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.
The Daily Herald
As Maury County Public Schools prepares to take bids for the sale of the historic McDowell Elementary School property, some members of the Maury County Commission are considering asking the school board for the first chance to acquire the site.
Ahead of the school board’s Tuesday regular meeting, Maury County Commission Chairman Don Morrow stressing that he does not speak for the full commission told fellow commissioners that he plans to approach the school board to reiterate the county s interest in the property.
“It may be worth a visit from a district commissioner to say hold the process,” Morrow said during a county building committee meeting Monday night. “There are seven acres of land there that maybe we could utilize.”