HOW THEY VOTEDMotion to table PILOT vote until after March 2FOR: Jim Fields, Joe Graham, Mitch McClure, Fred SkillernAGAINST: Chester Bankston, Greg Beck, Tim Boyd, Larry Henry, Warren MackeyMotion to rescind PILOT restrictions created last yearFOR: Bankston, Beck, Boyd, Henry, Mackey, McClureAGAINST: Fields, Graham, Skillern
Hamilton County Commissioner Fred Skillern went into a backroom tirade Wednesday after being on the losing end of another education vote.
“His ass is mine,” Skillern said of schools Superintendent Rick Smith, suggesting that he had been instrumental in successfully ousting at least one former schools chief.
Sitting in the suite next to the commission’s regular meeting room, Skillern scolded Commissioner Greg Beck for not voting Skillern’s way on a resolution to give more than $1.1 million marked for education to the school system. Skillern opposed the motion.
“You let me down again,” Skillern told Beck.