This addition to municipal code Title 10 (Animal Control) provides a definition of a feral cat, commonly known as a stray cat. The ordinance outlines the health hazards related to feral cats and grants authority to animal control officers to investigate potential cat hoarding and to rescue, retrieve, round-up, corral, or humanely trap feral cats roaming at large.

Included are five summary reports created by MTAS Management Consultant Pete Auger in the course of assisting five cities with strategic planning: Elizabethton, Mount Carmel, Morristown, New Tazewell, and Unicoi. Also included is a presentation used during the Morristown strategic planning workshop.

The Town of Greenville (Town) and UT MTAS agreed to a memorandum of understanding concerning an operational structure analysis of the community’s unique municipal and utility relationship. In short, the Town owns the water and sewer infrastructure and a separately elected board, the Greeneville Water Commission (GWC), operates, builds out, and maintains the utility system. The study would expect to deliver:

• Analysis/overview of current structure.
• Comparison to cities of similar size.
• Pros/Cons of current structure.
• Recommendation with details of required legislative actions, if necessary.

On November 15, 2024, in State of Texas v. Dep’t of Labor, 24-cv-468-SDJ, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule raising the salary thresholds for exempt status. In simple terms, the increased salary threshold is no longer going into effect and the salary threshold that went into effect in July is now null and void. The court’s order applies nationwide and to all employers both public and private.