The Eastview Board of Aldermen meets at 7:00 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Eastview Civic Center.

Eastview’s mayor is Charles Weeks (645-8421), whose current term expires in 2010.

Eastview has five aldermen who serve four-year terms, all of which come up for election at the same time.  The next election will be in 2010.  The current aldermen are:

    Billy W. Hunter (645-7263)
    Jessie Robbins (645-4303)
    Jeff Coln
    Lucy Martin
    Burl Sutton (645-3034)

The water board meeting itself was quite short.  Payment of bills was approved on a motion by Billy Hunter, seconded by Jessie Robbins, and the water board meeting was adjourned on a motion by Robbins, seconded by Burl Sutton.

Mayor Weeks then called the town board meeting to order.  The minutes were approved on a motion by Hunter, seconded by Robbins, and the bills were approved on a motion by Robbins, seconded by Sutton.

Willard Summers was then recognized and addressed the board. "What I would like to propose," he began, "a lot of towns are, small towns, are setting up what they call 'historic districts,' and they designate a certain area in the, usually in the center of town for a historic district….  And one of the purposes for doing that is it makes you eligible for certain types of grants, once you set it up.  And, as I understand it, all you have to do is just pass it, the board pass it, and designates, tells where the historic district will be.  And what I'd like to propose is that we just designate a mile and a half in radius of the intersection over here, and if anybody else has a different preference, we'll certainly, you know, that might be a better one.  That's just what I would propose.  It seems that pretty much includes most of Eastview.  And one of the things that Charles [Mayor Charles Weeks] and I discussed early on, or we talked about a little bit, was the possibility of some sidewalks.  And I think, for example, didn't the state offer to build some sidewalks when they widened the road here?  Somebody told me they did.  Or had some sort of policy to do that?  But you had to do it then, when they were widening.  But what I'm suggesting is, I think that if we had a designated historical district, you know, that would open that possibility back up with the state.  Now, that's conjecture on my part.  I don't know that to be a fact.  I just feel like that would be true. But, anyway, I think it would add a great deal to Eastview if, you know, we started a system of sidewalks, and, naturally, that's going to cost a lot of money, and we need help with it.  So that would be one of the things that I would suggest we be looking at.  But the main is just, you know, pass the resolution designating a specific area called a historical district."

Lucy Martin asked, "What are the qualify factors to, in order to be designated that?"

"There are none," Summers replied.

"Do we have to do anything?" Martin asked.

"Not a thing," Summers said.

A surprised Martin then asked, "There are no qualifying factors?"

"No," Summers said, confidently.  "Any town can have what it calls a historic district.  And all they have to do, to my understanding, the way I've had it explained to me, is just the board passes on it, and says, puts in the minutes, you know, what the district is, the size of the district, where it's located, and that's it."

"And the benefit of that would be that we might qualify for more grants, different types of grants—" Martin began.

Summers interrupted. "Grants that we wouldn't otherwise qualify for if we didn't have a historic district.  That's one of reasons that these towns are setting these up.  And this certainly doesn't cost anything."

When pressed for specific details, Summers demurred, saying that he didn't have them, but "I would be very happy to call the state and get exactly what they say about it and report to you next time.  Or I'd be very happy if one of the board members wanted to do it, either way, to see if what I am saying here is the extent of it, or if there's forms you need to fill out, or something like that, or zoning or something like that else is required.  And I could have them send us, you know, any printed material or matter that they might have on it."

"And," Martin said, raising another point, "see if there is a fee to be registered every year, because you probably have to do something to stay in compliance—"

"Well, now," Summers said, "the way it was explained to me, all in the world you have to do is pass it, you know, and designate what it's going to be."

Sutton had a suggestion.  "I make a motion that Charlie call the state, and if they've got somebody handy, or somebody volunteer to come down and talk to us about it, before we step into this thing too deep."

"If you can get me the contacts on that," Mayor Weeks told Summers, "I'll be glad to get in touch with them and see if they could, maybe even attend one of our meetings and explain it to us."

"Okay," Summers agreed, before adding, "I really do think we should get some sidewalks started.  We all may be walking here pretty soon."

