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New Bill Could Raise Standards for Awarding Construction Contracts Legislation introduced by Metro Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda seeks to incentivize safety, training and compensation for workers Tweet Share
On Tuesday evening, Metro Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda plans to introduce a new bill that could raise Nashville’s standards for awarding construction contracts, emphasizing workplace safety and fair payment and compensation.
“We ve been working on this for about a year, and we came to the table with several unions and several worker groups, and we’ve heard it all,” says the District 30 councilmember. “We ve heard wage-theft stories, we ve heard lack of sanitary facilities. … We ve heard people who aren t trained. We ve heard about retaliation.”
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Pete Meenen and the Tennesseans We Lost to COVID-19
The state’s first resident claimed by a virus that went on to kill many more
On March 21, the Brentwood Family YMCA shared the news that Pete Meenen, a greeter at the gym and community center for more than 20 years, had died. He was the first person in Tennessee to die from COVID-19.
“Perhaps few faces in a YMCA are as recognizable as the greeter who meets the morning faithful, the early risers who start their day with us when the Welcome Center is a little quieter than usual,” the Brentwood Y’s operations executive, Roger D. Grove, wrote on Facebook. “For more than 20 years, Pete was that face in our YMCA, and his loss will be deeply felt by all of us, our staff and our members.”