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House Education Instruction Committee- January 26, 2022- House Hearing Room 1
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Good
morning-
and
we
welcome
you-
thank
you-
children,
okay,
we
like
to
have
fun
in
here,
but
we
know
it's
serious
work,
so
I'm
debra
moody,
I'm
the
chairman
for
the
education
instruction
full
committee,
and
so
we
welcome
you
we're
thankful.
You
joined
us
today,
whether
you're
here
in
person
or
maybe
watching
online.
A
I
wanted
to
just
say
we're
looking
around
some
of
our
staff
is
missing,
so
I'm
going
to
do
some
quick
introductions
for
us.
I
have
my
research
analyst
for
the
well.
A
It's
really
for
the
whole
committee,
blake
hassler
and
we
have
our
clerk
is
victoria
and
we
also
have
caitlyn
filling
in
today
and
our
sergeant-at-arms
today
is
wayne
hawkins
and
we
are
grateful
for
them
and
so
members,
I
thought
we
would
take
just
a
minute
if
you
don't
mind,
just
go
around
and
tell
us
who
you
are
and
who
you
represent
and
then
I'll
introduce
our
presenter
for
the
day.
So
we
can
start
to
the
right
chairman
white.
B
My
district
is
83,
which
is
memphis
in
shelby
county,
and
this
is
my
13th
year
starting
general
assembly,
so
I'm
love
being
on
this
committee
and
I'm
so
grateful
for
our
guest
speaker,
dave
done
so
much
for
west
tennessee
and
I
can't
imagine,
what's
going
to
happen
to
us
in
the
next
five
years,
looking
forward
to
hearing
this.
Thank
you.
C
I'm
iris
rudder:
this
is
my
I'm
serving
my
second
term.
I
serve
the
39th
district,
which
is
moore
county,
a
portion
of
marion
county
and
a
portion
of
franklin
county,
and
I'm
so
glad
to
be
here
and
I'm
excited
to
get
started
in
education
this
year.
Thank
you.
C
C
Hello,
my
name
is
john
reagan.
I
represent
district
33,
which
is
anderson,
county
oak
ridge
clinton,
primarily
and
I'm
on
my
sixth
term
in
the
general
assembly
good
morning.
My
name
is
todd
warner.
I
represent
the
92nd
district,
which
consists
of
all
of
marshall,
county,
south
and
west
lincoln
county
southern
franklin,
county
and
southern
marion
county
thanks.
D
Hi,
my
name
is
bruce
griffey,
I'm
state
representative
for
house
district
75,
which
has
been
henry
and
stewart
counties,
and
I
don't
want
to
spoil
the
chairman,
madam
chair,
ladies
thunder
on
this,
but
I've
got
a
constituent
out
here
and
the
an
old
dear
friend
from
high
school
mark
herbison,
who
we
went
to
school
together.
We've
got
stories
on
each
other,
so
we
both
have
to
be
quiet
about
that
so
anyway.
Thank
you
very
much.
C
Hello,
I'm
representative
vincent
dixie
and
I
represent
district
54,
which
is
here
in
davidson
county.
Thank
you,
hello.
I'm
representative,
tory
harris.
I
represent
district
90
in
west
tennessee
memphis.
I
have
the
heart
of
memphis,
where
the
most
of
the
hospitals
and
colleges
are
located
and
go
grizzlies.
C
A
Thank
you,
and
hopefully,
next
week,
the
rest
of
our
great
colleagues
will
you'll
get
to
meet
them
too.
I
represent
district
81,
which
is
tipton
county,
which
is
in
the
middle
of
all
these
good
things.
We're
going
to
be
hearing
about
today
and
so
clerk.
Will
you
please
call
the
roll.
A
Here,
chairman,
you
have
a
quorum.
Thank
you
so
much
all
right
again,
I
I
welcome
you
all.
We
are
looking
forward
to
hearing
from
our
guests
today,
so
mark
herbison.
He
I
have
known
him
for
several
years
and
he's
worked
a
lot
with
the
memphis
chamber.
He
is
now
working
with.
He
is
the
chief
officer
of
html
htl.
I'm
sorry,
I'm
thinking
of
another
thing:
he
it
stands
for
haywood,
tipton
and
lauderdale
counties
who
have
the
counties
have
gone
together
to
hire
his
great
brain,
and
so
we
are
excited.
A
I
I
wanted
him.
I
asked
him
if
he
could
come
and
give
us
an
idea
of
how
this
area
of
west
tennessee
is
going
to
change
and
but
to
look
at
and
remind
us
and
teach
us
what
are
the
future
educational
needs
for
something
of
this
magnitude,
so
we
can
start
thinking
as
a
committee,
but
so,
mr
herbison,
I
thank
you
for
being
here
today
and
I'll
turn
it
over
to
you.
E
Hello,
I'm
good.
Thank
you
so
much,
I'm
mark
herbison,
I'm
so
honored
to
be
here
today.
We
so
much
appreciate
representative
moody
and
her
in
our
district
and
senators
wally
and
rose
they've
been
so
helpful
in
everything
we
do
and
we
we
really
couldn't
be
successful
without
them.
As
she
mentioned.
