The Executive Order itself does not list cities but says the Attorney General will designate which cities are sanctuary jurisdictions. Since the Attorney General is not yet confirmed there is no list yet, but one can guess which cities will be on the list. Some of those cities likely to be on the list are taking deviant position vowing they will not change their policy. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said Chicago would defy the order. “We’re going to stay a sanctuary city,” Emanuel said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “Wherever you came from, you’re welcome here.”"(c) Ensure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds, except as mandated by law."...Sec. 9. Sanctuary Jurisdictions. It is the policy of the executive branch to ensure, to the fullest extent of the law, that a State, or a political subdivision of a State, shall comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373.
(a) In furtherance of this policy, the Attorney General and the Secretary, in their discretion and to the extent consistent with law, shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (sanctuary jurisdictions) are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary. The Secretary has the authority to designate, in his discretion and to the extent consistent with law, a jurisdiction as a sanctuary jurisdiction. The Attorney General shall take appropriate enforcement action against any entity that violates 8 U.S.C. 1373, or which has in effect a statute, policy, or practice that prevents or hinders the enforcement of Federal law.
BIG NEWS for 1ST TUESDAY Members & friends
Many
of you heard at our last 2 events that our Hosts at Waller Law need
their conference room on our typical meeting day. Therefore we will meet
Monday, FEB 6th.
Returning to 1ST TUESDAY as our guest on Monday, FEB 6th will be Tennessee Governor BILL HASLAM!
"When did Nashville become a sanctuary city?' How much money will Nashville lose for being a sanctuary city?" "Did the Council vote to make Nashville a sanctuary city?" These are some of the questions I have seen on Facebook or been asked or heard asked. There seems to be an assumption on the part of many that Nashville is a sanctuary city. We are not. Nashville is not a sanctuary city.
Mayor Barry and others have made statements that Nashville would remain an open and welcoming community and the police and other city agencies have let it be know that citizens should not hesitate to cooperate with government officials due to fear of deportation. That does not make us a sanctuary city.
There is a difference between the city of Nashville officials not
inquiring about the legal status of people who have encounters with the
police or other public servants and refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Agency. While Nashville does not enforce immigration law we do not refuse cooperation with ICE. State law prohibits any city in Tennessee from being a sanctuary city.
In 1996 Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). This act requires local governments to cooperate with Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Agency. Cities that refuse are called "sanctuary cities." President Obama did not enforce IIRIRA and allowed sanctuary cities to defy the law with impunity.
The Executive Order itself does not list cities but says the Attorney General will designate which cities are sanctuary jurisdictions. Since the Attorney General is not yet confirmed there is no list yet, but one can guess which cities will be on the list. Some of those cities likely to be on the list are taking deviant position vowing they will not change their policy. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said Chicago would defy the order. “We’re going to stay a sanctuary city,” Emanuel said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “Wherever you came from, you’re welcome here.”"(c) Ensure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds, except as mandated by law."...Sec. 9. Sanctuary Jurisdictions. It is the policy of the executive branch to ensure, to the fullest extent of the law, that a State, or a political subdivision of a State, shall comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373.
(a) In furtherance of this policy, the Attorney General and the Secretary, in their discretion and to the extent consistent with law, shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (sanctuary jurisdictions) are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary. The Secretary has the authority to designate, in his discretion and to the extent consistent with law, a jurisdiction as a sanctuary jurisdiction. The Attorney General shall take appropriate enforcement action against any entity that violates 8 U.S.C. 1373, or which has in effect a statute, policy, or practice that prevents or hinders the enforcement of Federal law.
In 2015, short-term rentals boosted Nashville's economy by $477.2 million says a study by the Austin, Texas based consulting firm of TXP Inc. prepared for HomeAway. HomeAway is a company, similar to Airbnb, that matches those with rooms to rent to vacationing visitors with those seeking a place to stay in Nashville. This study is released as the Metro Council is considering a moratorium or ban on non-owner-occupied short-term rental units.
