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4A —Marshall County Post, Thursday, May 30, 2024 Obituaries Janet L. Brown Janet L. Brown, 71, passed away April 20, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. J.B. Mayberry & Sons Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Trent Gentry Mr. Trent Gentry, 30, of Chapel Hill, Tenn. died Saturday, May 18, 2024. Services provided by Lawrence Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. James S. Ordway James S. Ordway, 75, a resident of Lewisburg, passed away on May 22, 2024. Services provided by J.B. Mayberry & Sons Fu- neral Home. Dan Skinner Mr. Dan Skin- ner, 77, of Lewisburg, Tenn., formerly of the Flat Creek community in Williamson County, Tenn., died Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Dan was born is Franklin, Tenn., and was a son of the late Claude Samuel Skinner and Willie Esther Ad- gent Skinner. He was a member of the Method- ist faith and was retired from Durango Boot Company. In addition to his parents, Dan was pre- ceded in death by a brother, Edward Skinner. Dan loved watching Page High School basketball games. He enjoyed walking his dogs, Snowball & Ri- ley. Dan had a strong a ff ection for meeting folks and making friends with everyone. He was a loving care- taker to both of his parents until their deaths. Mr. Skinner is survived by his sisters, Ann Smith of Spring fi eld, Tenn., Betty Griggs of Friendsville, Tenn., and Evelyn (Ray) Scott of Chapel Hill, Tenn.; sister-in-law, Lillian Skinner of Shelbyville, Tenn.; nephews and nieces, Jr. Scott, Danny Griggs, Joley Ogg, and Anita Hat fi eld. The graveside service was conducted on Satur- day, May 25, 2024, at 10 a.m. at Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill, Tenn. with Pastor Kelly Hamilton of- fi ciating. Interment followed in Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill, Tenn. 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Periodicals postage is pending at Lewisburg,TN POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Tullahoma News, Circulation Customer Service Department at 505 Lake Way Place,Tullahoma, TN 37388. The Marshall County Post SPORTS EDITOR Chris Siers PAGINATION Mary Cook PAGINATION Carol Spray OFFICE MANAGER Patty Blackburn STAFF WRITER Tracy Harris Vol. 1 – No. 43 1 Section – 14 Pages Patsy Gipson Woods Patsy Gipson Woods, 79, of Lewis- burg, Tenn., passed away on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at Marshall Medical Center. She was born September 3, 1944, in Cornersville, Tenn. to the late Ed- ward and Bessie Brewer Blasingim. Pat loved being outdoors. Throughout her years, she could be found cultivating her fl ower beds, working in her gardens, or watching the birds going in and out of her bird houses. As an ac- tive member of the Cornersville Church of Christ, she diligently studied God’s word and surrounded her- self through various women’s groups in the church. If Pat wasn’t outside or on outings with her church groups, she could be found catching an afternoon nap or checking in on her grandchildren and great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two husbands, Robert Gipson and Doug Woods; sister, Jewel Wright and brother, Lonnie Blasingim. She is survived by two daughters, Penny (Mike) Smith, Dallas, Ga., and Tracy (Gary) Haskins, Lew- isburg; grandchildren, Justin (Carolanne) King, Joshua (Mackenzie) King, Jessica (Chris) King Gil- liam, and Zachary Smith; great-grandchildren, Mat- tie King, Weston King and William King; sisters, Wyvonne Ray, of Summertown and Pam (Denny) Harrison of Lewisburg; brother, Glynn (Donna) Blasingim of Hermitage. Visitation with the family was held at Cornersville Funeral Home on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and continued on Thurs- day, May 23, 2024, until the funeral hour. The funeral service was conducted on Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. from the chapel of Cor- nersville Funeral Home and burial followed in New Hope Cemetery at Ostella. Cornersville Funeral Home was honored to assist the family with the arrangements. it will be similar to the bridge on E. Commerce St. Pedestrians will cross the street underneath the bridge by using the Rock Creek Park walk- way. Passed 5 - 0. Resolution 24 -21 authorized an “Ease- ment Deed” to United Communications on two tracts of land owned by the City around the West-Side Fire Station. Passed 5 - 0. The minimum lot size for R -3 Zoning (High Density Residential) in- creased from 7,500 sq. ft. to 9,000 sq. ft. Passed 5 - 0. The Lewisburg Mu- nicipal Code will adopt the 2021 Fire Code as well as several amend- ments in Chapter 7. Passed 5 - 0. Next, the Council moved to appointments and reappointments on Boards, Committees, and Commissions. First was appointing Coun- cilmember Bradford to Lewisburg Water and Wastewater Board by Mayor Bingham, passed 4 – 0. Bradford did not vote. Next was the ap- pointment of Pete Brown to Industrial Develop- ment Board for a 6 - year term by Councilmember Michael. IDB is the only board where a Coun- cilmember can recom- mend an appointment instead of the Mayor. Eddie Wiles told The Post on Monday, May 20, that the IDB has not had a quorum since July 2023 when Wally Ritter didn’t renew his term. Not having a quorum means a board cannot vote on any business matters. There are nine seats on the board. They need fi ve to meet their quorum. With the cur- rent eight members, they are one member short. i.e. If four mem- bers voted yes and four members voted no, there is not a ninth vote to de- cide which side prevails. Wiles said three or four months ago, they discussed fi lling that va- cancy and Dave Kenne- dy mentioned Brown’s name. Brown expressed interest a month or so later so the IDB made a motion to have him serve on the board. The motion passed and Wiles