GNRC Greater Nashville Regional Council 501 Union Street, 6 th Floor Nashville, Tennessee

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1 Greater Nashville Regional Council 501 Union Street, 6 th Floor Nashville, Tennessee Executive Committee Meeting Wednesday, April 6, :30 a.m. Music City Central 400 Charlotte Avenue Nashville, Tennessee Those in Attendance: Rogers Anderson Howard Bradley Carroll Carman Sam Childs Sabrina David David DeMarco Scott Foster Anthony Holt Randall Hutto Gary Jaeckel Jimmy Jobe Rick Johnson Pamela Kardenbrook Jerry Kirkman Amber Locke Mary Mantooth Kim McMillan Denise McBride Ken Moore Craig Moreland Toks Omishakin Mary Esther Reed John Reinboll Bob Rial Jessie Wallace Ken Wilber Cynthia Balfour Tonya Blades Tauna Blaisdell Bryan Collins Sam Edwards Amanda Evilcizer Teresa Gamble Amanda Giner Sara Fowler Kim Hale Keisha Harris Will Harrison Garrett Haynes Fredna Hodge Taylor Hollars Angie Hutchison MINUTES Williamson County Robertson County Trousdale County/Hartsville Coopertown FHWA - TN Carr, Riggs & Ingram Hendersonville Sumner County Wilson County UT-MTAS Jobe, Hastings & Associates Ashland City FHWA - TN Westmoreland For Mayor McCullough Cheatham County Adams Clarksville THDA Franklin Trousdale County/Hartsville TDOT Smyrna TDOT Dickson County Humphreys County Portland

2 Page 2 of 9 Hope Jackson Jovia King Kelly Outlaw Rasheedah Pardue Norma Powell Diane Schlaufman Laylah Smith Matt Von Lunen Marilyn Wade Gayle Wilson Call to Order President Randall Hutto called the Executive Committee Meeting to order at approximately 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at the Music City Central Station, 400 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. President Hutto welcomed any new members and guests. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION Area Agency on Aging and Disability (AAAD) Norma Powell, Deputy Executive Director of AAAD, reported that a few months ago TCAD had interest in pulling back the SHIP funding. AAAD has a fully executed SHIP contract with TCAD. The AAAD Advisory Council met last week to review the FY 2017 Area Plan. The Area Plan is our application to the state to continue funding for many of the AAAD programs. Gayle Wilson reported on the FY2017 Proposed Allocation of TCAD Funding document (the last page of Resolution attachments). Research, Planning and Development Matt Von Lunen, Research, Planning and Development Division Administrator, reported that had representation at the TDDA conference and Rural Development conference in Murfreesboro last week. If you have a planning contract with, the office is working on getting those out now. There is no rate increase. We will continue with the $8,500 for the full service and $5,000 for part time. That is a flat rate but you also pay for travel. If you are interested in s planning services, please let Matt know. He would be happy to set down and go over services and cost. Matt stated that he had positive communication with ECD regarding the CDBG letter. ECD has done some research back to 2010 and they have requested to speak at our next meeting in May. If you have pressing needs that can t wait until May, you may call them individually. Legislative Agenda Update Sam Edwards, Chief Legal Counsel, stated that the General Assembly is coming to an end probably in the next two weeks. The two bills wrote have passed. These are the Rutherford County requested bill dealing with membership or a board of zoning appeals and the Willaimson County requested bill on the 911 Committee. The Deannexation bill has been sent to summer study. Mayor McMillan stated that this bill now applies to all 347 cities except the 3 metro areas. No bills will be carried over. The bills that did not pass will be dropped and will be dead for the year. President Hutto presented a metal engraved coffee mug to Sam Edwards for his 30 years of service to. Sam retires at the end of April.