I
am
the
president,
ceo
of
htl
advantage.
E
It
was
formed
back
in
2009
right
around
the
time
that
they
were
going
to
purchase
the
mega
site
property.
One
of
the
goals
of
htl
advantage
was
to
promote
the
mega
site,
but
we
also
have
developed
and
our
own
and
are
recruiting
companies
to
seven
other
industrial
parks.
We
have
in
haywood,
tipton
and
lauderdale
county.
We
have
a
number
of
industrial
buildings
in
those
counties
and
the
the
assistance
we
get
from
the
state
of
tennessee
through
the
department
of
economic
development.
We
could
not
have
developed
those
parks
in
our
area.
E
Without
that
assistance
they
have
their
site
development
grant
program,
they
have
their
certification
program,
and
so
I'm
very
excited
about
our
future.
As
far
as
industrial,
because
five
of
our
seven
industrial
parks
in
those
three
counties
are
rail
served.
So
that
is
a
very
rare
commodity
these
days,
and
so
we're
very
grateful
for
all
of
that
I
did
before
coming
to
htl.
I
served
nearly
14
years
as
the
chief
economic
development
officer
at
the
memphis
chamber,
so
my
involvement
with
the
mega
site
goes
back
to
2006.
E
I
believe
we
went.
The
memphis
chamber
in
the
jackson
chamber
went
through
the
very
first
certification
that
the
site
went
through
back
then
so
and
practically
you
know
that
in
order
to
sell
the
mega
sites,
you
have
to
sell
memphis
in
jackson
and
so
was
involved
in
almost
every
project
that
is
considered
the
mega
site
since
it
was
bought
back
in
2010,
but
we're
very
excited
about.
What's
going
on
I'll,
just
talk
about
the
mega
site,
I
want
to
give
you
some
context.
E
Some
of
you
may
have
never
been
to
the
mega
site,
but
it
is
a
very
large
industrial
park,
the
largest
industrial
park
in
the
country.
It
was
designed
back
in
the
between
2006
and
2010
to
be
an
automotive
site.
The
the
idea
was
to
have
a
site
big
enough
to
have
an
assembly
plant,
have
a
number
a
large
number
of
your
suppliers
to
save
on
logistics
cost.
E
It
is
a
rural
area,
but
it's
very
close
to
a
major
urban
area.
The
site
lies
only
14
miles
from
shelby
county,
which
has
almost
a
million
people,
and
so
it's
located
almost
halfway
in
between
jackson,
downtown
jackson
and
downtown
memphis.
So
it's
a
really
good
location.
As
far
as
being
able
to
bring
workers
in
from
both
east
and
west,
we
sold
what
we
always
sell
in
the
memphis
region.
E
It's
great
business
infrastructure,
so
memphis
has
five
class
one
railroads:
nine
intermodal
rail
yards,
five,
nine
switching
yards
and
five
intermodal
rail
yards
we've
got
the
greatest
air
shipping
hub
in
the
world.
With
the
busiest
air
cargo
airport
in
the
world,
we've
got
two
mississippi:
river
ports,
the
international
port
of
memphis
and
the
port
of
kate's
landing,
and
we've
got
an
incredible
road
system
that
we
know
is
going
to
be
improving
over
time
as
well.
E
This
is
the
site
they
are
now
bringing
the
infrastructure
into
the
site.
One
of
the
things
that
had
been
a
real
limiting
factor
on
many
projects
that
we
worked
was
the
fact
that
the
sewer
was
not
in
place
for
a
long
time.
The
window
of
development
for
a
project
got
shorter
and
shorter
and
shorter.
We
were
seeing
projects
that
would
typically
take
two
or
three
years
to
negotiate
and
build
that
got
down
to
where
they
would
negotiate
and
try
to
build
those
projects
within
18
months,
the
tesla
factory
that
was
built
out
west.
E
They
they
had
some
of
the
first
buildings
up
and
running
within
a
12-month
period.
So
we'd
always
had
that
issue
where
it
was
going
to
take
us
24
to
30
months,
to
put
the
sewer
in,
and
so
that
had
been
a
limiting
factor
for
us.
But
when
this
project
came
along
back,
I
got
involved
back
last
february.
E
This
is
such
a
massive
undertaking
that
it's
going
to
take
a
while
it's
going
to
take
a
couple
of
years,
even
maybe
more
than
two
years
to
build
these
facilities,
and
it's
going
to
be
a
massive
complex.
The
biggest
automotive
complex
in
the
state
of
tennessee,
with
as
many
employees
as
nissan,
has
today,
almost
just
for
the
battery
and
assembly
plant.
All
of
those
jobs
will
be
online
by
2026,
and
so
it's
going
to
have
a
major
impact
on
what's
going
on.
This
is
the
project
that
the
legislature,
so
gracious,
graciously
funded
for
us.
E
It's
the
easement,
the
pipeline
that
will
take
the
affluent
from
the
mega
site
sewer
plant
out
to
the
mississippi
river.
That
project
was
let
back
on
october
21st
and
they
are
doing
the
staging
right
now
and
getting
ready
to
begin
that
project.
