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The Metropolitan Council met on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. at the Metropolitan Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee. The meeting included recognitions, public comment, and legislative actions on resolutions and ordinances. Key items included a one-meeting deferral of the capital spending plan, approval of $6 million in Barnes Fund grants for affordable housing, a contested SRO grant, and the withdrawal of a right-turn-on-red ordinance after NDOT committed to pedestrian safety improvements.
Uh it's still LGBT History Month. I've got some history. I want to circle back towards the end of the meeting and kind of cover uh it's domestic violence awareness month. Uh so keep that in your brain. Uh it's breast cancer awareness month. So please make sure you get uh regular mammograms, especially for my my trans sisters out there with a high-level estrogen. We need to be uh regular mammograms every single year. Um National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and we need to make sure we keep that at the forefront of our minds. Um dyslexia uh awareness month. And a lot of people don't understand how many people that affects, and uh yours truly has dyslexia. So um we can we can prevail in things. We just have to work a little harder. Um National Uh Cybersecurity Awareness, and then of course, national bullying prevention. And I just want to say I know that we're getting close to the election. I know times are getting uh rough out there, and I just ask everybody to please be kind. Uh please be careful before you share anything to vet it to make sure it's 100% accurate and uh go out of the way to try to be nice to somebody over the next few days until the election is over. Are you ready, Miss Porterfield? All righty, thank you so very much, Madam Pro Tim. I would like to invite any council members to come and stand with us as well as the family of Mr. Jason Gooch. If anyone would like to either stand or come up, feel free to come up. And this is resolution number RS 2026-2325, a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Mr. Jason Gooch, a longtime employee of the Metropolitan Department of Parks and Recreation. So I'm gonna give the family a moment to come and gather the game. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the council of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The Metropolitan Council hereby goes on record as recognizing the life of Jason Roger Gooch and his meaningful contributions to Nashville and Davidson County. This resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it. So first I want to say, like on behalf of the entire Goops family, I just want to say thank you for honoring the life and legacy of my big brother Jason Gooch. If you knew Jason, you knew he loved people. And when he loved something, he gave it everything he had. So while our hearts are still heavy, moments like this remind us that Jason's life mattered. His work mattered, and the impact he made will live far beyond his years. As a family, we are committed to making sure his name and legacy continues to live on, especially through the young people and the family that he cared so much about. So thank you for seeing what we saw in Jason, for recognizing his love for his community and honoring my big brother. It means more to me and our family than you all know. So I want to say thank you. And if he was here, he would say thank you as well. Ready? All right. It is my honor to present this resolution honoring the honorable Brenda Wayne. I had the pleasure of knowing Miss Wynne for a really, really long time, even before I ran for office. I can let all of you know that more than what is on this resolution, she's done so much for Nashville. I can attest to the fact that there's so many rooms that I walk in where things about Nashville have been discussed, that's Miss Winnie's in there. She's everywhere.