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?