contacted Coun- cilmember Michael to inform her. Councilmember Mi- chael brought it to the Work Session on May 7 to be placed it on the regular agenda. Pete Brown’s ap- pointment failed by a vote of 3 - 2. Council- members voted in the following order: Burns - no, Parsons - yes, Perka - no, Bradford - no, Mi- chael - yes. The following were all reappointments by Mayor Bingham: Quinn Brandon Stewart to Lewisburg Gas Board 4 - year term, passed 3 - 2. Council- members voted in the following order: Burns - yes, Parsons - yes, Perka - no, Bradford - no, Mi- chael - yes. Bob Phillips Zon- ing Appeals Board 2 - year term, passed 3 - 2. Councilmembers voted in the following order: Burns - no, Parsons - yes, Perka - no, Bradford - yes, Michael - yes. Randy Belote Com- munity Development Board 3 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Robin Minor Historic Zoning Commission 5 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Barbara Woods Plan- ning and Zoning Com- mission 3 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Eddie Tears Lewis- burg Electric Board 4 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Joe Harris Lewisburg Water and Wastewa- ter Board 2 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Julie Johnson Zon- ing Appeals Board 3 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Elinor Foster Storm- water Board of Appeals 1 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Carl Warren Storm- water Board of Appeals 3 - year term, passed 5 - 0. Lisa Jackson, Cheryl Taylor, and Scott Vernon “Tree City USA” Com- mittee 2 - year terms, passed 5 - 0. Next on the agenda was “discuss training opportunities for em- ployees.” Burns said, “Perfor- mance management is the continuous process of identifying, measur- ing, and developing the performance of indi- viduals and teams and aligning performance with the strategic goals of the organization. From no process (which is ours) to a formal pro- cess, this series is suit- able for organizations at all stages of their per- formance management process. Hope all of y’all got this from the mailing list on MTAS. If not, I’ll forward it to you.” MTAS website o ff ers a 3- part series called Developing an E ff ective Performance Manage- ment Process. What Burns read came from their description of the series. It also says that John Grubbs is their HR Consultant who in- structs the series on per- formance management process from beginning of an evaluation period to the next cycle. How- ever, part one, Intro to Performance Man- agement, was held on March 20, 2024. City Manager Bam Haislip had informa- tion prepared: “We’re more interested in job speci fi c training and we do have a process. There’s constant train- ing going on. The police have four o ffi cers doing their fi eld training right now. Fire fi ghters have 40 hours of extrication training coming up I thinks it’s three days… in the month of April they did 785 hours of training. Public Works does monthly training through TOSHA.” He went on to list other city employees that have un- dergone training. Hailsip added, “Get- ting everybody together to do something from MTAS is not going to particularly enhance their skillset. Especially when you’re shorthand- ed and doing everything you can to keep up as it is. So, that’s what I mean when I say job speci fi c training.” Burns asked, “Does anybody here want to do performance man- agement training? If they don’t, we’ll move on.” The discussion kept going for some time. Hailsip defended City employees, supervisors, and department heads again. “I’d say perfor- mance is up to par. You’ve got directors and supervisors that moni- tor their employees. No- body gets to sit around. Everybody employed with the City is doing their job. The majority of them are performing above and beyond be- cause we’re short sta ff ed everywhere.” Burns asked Hais- lip, “Do you judge the department heads on paper or anything, like their performance?” “No I don’t judge them. I talk to them. Communication is the key, especially when dealing with department heads and supervisors. I’m not looking to judge nobody,” Hailsip said. Burns called on each Councilmember by name for an answer on whether or not they wanted performance management. Bradford said, “I’m going to need to look through exactly what it is fi rst.” Michael answered, “No. I’ve said it 100 times and I’ll say it again. We are a service industry. That’s very, very di ffi cult to have a business-like approach on. I’ve tried and I’ve thought about it. I’m used to giving them. I’m used to having them. But unless you have measur- able attainable goals... like in the service indus- try, it is hard.” Perka said, “I was just thinking about the service industry. What are we supposed to do? Like a customer service rep at Amazon, where they get a survey at the end? Would you answer questions? It’s really hard to evaluate all the di ff erent thoughts that we have. I think there’s a way to kind of gauge it, but I think Bam is right.” Ultimately, no ac- tion was taken and they moved to Director’s Re- ports. Chief of Police Scott Braden reported 148 calls for service in April. As a result, 34 new open investigations. Fire Chief Drew Hawkins reported 163 calls for service. They have been out doing pre incident planning on ev- ery commercial building in the city. Jason Da- vis and Tim Anderson completed Advanced EMT Certi fi cation. Ste- ven Dalton completed Inspector Certi fi cation. OSHA is revamping the Fire Brigade Standards. Hawkins said, “In the past, we’ve been able to train our guys to be equivalent to those standards. But they’re pretty much going to dictate what we have to do. There’s a lot of vol- unteer departments that are lobbying against it because it’s going to be very taxing on them as well.” The meeting ad- journed at 7:32 p.m. Council Continued from Page 1