Mayor Weeks then turned to the issue of road repair. "I've asked Raymond to go out and get us a list of our roads.  We've got a lot of roads that are in need of some work.  I mean, some of it's just minor stuff, and some of it, like this one, it's major.  And I just think we need to come up with us a priority list on things and get some of this repair work done.  Because, you know, I'm getting a lot of calls on that, and I'm seeing a lot of things.  He's got a list here of several different roads.  He says Allan McCoy Road has potholes; Mayflower Road, potholes; Gravel Hill Road, potholes; Amber Lane; Roy Seay Road; Cinergy Drive; Lyndsay, need to widen and pave; Feddy Davis Road, rough, needs paving; Houston Cemetery Road; Kimberly Drive, ditch dig out and pave, and a culvert.  Got a call, Mills Circle Loop, I don't even know where that is.  Do y'all know ….  Duke Lane.  Hannah Drive.  And then we've got a lot of our roads that are, our city roads, that don't have signs."

Martin asked how much Eastview had left in the budget for road repairs, pointing out that that money needed to be spent during the current fiscal year, adding, "our year end's going to be here before you know it."

Town Recorder Emodene Smith said there was $71,703 left in the account for roadwork and repair, and Mayor Weeks said, "certainly we ought to be able to fix these roads, or potholes, and culverts and things like that.  Now as far as paving any roads, we probably want to, you know, prioritize that, and look at it.  But I'd say if we can get the county to help us on this on these potholes and things like that, we ought to do it.  Now's the time it needs to be done." 

There was general agreement, and a motion (by Hunter, seconded by Robbins) that the mayor contact the county highway department about getting the work done passed unanimously.

Mayor Weeks then brought up a somewhat less expensive matter. "I've got a request here that we need to order five tables and twenty-five chairs for the civic center.  These tables have been out here a while."

After some discussion about types of tables, Martin observed, "Well, I don't know, if you're going to buy five, I don't know how much money it is, we probably need to check into it, but maybe we need to replace all of the tables, so that they're going to be uniform, and be the same and look the same, and if that wouldn't be too much money, just replace all of them."

"That's what I was thinking," Jeff Coln remarked.

"Let's do that," Mayor Weeks said.  "Let's get a count, and get some cost estimates, and go from there.  Is that agreeable to everyone?"  Everyone signified assent.

"All right," Weeks continued.  "Last month we got our bill on the [insurance] coverage here on the civic center.  And we're covered for $250,000.  And there was some concern about that not being enough.  And Emodene has been in touch with Farm Bureau and asked them about increasing that coverage.  And did he say they could do this?"

"Yes," Smith replied.

"Okay," Weeks continued.  "They can go to $350,000 on the building at a cost of $1,035 a year, or they can go up to $400,000 on the building for a cost of $1,183 a year.  My concern was that $250,000 won't put this building back."

After some discussion Sutton made a motion that the town increase its coverage to $400,000.  Coln seconded the motion, which carried unanimously.

"I wanted to ask a question about our budget," Weeks then said.  "We're getting close to the time.  Can we set up some work sessions for that, to look at this budget, because there's a couple of things on here that I want, I want to try to at least consider in the new budget.  I want to try to get some people to come in here and give us some prices on some of these emergency sirens and see if it's something that we can do on our own without having to depend on a grant.  See if we can get some cost estimates on that.  It might be something we'd have to do in stages.  But I think with the recent events here, that just happened right up the road here, we need to at least consider making some moves to protect our people, here."

After some discussion the board agreed to meet at 5:30 in the afternoon before the next town board meeting, May 20.

Sutton asked for a report from the fire department, and Fire Chief Elvis Butler responded, "We've answered two or three first responder calls.  That's been about it."

Meeting ended with some discussion about wiring the civic center and the fire station for the internet.

Butler reported that "we had two leaks last week.  They are fixed.  One of them was a 6" main, busted, twenty foot split.  Don't ask me how.  I still ain't figured it out.  But it was fixed Sunday….  This last Sunday.  But anyway, it's fixed.  Took us to 1:30 to get on.  And the other was over there on Feddie Davis, and it split, too.  I don't know how it got split.  Looked like a car had run off there, but it was under the road is where it was at, so I don't know how it got split.  But we got it fixed, too.  The 6" run out a lot of water I tell you before I got there.  They called me and I left, and we cut it off as quick as we could.  And that's just about it." 

Weeks then ran through the bills, which the board voted unanimously to pay (on a motion by Billy Hunter, seconded by Burl Sutton). 

