Farragut Files Follies - #1
Farrgut Files Follies - The accusations and insinuatios of wrongdoing continue without any actual evidence to back up the false claims. Regarding the accusations of violations of Tennessee's Open Meetings Act, the following provides some clarity. According to the Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS), “[a] two-pronged test must be used to analyze a meeting to determine if the Tennessee Open Meetings Act (hereinafter "TOMA") applies. First, a city/town must determine if the entity that is planning to meet is a “governing body” as defined in the TOMA. If the answer to that question is yes, it must then be determined if the governing body will be deliberating towards or making decisions on public business during the course of the meeting.” https://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/reference/governing-body Reaching out to a developer to encourage him to meet with Town staff to explore a potential opportunity to develop/redevelop land in the Town is NOT deliberating toward or ma...