By RANDALL ALLEN

Horizon Reporter

CELINA-County Commissioners voted to finalize the 2024 Clay County road map and also approved an agreement to help maintain the road at the Pointe subdivision on Swan Ridge here at their February meeting last week.

Commissioner Jennifer Ritter made a motion to approve a resolution accepting the approval of the official Clay County road map of 2024.  Commissioner Dorothy Forney seconded the motion, and it passed unanimously by a voice vote.

County legislators also considered accepting an agreement between Clay County and DH Development, LLC concerning the road at the Pointe.

Several Pointe residents spoke to commissioners during the public comment period about the possibility of the county helping maintain the road in their community.

Before the vote, Commissioner Winton Young offered his thoughts on the agreement.

“I’m good with it,” he said.  “I talked to a couple of people that live out there and they think it’s a good thing.

“This would be a county road and be maintained, the best we can maintain it.  They realize they still have to maintain their private driveway themselves.

“They bought the property with the understanding that the gate would be closed all the time, but they understand now that this would be a county road and it would be the best interest of everyone to have that road open to the cemetery,” Young continued.  “So they understand it will be opened at daylight and closed at dark.”

Ritter made a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding and Young seconded it, before it passed unanimously by a voice vote.

Other business

Several other miscellaneous items of other business were also approved during the meeting.

Commissioner Bryan Coons made a motion to approve Judith Cutright, Donna Hamilton, and James Dale White Jr. as public notaries.  Forney seconded the motion, and it passed unanimously by a voice vote.

Young made a motion to appoint Doug Young as the Three Star Director.  Forney seconded the motion and it passed unanimously by a voice vote.

Coons made a motion to approve a resolution to approve an appointment to the Clay County Agriculture Extension Committee.  Ritter seconded the motion and it passed unanimously by a voice vote.

Young made a motion to approve a resolution to apply to the Tennessee Housing Development Agency for home grant funds.

The grant, if approved by the agency, would be for $750,000 and is a non-matching grant.

Commissioner Jerry Rhoton seconded the motion, and it passed unanimously by a voice vote.