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Opinion: This is a conservative action?

Staff File Photo By Matt Hamilton / Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp speaks as part of a press conference in front of the district attorney general's office on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023.
Staff File Photo By Matt Hamilton / Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp speaks as part of a press conference in front of the district attorney general's office on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Staff File Photo By Matt Hamilton / Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp speaks as part of a press conference in front of the district attorney general's office on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023.

Not surprisingly, the Hamilton County Commission has questions.

Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp probably has questions.

We have a few ourselves.

The subject is the Tennessee legislature’s passage of a bill that prohibits county commissions from cutting the budget of a county mayor’s office to an amount less than it was the previous year, unless the mayor agrees to the cuts.

Hamilton County Commission Chair Jeff Eversole, R-Ooltewah, quite reasonably wants to know which expenses come under that mayor’s budget — the chief of staff, the chief operating officer, the chief financial officer, the deputy mayors, travel allowances, others?