Farragut FYI

Recent articles in the Knoxville Focus discuss some of the candidates for the Board of Mayor and Alderman. In those articles, Mr. Johns who is running for mayor of the Town of Farragut, indicated that he attended a seven-and-a-half hour planning meeting. In one article he is quoted as stating that this meeting “accomplished nothing.” This seven-and-a-half hour planning meeting held in early February was the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen’s annual strategic planning retreat to begin to build the Town’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Contrary to Mr. Johns’ statement, there was actually quite a lot of work accomplished during this planning meeting. During this meeting, the elected officials work with our Town Administrator and our department heads to discuss the needs and desires of our community and prioritize funding those needs and desires in a fiscally responsible manner. We utilize the strategic plan framework which was approved in 2017 to assure us that what we’re f...