I
also
understand
that
they're
going
they're
already
in
the
design
for
the
the
wastewater
treatment
plant
when
we
started
back.
E
Another
great
development
for
us
in
west
tennessee
is
new
infrastructure
on
the
interstate,
we're
going
to
get
a
new
interchange
at
exit,
39
they're,
going
to
build
a
new
road
up
to
a
new
interchange
that
will
be
the
western
entrance
into
the
truck
plant
they're
going
to
have
tens
of
thousands
of
truck
movements
a
week,
and
so
there's
going
to
be
a
lot
of
traffic
in
and
around
that
area
that
that
red
portion
will
be
completed
by
january
of
2025
and
the
red.
E
The
blue
portions,
that
are
one
road
that
will
connect
up
to
highway
70
in
tipton,
county,
near
mason
and
another
road
that
will
connect
down
on
highway
59
near
oakland.
So
that's
going
to
open
up
a
lot
of
new
developable
areas
in
the
region
for
housing.
I
can
tell
you
this.
I've
been
doing
this
for
nearly
25
years
worked
at
the
nashville
chamber,
the
memphis
chamber.
E
E
We've
got
a
new
hotel
that
has
committed
to
put
a
hotel
on
exit
47,
which
is
pretty
rural,
we're
seeing
the
land
at
exit,
56
being
bought
up
and
development
going
on
we're,
seeing
a
lot
of
interest
in
covington,
tennessee
and
atoca
in
munford
tennessee,
so
we're
seeing
residential
developers
come
in
and
if
you
know
west
tennessee,
you
know
that
we've
not
been
in
a
growth
mode
for
a
significant
period
of
time,
but
it's
it's
already
started.
E
I
didn't
believe
it
would
start
this
quickly,
but
there's
been
so
much
that
has
already
happened
within
the
the
four
or
five
months
since
we
announced
the
project.
Another
thing
that
we
sold
them
was
great
quality
of
life.
They
spent
a
lot
of
time
on
the
ground
with
us
and
memphis
jackson
in
the
rural
areas
of
west
tennessee,
but
we
sold
them
what
we
sell.
Everybody
else
very
low
cost
of
living,
very
low
cost
of
housing,
great
school
systems,
no
income
tax
or
state
property
tax.
E
We've
got
great
state
parks,
museums,
historic
areas,
we've
got
professional
sports,
we've
got
great
colleges
and
universities,
big
city,
entertainment,
great
medical
facilities,
you
name
it.
We've
got
it
in
that
region,
both
in
jackson,
memphis
and
dyersburg,
and
so
and
and
a
lot
of
the
other
rural
communities
as
well
as
far
as
the
medical
facilities.
E
One
of
the
things
that
my
organization
did
back
in
2020
before
ford
came
is
we
were
determined
that
there's
some
misperceptions
about
our
workforce
in
our
area.
I
told
you-
I
was
at
the
memphis
chamber
for
nearly
14
years
and
we
landed
deal
after
deal
after
deal
over
that
14-year
period
of
time.
We
landed
international
papers,
corporate
headquarters
from
stanford
connecticut.
We
landed
the
service
master
headquarters
from
chicago,
we
landed
nike
facilities,
we
landed
mitsubishi
electric,
we
landed
on
owens
corning,
so
we
just
year
after
year
we're
landing
projects.
E
We
also
saw
desoto
county
mississippi
just
to
the
south
of
memphis,
the
the
contiguous
county
in
the
msa
to
the
south,
that
has
grown
from
90
000
people
in
1990
to
250
000
people
today,
and
they
have
the
same
exact
workforce
that
we
have
in
in
covington
and
tipton
county
we're
in
a
large
urban
workforce.
So
we
commissioned
a
study
back
in
late
2019
to
look
at
haywood,
tipton
and
lauderdale
counties
and
as
part
of
that
they
looked
at
all
the
contiguous
counties.
E
E
We
have
incredible
training
institutions,
but
then
we
went
even
further
after
we
got
that
study
back.
I
partnered
up
with
brownsville
energy
authority
and
tva,
and
we
commissioned
a
study
to
look
specifically
at
the
mega
site
and
only
at
automotive,
and
so
this
is
a
some
of
the
slides
out
of
that
presentation.
But
this
was
about
a
60-page
study
that
they
did
on
our
region.
E
They
interviewed
training
institutions,
they
interviewed
elected
officials,
they
interviewed
manufacturing
companies
all
across
the
region
and
again
what
we
found
is,
if
you
look
at
the
upper
left
hand
corner
there,
that
is
the
memphis
msa
and
the
jackson
msa.
So
the
site
lies
right
between
those
two
msas
about
1.3
million
people
in
the
memphis
msa
and
a
little
about
125
000
in
the
jackson
msa.
So
what
we
found
was
when
a
45-minute
drive,
which
is
that
inner
golden
squiggly
line,
we
have
960
000
people
within
a
45-minute
driving
and
I'll.
E
Tell
you
that
companies
like
ford,
don't
look
at
political
jurisdictions.
They
do
not
care
about
county
or
state
lines.
They
look
at
drive
times,
and
so
typically,
an
automotive
plant
will
look
anywhere
from
45-minute
drive
time
to
a
90-minute
drive
time,
and
so
that's
what
we
focused
on.