There is pending before the Council an ordinance that would make changes to Metro's existing Short-term Rental Property regulations and modify those regulations to make them constitutional. In October 2015 a judge ordered that metro's STRP regulations were unconstitutionally vague. At a public hearing on January 4th, 2017, on the new proposed replacement ordinance for the one found unconstitutional, many citizen activist showed up to argue STRP should be banned, especially those in which the owner did not live on the property.
The ordinance is set for the second of three votes on Feb. 7th. A couple council members have said they will move to amend the proposed ordinance to include a ban or moratorium on those short-term rental properties in which the owner does not live on the property. Opponents of short-term rentals refer to these type of units as "investor-owned." even though the "investor" is usually someone who lives in the neighborhood and may own one property they rent using an app like Airbnb or HomeAway.
If Metro does move to ban or unreasonably restrict STRP there is a likely possibility the State could implement a statewide policy and curtail Metro's regulatory authority. For more on the topic including seeing the pubic hearing on the topic see this link, this link, and this link.
If you haven't heard enough from self-righteous, condescending, elitist liberals who look down their nose as we deplorables, you can read Beverly Keel's column in today's Tennessean. In her column entitled Be heroes our children need in Trump era she writes of overhearing two women at lunch wondering why Trump's opponents were acting out the way they were.
She says, "I wanted to explain that the fear and anger stems from a very real
concern that the Trump presidency gives license to sexism, racism,
religious discrimination, sexual discrimination, and violence against
those who are different from the white heterosexual majority." "I wanted to tell the women that the difference is that while many might
not have agreed with the policies of previous presidents, we didn’t
think they were truly bad men who would embolden their followers to
attack others physically, economically and psychologically."
Give me a break! I did not vote for Trump but it was about his position on trade issues and his foreign policy positions. I did not support Trump primarily because I did not think he was a conservative. I do think he has character flaws and I am concerned about his temperament but the massive protest, the cry-ins, seeking safe places and acting as if Hitler just came to power is nuts!
Women did not react this way when we had a real serial rapist for president. Trump made some crude comments; Hillary destroyed lives of women who revealed her husbands sexual predatory actions. Hillary and Bill peddled influence without shame. Beverly says the reaction to Trump's election is because Trump is really a bad man. I think Hillary was a truly a bad women. If she would have been elected president however, I would not have sought a safe place to have cry-in or
I think Beverly Keel does not get it. People who have seen America go in one direction somehow thought that was the direction it would always go. They got spoiled and thought that somehow they were on the side of history and destiny. When they didn't win, they had a meltdown. They are suffering from an illness know as Trump Unacceptance & Resistance Disorder.
Now the celebration of tolerance at the expense of security may be over, killing the unborn will no longer be celebrated but an attempt will be made to save the lives of the unborn, acknowledgment of American Exceptionalism will again a be respectable opinion, people will feel embolden to express an opinion that just because a man puts on a dress that does not mean he has the right to use the little girls room, and people will no longer feel cowered to conform to liberal political correctness. Get over it!
To relocate the school or keep it in its current location has been a hot topic in that part of Davidson County. Bellevue wants a high school but opponents of the move argue it would have a less diverse student body in Bellevue. The current location of the school is 400 Davidson Road and most of the students near the school attend private schools but the school serves student in the Pearl Cohn High School cluster and moving the school to Bellevue would move it further away from those students. The school board approved the move tonight. It still must gain Metro Council approval, but the Council will likely follow the School Board recommendation. For more on this issue, follow this link.
At the last council meeting there was a resolution on the agenda which would have awarded a sole-source contract to a company called Host Compliance to provide services
to help the city enforce the city's regulations of Short-term Rental Property. The company would provide a computer software program and tech support. The system would monitor
on-line
sites such as Airbnb and then compare those Nashville offerings with
permits on file and hotel-motel tax payment records. This would help the city catch those
who are illegally operating STRP and help insure that operators are paying
the hotel-motel tax. In exchange for this service, the city would pay Host a million dollars for five years of service. One committee of the council had recommended deferral of the resolution, so "by rule" it was deferred. A resolution, unlike a bill, only has one reading. If it passes, that is it. (To read more about this issue follow this link and look for RESOLUTION NO. RS2017-519.)