"All right," Weeks then said, "On the, this March 6 we had this annual review meeting with Raymond and Anita [Battles].  I've got you a paper in here about some of the things that we talked about, and the five points that we went over.  And I'm going to let Billy Wayne [Hunter], if he will, just give a brief report on that meeting."

"I really thing the meeting went well," Hunter said.  "I think we just, kindly had it, we just talked to each and every one of them, you know, just like we're talking here, you know, and everything, and I think it really went well."

Weeks said that, "One of the things that I made the statement of in the meeting was about the raise, and I told them that I did not intend to recommend a raise for this year, but at the end of this year, with the implementation of these things on this five-point action plan, that, you know, how this is carried out, we would look at making a raise recommendation at the end of this year.  So we're going to look at these things here, I think these five points pretty well covers the things that we have outlined, that we want to see in our water department, and, you know, I'm seeing progress made.  There's no doubt about it.  We're seeing progress, we're seeing improvements, and we're moving in the right direction."

"Another thing we're going to look into," the mayor continued, "Raymond and I talked about this, is, and I don't know how much is going to be involved in this, is getting the certification.  Mr. Shaw has been doing that, and you know we're going to have to have somebody replace him when he does retire, to do that.  I don't know what's involved in it, but it's something we need to look into and see if it's something he could do."

"If it's all right," Butler asked, "I'll ride over there and talk to him tomorrow," and the mayor agreed.

Weeks asked Battle if she had anything to add, and she said that she had looked at the new software program.  When Weeks asked what she thought about it, she responded, "Well, it's just, got a lot of good features in it, compared to what, that I don't have on my old one.  Of course, I don't know how to do any of them."

"Well," Weeks offered, "the girl at Middleton said it was real easy."

"It looks, you know, it looks pretty easy," Battles acknowledged.  In response to another question from the mayor, Battles said that there would be no problem converting from the existing system to the new one.

"My understanding from previous meeting," Weeks said, "is that the board has okayed the purchase of this software, depending on what we decided from this demo.  So, Anita, we'll get together and if it's something—"

"What I need to do though," Battles interjected, "is use up a lot of these supplies I have for bills and stuff for the old program, and not let those go to waste."

"Right," Weeks agreed.  "So let's get together and see what kind of time table we're looking at."

"They're not compatible with the—" Lucy Martin began.

Battles said they were not, and that she had about a three-month supply on hand.

When Mayor Weeks asked "do we have anybody that needs to address the water department?" one gentleman spoke up about "some issues about our water" and asked whether some improvements were in line "or do I need to be looking into investing in a water filter to put on my home.  You know, I don't know if that would alleviate all of my issues."

Weeks responded, "Well, let me bring you up to date on a couple of things that's going on.  We're still waiting on Selmer to install filters.  And that seems to be a thing that we mention every time it comes to discussion of this nature.  I don't know how far down the line that's going to be.  A second point on there is, we went away from the routine flushing because of the audit that we had last time, and excessive shortages that we were having, or shrink, where we was having a lot of water run being through the lines there that we were not collecting for.  And we decided as a board at that time to go to the 'flush on demand.'  And other communities are doing that and, you know, we don't mind flushing the lines, we just said we wanted the customer to call in and make that request.  And, are we getting a lot of calls from that area?"

"Not a lot," Battles responded, and Butler said they had received two so far.

Raymond: "We've got two so far."

"On average," Weeks asked, "how many times have we flushed Woodland Circle in the last month?"

"I'd say two times, to three at the most, Butler replied.  "That's all that's called in."

After more discussion about water problems, and possible causes, the water department meeting was adjourned on a motion by Martin, seconded by Jessie Robbins.

* * * 

The town board meeting was then convened and the minutes were approved on a motion by Robbins, seconded by Sutton.  After the bills were approved (on a motion by Hunter, seconded by Robbins), Mayor Weeks asked Fire Chief Elvis Butler for a report on the fire department.

"We've had two calls," Butler reported.  "Had one back up call, and then had one fire here in the city, last Thursday night.  Had two wrecks.  We didn't have to extract anybody, it was mostly traffic control and helping clean the roads.  That's about it.  We're still un— not for sure what kind of fundraiser we're going to do, whether we're going to do a fish fry, or barbeque, or—  Still working on it."

