$200 MILLION SHORT FALL IN TDOT ROADING BUILDING BUDGET? GOODBY "BY-PASS" FOR NOLENSVILLE

Nolensville"s proposed by-pass around the town by
TDOT was estimated to be some 5 to 8 years in the
future. Now with this $200 million shortfall in TDOT
funds officials tell us we need to push all proposed
projects far into the future.

Governer Bredesen "swiped" 66 million dollars from
the TDOT budget to fund other projects...with no
intent to replace it. TDOT has already frozen all
hiring of road contractors and sub-contractors.
TDOT officials say this is a very serious problem
that require wide spread belt tightening.

Click Here for Tennessean TDOT Article.

Nolensville"s new mayor Lothers said in a recent
issue of the Nolensville Dispatch that she was
busy meeting wth state and county leaders to
develop strong relationships. Sounds good in the
paper, but the article was peppered with uses of
the personal pronoun "I", "I am or "I will or "I plan"
to do this or that? Like whatever happened to her
highly touted election campaign promise of
working thru the people via many, many, many,
committees? (Far too many). She says "she plans to
use this column to update Nolensville on the many
discussions..ask for feedback and announce upcom-
ing projects." Sounds like oleaginous boilerplate prose
about her readiness to respond to we don't know
what???

Since our new mayor has elected to use the non-
partisan (Wink?) Nolensville Dispatch as her way
of communicating with local residents then let's
ask for answers in print to the following crisis
questions? Old and new residents want to know?

1. How do you intend to replace the millions of
dollars lost by our elected officials in "impact fees"
never collected from some 15 or more housing
developments? Don't forget the State has out-
lawed any new "impact fees" period.

2. How do you intend to pay for the Waller Road
repairs that Brentwood says our share is about
$400,000?

3. How do you intend to pay for the Rocky Fork
road realignment plus new bridge estimated to
cost ONE MILLION DOLLARS?

4. How do you intend to pay for the much needed
expansion of our fire hall--our share $210,000?

5. How do you intend to pay for any expansion or
new building of Rec Center?

6. How do you intend to pay for a new town hall?

7. How do you intend to pay for additional Fire and
Police protection for all the new housing develop-
ments?

8. How do you intend to pay for all the old and new
road maintenance repairs due to new housing
developments?

9. How do you intend to replace the estimated
$14,000 lost per month in sales tax receipts now
gone due to Piggly Wiggly departure?

10. How do you intend to pay for the Sewer
Extension into Historic Area? Tip: ASAP work
with Feed Mill Owner who (may) bring sewer
across Mill Creek then new owners of Waller
Funeral Home may help bring sewer under-
neath Nolensville Road. Business owners and
residents on both sides of Nolensville road
will gladly hook-up even with a fee!

11. How do you intend to secure all the much
needed new funds for our town budget that is
obviously way beyond overdrawn..almost
empty and in desperate need of professional
help outside current town hall abilities?

We await your next personal pronoun presentation
of how "I" will work a money miracle overnight to
cover the outrageous lack of leadership now present
and absent for past ten years. Sad to say Nolensville
is not alone...Murfreesboro leaders say they don't
know what they will do "all their financial eggs were
in the impact fees basket" that is no longer available?

CLICK HERE FOR TENNESSEAN ARTICLE.

CLICK HERE FOR MON.1/29/07 NEW ARTICLE

Send in your comments and suggestions as to how to
keep Nolensville from financial deadlock?