Franklin County Commission — Aug. 24, 2026

The Franklin County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Franklin County Courthouse in Winchester, with 13 commissioners present and 3 absent. A public hearing on rezoning land on Greenhaw Road from agricultural to I-1 Industrial District, Special was removed from consideration until the September meeting because the item had not been posted on the county website in time. The board approved its July 27, 2026 minutes. It approved budget amendments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027 covering the Board of Education general fund, the county general fund, the solid waste fund, and the highway fund. It approved multi-year lease purchase and maintenance agreements for the county clerk's office and for Rock Creek Elementary School. It authorized applications for three Tennessee Risk Management Trust safety grants: a courthouse defibrillator, annex sidewalk safety work, and a solid waste recycling center cooler. It authorized conveying county real property to the State of Tennessee for use as a Tennessee College of Applied Technology campus, and authorized the county to enter into investigation and negotiations for real property. It reappointed Troy Gamble to the Animal Control Board, Eddie Vincent to the Sheriff's Civil Service Board, and Clint Morris to the Pavilion Board, each for three-year terms ending Aug. 24, 2029, and Greg Houston to the Regional Planning Commission for a four-year term ending Aug. 24, 2030. It approved nine notary publics. Each measure passed with 13 yes votes and 3 absent. Minutes text was recovered by OCR from the county's scanned minutes PDF, which has no text layer; OCR text kept at goal hidden_files/ocr/2026-10-23-franklin-commission-08-24.txt.

Source: Franklin County, TN — Board of Commissioners