Mairvul Footbawl 2024

[rebelwoman87]

On 2/18/2024 at 5:22 PM, Southtowner said:

Looks like that Rivarly Thursday man likes to see yall on the road mostly.

That @rebelwoman87 must've neglected giving him any touchdown cookies in the past.  

Ain’t my fault he don’t like the black hole. 

[OldRebel2]

On 2/17/2024 at 8:56 AM, STARSNBARS said:

ST eye down't thaink so.....Onlee att Beer-Den.....

I read somewhere that Maryville @ Farragut was on Thursday, Oct 31.

[MarevulBigGal]

Big sister taking care of little brother again?

Tee Hee Hee

https://www.newsbreak.com/alcoa-tn/3342310219311-alcoa-school-board-oks-nearly-800-000-to-replace-high-school-football-field-s-artificial-turf

 

[BroadwayBarberShop]

17 hours ago, MarevulBigGal said:

Big sister taking care of little brother again?

Tee Hee Hee

https://www.newsbreak.com/alcoa-tn/3342310219311-alcoa-school-board-oks-nearly-800-000-to-replace-high-school-football-field-s-artificial-turf

 

Everrt Hi looks like gonna get a fake grazing field too....

https://share.newsbreak.com/687e9egu

[BarneySox2007]

1 hour ago, BroadwayBarberShop said:

Everrt Hi looks like gonna get a fake grazing field too....

https://share.newsbreak.com/687e9egu

The original goal post from the old Everett High School last played on in 1976.

[FarmTeam]

15 hours ago, BroadwayBarberShop said:

Everrt Hi looks like gonna get a fake grazing field too....

https://share.newsbreak.com/687e9egu

Glad to see it. Good for old Everett High (Parks & Rec) field and good for the programs they support. Will enable much increased and multi use of the field. Interestin’ tho how this passed w/out so much of a blink of an eye or question from  the mayor’s hand-selected budget Cmte, and then the entire Commish, but both county high schools had to go thru 2 years of tedious, ridiculous and hellish debate 2x OVER in budget Cmte and then again in the Commish, which was further manipulated & complicated by an incompetent purchasing dept debacle that purposely stalled the process, and then lots of push back from the mayor’s camp of minions on the Commish, etc,  (even tho school board had already approved it TWICE, to spend just SOME of THEIR OWN robust fund balance -ie not the general county’s money) to get their fields finally upgraded. Obvious political agenda against & disparity towards the schools. Why does the mayor hate the schools and resent them so much and why did he try every way in the world to block the schools from spending just some of  THEIR OWN money on said fields?!? But the parks & Rec request went thru w/out so much as one question? (Again, glad it did & glad they’re getting it. That AIN’T the dang point.)  

Both WBHS and HHS should have played on turf LAST YEAR. It shouldn’t take such a stinking FIGHT to get what’s rightfully needed for the schools, when there is absolutely zero fight or debate for same/ equitable request to upgrade another govt funded facility. 

If we want better education and athletic initiatives to go thru for county schools, then we need a NEW mayor. Hoping someone who is actually FOR schools will run against the current executive leadership. WE NEED A CHANGE. 

FarmTeam just sayin…

 

 

[BarneySox2007]

9 hours ago, FarmTeam said:

Glad to see it. Good for old Everett High (Parks & Rec) field and good for the programs they support. Will enable much increased and multi use of the field. Interestin’ tho how this passed w/out so much of a blink of an eye or question from  the mayor’s hand-selected budget Cmte, and then the entire Commish, but both county high schools had to go thru 2 years of tedious, ridiculous and hellish debate 2x OVER in budget Cmte and then again in the Commish, which was further manipulated & complicated by an incompetent purchasing dept debacle that purposely stalled the process, and then lots of push back from the mayor’s camp of minions on the Commish, etc,  (even tho school board had already approved it TWICE, to spend just SOME of THEIR OWN robust fund balance -ie not the general county’s money) to get their fields finally upgraded. Obvious political agenda against & disparity towards the schools. Why does the mayor hate the schools and resent them so much and why did he try every way in the world to block the schools from spending just some of  THEIR OWN money on said fields?!? But the parks & Rec request went thru w/out so much as one question? (Again, glad it did & glad they’re getting it. That AIN’T the dang point.)  

