NEW LAW SAYS NO TO NOLENSVILLE CHARGING ANY NEW IMPACT FEES FOR 2007 & BEYOND!
Hate to say we told you so, but our local town hall
leadership refused to charge any IMPACT FEES FOR
ANY OF the 15 or more housing developments surround-
ing our town for the last 10 years! Now a new law prevents
them from doing it at all...PERIOD. Guess who will be
required to come up with the millions of dollars in
lost impact fees to service these new housing develop-
ments??? That's right YOU the local resident. DO NOT
LET ANYONE TELL YOU OUR TOWN IS FISCALLY
SOUND WITH ENOUGH MONEY TO MAINTAIN ALL
THE NEW CITY STREETS, EXPAND THE POLICE AND
FIRE DEPARTMENTS, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Finance Lesson 101-for New Mayor and Vice-Mayor.
Please tell local voters the truth about Town's Budget.
Yes, the State Adequate Facilities Tax on each new home
has enabled Nolensville to deposit some 1 Million Dollars
in this account. BUT...after town pays their share of road
maintenance on Waller Road ($400,000) and expansion
of the Fire Hall ($200,000) and about a cool One Million
to re-route Rocky Fork Road and build a new bridge.
Add all this up plus other "unknowns" and even a third
grade student will tell the town THEY ARE BROKE OUT
OF MONEY. And no ability to charge new impact fees?
Read the entire article from the Tennessean 1/23/07
"Cities and counties cannot impose new taxes on develop-
ments or raise existing impact fees except under conditions
set out in a law passed at the end of the last legislative
session, the state attorney general says. " Click on link
above to read entire article.
HELLO NOLENSVILLE...REMEMBER WHEN FORMER
MAYOR KNAPPER SAID "NOLENSVILLE WILL NEVER
HAVE A PROPERTY TAX." SO MUCH FOR GOOD GOV-
ERNMENT LEADERSHIP.
PS: TOWN BOARD HIRED AN OUTSIDE CONSULTING
GROUP FOR "X" THOUSANDS TO STUDY WHETHER
TOWN COULD CHARGE IMPACT FEES? WELL THE
STATE ANSWERED THAT QUESTION..."NO!" MORE
MONEY TOTALLY WASTED BY OUR TOWN HALL
LEADERSHIP.
Send in your comments and emails...whether you know it or
not or even if you don't care...Nolensville and many other
smaller cities are in a very big BIND! Of course Brentwood
and Franklin with professional, full time city managers have
charged impact fees for years. Nolensville needs a full time
24-7 professional town manager who is fiscally responsible
to do what needs to be done to avoid total financial failure.
leadership refused to charge any IMPACT FEES FOR
ANY OF the 15 or more housing developments surround-
ing our town for the last 10 years! Now a new law prevents
them from doing it at all...PERIOD. Guess who will be
required to come up with the millions of dollars in
lost impact fees to service these new housing develop-
ments??? That's right YOU the local resident. DO NOT
LET ANYONE TELL YOU OUR TOWN IS FISCALLY
SOUND WITH ENOUGH MONEY TO MAINTAIN ALL
THE NEW CITY STREETS, EXPAND THE POLICE AND
FIRE DEPARTMENTS, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Finance Lesson 101-for New Mayor and Vice-Mayor.
Please tell local voters the truth about Town's Budget.
Yes, the State Adequate Facilities Tax on each new home
has enabled Nolensville to deposit some 1 Million Dollars
in this account. BUT...after town pays their share of road
maintenance on Waller Road ($400,000) and expansion
of the Fire Hall ($200,000) and about a cool One Million
to re-route Rocky Fork Road and build a new bridge.
Add all this up plus other "unknowns" and even a third
grade student will tell the town THEY ARE BROKE OUT
OF MONEY. And no ability to charge new impact fees?
Read the entire article from the Tennessean 1/23/07
"Cities and counties cannot impose new taxes on develop-
ments or raise existing impact fees except under conditions
set out in a law passed at the end of the last legislative
session, the state attorney general says. " Click on link
above to read entire article.
HELLO NOLENSVILLE...REMEMBER WHEN FORMER
MAYOR KNAPPER SAID "NOLENSVILLE WILL NEVER
HAVE A PROPERTY TAX." SO MUCH FOR GOOD GOV-
ERNMENT LEADERSHIP.
PS: TOWN BOARD HIRED AN OUTSIDE CONSULTING
GROUP FOR "X" THOUSANDS TO STUDY WHETHER
TOWN COULD CHARGE IMPACT FEES? WELL THE
STATE ANSWERED THAT QUESTION..."NO!" MORE
MONEY TOTALLY WASTED BY OUR TOWN HALL
LEADERSHIP.
Send in your comments and emails...whether you know it or
not or even if you don't care...Nolensville and many other
smaller cities are in a very big BIND! Of course Brentwood
and Franklin with professional, full time city managers have
charged impact fees for years. Nolensville needs a full time
24-7 professional town manager who is fiscally responsible
to do what needs to be done to avoid total financial failure.
posted by Guest Writer at 9:14 PM
3 Comments:
Can town hire a new professional town manager and pay him from the adequate facilities tax bank account? If so let's do it NOW! Current town hall office holders don't have a clue as to how to financially operate our town? Bring on a professional just like Franklin and Brentwood before it is too late!
Yes we were in the meeting about approving an outside consulting firm to determine if town can charge impact fees and how much? What a waste! Why not check with Brentwood and Franklin...they just charged the fees...no consultant..no nothing! Now Nolenwsville cannot charge any fees at all? The developers will line up at town hall for approvals knowing that town cannot charge them any fees?? And the board will approve them because they don't want anymore lawsuits. Now we know who is running the town...developers and realtors. This new mayor and vice-mayor both are totally irrelevant and powerless. And the planning commission lost out years ago. A new town tax per resident is on the way.
Are you kidding?
Why would we want to interrupt the gravy train to our esteemed vice mayor and alexander?
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