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A resolution denouncing the State of Tennessee's attempted hostile takeover of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.
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WHEREAS, Metro Nashville's original charter created a department of aviation and made the Metropolitan Government responsible "for the operation, maintenance and control of the Nashville Metropolitan Airports and other airports owned or operated" by Metro Nashville (Metro Nashville Charter ?? 8.701, 8.702.1); and
WHEREAS, in 1969, the General Assembly passed the original Metropolitan Airport Authorities Act (the "Original Act" or "1969 Public Chapter 174"), which enabled any city or metropolitan government with a population over 100,000, or a county including such a city, to create a "metropolitan airport authority" that would be an "agency and instrumentality" of the "creating municipality" (Original Act ?? 2, 3, codified at Tenn. Code Ann. ?? 42-4-102(a), -103(6), -104); and
WHEREAS, the Original Act was not self-executing; local governments had to opt in. First, the local governing body had to adopt a resolution for a public hearing on creating an authority (Id. ? 4, codified at Tenn. Code Ann. ? 42-4-104(b)(1)). After a public hearing, the governing body had to pass a second resolution creating the authority (Tenn. Code Ann. ? 104(c)(1)); and
WHEREAS, in 1970, Metro Nashville followed the statutory process and passed a resolution creating MNAA (Resolution 70-872). Then, Metro Nashville and its' authority, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority ("MNAA"), contracted to transfer ownership of the Metro Nashville airports to MNAA; and
WHEREAS, once established, Metro Nashville supervised MNAA through appointment and removal. Since 1970, Metro Nashville's Mayor has appointed, and the Metro Council has confirmed, MNAA's commissioners and could remove them for cause (Original Act ? 5, codified at Tenn. Code Ann. ? 42-4-105); and
WHEREAS, for financial reporting purposes, including to the Comptroller for the State of Tennesse...
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