"And another thing I'd like to bring up about that to.  I got a letter that I meant to bring, and I forgot it.  It's from Lamar Alexander [UNINTELLIGIBLE WORD] about this FEMA grant, it's coming up again.  And if y'all want to apply for that, which you'll have to do most of the paperwork, because the mayor has to sign it, or the head of the city.  But we'd like to put in for a compressor and generator and stuff through that.  And that won't reflect on any other grants you're trying to get.  It's like a 80/20.  FEMA pays 80 and we pay 20."

"No," Weeks responded, "it was less than that, the last one we got.  I think it was about 90/10."  The mayor said that he would "like to take advantage of that."

Butler reminded the board that the grant had an April deadline.

Weeks then advised the board of a letter he had received. "I've got a letter here from the comptroller, treasury, state of Tennessee.  Says they have reviewed the annual financial report with the town of Eastview for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, as audited by Brawner and Vanstory Company, certified public accountants.  As a result, this report has been accepted and filed as a part of the public records of the state of Tennessee."

And, speaking of FEMA, Mayor Weeks observed that, "as you know, FEMA has been set up here, to help with the tornado victims, and we agreed to let them set up here at no charge.  I don't know how long they're planning on being here—"

"Tomorrow will be the last day," Reporter Emodene Smith offered.

"Tomorrow's the last day," Weeks repeated.

"Unless we have a bad storm tonight," Butler observed, to uneasy laughter.

Lynsey Lane

There then ensued a prolonged discussion of an issue that had only been cryptically referred to in earlier meetings.

"Item five," Mayor Weeks intoned, reading from the agenda before him.  "Status on the road improvement survey of Lynsey Lane.  Craig [Town Attorney Craig Kennedy], have you heard anything on that, as far as—  I believe what we're waiting on is getting this property line flagged so we can—"

"That's the way I understand it," Kennedy replied.

"—and widen that road," Weeks continued.  "And I understand this has been on hold for that very reason for some time.  I think it was a project that was started back before I came into office, 2006.  I think we need to do something on this. If he's not going to mark his lines, I think we need to find somebody who can and will."

"Are we waiting on James Martin?" Lucy Martin asked.  "Is that what we're waiting on?"

"Yes," Weeks replied, and Sutton added, "Got a long wait."

"Who is another surveyor that can do that?" Hunter asked

"He's sitting right there," Robbins replied, pointing across the room."

"It's who?" Lucy Martin asked.

"Henson Surveying," the man replied.  "My name is Paul Henson, for those of you that don't know me.  I think most of you know me."

"I used to know you when you was a little kid," Hunter said.

"Yeah," Henson said, "when we were playing football, and I was the fullback."  This was greeted by laughter, as Henson is quite a large man.  "Y'all will have to bring me up to speed about what's transpired.  Jeff [Coln] had contacted me yesterday and asked me to come to the meeting, and just kind of go over my services and what I can do for you.  But I just need to know where y'all are at on this, and basically what the project entails."

Kennedy explained. "The first thing we had to do was, there was a road, well, I can't remember the name.  There was an estate that was opened by Terry Abernathy, and closed.  And there was some land involved.  But it, there was a road described in all that, but there was never a deed done about that.  And so we went back and got the heirs to execute deeds to that, for that road.  James had surveyed most of that area.  He did a survey on l Littlejohn's properties.  And then as you may know, there were some discrepancies, or Mr. Sweat went and hired Mr. Goodrum.  He came up and did a survey, and there was some conflict there, so that's sort of where it stood.  But we've got a road there.  We know we've got a road.  It's just a matter of where is that road out there."

"So," Henson asked, "are you trying to establish the Joel Littlejohn's side of it, or the other side of it?"

"Both," Kennedy replied.

"Both?  Okay."

Kennedy continued.  "We really want to know where the road is, so we don't want to go out there and make, we want to make sure we go out there to put the—"

"Right."

"—do the work, and create a road, that we're on our property."

"Well," Henson asked, "who, someone developed, you know, the subdivision that goes back in there to the, all the nice houses and everything.  At that time, was there any kind of a plat or anything recorded that shows that road, or—"

"Not that road, I don't think," Kennedy said. "I don't think so, Paul."

"How long has the city been maintaining the road?" Henson asked.  "Do you know?"

"No," Kennedy replied.  "I can't tell you."

"Really," Henson said, "what you're talking about is just the maintenance of about, what, five hundred feet, up through there?"