Both WBHS and HHS should have played on turf LAST YEAR. It shouldn’t take such a stinking FIGHT to get what’s rightfully needed for the schools, when there is absolutely zero fight or debate for same/ equitable request to upgrade another govt funded facility. 

If we want better education and athletic initiatives to go thru for county schools, then we need a NEW mayor. Hoping someone who is actually FOR schools will run against the current executive leadership. WE NEED A CHANGE. 

FarmTeam just sayin…

 

 

If our leadership had put some kind of impact tax on all the people moving here from other areas and slowed this invasion down they would have had all the money they needed. Instead they allowed those people to move in and flood an already overburdened infrastructure buying up our properties driving prices through the roof and not getting a red cent for the damages they have caused. When someone sells a home in California for $2 million and comes to Tennessee and buys the same thing he had there for $600,000 an impact fee of 25 to 50 K would have paid for all the problems they have burdened our infrastructure with. Our leaders have no insight apparently on the future problems they have overlooked that will come back on all of us. If you are a lifetime resident of Blount County and you sell your home you cannot buy back what you just sold. I could write a book but we all know what's going on. This will all come tumbling back on everyone that lives here eventually and I hope I'm not around to see it.

[FarmTeam]

4 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

If our leadership had put some kind of impact tax on all the people moving here from other areas and slowed this invasion down they would have had all the money they needed. Instead they allowed those people to move in and flood an already overburdened infrastructure buying up our properties driving prices through the roof and not getting a red cent for the damages they have caused. When someone sells a home in California for $2 million and comes to Tennessee and buys the same thing he had there for $600,000 an impact fee of 25 to 50 K would have paid for all the problems they have burdened our infrastructure with. Our leaders have no insight apparently on the future problems they have overlooked that will come back on all of us. If you are a lifetime resident of Blount County and you sell your home you cannot buy back what you just sold. I could write a book but we all know what's going on. This will all come tumbling back on everyone that lives here eventually and I hope I'm not around to see it.

Don’t disagree w/your assessment on those moving in here. But this was NOT abt having the money. The schools HAD the money sitting in a healthy fund balance for two yrs: It went thru school board,  budget Cmte, and Commish in 2022. Was held up by a purchasing dept director who didn’t know what the heck they were doing. Or IMO likely DID know and was maneuvering at the direction of executive leadership, to create a technical snafu related to the bid process (which should have been easily sole-sourced in the first dang place, if done right.) So it had to go thru the WHOLE process again in 2023. Political obstructionism at its corrupt finest to make it he!! on the schools, to try & prevent it from happening. Hence the major delay. Also interesting how that director of purchasing quickly left before they could be questioned abt the whole debacle. The schools sat on the money for 2 yrs, but couldn’t spend it, based on approval process required by state law to spend fund balance. (And the money btw, could not be spent on things many argued it should be, like more teachers, bc you can’t spend fund balance on RECURRING line item expenses, only ONE time expenses , per prudent fiduciary practice.) Ended up costing the schools much more, bc a year later, the price of construction materials & everything else went up! 

Similar thing happened w/ the field houses. Money was available, schools went thru the right process, but minions of the county executive leadership on the Commish obstructed. Fast fwd a few yrs later & both county schools finally got them, but the schools didn’t get the design or construction they originally proposed, or at the lower bid cost. It took forever, AND based on what the schools were forced to do to get them (ie have the county construct them), it cost several $100K MORE, construction & design was shoddy, and they don’t even have a water fountain in them!! What idiot doesn’t design and build a fieldhouse & workout facility w/out a water fountain? I’ll tell you who: The executive C-Suite leadership of Blount Co, who maneuvered to have it be done THEIR way, or not at all. It cost the schools way more $ to get a substandard facility than what they originally asked for and had a bid for.