That's
what
our
consultants
looked
at.
E
So
within
that
90-minute
drive
time
1.83
1.83
million
people,
then
we
looked
specifically
at
automotive
skill
sets
in
the
region
of
that
960
000
people
when
we
got
this
study
finished
about
mid-year
2020,
there's
186
000
people
in
that
960
000
people
segment
that
are
already
trained
to
work
at
a
car
plan
already
have
those
skill
sets
and
could
go
to
work
today
for
them
at
that
time.
Last
summer
there
were
over
10
000
people
with
those
skill
sets
unemployed
in
our
region.
E
If
you
look
at
battery
manufacturing,
we
only
looked
at
automotive
and
and
the
skill
sets
that
were
related
like
battery
and
other
things.
We
had
187
000
people
within
that
960
000
people
that
were
ready
to
go
to
work
in
a
battery
plant
today,
so
we
were
able
to
prove
to
them
that
we
did
have
a
large
urban
workforce
they're
only
about
14
miles
from
a
county
with
a
million
people
in
it,
they're
about
a
30-minute
drive
from
a
from
madison
county
and
and
that
msa.
E
With
those
I
mean
you
look
at
tupelo,
we
had
that
960
000
people
within
a
45-minute
drive.
They
only
have
like
350
to
360
000
people,
our
educational,
attainments,
our
unemployment
rates.
Our
labor
participation
rates
were
all
in
line,
if
not
better
than
those
other
regions
and
and
as
good,
if
not
better
than
the
numbers
at
the
at
the
u.s
level.
E
Quite
a
few
go
into
madison,
county
and
dyer
county,
but
there's
over
15
nearly
15
16
000
people
a
day
that
drive
from
tipton
haywood
and
lauderdale
down
into
memphis
to
work,
and
so
we
were
able
to
show
them
covington's
about
a
14-minute
drive
to
the
mega
site.
Brownsville
is
about
a
15-minute
drive
to
the
mega
site
and
we
were
able
to
show
them
that
all
these
people
that
are
driving
you
know
45
minutes
to
an
hour
to
work.
E
Some
in
some
other
county
could
very
easily
within
a
much
shorter
period
of
time,
be
down
at
the
mega
site
to
work
for
one
of
these
facilities
that
will
be
there.
We
also
really
showcased
in
the
state,
did
an
incredible
job
on
this.
They
they
had
all
the
agencies
of
state
government
that
we
talked
about
the
workforce,
development
and
training
in
our
region.
I
call
it
the
golden
triangle
of
workforce
development
and
training.
We've
got
tcats
two-year
and
four-year
institutions.
E
In
memphis
and
jackson,
we've
got
great
private
training
institutions
like
more
tech
and
others
that
we
were
able
to
show
them
that
that's
not
going
to
be
an
issue
for
them
when
they
come
here,
we're
going
to
really
double
our
efforts,
they're
going
to
build
a
tcat
on
site,
the
great
investments
that
you
guys
made
with
the
tcats
other
than
just
building
a
tcat
at
the
mega
site,
with
increasing
the
capacity
are
going
to
really
make
a
significant
difference
for
us.
E
So
here's
what
we
have
today,
we
have
blue
oval
city,
which
is
on
the
western
side
of
highway
222
highway
222
was
widened
and
relocated
back.
I
guess
2014
or
15,
a
million
gallon
water
tank
was
built
in
2015.
E
E
But
all
of
that
on
that
that
western
side
of
222
will
be
blue
oval
city.
This
will
be
more
square
footage,
starting
than
any
other
car
plant
in
tennessee.
If
you
look
at
the
number
of
employees
at
our
car
plants
in
tennessee,
gm
in
spring
hall
has
about
3
400
employees.
Today,
volkswagen
has
about
3
900
employees
today
and
nissan
has
6400
employees.
Today,
we're
going
by
the
by
the
middle
of
2026.
E
There
will
be
more
square
footage
built
here
than
any
other
of
those
facilities
and
we'll
have
around
6
000
people
just
working
for
the
battery
and
assembly
plant.
Those
job
numbers
do
not
reflect
these
suppliers
that
will
come
along
with
this,
and
so
we
do
have
a
500
acre
out
parcel
that
I
think
is
under
option
has
been
under
option
for
quite
a
while
from
another
company
that
are
looking
at
that
to
do
their
own
due
diligence.
E
So
here's
where
we
are
today
it's
going
to
be
the
fourth
oem.
That's
going
to
locate
original
equipment
manufacturing
company
that
will
locate
in
tennessee
we're
one
of
only,
I
think,
there's
only
one
other
state
where
there's
four
different
companies
that
have
oems
and
that's
in
and
so
we're
going
to
start
really
very
quickly,
ramping
up
to
almost
6
000
jobs
they
committed
to
5
800.
E
That
will
happen
in
the
next
three
four
years.
It
will
have
an
incredible
multiplier
effect.
The
federal
government,
through
the
bureau
of
labor
statistics,
has
the
regional
economic
modeling
system.