The city is authorized to enter into a sole-source contract when there is a sole source for the product or the service the city is seeking. As it turns out, Host was not the only company that could provide this service. Councilman John Cooper, head of the Budget and Finance questioned the sole-source awarding of the contract and argued the contract should be put out for bids. Administration officials defended the decision to award the contract sole source but reluctantly put it our for bids after being criticized.
Well, what do you know? Several vendors responded. Host is not the only company that can provide this service. There still are issues about this to be resolved, but John Cooper is to be commended for looking out for the tax payers interest and making the city but the contract out for bids.
I question if this service will be needed at all. A move is afoot to ban all non-owner occupied
STRP. I think this should be deferred to see what happens to the STRP bill which may or may not ban all but owner-occupied STRP. Should they be banned, then it
seems there would be less need to purchase this program. I doubt
they will be banned but I think it would be prudent to wait and see what
happens. Also, there is a strong possibility that if Metro's regulation of STRP becomes too onerous, the State will step in and pass statewide regulations regulating STRP and supersede anything Metro passes. Purchasing this programs needs to wait.
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Gov. Haslam has been laying the ground work to raise the state gas
tax for a couple years and now he has put forth a specific proposal. His plan would increase the tax on gas by seven cents, the diesel tax by 12 cents vehicle registration by $4, $10, or $20 depending on the type of vehicle, impose a $100 fee on electric cars and impose a 3% tax on rental vehicles. The gas and diesel tax would be tied to the Consumer Price Index and would increase automatically with inflation without additional legislative action. The plan would also allow local governments and counties to hold local referendums to increase the local option sales tax for the purpose of funding local mass transit. The plan would cut the sales tax rate on groceries by one half of one percent and provide for various other minor tax reductions. This plan would bring in an additional $278.3 million dollars.
There is a good argument to be
made that the gas needs to be increased. The fuel tax, which has not been
increased since 1989, is not raising sufficient revenue to improve and
maintain our highway system. Improved fuel efficiency standards and the
rise of hybrid vehicles are hurting the collection of gas taxes. Also,
our interstate highway system and bridges are old now and major repairs
are needed. There are bottlenecks and places that need new interchanges. There is a $6 billion backlog of projects that need funding. Tennessee's gas tax is among the lowest in the nation and even if this tax is increased to the level the governor wants, we would still be about in the middle of the pack in rankings of gas tax burden.
That said however, in the past when money was flowing into the system we
should not have spend it just because we had it. We did. The biggest folly in
my mind is that we had a state policy that every county seat would
connect by a four-lane limited-access road to an interstate. I am not sure when this
policy was instituted, sometime in the 70's I think. I am not sure if
it was ever completed for all 95 counties but if not, it was for most of
them. I know the generalities but not the specifics. If some one can
research the facts please post the information.
The logic behind this policy was that to bolster employment
opportunities in rural areas we needed four-lane roads. Counties would
build industrial parks and entice companies to locate across the state.
If there was not easy access to the interstate system, companies would
not locate to rural areas.
When my daughter, Rachel, was young, shortly after her mother and I divorced, her mother moved
How would you like to walk into your airport terminal and find "fireplaces, woodIf the Department of Transportation can spend over $42 million on building a luxury jet port for the city of Cleveland, maybe the gas tax is sufficient to fund the roads and bridges we need. If the Department of Transportation is again flush with money, the State may decide a lot of other cities need luxury jet ports. If the state has lots of money for roads, I fear the State may decide that every town needs to be connected by a broad four-lane road to every other town and that every Podunk Tennessee needs a bypass. I am not ready to support the governor's proposal for a major increase in the gas tax.
furniture and even a water feature,” along with restaurants, recliners and "quite rooms for a ‘siesta’?” Perhaps you should become a corporate millionaire, buy a jet, and plan a layover in Cleveland Regional Jetport. While you’re there, make sure to thank Tennessee taxpayers, who shelled out $42.2 million in funding from the Tennessee Department of Transportation to the City of Cleveland. Apparently, Cleveland officials felt our well-to-do comrades should not be relegated to commuting with the common folk from the Chattanooga airport, just 30 miles away.
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