Nashville City Council
Monday during the Nashville City Council’s regular monthly meeting, Finance Director Kimberly Green presented the statement of revenues and expenditures for the month of January 2024. According to her report total revenue was $874,804.80 and expenditures were $808,925.84. The expenditures exceeded the revenue by $65,878.96. Green also reported that city sales tax increased by 5.5 percent which was $7,592 dollars more than January 2023. It was also reported that county sales tax increased by 8 percent which was $7,024 more than January 2023.
Police Chief Amy Marion provided the 2023 numbers of the Nashville Police Department. Marion stated that 577 reports were taken, 3088 traffic stops were made, 91 felony arrests, 221 misdemeanor arrests, 23 DWIs, 170 warrants served, 761 tickets written, 191 accident reports, 276 drug related cases, 25 undercover drug cases, 3 search warrants, 81 felony cases worked, 304 total arrests. Marion also added that the 16 new AWINN radios have been implemented and they are working and ready to go in case of an emergency. Marion said that they added three radars to patrol, and they have been awarded a grant in the amount of $50,000 dollars for the tasers, but they haven’t been implemented yet.
Fire Chief Justin Thornton also provided numbers for 2023 for the fire department. Thornton reported that they had responded to a total number of 323 calls. Out of those calls, 193 of those calls were medical, 25 of those calls were canceled en route, 21 motor vehicle accidents with injuries, 11 structures fires, 28 fire alarms or alarm malfunctions, 14 woods or grass fires, 6 natural gas leaks, 9 vehicle fires, 5 electrical fires, 2 calls that was related to trash fire calls, 6 public service assists, 1 animal rescue call, 1 severe weather call, and 1 additional call related to machinery.
According to Mayor Larry Dunaway’s report for public works, he said at the water plant they pumped 1,166,000,613 gallons of water. Dunaway stated that they took 273,000,000 million out of the upper lake and took the rest of it from the river. There were 1224 work orders for the distribution crew, that includes service line leaks, main water leaks, sewer mains, hydrant fixings, and more. At the wastewater plant they had 661,290,000 gallons of water to come in and 525,800,000 went out. Dunaway went on to say that the street department had 1802 work orders. 1747 was leaves and limbs along with junk that needed to be picked up. There were 237 potholes repaired, they hauled 434 loads of cardboard to the children center, and 593 dumpsters that they emptied.
