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T U E S D A Y 160th YEAR • NO. 296 APRIL 14, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 20 PAGES • 50¢ Crye wants 7-cent property tax hike on agenda Vote might not occur Smith proposes county pending further work strategy for $16M loan By BRIAN GRAVES “Since the sponsorship of the By BRIAN GRAVES “The goal is to provide Bradley Banner Staff Writer hotel/motel tax increase — Banner Staff Writer County $16 million in funds for which would have funded Lake the construction of school proj- Second District Commissioner Forest Middle School’s academic The Bradley County ects and other needs,” Smith Thomas Crye is expected to pres- building — was withdrawn by Commission will vote next week said. ent a 7-cent property tax state Sen. Mike Bell in the state on giving County Trustee Mike He said investing in municipal increase for a vote during next Senate, thus killing the bill for Smith and County Attorney bonds is an authorized invest- Monday’s Bradley County this year, we are left with limited Crystal Freiberg the authority to ment for Tennessee counties. Commission meeting. options to finance it,” Crye said. meet with the state attorney gen- Counties are allowed to make However, that vote appears He said a wheel tax had been eral in order to get permission for short-term loans to themselves unlikely to take place after sever- discussed, but its history is that the county to borrow $16 million using idle funds for a period of al of Crye’s colleagues on the of an overwhelming defeat the from itself over a 20-year period. two years. Commission said voting on such last time it was placed on a pub- Smith said his proposal should “Bradley County will not be a move now is too soon and with- lic referendum, in 2012. not be considered a way to pay asking for a new designation of out adequate discussion. “It would be senseless to go for the Lake Forest Middle the idle funds [Healthy Crye made his presentation at School, “but a way to finance the Monday’s work session. See VOTE, Page 6 Tom Crye Mike Smith school projects.” See SMITH, Page 6 Bulletin Farlow Alford, CPD suspects homicide in dispels local shooting Yarber From Staff Reports A Cleveland man was H-M tax found dead this morning spar in from an apparent gunshot wound. At 7:32 a.m., Cleveland rumors Police Department officers were called to the 1500 debate block of Goode Street in ref- Denies Chamber erence to the death. According to preliminary role in killing bill Bypassing group police reports, when officers arrived they discovered a By BRIAN GRAVES charged by V-C white male dead on the Banner Staff Writer scene. Criminal Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of By BRIAN GRAVES Investigations Division offi- Commerce President and CEO Banner Staff Writer cers are currently on the Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS Gary Farlow told the Bradley Bradley County Commission scene and believe the death THE YOUNGEST, and oldest, honorees at BELINDA JUMP was named the Volunteer of County Commission Monday that Vice Chairman Jeff Yarber has to be a homicide. Monday night’s Volunteer Appreciation Banquet rumors the organization helped the Year for her work with The Caring Place’s accused Commission Chairman CPD detectives are being kill the hotel/motel tax increase in for The Caring Place were Maggie Lewis, left, Clothing Department. Presenting the award at Louie Alford of bypassing the gov- assisted by the Bradley Nashville are untrue. and Madison Jackson. Lewis is the only person Monday evening’s Volunteer Appreciation erning body on certain decisions. County Sheriff's Office His comments came as he to have served the agency for 15 years, and Banquet was Volunteer Coordinator Sandra The disagreement began Crime Scene Unit. asked the Commission about the Madison had an award named in her honor for Woodard. Monday when Yarber asked about The victim’s identity had proposed change in payment tim- her dedication and fundraising for the Sac Pac having a committee appointed to not been released by ings to certain organizations from meet with Cleveland officials on today’s press deadlines. No Program. monthly to quarterly. the potential of “exploring all ani- arrests have been made. The idea passed the Finance mal control options.” Full coverage will be pro- Committee and was scheduled to Commissioners voted last fall vided in Wednesday’s edi- be on the Commission’s consent to bring the subject back to the tion of the Cleveland Daily An ‘Amazing Grace’ agenda next week. table this month. Banner as details emerge. Commissioner Alford said he Charlotte Peak had already earlier in the The Caring Place honors fleet named the com- Forecast meeting asked mittee to include the quarterly Commissioners payments to be of volunteers, young and old Thomas Crye, taken off the con- Dan Rawls and sent agenda and By LARRY C. BOWERS Mike