3 Page 3 of 9 Workplace Violence Response Plan Hope Jackson, Deputy Executive Director, Human Resource & Chief Legal Counsel, reported that on March 17 th, metro police officers, Steve Linn and Marline Pardue, gave a workplace violence safety training and active shooter training to employees. As a follow up, Sgt. Linn came to the office yesterday and did an onsite assessment of the offices. He is taking the information specific to our offices and he will come up with recommendations that we can use to increase our safety. Once we have Sgt. Lynn s recommendations, staff will come up with what these recommendations will cost and will present those to Executive Director and the Executive Committee. Update on New Executive Director President Randall Hutto stated that Michael Skipper has accepted the Executive Director position. Michael has a trip already planned through MPO which will also benefit. His start date will be June 8, 2016 and his salary was set at $130,000. Finance & Personnel Committee gave Mayor Hutto authority to negotiate in a certain range so he matched the salary Michael made at MPO. Hendersonville Mayor Scott Foster made a motion to approve the salary and amend the budget. Dickson County Mayor Bob Rial seconded the motion. There being no discussion, a vote was taken and the motion was unanimously approved. ACTION ITEMS Approval of Minutes President Randall Hutto called for corrections or additions to the minutes of the March 16, 2016 Executive Committee meeting. Franklin Mayor Ken Moore made a motion to approve the minutes as presented. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan seconded the motion. There being no discussion, a vote was taken and the minutes were unanimously approved. Financial Report Tauna Blaisdell, Deputy Executive Director of Administration/Operations and Chief Fiscal Officer, stated that on the January finance report everything highlighted in green are the changes made. The incorrect numbers are only in the budget column. She presented the financial report for the month ending February 29, The total expenditures for the month of February were $686, with pass through of $29, The year-to-date expenditures were $5,915, and $2,345, in pass through. The year-to-date revenues were $6,144, The ending balance in the bank account was $545, and the ending balance in the investment account was $430, Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt made a motion to approve the finance report. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed. Project Review Matt Von Lunen, Research, Planning and Development Division Administrator, presented five (5) new projects that were reviewed this reporting period. Staff found no conflict with existing or planned activities and recommended approval. There are all USDA projects. Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt made a motion to approve the projects as submitted. Dickson County Mayor Bob Rial seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed.

4 Page 4 of 9 Resolution FY2017 Area Plan Laylah Smith, Legal Counsel, presented Resolution : A Resolution Approving the s Area Agency on Aging and Disability Proposed FY2017 Area Plan, FY2017 Request for Waiver and FY2017 State and Federal Funds Allocation to Implement the FY2017 Area Plan. This resolution approves the FY2017 Area Plan, budget and waiver. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan made a motion to approve the FY2017 Area Plan presented. Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt seconded the motion. There being no discussion, a vote was taken and the motion was unanimously approved. Employee Parking & $50 Compensation President Randall Hutto stated that s Deputy Executive Directors receive $105 for parking. This is a benefit given to Deputy Executive Directors that their parking is paid. The parking has went up to $140. The Finance & Personnel Committee approved to increase the parking allocation to $140. Tauna Blaisdell had stated the amount could be covered in the budget. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan made a motion to approve the increase of $140 to directors for parking allocation for this budget year. Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed. President Randall Hutto stated that all employees receive $50 towards parking or other transportation. Nashville has gone up on their rates for parking. The Finance & Personnel Committee approved to increase the allocation to $60 for the rest of FY2016 and it will be discussed for the FY2017 budget. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan made a motion to approve the increase of $60 for employees parking allocation. Coopertown Mayor Sam Childs seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed. Questions for Jimmy Jobe, Jobe, Hastings & Associates, for Audit Findings Jimmy Jobe, Jobe, Hastings & Associates, stated that he would give a brief history of the process that has taken place. When they were conducting the June 2015 audit, they found inconsistency on how payroll was treated on various tax returns. They asked staff about the inconsistency and Tauna explained that it was a change in how the benefits were treated as far as pre-tax or post tax. They immediately tried to determine the scope of the problem and how far it went back. Once they determined the scope, he went to Sam as the Executive Director and brought it to his attention. Then it was brought to the Executive Committee after that. incurred $68,000 in additional expense over an 8 year period (that shouldn t have incurred). During that time, the agency had a total expenditures of some 82 million