While we’re at it, ask the co executive leader what happened to the $20K of tax payer money that was used on a study for the Eagleton ballpark renovation. I’ll save you the trouble: The study & plan was completely IGNORED, UNUSED and WASTED, in favor of the one the executive wanted. Will be interesting to see if said leadership will maneuver to turn the new potential cash cow back over to the 2 commissioners in his camp who were running it when it was a dump. 
 

Ppl wonder why things don’t get done correctly, expediently, efficiently and why their tax money is wasted. They’d know if they just paid closer attention to the actual facts, the alliances in leadership, and followed county budget and commission meetings closely instead of relying on the local rag sheet, the one or two idiot blow hards on the Commish as well as all the fringe so-called conservative radicals from out of state on social media to inform them. 

[Futbolfan2022]

33 minutes ago, FarmTeam said:

Don’t disagree w/your assessment on those moving in here. But this was NOT abt having the money. The schools HAD the money sitting in a healthy fund balance for two yrs: It went thru school board,  budget Cmte, and Commish in 2022. Was held up by a purchasing dept director who didn’t know what the heck they were doing. Or IMO likely DID know and was maneuvering at the direction of executive leadership, to create a technical snafu related to the bid process (which should have been easily sole-sourced in the first dang place, if done right.) So it had to go thru the WHOLE process again in 2023. Political obstructionism at its corrupt finest to make it he!! on the schools, to try & prevent it from happening. Hence the major delay. Also interesting how that director of purchasing quickly left before they could be questioned abt the whole debacle. The schools sat on the money for 2 yrs, but couldn’t spend it, based on approval process required by state law to spend fund balance. (And the money btw, could not be spent on things many argued it should be, like more teachers, bc you can’t spend fund balance on RECURRING line item expenses, only ONE time expenses , per prudent fiduciary practice.) Ended up costing the schools much more, bc a year later, the price of construction materials & everything else went up! 

Similar thing happened w/ the field houses. Money was available, schools went thru the right process, but minions of the county executive leadership on the Commish obstructed. Fast fwd a few yrs later & both county schools finally got them, but the schools didn’t get the design or construction they originally proposed, or at the lower bid cost. It took forever, AND based on what the schools were forced to do to get them (ie have the county construct them), it cost several $100K MORE, construction & design was shoddy, and they don’t even have a water fountain in them!! What idiot doesn’t design and build a fieldhouse & workout facility w/out a water fountain? I’ll tell you who: The executive C-Suite leadership of Blount Co, who maneuvered to have it be done THEIR way, or not at all. It cost the schools way more $ to get a substandard facility than what they originally asked for and had a bid for.

While we’re at it, ask the co executive leader what happened to the $20K of tax payer money that was used on a study for the Eagleton ballpark renovation. I’ll save you the trouble: The study & plan was completely IGNORED, UNUSED and WASTED, in favor of the one the executive wanted. Will be interesting to see if said leadership will maneuver to turn the new potential cash cow back over to the 2 commissioners in his camp who were running it when it was a dump. 
 

Ppl wonder why things don’t get done correctly, expediently, efficiently and why their tax money is wasted. They’d know if they just paid closer attention to the actual facts, the alliances in leadership, and followed county budget and commission meetings closely instead of relying on the local rag sheet, the one or two idiot blow hards on the Commish as well as all the fringe so-called conservative radicals from out of state on social media to inform them. 

The biggest problem with getting anything done is leadership trying to figure out how they’re going to get the biggest kick backs. I bet whoever got the bids for the fields worked out a pretty generous agreement with the mayor and members of budget committee. 

[rebelwoman87]

Spring Practice starts March 18 for the little fellers at 825 Lawrence. 

[Southtowner]

On 2/19/2024 at 5:37 PM, rebelwoman87 said:

Ain’t my fault he don’t like the black hole. 

[ILB1999]

Is Maryville a basketball school now?