The Daily Herald
With a growing expectation that Maury County s government will need every square-foot of its downtown office space, the Maury County Commission took its first step in discussing a new location for the county s UT Extension office.
Located on the second floor of 10 Public Square at Columbia s Courthouse, the office currently occupies 3,600-square feet of county-owned office space, leased at no cost. That is a lot of space that we are going to need eventually, said Don Morrow, chairman of the Maury County Commission. Everything is growing. Everybody is adding employees.
An outreach branch of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, the Maury County Extension Office directly serves as a local resources center for those working in agriculture.
The Maury County Budget Committee has given preliminary approve to a property tax increase as it navigates a more than $4 million gab in its budget for 2021-22.
The Daily Herald
The Maury County Budget Committee has taken the county government’s operating budget under consideration for the coming fiscal year, reviewing major upcoming projects including a plan to build a new high school in Spring Hill.
“Every department is now under consideration,” Committee Chairman Scott Sumners told The Daily Herald following the county s initial review of the budget last week.
“I am a little concerned about the deficit that we will have with the debt on the general fund. I think we are going to be OK. I am concerned about it.”
As the budget continues to be drafted, the chairman said he could not share exactly how large the deficit would be.