dollars. In prospective, that is less than 2 tenth of a percentage of total cost. There is an expectation gap between what the public perceives the auditors should discover and what is realistic for the auditors to find in a limited amount of time. They try to determine the risk areas that might have some problems and they focus on those areas. In this case, they focused on the gross wages and how those are allocated among the programs. This problem didn t change the amount the employees were paid. The gross wages were correct. It was how the benefits were treated in this case. Looking back at the history of the audits, prior to 2007, when Mary Ann Sparkman was the CFO there were rarely if any audit findings. Beginning in 2007, started having some findings in the audit. There were 4 findings in 2007 and 6 findings in During 2009, they became concerned that audit would not be out on time. They were not getting the information they needed. He had a meeting with Sam Edwards and Tauna Blaisdell in December of was told that financial management had a long way to go to be where it should be. took that seriously and started to make some improvements. There were 10 findings for After that

5 Page 5 of 9 the trend started to go down some. still had some findings the next few years. (These findings were handed out in the packet) They also determine in an audit whether the agency is a low risk auditee. This has some significance because it changes the work auditors have to do. If the agency is not a low risk auditee, then they have to do a lot more procedures especially relating to the federal grant programs. The agency has not been a low risk auditee since The factors that are considered are the material findings in the last two years and whether the agency is able to submit their information on the federal clearing house in a timely matter. Both of those have been an issue. An agency has to be clear of those issues for two years in a row before they can be a low risk auditee. This does have an impact on the audit the firm does. They have a fixed rate so it s not a cost the agency bears but a cost that auditors bear. Several years ago the Upper Cumberland Development District had some issues and it was on the news. The director has doing things that shouldn t have been done. They are governed by a board similar to. The comptroller came in and said they needed to change auditors. They believed Upper Cumberland was getting a substandard audit. They were given a list of other auditors and Jobe s firm was on the list. Jobe, Hastings & Associates has been doing their audit ever since. There are some firms that shouldn t do governmental audits. Jobe, Hastings & Associates shouldn t do public company audits and they don t. They only do governmental audits and they feel like they have the expertise to do them. President Randall Hutto clarified that Jobe, Hastings & Associates has been working with since From 1994 to 2007, Ms. Sparkman was our CFO. Tauna Blaisdell stated that Ms. Sparkman left in President Hutto asked Jimmy Jobe that from 2002 to 2006 there were no findings in the audit, correct? Jimmy Jobe stated correct. President Hutto asked that is this what you mean by low risk auditee. Jimmy Jobe stated that it was one of the criteria. President Hutto asked if we were considered a high risk now. Jimmy Jobe stated that you either meet the criteria for a low risk auditee or you don t. There is no category of high risk. It means the firm cannot consider you a low risk auditee. President Hutto asked if from , we had 29 deficiencies where 27 were mature weaknesses. Jimmy Jobe stated that a deficiency of any kind is a weakness in the internal control where something could happen without the knowledge of management that your controls allow to happen. Something could happen and not be known as far as financial. A material weakness is a weakness that something of a material nature could happen and not be found or discovered. It involves a little judgement but it also involves a weakness at such a level that something of that significances could happen that it is material to the financial statements. That is a material weakness. A significant deficiency is a level below that. It is important enough to bring to your attention but not a material weakness. President Hutto asked Jimmy Jobe in his opinion there is issues between Ms. Sparkman s tenure and Ms. Blaisdell s tenure. Jimmy Jobe said yes. President Hutto asked Jimmy Jobe if their firm do anything to help our agency at that time and if so, were you successful. Jimmy Jobe stated that of course, they always had the findings as previously discussed and the 2009 meeting which was discussed. There was also correspondence between Sam and himself. We were always available to assist. We have tried to educate as far as trying to avoid some big adjustments that have to be made in the audit. President Hutto stated that we do not want to be a statistic for a failing development district and because of these issues, should we do a full audit. Jimmy Jobe stated no, that they do a full financial audit. We just can t see every transaction. Jimmy Jobe was asked were the findings corrected. Jimmy Jobe said that in some years they were corrected and in some years the findings were repeated the next year. Questions for Independent CPA Investigator s Report David DeMarco stated that he didn t think there was any reason to go over the report again since he went over the whole report at March s meeting. President Randall Hutto asked David DeMarco to summarize the report in a few sentences. David DeMarco stated that there was a partner of