They
call
it
rims
and
every
quarter
they
do
a
multiplier
for
every
occupation
and
one
of
the
highest
multiplier
effects
is
with
an
automotive
assembly
plant,
it's
usually
somewhere
between
five
to
seven.
So
that
means
for
every
job
that's
created
in
an
assembly
plant.
E
You
have
five
to
seven
other
jobs
that
are
created
in
the
economy
to
support
those
jobs,
we're
going
to
see
a
huge
investment,
the
largest
investment
in
the
state's
history,
5.6
billion
dollars.
It's
going
to
be
spent
very
quickly.
It's
going
to
really
reverberate
around
the
state.
As
far
as
suppliers
there
are
suppliers
already,
I
think,
a
thousand
automotive
suppliers
in
tennessee
many
many
of
them
already
supply
forward.
So
they
will
get
additional
business
from
this,
and
so
we're
going
to
see
a
lot
of
new
revenues
coming
into
the
state.
E
There
was
incredible
revenues
that
came
out
of
that.
The
university
of
memphis
did
an
economic
impact
analysis
back
in
2017
when
they
decided
to
go
to
huntsville
because
they
had
considered
the
mega
site
that'll
bring
in
around
300
million
dollars
a
year
in
new
revenues
to
the
state,
and
it's
not
nearly
as
big
as
this
is,
and
so
it's
going
to
be
a
great
revenue
generator.
E
We
we
believe
that
we'll
see
additional
companies
come
into
my
three
counties,
haywood
and
tipton
county,
which
will
also
help
our
tax
base
and
our
revenues.
And
so
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
later
about
some
of
the
planning
that's
going
on
both
in
workforce
development
and
infrastructure,
but
we're
very
excited.
I
have
3
600
manufacturing
jobs
in
my
three
counties
today
and
in
2026
we're
going
to
have
6
000
more
at
the
mega
site,
and
so
we're
very
excited
about
this.
E
E
The
assembly
plant
will
be
they're
going
to
use
a
lot
of
solar,
geothermal
gas-fired
turbines,
they're,
going
to
use
zero
landfill
waste
and
they're,
putting
a
huge
battery
recycling
facility
on
the
site,
they're
partnering,
with
a
company
that
has
really
perfected
a
process
to
recapture
all
the
materials
out
of
lithium-ion
batteries,
anything
from
a
cell
phone
up
to
a
car
battery
and
they're
going
to
do
a
lot
of
recycling
of
batteries
on
the
site.
E
E
Is
wastewater
and
so
they're
going
to
tell
us
kind
of
where
wastewater
should
go
and
what
the
need
will
be
from
a
capacity
perspective,
they're
underway
with
that
right
now,
haywood
county
just
signed
the
same
scope
of
work
with
gresham
smith
and
younger
to
do
a
study
of
haywood
county,
how
it
will
potentially
grow
and
what
we'll
need
in
regards
to
all
those
things
and
lauderdale
county
is
doing
us
they're
doing
a
population
study.
Lauderdale
is
in
really
good
shape
in
regards
to
sewer
and
water.
E
They
get
to
take
their
sewer
affluent
out
to
the
mississippi
river.
Already.
The
issue
we
have
in
covington
is:
we
have
about
a
million
gallons
of
capacity
left,
but
we're
permitted
for
3.6
million
gallons
a
day
in
the
hatchy
river.
We
only
have
a
million
gallons
left
in
the
way
industrial
projects
work.
One
project
could
take
that
entire
capacity
up,
so
we're
trying
to
figure
out
a
way
to
get
out
of
the
hatchy
river
and
get
to
the
mississippi,
hopefully
maybe
partnering,
with
the
state
on
their
easement
we're
looking.
E
You
know
all
of
the
all
of
the
smaller
towns,
somerville
braden
oakland,
stanton
mason.
They
all
have
issues.
These
have
been
communities
that
have
been
declining
in
population
and
in
revenues
they're
sewer
they
do
have
sewer
systems.
E
It's
unconscionable
really,
because
if
you
go
to
desoto
county
every
road
in
desoto
county
mississippi
is
four
lane
and
it's
it's
the
southern
county
and
tipton's
the
northern
county
right
now,
we're
almost
complete
with
the
second
ever
four-lane
road.
That's
coming
up
into
tipton
county
highway,
14
austin,
p
highway
will
take
us
from
240
north
in
memphis
all
the
way
up
to
covington
and
there
is
no
sewer
east
of
highway
14
to
the
mega
site.
E
So
it's
almost
half
of
the
county
that
has
no
sewer
capacity
at
all
the
northeast,
the
northwestern
part
of
fayette
in
the
rural
areas
and
the
interchanges
on
the
interstate.
All
of
that
there's
no
wastewater
and
there's
no
wastewater
outside
of
the
plant
that
you're
building
at
the
mega
site
that
is
going
to
be
dedicated
solely
to
ford
its
subsidiaries
and
what
goes
on
with
industrial
growth
at
the
mega
site.
E
So
we
have
this
plan
we're
developing
a
plan,
we're
spending
money
to
figure
out
a
way
we
can
come
together
as
those
three
counties
and
potentially
some
of
the
shelby
county,
municipalities,
bartlett
and
others
that
have
some
limitations
as
far
as
sewer
concerned,
to
really
help
us
to
have
the
ability
to
grow,
because
I
can
tell
you
in
my
experience,
you
do
not
have
growth
without
sewer.
