The Clarksville Town Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on July 15, 2025, followed by a work session. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance, public comments, and approval of the consent agenda. New business included several resolutions and ordinances, all passed unanimously. The work session featured a detailed financial presentation by the Clerk-Treasurer on the town's fiscal health, the impact of Senate Enrolled Act 1, and options for mitigating future revenue losses.
July 15th, regularly scheduled meeting. If you would please stand and join us in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We have two individuals who have signed up to make public comment this evening. First, we'd like to invite forward a Mr. Jim McCowski. And then Jim, if you would uh please state your address for public record, and then you'll have two minutes to to speak to the council. So just two. Okay. I'll try to make it quick. I'm glad to see Rook's got his own nameplate over here. Um last year myself and several veterans submitted an application to have a banner placed and made. Well, these were done and they were hung. But I didn't know it, so I'd called Mr. Ramsey. Where are our banners? He said, Well, they're already up. I said, Well, where are they? Main Street, I think you said, wasn't it? Yeah. Well, I didn't know where Main Street was. So I got in my truck and I drove all around the new area down there. So I finally found it. And I started driving down the street and I couldn't see any banners except for a few. So I went to the end of the street, got out, walked up both sides of the street. Almost all the banners were hung on a light post right in the middle of trees where nobody could see them. Now there were a few hung on, is it Gibson, the street that's perpendicular, mine included, where they were very visible. And I was just very upset that these banners were hidden. What was the old saying? Underneath a mistletoe or underneath a bush or whatever the term goes. So I called uh well, I came over here and I talked to the officer in charge. I asked him who it was, and he said, Well, you need to go to public service. I said, Well, here we go. So I called public service, talked to a wonderful young lady, she gave me the name of somebody over here. I called that somebody. Well, I'm out of my office. I left my name and number and what I was calling about. Well, she called the lady, I guess it's with the historical society, and this lady calls me back, and I explained what I was upset about. She gave me every reason why they didn't do it. She was very nice, wonderful person. I really enjoyed talking to her, but everything she said to me did not hold an ounce of water. One of the things she said was that the banners required two uh hangers. And I said, uh well, why couldn't you hang them on Eastern Boulevard? And she gave me that reason. Then she says that uh the light post, you had to get special light posts to hang those seconds. Oh come on. So I'm very upset about that as a veteran. And I think they should be displayed on Eastern Boulevard along with everybody else. They put the high school cheerleaders and the high school athletics up, which is fine.