6 Page 6 of 9 errors in payroll that weren t corrected or detected over a number of years. Mayor Kim McMillan asked if David DeMarco had seen the report which calculates the amount of loss due to this payroll issue. David DeMarco stated that he had not seen that report. He estimated what the loss was but he knew it would be a bigger number due to time spent on the issue. Response to Independent CPA Investigator s Report and Audits Tauna Blaisdell stated that she was handing a packet she prepared with additional information. She wanted to address a few things Jimmy Jobe stated. First there was a major change in internal controls in month between Mary Ann being the CFO and her being the CFO. Things that hadn t been unreportable and non-material weaknesses were not reported. The internal control rules were changed and suddenly they became material weaknesses. So things that were going on when Mary Ann was here and the audit says there were no material weakness is because they weren t required to be reported as material weaknesses. In 2009, we replaced our payroll software that was DOS based and very old. We couldn t import the information into the new system. It all had to be entered manually. Because our server had not been properly taken care of, the server crashed. We lost all the information and it had to be recreated manually. The server was down for over a month and there were no back-ups to the server. President Randall Hutto asked if Tauna Blaisdell could list some examples of the material weaknesses that were required of you but not required of Ms. Sparkman. Tauna Blaisdell stated that there is a place in there about not doing a reconciliation for the subsidiary journals. Mary Ann wasn t doing those either but they are now a material weakness. As far as the finding about having to make a lot of adjustments, there were a lot of adjustments. We had a terrible time switching between softwares. We had dozens and dozens of adjustments. Drew Nicholson, who works for Jobe, Hastings & Associates, and I worked very hard over the next three or four years to get everyone of the beginning balances correct. But I wasn t going to make those adjustments until I understand what was happening. Even though Drew had suggested them, I wasn t going to make them until I knew why I was making them. Even though the number of adjustments were going down as we corrected and found those balances every year, the finding was still there even though there weren t as many every year. You can t see that over those years, Drew and I were working together on figuring those out and getting rid of them. President Hutto asked that when we have the recurring problems, it was because you weren t ready to make those changes even though the auditor said make them until you fully understood them. Tauna Blaisdell stated that that was correct. President Hutto stated that Tauna took over in 2007 and the payroll software didn t change until Tauna Blaisdell stated that it changed in the 2008/2009 period. The server crashing and the payroll software change is why the audit couldn t be done in a timely matter. I couldn t get them the information because I did not have the information. After we had that finding, we put a deadline on all our providers to get all of their records in on time so we could get all of our records to Jobe, Hastings & Associates by the end of August in a timely manner. We have put extra emphasis on doing that. Tauna Blaisdell stated that it didn t print in color so it is gray scaled but those are her responses to David DeMarco s report and then in the back I provided documentation of some of the things I has stated. Both Sam and Jimmy have told you this problem started in 2008, that s not true. The state authorized the Cafeteria Plan in 1989 and the state implanted the Cafeteria Plan in I did not start with until This problem predated me by twelve years and had been incorrect at that time. Last month when Mr. DeMarco gave his report, Hope had already requested that information from the state of Tennessee. She was already aware at that point that the 2008 date was wrong and the Cafeteria Plan was implemented in I have included for you the original Cafeteria Plan law that was implemented in 1988 that only applied to child care experiences. In 1989, it was amended to include the Cafeteria Plan for health insurance benefits. The 2008 amendment did not change the Cafeteria Plan benefits; it authorized a transportation benefit. I ve include all of those in the report. You can see that the wording for the 1989 and 2008 Cafeteria Plan for health benefits was both the same. President Hutto stated that you are saying it started in 1989 and we could have been doing it wrong all that time. Tauna Blaisdell

7 Page 7 of 9 stated that we were in fact doing it wrong all that time. President Hutto stated that he can t do anything about that piece that he wasn t here at that time but from 2008 to 2014 under Tauna s watch it was wrong. Tauna Blaisdell stated that yes but it wasn t wrong until 2014, I corrected the piece that I was aware of we started those corrections in The problem was that I wasn t aware that the qualified Cafeteria Plan was also pre-employment taxes. President Hutto asked Tauna if she should have been aware. Tauna Blaisdell stated that should she have been aware, probably but I also talked with Drew and another auditor in 2009 when I first made those. I was told I could make those pre-tax if they are qualified Cafeteria Plan but was never told that they should also be pre-fica taxes. Yes, I should have known. The piece that I did know I did fix. Tauna Blaisdell stated