"No," Kennedy said, "it's about twelve hundred feet, I think, isn't it?  But we've only got twelve hundred, I think.  I think that's all we've got a deed on, because we've got to get the rest of it from Ms Opal, or somebody there has got to get so additional property for the city.  And if they get that it wouldn't be a problem.  And then the county takes over at that point."

"I thought about this yesterday," Henson said.  "I think I can solve your problem easily, if people will agree.  I think what you need to do, no matter what's been done in the past, you know, you can give somebody a quit-claim deed for whatever you want to give it to.  I can quitclaim your property to somebody else.  It doesn't mean they own anything, but—  What I think we ought to do is survey the road and make a legitimate proposed right-of-way up through there, say fifty feet, and get all the individual property owners that touch that to sign off on it.  And that's easier said than done, but if we can find out who the, who's not willing to do that, I mean we could at least carve out around them, anyway."

"And I think," Kennedy said, "I think you're going to have problems with one of those landowners, to be honest with you, but—"

"I know we will," Mayor Weeks interjected.

"—because we've approached them in times past.  But, we really don't know where the road, you know, we don't know where this, we've got a description, like I said, where they deeded the road.  I'll get that to you, and maybe you can take that and look at it and say, 'Hey, yeah, I know this is where it's at,' but we just don't know whether what we've got matches up even with what the road's out there.  And you're right, we may need to go back and say, 'You know, this is the road, we've been maintaining the road, and we're going to claim it.  It's ours, and you can sign a release, fine,' and fight with these other people if we have to."

"Well," Henson said, "as a last resort you can always, you know, invoke imminent domain on them.  You don't want to do that, I know, but—  If you've got titles to it, you know, certainly you should be able to claim that, but—  Eastview's a small city, and you don't want a bunch of people against you."

"Well," Kennedy replied, "you know how it's done in times past.  People would go out there and get a road, and then try another road, and nobody ever said anything about it—"

"Right."

"—but now we try to make sure we've got a deed or dedicated to us in some way before we do anything.  And so, really, that's been the hold up on that Lynsey Lane for quite some time.  But, now, you know, we've gotten the deed signed, but now there's still the issue of, does the road and the deed match up, and, you know, flag what we've got so we know where we are.  And, again, at that point have two options, one of which is we can go back and ask the landowners to give us what we need, and if they won't, maybe carve around it as you said.  There was some place up there, and you guys know better than I do, we had some problem about a ditch, or maybe a ditch on one side or another."

"The ditch on the north side," Elvis Butler said.  "If you go on the north side you'll have to fill it in and dig a new one."

"So that also may be factored in to what we find out," Kennedy said.

"Well," Henson said, "I drove up the road yesterday, and right there at the entrance to the Hope Cemetery the road's kind of narrow, until you get up there to the Hope Cemetery driveway entrance, then it kind of widens out.  It's like a chip-and-seal base, that was put in at the time all those houses were started, developed in there—

"That was county that done that," Butler said.  "That's their part of it."

"Well," Henson continued, "that's what I was wondering.  How much does the city actually, how far do they actually go?  Do they go past the Hope Cemetery entrance?"

Butler replied, "The city, the city limits go 1500 feet on that side of the road, but our, the land that we good the deed on, like Craig said, wasn't that much."

"All right."

Butler asked the others if it was 1200 feet, and they agreed that it was.

Henson said, "It could be as simple as drawing a plat to record and put on file that has all the adjoining landowners signing off on it, saying that they dedicate their portion of it.  Getting those signatures would be the hard part.  But that would be the first step, in my opinion, is trying to do it that way, and we'll find out who the adversaries are, and you're going to have to deal with them individually.  And quite honestly, you litigate all the time, it might be easier to give them a small settlement for the property that it would be to take it, or something like that."

Kennedy said, "I think that if the road we've got, if the description we've got, and the road match up—"

"Then it's yours anyway," Henson interjected

"—it's ours, and I could care less.  Again, we may need some property on the south side, as opposed to the north side, to try to avoid that ditch, but that's something we just don't know.  And the county's ready to do it, and they're going to do their end, as I understand.  At least that was the plan.  [Agreement.]  If they're going to do it all, let them do it, but—"

Henson said, "I guess I need to figure out, have you talked with James Martin to find out what the status is?  I mean, is he out of it, or—" 

"Well," Kennedy replied, "before Jason ever left, one of the last—and this has been going on for some time—before Jason left I gave him four things that he was going to do for me before he left.  That was one of them.  And so it's been, it's been going on for three years, and it's not getting—"

"And," Butler observed, "it took us nearly three years to get the property signed, the deed signed."

