JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF) – The Campbell County Commission met Monday night and approved a number of budget amendments, some beer board rule revisions and the usual number of reports and minutes. The meeting may be more notable for what the commission did not do, however. Watch the December county commission meeting HERE on demand.

Maria Partin from the County Clerk’s office appeared before the commission workshop last week to request a change in the county’s wheel tax ordinance. That change would streamline the process and save the county $1,800 a year, Partin explained, by allowing the county to issue one decal that combined both the wheel tax fee and the annual registration fee.

Partin explained that the one decal would have “TP” printed on it to indicate “tax paid” and save the cost of printing a second decal. She also pointed out that Campbell County residents who purchase new vehicles outside the county are already being traced by computer print-outs provided by the State and receive a notice if they fail to come in and pay the wheel tax voluntarily.

Partin told commissioners that the separate sticker is “a little obsolete” and the newly designed Tennessee license plates that will be coming out after January 1 do not have a indentation for a second sticker. Rusty Orick was the only commissioner to voice doubts at the workshop, asking “Why change something we’ve been doing for years and upset the public?” Partin responded that she did not think the public would be upset.

It was a surprise then, when at this week’s meeting a motion by Scott Kitts to approve the change was soundly defeated 11-3. None of the commissioners who voted “no” bothered to explain their opposition.

The commission also rolled over one budget amendment until a later date, to increase the salary of the Deputy Director of Sanitation to a level equal to the Deputy Director of the ambulance service. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 12/23/2021-6AM)

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