October 5th, 2026 - Informal Montgomery County, TN Commission Meeting

Montgomery County, Tennessee’s informal County Commission meeting on October 5, 2026, included review of budget amendments and several resolutions scheduled for consideration at a later meeting. The county budget amendment included a $25,000 transfer for highway fleet-management software and capital-project transfers, including $20,000 for State Route 374 and funding for Lafayette Road traffic control, 7 Mile Ferry, Belmont Road, and Excel Road projects. School budget adjustments covered grant reconciliations, retirement-rate changes, $50,311 for child-nutrition software, and $1.74 million carried forward for a tutoring program. Other resolutions concerned the capital budget, a state emergency-preparedness grant, a CPACER program, and approval of crosswalk art at Veterans Plaza. The transcript records no final votes on these spending items.

Planning staff presented proposed zoning amendments for data centers, metal smelting/refining, and smoke shops. The data-center proposal would require review in industrial zones, limit sites to 10–100 acres, establish setbacks and noise standards, require utility-capacity confirmation, and make operators responsible for necessary utility improvements under state law. The smelting proposal would set acreage and setback requirements; the smoke-shop proposal would impose separation distances from schools, parks, religious institutions, and other shops. These amendments were presented for later consideration, with public comments both supporting discussion of safeguards and raising concerns. Separately, the county trustee reported quarterly hotel/motel occupancy-tax testing found $6,153.38 in net underpayments, with three outstanding payments collected; hotel/motel tax collections were about $5.1 million in 2025, and half of the proceeds support the county capital-project fund.