Hughes. allowed to be Banner Staff Writer Crye and voted on sepa- Rawls are repre- rately. More than 120 people traveled to Peerless Road Church Monday evening for the sentatives of the Farlow In his state- Commission on Alford ment, Farlow said “Amazing Grace” Volunteer Appreciation Banquet for The Caring Place of Cleveland. the board of the the tax had been SPCA — a point Today’s outlook is for cloudy collected and Esmerelda Lee, campus manager for Life skies with a 50 percent chance of Care of Cleveland, was the guest speaker. which Yarber passed on noted. showers and afternoon thunder- monthly for more Reba Terry, executive director of The Caring Place, and Volunteer Coordinator “I was asked to storms, and a high around 75. than two do an ad hoc decades. Sandra Woodard were hosts for the evening’s Tonight calls for a 60 percent program. They presented departmental committee and chance of showers or thunder- “Why all of a that’s what I’ve sudden is it now awards and established a new award for a storms, with a low around 61. young supporter. Also named was the recipi- done,” Alford Wednesday calls for mostly cloudy a burden to write said. “There were a couple of ent of the Danny O’Neal Award. skies with a 60 percent chance of Peak A new award for the agency’s Sac Pac no limitations on Yarber checks a month?” whom, what or showers or thunderstorms, and a Farlow asked. Program, which provides a bag of nutritious high near 70. Wednesday night food for kids each day, has been named in when.” He said if that meant waiting “Good job of getting what you should continue to be cloudy and three months before the first pay- honor of young Madison Jackson. Madison, the daughter of Jim and Heather want,” Yarber said. rainy, with a low around 57. ment, the Chamber would have to “That’s very inappropriate,” Sunset today: 8:12 p.m. get a cash flow to operate for that Jackson, recently asked her parents to forego a vacation trip to Disney World and give the Alford replied. Sunrise Wednesday: 7:09 a.m. period of time. Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS “I’m one vote, and so are you,” Peak said it was her under- money to Sac Pac to help feed hungry chil- dren. BETTY BAIN, left, received the first Madison Yarber said. standing it was an attempt to Jackson Award Monday evening for her volun- Yarber continued, saying the Index streamline the accounting office. She has also made bracelets and sold them, and initiated other projects to raise teer work with The Caring Place’s Sac Pac Commission had spoken about “After thinking about it myself, the possibility of animal pickup, Classified................................18-19 my suppliers aren’t going to wait money for the Sac Pac Program. Program. Madison Jackson, the award’s name- Comics...........................................8 sake, attended the presentation, along with Sac “but there was no movement on on my check for three months,” it.” Editorials......................................16 she said. “That’s why I took it off See CARING PLACE, Page 12 Pac Coordinator Lee Ann Lowe. Horoscope......................................8 Obituaries.......................................2 See FARLOW, Page 6 See DEBATE, Page 6 Sports......................................13-15 Stocks............................................4 TV Schedule..................................9 Budget decrease means no city property tax increase Weather........................................11 Around Town Merit pay raise is included City eyes county HCI fund Glynn Duncan happily being By JOYANNA LOVE amended budget. By JOYANNA LOVE School], that those funds be divided [with the “singing bus driver” ... Missy Banner Senior Staff Writer City Manager Janice Casteel said this is Banner Senior Staff Writer the city] based on the average daily atten- Richesin congratulating Kelsey a decrease of $5 million in the general dance” for each school system. Randolph on getting her driver's Decreases in the amounts requested by fund, sales tax fund and the CIP fund Before the Bradley County Commission The motion made by City Councilman license ... Jenny Davis trying new some municipal departments will allow compared to the amended budget from votes on how to proceed with funds in an Richard Banks stems from reports that the adventures ... Noah McClary, age Cleveland city government to decrease its last year. Charges for services, animal account created from the sale of the former Bradley County Commission may borrow 5, going on his first turkey hunt overall budget and increase some salaries control, parks and recreation as well as Bradley Memorial Hospital, the Cleveland from itself to pay for the new academic with Bubba, Troy, Great-Grandpa without a property tax increase. transfers out of the general fund are City Council is weighing in on the conversa- building at Lake Forest Middle School.

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