By Ryan Lewis
Correspondent
JASPER, Tenn. – Part of the justification Jasper administrators gave for a recent tax increase was the need to upgrade the police department’s patrol cars.
At the September meeting of the Jasper Board of Mayor and Aldermen, city officials moved ahead with those plans by approving a resolution to purchase four new police cruisers.
Jasper Mayor Billy Simpson said Wilson County Motors in Lebanon, Tenn., originally held four 2010 models that the town had agreed to purchase once a new budget was in place.