LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF) – The LaFollette City Council met Tuesday afternoon in its regular monthly meeting with several items on the agenda.

First on the agenda for the council to vote on was Ordinance 2022-02 with a final reading. The ordinance levies a four percent privilege tax on any hotel/motel or any place in which rooms, lodging or accommodations are furnished, and it was approved.

Ordinance 2022-03 adopting and enacting supplemental and replacement pages for the Municipal Code of the City of LaFollette had a first reading. Ordinance 2022-04 amending section 5-A of the employee personnel policy also had a first reading as did Ordinance 2022-05 amending section 11 of the zoning ordinance to address short-term rentals in zone R-1 and R-2.

Resolution 2022-08 amending the 2021-22 budget to add a $94,320 grant the fire department received from the LaFollette Medical Board Foundation was approved.

The Council approved soliciting bids for three separate items. The first item is a bucket truck for the public works department, the second item is repaving the municipal building parking lot and entrance to fire station #3 and the final item is rescue equipment for the new truck in the fire department.

Two full time dispatcher promotions, Jennifer Spradlin and Jessica Hutson at a salary of $24,690 effective March 12, were approved. A request for the Campbell County Lions Club to use the parking lot behind city hall for its annual carnival the week of May 16-21 was approved. The June 30,2021 audit was approved. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 03/02/2022-6AM)

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