E
E
In
regards
to
ford,
I,
like,
I
said,
I've
been
doing
this
many
many
years
and
and
they
have
come
in
and
doing
things
that
I've
never
seen
happen
before
they
had
their.
They
have
a
huge
division
called
ford
talent,
ford
talent
was
in
at
the
end
of
november.
They
met
with
all
the
school
superintendents.
They
met
with
tcat
leaders,
they
went
and
toured
facilities,
they
told
all
of
the
superintendents
at
that
meeting.
Back
in
november,
they
met
in
jackson
that
they
were
developing
a
high
school
curriculum
for
this
assembly
plant
and
battery
plant.
E
That
would
allow,
through
dual
enrollment
students,
to
graduate
from
high
school
with
the
sort
of
certificates
and
credentials
that
they
need
to
go
to
work
in
this
car
facility.
They
are
that
that
it's
really
incredible
what
they're
doing
in
regards
to
that.
I've
never
seen
that
before
most
companies,
I've
dealt
with
it's
incentives
and
then
get
out
of
my
way,
but
they
have
really
come
in.
E
They've
got
a
whole
team
of
people
they're
getting
ready
to
hire
people
to
live
permanently
in
west
tennessee
they're
going
to
be
the
project
managers
for
this,
so
they're
very
serious
about
helping
us
improve
our
labor
pool
to
help
us
figure
out.
You
know
a
way
that
people
can
get
these
jobs.
You
know
really
quickly
once
they
graduate
from
high
school.
They
also
have
a
division
called
ford
land
that
they've
come
in
and
they're
really
helping
our
areas.
Tipton,
haywood
and
lauderdale
figure
out
this.
E
These
infrastructure
issues
they're
trying
to
help
us,
you
know,
make
sure
we're
working
on
our
zoning
and
our
codes
to
make
sure
that
things
that
develop
in
and
around
the
site
are
of
high
quality.
So
I've
really
never
seen
this
before.
E
So
we're
very
excited
about
what
they're
doing
in
the
the
level
of
expertise
that
they're
bringing
to
us
that
we've
really
never
had
before
we've
been
in
a
you
know,
a
population
loss
mode
for
a
long
time
and
really
haven't
had
new
infrastructure
built
new
residential
things
built,
so
we're
very
excited
about
what's
going
on
there.
The
last
thing
I
will
say,
representative
is
that,
madam
chairman,
is
that
we
need
residential.
E
There
are
fewer
new
housing
starts
in
west
tennessee
now
than
any
other
point
in
the
last
50
years,
and
I
think
that's
probably
true
everywhere
else
in
the
state,
except
for
nashville,
we
need
new
homes
and
that's
what's
been
so
exciting
to
me,
we're
seeing
residential
developers
out
of
texas
from
the
northeast
are
coming
in
and
evaluating
properties,
but
we're
going
to
need
thousands
of
new
residential.
You
know
private
homes,
apartments
condos.
E
We
need
to
bring
new
people
in
we.
You
know
if
you
look
at
the
population
of
haywood
county,
it's
gone
from
27
000
people
25
years
ago
to
17
000
people
today,
and
so
that
has
already
started
to
change.
Property
values
have
already
significantly
gone
up
in
my
three
counties,
and
so
we're
very
excited
about
that.
E
We
don't
have
to
worry
about
that
until
at
least
2024,
because
they're
not
going
to
hire
any
permanent
people
until
then,
but
we
want
to
start
moving
people
in
now
into
our
rural
areas,
where
they've
been
moving
to
nashville
and
memphis
and
other
places
to
to
start
growing
these
rural
communities
again
and
we're
already
seeing
that
so
we've
got
a
new
hotel
going
up
in
brownsville
already,
we've
got
a
new
hotel
going
up
at
exit
47,
which
is
five
miles
to
the
east
of
the
mega
site
and,
like
I
said,
we've
got
developers
in
all
over
from
all
over
the
country
looking
at
developing
in
and
around
our
region.
A
Thank
you
so
much.
I
don't
think
you
took
a
breath.
Do
you
need
some
water?
That
was
that
was
it's
a
lot
to
talk
about
it's
I
know
I'm.
I
can't
comprehend,
as
I
drive
through
that
area,
better,
take
your
pictures
now
and
come
see
us
before
it
explodes,
but
I
we
wanted
to
take
a
few
more
minutes
for
members
to
ask
questions.
If
that's
all
right
with
you
and
on
my
list,
I
already
have
chairman
white.
B
Thank
you,
chair,
lady,
just
fascinating.
This
is
tremendously
excited
and
I
wish
I
was
20
years
ago
and
I
think,
10
years
now
we
take
the
census.
Those
two
west
tennessee
seats
we
lost
due
to
census
will
come
back
to
us.
We
sure
hope
so
exactly
a
lot
of
people.
Just
one
comment:
when
you
talk
about
brownsville,
17,
000
people,
you
know
haywood
county
haywood
county,
they
would
count
17,
000,
move
back
up
to
say
twenty
seven
thousand
soon
and
who
knows
from
there
from
an
education
standpoint
we're
talking
about
new
schools?