that she was disappointed in the content and tenure of the independent report that David DeMarco did. What we had asked for was why the problem had happened, if it had been corrected and to give suggestions on how to prevent this. What we got was a report full of innuendo and in some cases outright lies. He printed out a report on the internet that any of you could have found easily on internal control. There were no suggestions tailored specifically to or what we could do. He talked to her for less than 20 minutes. It was clear that he didn t care what I had to say. He had already formed his opinions. President Hutto stated that Tauna devalues Mr. DeMarco s report. Tauna stated that she did. President Hutto stated that she put corrections in her packet. Tauna stated that she put her correction in his report in places that were incorrect. In fact, there is a place in there where he quotes Ms. Wilson as saying she didn t talk to her because Tauna was her boss. Ms. Wilson told Tauna that she never said that. President Hutto asked what Tauna s response was to Mr. Jobe s report. Tauna stated that she already gave a response to Jobe s report. Yes, there were more findings after Mary Ann but that had to do with our changing the software and Tauna not being willing to make the adjustments until she knew what they were for. And the fact that the definition of material weakness and significant deficiency had changed. Tauna Blaisdell stated that has received a letter from the IRS concerning one of our amended tax returns and Jobe, Hastings & Associates had done the calculations wrong so we are getting additional money from that because the calculation were incorrect. She included a copy of that letter in her packet. That is the only letter we have received so far. She is not sure if the others they did were calculated incorrectly. There was a part in the report that refers to Danielle Rutherford and Stephanie Butcher. She included a copy of their W-4 and a print out of their payroll distribution from 2011 and 2012, showing you that what was on their W-2 was entered into the payroll system. She spent a great amount of time with Ms. Butcher trying to figure out what the problem was. She also spent a great amount of time on the phone with the payroll software vendor trying to figure out what was going on there. It makes it seem like she didn t care but she did. She had Jovia King come in and double check the system to make sure their withholdings were in there correctly. They also compared Ms. Butcher s and Ms. Rutherford s to other employees to make sure there was not something else set up wrong. As far as the programing the payroll software, she did that. She can t override the taxes. All she can do is make sure what employees put on the W-2 s match payroll. Mr. DeMarco reported on a conversation Tauna had with Amanda Evilcizer. She stated she did not tell Amanda that she wish she had never corrected the error. She told Amanda that she wish she had not found and corrected the error. Once she discovered that there was an error, it never entered into her mind not to correct the error. Although that is what is implied in Mr. DeMarco s report. Open Invitation to Comment from Employees Effected by Payroll & 457 Plan discrepancies Teresa Gamble stated that she works with the Guardianship program. She s been for 10 years. She is a fiscal person as well. She asked that when all the discrepancies happened is sure that everything has been reported to our retirement system and to our Social Security. She stated that she has been with the state almost 23 years so she has been looking at her retirement plan. She just wants to be sure. When she gets her report, she feels like the salary should stay the same or increase a little bit each year but there are places it goes downs and goes up. Tauna

8 Page 8 of 9 Blaisdell stated she had an answer for that question because she just looked at Sam s retirement. Because we get paid every two weeks instead of twice a month, we do have an extra two payrolls. Sometimes when she reports the income to TCRS which goes on a fiscal year and not a calendar year, sometimes we have three of those extra payrolls and sometimes we only have two of those extra payrolls. That is why the salary bounces around at TCRS because it depends on when the extra payrolls hit. As far as reports to TCRS, TCRS is reported on gross income so she doesn t even look at the deductions for the report she does for TCRS. The actual reporting should be correct. If Teresa would like to look at any of those records, Tauna would be happy to share those with her. Social Security will be affected but it will be in the employees favor because we reported more income than what we should have. So Social Security thinks you made more because it should have been pre for Social Security also and those years we can no longer correct we reported more than what you should have had reported. Back to 2012 can be changed. Another question Teresa had was she knows that employees will be refunded some from She has already had her taxes amended that she has got a large amount back. She knows that 2008 to 2011, cannot be submitted to the IRS. She asked if employees were going to receive anything towards that. She doesn t make a lot of many and the amount she received back was a sizeable amount. President Hutto asked Hope if the Council had voted on that yet. Hope stated that this was referring to the income and there is no way to know an exact amount. Mr. DeMarco gave an estimate in his report on a 20% tax rate which is the mid-range of the tax rate. The motion was to wait until we receive