FY2023. For the FY2024-25 budget, the board adopted a modest...

TML District Meetings Dec. 5-12

The Second Session of the 113th General Assembly will convene in Nashville on Jan. 9, 2024. It is important that city officials are prepared to educate their legislators on the needs of our cities and towns.

TML District Meetings will include information on TML’s legislative priorities as well as...

Proposed EPA rule would require removal of lead water pipes within a decade

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking for feedback on a new rule proposal that would require all lead drinking water pipes to be replaced within ten years, offering few exceptions. The...

News Across Tennessee

Metal manufacturer expands Sparta opeartions

Sparta Metal Processing LLC officials announced today the company will invest $12.3 million to expand its metal remanufacturing operations in Sparta, creating 52 new jobs. The expansion on Turn Table Road will allow the company to purchase new manufacturing equipment, which will better assist Sparta...

Kingsport celebrates 20,000 resolved issues through city app

The city of Kingsport is celebrating resolving more than 20,000 citizen issues through the Connect Kingsport app. Since it was launched two years ago, the Connect Kingsport app has become the quickest and easiest way for citizens to report non-emergency concerns in more than three dozen categories...

Logistics company to expand Knoxville headquarters

Axle Logistics, LLC officials announced the company will invest $37.9 million to expand logistics operations at its Knoxville headquarters. The company will create 651 new jobs in Knoxville in the next five years, nearly tripling its current headcount in Tennessee. As part of the project, the...

Atoka to leverage record grant funding for wastewater improvements

The town of Atoka is levering the largest grant award in town history to finance the revitalization and enhancement of Atoka’s wastewater infrastructure. Atoka was granted $8,192,350 through the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation allocation from the American Rescue Plan Act, the...

Columbia lauded by GFOA for 24th year

The city of Columbia has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). This is now the 24th year the city has been awarded this honor. The report has been judged by an impartial...

Behavioral healthcare provider to expand Franklin headquarters

Summit Behavioral Healthcare officials announced the company will invest $4.5 million to expand its Franklin headquarters, creating 125 new jobs in the next five years. Summit Behavioral Healthcare was established to develop and operate a network of leading behavioral and mental health centers...

People

Eldridge, Waddell join MTAS

The University of Tennessee Municipal Advisory Service (UT-MTAS) has announced two new team members will be joining the service.

Desiree Eldridge will be joining MTAS as a library associate in the Knoxville office while John Waddell will serve as a legal consultant in the Nashville office.

Eldridge...

Roger Page

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Roger Page will retire after a decade on the state’s highest court. He was first appointed to the court in 2014 by then Gov. Bill Haslam and served as chief justice from 2021 to 2023. A seventh generation West Tennessean, Page earned his law degree from the University...

Kristie Diamond

Kristie Diamond has been selected as the new town clerk for the town of Collierville. Diamond will take over from Lynn Carmack, who retired after 28 years of service. Diamond has been working with the town since 2019 when she was hired as an accounting technician in the finance department. She then...

Austin Clark

Austin Clark has been selected as the new public works director for the city of Jackson. Clark comes to Jackson from Clifton where he spent nine years as the city’s director of public works and assistant airport manager. Clark has numerous certificates and licenses in water treatment, wastewater...

Walter Lee

Walter Lee, vice mayor of Orlinda, died suddenly Nov. 6, 2023 at the age of 63. Lee first served as a city commissioner for Orlinda in the early 1990s at the time when the town was transitioning for a three-person commission to a five-member city council. He was also instrumental in creating the...

Greg Wood

Greg Wood has announced his intention to retire as Crossville’s City Manager, a position he has held since 2017. Before coming to the city of Crossville, Wood served as the county manager of Holmes County, Fla.; Jasper County, Ga.; and Harris County, Ga. He also spent 22 years in the U.S. Air Force...

State Briefs

Tennessee October revenues less than projected, previous year's revenues

Tennessee’s tax collections less than budgeted for October and less than the same month the previous year, largely driven by the three-month grocery tax holiday and lower business tax collections.

According to Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson , overall...

Tennessee unemployment rate rises slightly in October

Tennessee’s October unemployment rose 0.1% over September, increasing to 3.3%. The state’s unemployment rate remained 0.6% lower than the national unemployment rate of 3.9%. Tennessee maintained an all-time low unemployment rate of 3.1% in July and August of this year, but was 0.2% lower than the...

Record-breaking number of applicants for this years' Tennessee Promise program

A record-breaking number of students have applied for the Tennessee Promise scholarship program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC). More than 66,000 high school seniors applied for the program as of the close of the current cycle on Nov. 1, an increase of 3.6% over the...

RetireReadyTN wins three awards for educational programs

RetireReadyTN has received three awards for its readiness education programs that benefit Tennessee public employees and teachers. The program receive the Pensions and Investments 2022 Excellence and Innovation Award, Plan Sponsor Magazine 2023 Public Defined Contribution Plan Sponsor of the Year...

Comptroller's office reports on TSLA findings

Student reading scores for third graders improved in thrice-yearly screenings and over their previous years’ scores, according to a review of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act by the Comptroller’s Office of Research and Education Accountability (OREA). The study found more third graders scored...

Tourism enhancement grants awarded to 14 municipalities

Tennessee Department of Tourist Development announced 13 cities will be among the 29 recipients of more than $2.22 million in Tourism Enhancement grants.

Tennessee’s Tourism Enhancement Grants support cities and counties seeking to invest in their local tourism assets, lift visitation and increase...

TML Updates

Tennessee Historic Preservation grants now accepted

$1.5B in grants available through 2024 RAISE Grant Program

TML District Meetings planned for December

Museum capital improvement grants available through Tennessee State Museum program

State accepting water quality grant proposals

Volunteer Tennessee Announces AmeriCorps Funding Opportunity

USDOT makes more than $3B for Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program

Restore Return Relief Advocacy