B
Yes,
sir,
oh
that
many
people,
so
we
had
to
keep
an
eye
on
things
in
all
these.
These
areas,
you
know,
move
500.
People
in
my
immediate
question
is
okay.
With
all
this
going
on.
I
read
the
day
where,
in
march,
we're
already
going
to
start
construction
on
all
this,
so
we've
got
to
bring
in
thousands
and
thousands
of
construction
workers.
Is
there
any
challenge
there
as
far
as
livable
areas
and
things
and
things
that
we're
going
to
have
for
all
these
constructions?
No,
we
had
our.
E
We
had
our
first
subcontractor
event
last
thursday
in
memphis,
and
there
were
probably
they
had
two
sessions.
There
were
probably
400
contractors
from
tennessee
that
were
in
the
room
but
they're.
They
feel
pretty
comfortable
they're
going
to
have
at
the
end
of
this
year,
probably
around
2
500
to
3
000
people
working
out
there.
It
will
swell
to
nearly
7
000,
probably
by
the
middle
of
next
summer,
and
then
it'll
go
down
pretty
significantly
after
that,
and
they
feel
pretty
confident
within
the
30
to
45
minute
drive
time.
E
There's
enough,
you
know
rental
apartments,
rental
things
rv
spots
and
things
like
that
that
they'll
be
able
to
accommodate
that
so
they're,
pretty
confident
with
that
and
then
one
other
thing
representative
is
consider
this
y'all.
There
is
no
school
east
of
brownsville
in
haywood
county
and
there
is
no
school
west
of
highway
14
in
tipton
county.
So
there
is
a
huge
geographic
area
that
has
no
schools.
B
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
mr
herbert
marks,
good
to
see
you
again
you're
a
subject
matter
expert
on
industrial
development.
You've
been
doing
this
for
your
entire
career.
Just
about.
D
I
wondered
if
you
might
share
with
the
committee
your
experience
on
thoughts
that
you
know,
even
though
this
is
primarily
going
to
be
in
haywood
county
sort
of
the
impact
you
see
when
projects
of
this
magnitude
have
been
put
in
other
places,
how
how
that
impacts,
the
surrounding
counties
that
aren't
necessarily
immediate
to
the
maine
county
first
and
then
I've
got
one
follow-up
after
that.
Well,.
E
I'll
try
to
we've
never
seen
anything
like
this.
Before
I
mean
this
is
the
largest
investment
in
the
state's
history.
It's
the
largest
investment
in
ford
motor
companies,
history,
it's
the
largest
project
they've
ever
built.
We
just
saw
michigan
pass
a
billion
dollar
package
and
that's
primarily
going
to
go
to
gm
they're
going
to
build
a
huge
new
facility
up
there.
Several
new
facilities
up
there
with
gm.
E
So
we
really
don't
know,
but
I
can
tell
you
that
if
you
look
at
the
areas
in
and
around
nissan
and
saturn,
so
rutherford
county
before
the
60s
and
70s,
they
grew
at.
You
know
five
to
ten
percent
clip
ever
since
nissan
located
there
in
night.
I
think
it
was
1983
they've
never
had
a
day
where
they
grew
less
than
40
percent.
I
think
last
decade
grew
like
53
same
in
williamson
county,
huge
growth
in
mark
county,
all
of
the
counties
in
southern
middle
tennessee,
bedford
and
coffee
grew,
and
you
can
look
at
that.
E
Statistically
I
mean
they
had
huge
growth.
So
if
you
look
at
the
two
assembly,
they're
building
two
battery
plants
for
ford
up
in
louisville
they've
already
got
two
assembly
plants
up
there
and
they're
gonna.
I
guess
retool
those
to
be
electric
vehicles,
but
in
and
around
there
those
two
automobile
assembly
plants
in
louisville
within
a
60-minute
drive
they've
got
200
supplier
companies.
E
So
I
believe
that
every
I
I
believe
I
will
fill
up
every
one
of
my
industrial
parks
over
the
next
five
years.
So
I
think
it's
going
to
mean
you
know,
look
at
what
you
know.
If
you
look
at
chattanooga
and
volkswagen
you've
got
suppliers
located
all
in
all
up
and
down.
I-75
you've
got
in
dayton.
Tennessee
you've
got
the
no
the
billion
dollar
nokian
tire
plant
and
you've
just
seen
that
replicated
all
around
the
chattanooga
region
and
the
tuscaloosa
region.
E
So
I
believe
we're
going
to
see
significant
growth
and
and
what
I've
been
told
is
once
ford
starts.
Building
somewhere,
they've
really
never
stopped,
so
they
also
have
plans
to
expand
this
facility
at
some
point,
so
I
think
we're
going
to
see
growth
like
we've
never
seen
before.
Well,
I
don't
know
I
don't.
I
wasn't
alive
before
the
60s,
but-
and
I
know
there
was
significant
growth
in
memphis
before
that,
but
it'll
be
something
very
substantial
and
very
unique.