the reimbursement form the IRS and then the Executive Committee would look at it again. President Hutto stated that the Executive Committee will revisit this issue. When we make this decision, we will make sure we get word out to all our employees. Tauna stated that 2008 is not the correct year and the problem went back to Sara Fowler stated that she works under the Aging department. She wanted to reiterate what Teresa said about the amount that is coming back. It is sizable especially when you are on a fixed income. It s been a hardship. She also stated that something that hasn t been brought up which might not be too important but there was an administrative assistant who started about when insurance was changing. She talked to Ms. Blaisdell on whether she should start her insurance now or can she wait until the insurance changes so she s not starting and switching. Ms. Blaisdell told her she could wait but when she went to enroll in insurance she could no longer do that. She had to have started it within 30 days. She was no longer eligible for health insurance which is why she accepted the position. She went without insurance for several years. The only thing she was told is that she could quit for 3 months and would try to hold her position and then re-hire her so she could enroll in insurance. Tauna Blaisdell stated that she did not tell that administrative assistant that. She asked if she could come on later than the 30 days and Tauna told her that she would have to go through a special enrollment and that if she had any health issues that she would probably be turned down. Mayor Scott Foster, Hendersonville s Mayor, stated that a lot of personal names are being used and we have a packet from Ms. Blaisdell which includes social security numbers and W-4s with names attached. This is not open form for personal issues. He has a question for this is now public record than this is a problem. Tauna Blaisdell s packets were picked up immediately. Hope stated that if we get an open record request we could redacted that information. There was a motion to recess into a closed Executive Session to hear from and outside defense counsel. Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt made a motion to go into a closed Executive Session. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan seconded the motion. The motion was passed. The meeting was reconvened back into an open session.

9 Page 9 of 9 Other Business Executive Anthony Holt, Treasurer and Sumner County Mayor, made the following motion: I move to accept the Audit findings of Jobe, Hastings & Associates and the independent investigation conducted by David DeMarco, CPA and subject to the approval of the Executive Director, that the employment of 's Chief Fiscal Officer, Tauna Blaisdell, be immediately terminated for her unsatisfactory and substandard work performance related to significant errors made in preparing ' s payroll by failing to deduct employee health, vision and dental insurance payments in the 's IRS Section 125 Cafeteria Plan from federal or FICA wages; over reporting employee wages to the IRS and incorrectly deducting matching contributions under Section 457(b) of the 's Deferred Compensation Plan from employee wages. Mr. Demarco in his Independent Accountants' Report reports the estimated total net cost to the due to errors made by Ms. Blaisdell is $144,359, excluding professional fees associated with the Audit, investigation and reimbursement to employees for the preparation of amended tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service. The professional fees are estimated to be approximately $64,400. Approximately 683 hours of staff time have already been expended in responding to the errors made, the monetary value of which has not been calculated. Further, yearly audits of the for the years Ms. Blaisdell has been Chief Fiscal Officer have reported significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the financial affairs of the. In most of the years the did not qualify as a low-risk auditee. Ms. Blaisdell is a CPA and knew or should have known how to competently prepare the 's payroll and insure that the 's financial affairs were in proper order. The actions of Ms. Blaisdell are major violations of the rules and regulations which constitute a gross neglect of duty which has caused serious harm to the and its employees. Ms. Blaisdell has lost the trust of the Executive Committee and our employees to competently perform her fiscal responsibilities and appropriately safeguard the funds of this agency. Ms. Blaisdell has done irreparable damage to the and its employees and can no longer continue to be employed by the. Mayor Kim McMillan, Immediate Past President and Clarksville Mayor, moved to amend the motion by including the amounts that were provided today which includes 808 hours of employee staff time and brings the total amount that the has lost to $230, Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt accepted the amendment and restated his motion to recommend the termination of Tauna Blaisdell for the stated reasons. Robertson County Mayor Howard Bradley seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed. Interim Executive Director, Norma Powell stated that as provided for in the by-laws, she approved the motion of the Executive Committee and would proceed accordingly to terminate the employment of Ms. Blaisdell for the reasons stated in the motion. There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Angie Hutchison Recording Secretary Administrative Support Specialist NLP/adh & hj Adminwrk\ \Board Meetings\ Minutes\ Minutes.doc