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Save the Date 6,250 subscribers www.TML1.org Volume 72, Number4 March 8, 2021 TN State Constitutions transferred to new home TML Virtual Legislative Conference March 15 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m./ CST It’s not too late to register for TML’s Virtual Legislative Confer- ence to be held March 15 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. CST. We are pleased that Gov. Bill Lee has accepted our invitation to join our program. Other speakers for the Legis- lative Conference include Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, and Comp- troller Jason Mumpower. Senate State and Local Chairman Sen. Richard Briggs and House Local Gov. Bill Lee Government Chairman Rep. John Crawford will also participate in our program. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for local officials to become more involved in the legislative pro- cess – to learn about some of the legislative issues currently being considered before the General Assembly – and to give city officials an opportunity to hear from the state’s top leaders on what Sen. Randy McNally The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) with the assistance of the Tennessee Highway Patrol they perceive to be the state’s Lt. Gov. and Senate Speaker (THP) transported Tennessee’s three constitutions from their current building to their new, soon to open most eminent priorities. home on Bicentennial Mall. Preserving Tennessee’s legal and civic history is among TSLA’s statutory The TML staff works hard responsibilities. To honor these priceless documents and to celebrate their transfer to their new home, to advocate on behalf of city the Color Guard of the Tennessee National Guard lead a procession, followed by Tennessee State governments, but our success University’s Aristocrat of Bands drumline as well as a host of state leaders, including Gov. Bill Lee, depends greatly on your involve- House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Secretary of State Tre Hargett (picuted above). The Tennessee ment throughout the legislative Highway Patrol Honor Guard was responsible for transporting the documents. session. Registration is currently un- derway. This is a free event, and Small airports have big economic impact all municipal officials and staff are encouraged to tune in. By KATE COIL To register, go to https:// TML Communications Specialist www.tml1.org/2021-tml-legis- Rep. Cameron Sexton lative-conference. House Speaker Whether its people or packag- es, flying the friendly skies has a Save the Dates! massive economic impact on the state of Tennessee and nowhere is TML Annual Conference this more felt than in smaller and mid-size cities. Sept. 18 - 21, 2021 Chattanooga A recent Tennessee Depart- ment of Transportation (TDOT) With the uncertainty that the Coronavirus still presents and the study on the economic impact of risks that it imposes to our public health, the Executive Committee of aviation found that the industry the Tennessee Municipal League Board of Directors agreed that it is in generates $40 billion worth of the best interest of our membership to reschedule TML’s 2021 Annual A FedEx plane lands at the Millington-Memphis Airport in Memphis. economic benefits to the state and Conference for a time later in the year. Serving as a backup location for the shipping giant’s operations employs more than 220,000 people. With this in mind and with the support of the TML Board, TML staff based at the Memphis International Airport, the MIllington airport While the eight airports located in worked to secur new dates – Sept. 18-21, 2021 – at the Chattanooga has seen exponential growth as the state’s shipping and logistics Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Convention Center. industry has expanded. and Nashville spur billions of dol- So please mark your calendars to save the dates. We will provide lars in impact on their own, the bulk in the state – 51.25% – comes from for their hub at the Memphis In- more program information in the upcoming months. of the economic impact generated the 70 airports operated in and by ternational Airport. We have an air smaller municipalities. traffic control services and have These facilities generate $20.5 an aircraft rescue and firefighting Tennessee Urban Forestry Council billion in economic impact, of- station that is staffed with specially fering services for both major trained firefighters to respond to helps connect cities, trees, and people corporations and locally-owned aircraft incidents. Those services small companies. As the economy help support the ability to take By KATE COIL becomes more globalized, access overflow aircraft or aircraft that to a local airport is becoming a can’t get into Memphis due to With spring right around the must have for many businesses of weather. We offer that redundancy corner, the Tennessee Urban For- all sizes. so they can make their deliveries estry Council (TUFC) is eager to on schedule.” work with municipalities across FREIGHT AND CARGO After Chattanooga’s Lovell the state on programs and initia- One of the biggest jobs for Field, the Tullahoma Regional tives that will enhance and benefit many of the state’s regional air- Airport (THA) generates the most their communities. ports is cargo and freight shipping money of all the TDOT study’s Ashley Kite-Rowland is an services. The TDOT study found Region 2 airports with an economic urban and community forestry the top commodities shipped via impact of more than $21 million. coordinator who works with the air in the state were pharmaceutical THA Manager Jon Glass said air- Tennessee Urban Forestry Council products, transportation equip- port officials are often all hands-on as well as a liaison for the Tennes- ment, precision instruments and deck at the drop of a hat whenever a see Division of Forestry. She said apparatus, electronic equipment local business needs cargo service. there is often a misconception that and components, and textiles and “It’s sometimes hard to predict her organization only works with leather. Transportation and ware- when we will receive cargo, but major metro areas. housing are the top aviation-reli- we handle quite a bit,” Glass said. “I live in Martin, which has a ant industry in the state followed “Mainly, we see a lot of use from population of around 11,000. We by retail trade. Freight and cargo the local auto part manufacturers. have a tree board, we have two With spring approaching, Tennesseans have plenty of opportunities services from airports support an We usually receive cargo when a arboreta, and we are starting a food to plant trees in their own communities. Tennessee Tree Day is additional 82,000 jobs and $19 company gets behind or something forest through our tree board,” she celebrated on March 20 with Arbor Day on April 30. The Tennessee billion worth of economic impact. breaks. We have received cargo 12 said. “It doesn’t matter how big a Urabn Forestry Council (TUFC) has resources that can connect The growth of cargo and nights in a row and then have no community it is as long as there people with tree planting programs as well as provides educational freight aviation services can be cargo for a month. We are still on are people there who want to make material about the benefits of trees in cities both big and small. best exemplified by the growth call 24/7, and I’ve been out there things happen. We are the place of the Millington-Memphis Air- at 1 or 2 a.m. unloading cargo where people, buildings, and trees such as their annual conference in all across the country, so we can port (NQA), which has gone myself.” all come together.” October and the webinar series the bring in information from other hand-in-hand with the growth of The reason for this is that a Kite-Rowland said TUFC organization is presently putting places and get them out to areas Memphis-based shipping giant cargo shipment – ranging from works with organizations like the on. One of the things TUFC is most across Tennessee.” FedEx. While Millington has a goods and services to parts – can Tennessee Environmental Coun- known for is its work with local The organization also works population of a little more than mean big bucks for local business. cil, who sponsor Tennessee Tree tree boards. with municipal foresters across 11,000 residents, the city still man- “It’s really important that we Day on March 20, and the Arbor “I’m actually the president of the state. ages to operate the airport with the can support our local companies,” Day Foundation’s Tree City USA my local tree board,” Kite-Row- “We are trying to organize a third-biggest economic impact of Glass said. “When a factory shuts program, to educate communities land said. “Our goal is to give time to bring everyone together any in West Tennessee. down, it can cost them hundreds of on the benefits of trees as well as those boards the tools to advocate, so it’s not just us pushing down Millington-Memphis Airport thousands of dollars in lost time. If support local tree boards, arbore- to get ordinances in place, and to information,” she said. “We want Executive Director Roy Reming- they need a part from Texas, we can ta, municipal planners, and other promote tree planting and the care to create a network for the munic- ton said cargo is big business for get it to them in two to three hours projects. of trees once they are planted. We ipal foresters so they can come the facility. and get them back up and running.” She said one of the organi- also help them access more devel- together, share ideas, resources, “The biggest user of our air- Located centrally between the zation’s main goals is bringing opment opportunities and connect and energy, and help support the port is FedEx,” he said.

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