D
You,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
for
that
and
my
my
follow-up
question
is
this:
if
you
kind
of
look
at
the
sort
of
the
state
inters
interstate
system-
and
you
try
to
look
at,
say,
I-24
and
I-69
and
getting
I
believe,
ford
has
a
plan
or
two
up
in
kentucky
currently
if
they
would
need
to
ship
something
from
one
plant
to
this
new
mega
site
or
something
you
know,
they're
going
to
whoever's
doing
is
going
to
have
to
come
all
the
way
through
I-69
and
go
down
to
dyersburg
and
cut
over
to
jackson
or
drop
down
to
covington
and
then
cut
over.
D
Like
that,
I
I
am
aware
that
kentucky
obtained
a
build
grant
rising
grant.
Last
year,
then
they're
going
to
be
four
laning.
So
it's
a
four
lane
all
the
way
from
I-24
down
through
murray
to
the
state
line,
and
currently
it's
stopping
right
there
and
we
don't
have
plans
with
tdot
just
yet
to
do
a
full
five
lane
or
four
lane
expansion
through
paris
and
once
you
get
to
paris,
there
is
four
lane
through
mackenzie
huntington
and
then
down
to
I-40
there.
D
I
just
wondered
if
you
might
comment
on
your
assessment,
your
foresight,
what
you
might
advise
us
from
the
general
assembly
and
the
other
powers
of
b
and
t
dot
and
so
forth
to
to
maybe
focus
on
that,
because
I
think
that
would
be
a
a
corridor
that
could
very
well
save
hours
off
of
trucking
and
shipping
time
and
cost
rather
than
going
having
to
go
the
martin
dyersburg
covington
route
rather
than
drop
straight
down.
Thank
you.
E
That's
a
great
question
representative.
I
can
tell
you
if
you
look
at
tipton
and
lauderdale
counties,
which
are
the
only
two
counties
where
69
won't
be
complete.
They
were
communities
that
were
agricultural
and
rail
communities,
so
you
had
the
cnn.
They
had
the
the
internet,
the
sea.
Now
the
canadian
national
used
to
be
the
illinois
central.
So
that
was
all
passenger
rail
lines
up
into
the
late
60s.
E
E
They've
got
new
core
they've
got
new
core
yamata
they've
got
big
river
steel
and
it's
just
been
amazing
what
they've
done
if
we
had
a
bridge
across
from
osceola
to
ripley,
we
could
really
rule
the
world
what
I
believe
and
what
I
told
congressman
custop
the
very
first
time
I
met
with
him
in
2019.
When
I
was
in
this
job,
he
said:
what's
the
most
important
thing
we
can
do,
and
he
thought
I
was
going
to
say
wastewater
for
the
mega
site,
but
I
said
finishing
I-69:
it's
only
60
miles.
E
I
know
it's
expensive,
but
it
would
change
the
universe
in
west
tennessee.
It
would
give
us
an
interstate
presence
that
we
don't
currently
have.
We
have
one
road
highway
51
and
if
you've
ever
driven
up
it,
I'm
sure
many
of
you
haven't.
It
is
a
very
challenged
road,
every
trailer
park
and
really
horrible
development,
especially
all
the
way
up
to
covington.
E
And
so
I
believe
that
the
most
important
thing
we
could
do
would
be
to
to
work
to
finish
I-69
as
quickly
as
possible.
It
would
give
ford
a
direct
route
to
detroit
without
having
to
go
to
nashville.
It
would
give
them
direct
routes
up
into
the
rust
belt,
ohio,
chicago,
otherwise,
they've
got
to
cross
the
river
and
go
to
I-55.
We
saw
what
happened
when
the
bridge
went
down
and
we
need
a
third
bridge
in
west
tennessee.
It
does
not
need
to
go
to
north
mississippi.
E
It
needs
to
go
somewhere
very
close
to
the
memphis
area,
and
so
hopefully
you
know
we'd
love
to
work
together
with
you
guys
on
that.
Hopefully,
some
of
this
stimulus
money
out
of
washington
infrastructure
money,
but
I
believe
the
most
important
thing
we
could
do
just
in
general
to
help
grow.
Rural
west
tennessee
is
to
finish
I-69
and
it's
been.
It's
been
underway
for
40
years.
A
Thank
you.
I
don't
have
anyone
else
on
the
list,
but
I
thank
you
for
driving
up
today
and
you
know,
speaking
of
those
roads,
just
imagine
how
much
faster
you
can
get
your
blow
pops
and
your
klondike
bars
when
that
happens
too.
That's
exactly
right,
good
things,
really
good
things
can
happen,
but
I
thank
you
so
much.
Thank
you
for
all
you've
done
on
the
memphis
chamber
and
also
for
us
now
htl,
and
I
appreciate
you
informing
us
and
it's
a
it's,
a
big
task.
A
Member,
so
we
will,
we
will
carry
on
and
do
all
the
good
we
can
for
this
area
and
for
the
state
of
tennessee,
and
I
thank
you
for
your
part,
and
I
appreciate
you
coming
so
much
thank.
E
D
I
just
want
to
give
a
big
shout
out,
thank
you
to
ford
governor
lee
and
you,
mr
herbertson.
Thank
you.