Hunter added, "And he had to go all the way to Florida, didn't he?"

"Yeah," Kennedy replied.  "But I'll be glad to, I guess that would be the thing to fax you there, and you might to some, and I, I don't know whether I've got, I may have a copy of what James has done, because I know they started back up there, and one of the issues I think is where you start.  I think that was one of the big disputes.  They started back up there closer to the Hope Cemetery, some mark up there, somewhere up in that part."

Mayor then said, "My personal opinion is that we need to do something and move forward with this, and I don't think James is going to do it."

"No," Hunter agreed, "I don't think so."

"He don't get in no hurry," Sutton observed.

"He don't appear to be interested in doing it," Weeks said.

"Well, he's kind of retired," Henson said.  "I'm going to defend him a little bit.  He's paid his dues and worked a long time."

Martin said, "But he has a team, doesn't he, that still—"

"No," Henson replied.

"Oh, he doesn't?" Martin asked.

"When Jason left, he almost…" Henson began.

"And really," Kennedy said, "any time you get some, anything that may be a little bit—"

"Controversial?" Hunter suggested.

"—controversial, James really didn't want to get in the middle of any of that, I'll be honest with you.  At least that's been my experience."

"Well, I love it," Henson said, and the comment was greeted with laughter.

"Would you give us some kind of cost estimate?" Weeks asked.

"Yes, sir," Henson replied.  "I'll draw up, get you a rate schedule.  I can give you, I think in this situation it would be better to give you, like an hourly rate schedule, because you never know what's going to be entailed, and Craig's going to give you some good, I would hope, good reference"

"Paul does good work," Kennedy said.

Sutton said, "I make a motion that we go ahead and have him start on this."  Robbins seconded the motion, which was unanimously approved.

"Let's get this thing moving," Mayor Weeks said.

* * * 

The last item discussed was insurance.  "We've got an insurance renewal here," Mayor Weeks said, "for the civic center, concession stand, and volunteer fire department.  On the civic center we have a limit of insurance of $250,000.  On the personal property we have $30,000, and the buildings, $16,000.  That's the concession stand and the building up here, $60,000.  My question on that is, this estimate, or this coverage on this civic center here is a little bit low."

In the discussion that followed, Hunter agreed that the amount was low, and Weeks offered the opinion that the civic center would cost at least $400,000 to replace.  In the end, it was agreed that the town should check to make sure that they have sufficient insurance to replace the center.

And with that the meeting was adjourned on motion by Robbins, seconded by Hunter.

The Eastview beer board held a special meeting Thursday, 28 February, to consider issuing a new beer license for the Junction.  The full board was present as owner Anwar Ahman and manager Sherry Gamblin appeared to make the request, which was necessitated by the abrupt departure of the previous tenant.  Ahman had appeared at the board's regular meeting on 19 February to ask that he be allowed to reopen using the license he had used before leasing out the business, but town attorney Craig Kennedy explained that his old license had been extinguished when the tenant obtained a license and that a new license could only be issued at a later meeting after proper notice had been given.

Hence the special meeting.

Ahman and Gamblin informed the board that they and their employees were knowledgeable of and would comply with the rules and regulations regarding beer sales, with Gamblin pointing out that sales could not be made on Sundays, election day, or after midnight, and Ahman adding that "with this computer system they cannot sell beer without checking an ID.  Whenever they scan beer, the register does not open until you check ID.  It cannot open."  Ahman said they also checked IDs before selling cigarettes, and he pointed out that the Junction is now a no-smoking establishment.

Ahman concluded his presentation by asking for support.  "Please support us.  Let's bring the business back and let's support our town, our city. 

"You know," he added, "it's the city's store.  The more we are successful, maybe it will bring some more taxes to the city, and improvement and all that stuff."

"Sounds good," Mayor Charles Weeks said.  "Can I get a motion, then, that we approve the application?"  That motion was provided by Jessie Robbins, seconded by Burl Sutton, and passed by unanimous voice vote, after which the special meeting was adjourned on a motion by Robbins, seconded by Billy Hunter.